It’s amazing how few people are capable of considering something like this.

Most (or the loudest) people carry on like an extra from Starship Troopers with zero self-awareness.

Capitalism fans when exchange value is prioritised:

Probably best if I just keep my mouth shut

Nah, you did the right thing. You’ll know it all the way to your grave.
Speaking up for marginalised people is a duty of those of us with less dire problems.

Each person’s contribution may feel futile, meaningless, and insignificant but “no rain drop believes itself responsible for the flood” applies to positive things too.

People think being right early is satisfying? They should try it some time.

We refer to it as the curse of foresight.

If caring whether what I believe is true and being a less easy mark for peer pressure and local propaganda makes me neurodivergent,

then neurodivergent hi-five I guess.

How about one infographic or flowchart to rule them all explaining all the different ways to install a program, for starters?

No. Bad. Why have you done this? How dare you? Have an upvote.

“Every man has his price.”

Why was yours a six pack and a roll of toilet paper?
Could you not resist such a pithy morsel from WeWillOwnYouMuahaha inc if only for your pride?

Gonna push Biden left any day now.

The incumbent powers need to make people believe absurdities to maintain the status quo.

This is your daily illustration that ideology is stochastically a function of environment and incentives.

It’s hard to find sun-worshipping angler fish.

“Hard-left” candidate promising the bare minimum to stop the riots and keep the system from cannibalising its own foundations for a time.

You know, the kind of stuff you might naively expect from centrists. Without being prompted by protests.

That’s what money does.

Exponential wealth and power consolidation is an emergent property.

The premier Great Filter, perhaps.

The standing around with banners is supposed to carry an implicit threat:
“Deal amicably with us peaceful protesters, or you’re going to have to deal with people taking direct action.”

We’ve been educated to misunderstand this.

It’s the subtext of every public comment made by Schumer criticising the war: Didn’t go through congress, erratic, no exit strategy.

Never a word against the myth-making to justify the war, or that the US shouldn’t be in an offensive war against a country that didn’t attack it.

No, it’s a costly embarrassment, a strategic blunder, an action taken without filling out the prerequisite forms in triplicate.

Going to war (successfully) with Iran has been an unrealised dream of the uniparty for decades.

The LLM / image gen AI centipede.

There are people, it is true—nay, a great many people—who smile at such things, because they are not sensitive to noise; but they are just the very people who are also not sensitive to argument, or thought, or poetry, or art, in a word, to any kind of intellectual influence. The reason of it is that the tissue of their brains is of a very rough and coarse quality.

I sort of wish I didn’t believe this but I’ve seen how they talk about the war.

Meanwhile Dem leadership has a much more sensible position on the war: that Trump is doing it wrong.