An ideology of “I won’t listen to you because I’m motivated to oppress everyone else for my own gain,” is, most definitely, going to make the world worse. And this will be entirely on purpose, and no one will apologise.

EXCLUSIVE: Human-shaped bag of hate was hateful before they wrote ‘I FUCKING HATE YOU’ on the faces of all their children and on the doors of local schools.

Socrates said that the state paying teachers would just incentivise teachers to teach in line with the values of the leaders. I work within education, and he was right, there is enormous pressure to do so.

The same applies to the media.

Fucking idiots polio is gonna come back.

“Polio killed my children… and evil FEMINISTS did it.”

I wish I was joking because I knew this would never happen.

A pandemic of thermonuclear climate change.

I’m not convinced that this will eliminate the homophobic state government in states which vote for Republicans.

We’ll never find out, because corruption is not going away.

I am a Psychologist. They gain status from being assholes, because enough people privilege assholes with status. Authoritarianism requires an outgroup to oppress, and people think that hostility and oppression is ‘strength’. The original theory (which is not entirely supported by evidence) of the Authoritarian Personality is based on Freud, and it says that a similar family dynamic of a powerful father who arbitrarily abuses and oppresses others is the basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_personality

I don’t know how, or if it’s even possible, to get back to the days when lying assholes got treated as lying assholes.

We need to send the assholes to space, where they can go fuck up some other planet.

(Yes, I know what happened to the Golgafrinchans when they sent all the middlemen - or the ‘useless population’ - in to space).

…dragging the Overton window further right.

I’m sure rich people giggle in glee at having two right-wing parties as the only possible options that will both promise to cut taxes for businesses and force poor people into wage slavery.

Pussies produce life, he just produces shit.

I fear that cops ARE tools of oppression.

Anything but old.reddit is beyond shit.

The only way I can explain such stupidity is by assuming malice, e.g.: “We must put endless fear into the poor people. Our decisions are moral, theirs are not.”

The eggs I buy in the UK have both a display date (for the shop) and a best before date (for the consumer). They’re a week different. The best before date is probably around 28 days after the egg was laid.

I wish I lived in a world where one accuser was enough to warrant a serious investigation and then serious steps put in place to limit future harms, if any harms were found.

Everyone knows he’s guilty. His supporters just don’t care that he did it.

His supporters are Conservatives. They believe that the law doesn’t apply to some people because inequality is ‘good’ and ‘natural’. And they also believe that inequality will be in their favour, even if they live precariously on or near the very bottom rung of society.

Conservatives are most often the people who would (and, increasingly, in a country which got rid of royalty, do) support something like the Divine Right of Kings to do what they want. “Because somebody has to be in charge,” they will say, while imagining the ‘wrong’ kind of people being rounded up.

Insert Wilhoit’s Law here.

Yes. America needs an internal system on the federal to support Americans feeling oppression from within the state they live in. And that’s crushingly sad. But, of course, authoritarians always need an outgroup to blame.

I love how it’s a bit of a stretch to back legalising a substance which has become legal in a fair number of states without any issue (that I’m aware of).

How many elections before a candidate is praised for saying something like, “I, unlike the others, am prepared to accept that the populace generally believes that vegetables are part of a healthy diet?”, because we live in a world where the vast majority of candidates are just saying any old stupid shit that is viral on social media.

It’s an absolutely shitty, irrelevant single issue IN THIS ELECTION because there’s no meaningful difference

Human lives are not an irrelevant issue. You pretending to rationalise otherwise makes it clear that you would happily be rationalising voting for Trump, as long as it brought benefits to you. “Yeah, well, he might oppress queer people and immigrants and women, BUT he would lower business tax and I’d make a profit.” (Unless, of course, you’re not rationalising, and you just don’t care about when people who aren’t you die).

I don’t solely care about what’s best for me. I care about other beings. That you don’t agree is of no interest to me, except to make a mental note to not take on board your sense of morality.

If, as you say, these two candidates are so similar when it comes to protecting innocent lives, I won’t vote for either of them.

But you damn well already fucking knew that, so quit your bullshit strawmanning.

You’re so angry that I’m not voting for Harris. I can imagine you easily pivoting to be angry I’m not voting for Trump. You present absolutely nothing of interest to me, as you are motivated solely by what you prefer. The chance of you making the world better, at this moment, seems to be zero.