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But whichever it is, the fear and loathing they convey inevitably filters down to their supporters

Hol' up! No. Biden and the democrats have been awfully timid about calling Trump a fascist coward while his supporters and others on the left have been saying it before Trump left office. Only now is Biden trying to characterize this election as an existential crisis for American democracy. Leftists, on the other hand, are relieved that Biden is doing at all, and sincerely wish he and his sorry party would've started way earlier.

Republican laymen are led by their noses. Democratic laymen can barely push their leaders.

If stabilizing debt seems hard, that’s only because given our deeply divided politics, even modest steps toward responsibility are extremely hard to take.

And by deeply divided politics I mostly mean Republicans, who declaim the evils of debt while pursuing policies that put long-run fiscal sustainability even farther out of reach.

Fucking. Thank you. The debt is only a problem because some people won't be reasonable.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat's Lucid blog, about fascism, and Patricia Roberts-Miller's blog, about the rhetoric of demagoguery.

This is a variation of Republican fearmongering: If they do X to someone else, they could do X to you!

Frankly, I think the proper response to Speaker Johnson is to call him a fear mongering impotent bitch, but that's just me.

The more nuanced follow up, however, is that it’s only worth the work if you’re putting in the right amount of work.

Yeah...this is why I abandoned by privacy journey a few years ago. It felt like it took a lot of work, created hiccups for very little reason, and was overall just not enjoyable. But I was able to get Bitwarden out of it, which, I think, is a pretty swell privacy-focused app.

But what do you think could be the reason that has affected the cognitive abilities of the American population?

The enduring Republican attack on education and the shift to believing it's vocational training rather than citizen development.

Is it $500K for a 2 bed 2 bath?

What student protests have aged like milk? All the prominent ones I know of aged more like wine, especially the Kent State protests that turned a bunch of crybaby ass men into conservatives.

Ahh, I remember this in Plague: make it easily spreadable, and then mutate it to murder everyone. The classic Two-Step To The Apocalypse. Step 1 complete. Initiate Step 2...

This is has been true for at least a decade, when they originally did the study.

Wouldn’t it logically follow, then, that it’s fine for any person to choose to commit harmful actions on another person, since if those harms did happen to befall the person (even if it was as a consequence of our willful decision to cause them), it would be deserved due to bad karma they had from a previous life (even if they were a young child/baby in their current life for example)? And then couldn’t we use this to justify literally any harm we choose to do as being deserved due to assumed bad karma, making the idea of avoiding causing harm (ahimsa/nonviolence) meaningless or pointless?

Before I respond, I just want to clarify:

Are you asking if we can justify our committing harm based on our belief of another's state of karma and what they deserve?

It seems this is the crux of the your arguments.

This is me. I want a different job because I'm always bored.

It feels meaningless. I'm pushing papers because someone needs papers pushed. Part of my job is actually incredibly useful, but 90% of it is it just me pretending to work by watching YouTube videos so my screen doesn't go dark and I can make sure I'm not showing as Away in Teams.

It's a government job too, so it's unlikely I'll be replaced by AI despite AI being perfect for replacing me and my colleagues.

Lol, this is why hate I economists. Thanks for telling people they're wrong for wanting things to be more affordable rather than providing economic solutions to making things more affordable. It leaves less than desirable political solutions like Trump's fascism to step into the fray and offer something instead.

I'm glad you mentioned this. It's snappy!

what about the cases where these reasons effectively trump any potential loneliness their actions would cause?

The mere act of understanding the reasons that make loneliness worth a course of action precludes rejecting societal norms out of hand or following them uncritically. So, I think you're good.

His criticism of economics is why I hate the discipline. And the wrongful view has seeped deeply into American decisionmaking.

A lot of regulation specifically meant to improve health, is opposed on the economic theory that it's harmful to consumers. Glenn Beck encouraged older Americans to go out and continue to work at risk to save the economy during the pandemic. The climate change discussion has been derailed by dishonest politicians and policymakers that claim the transition is too expensive, either society or individuals, while exacerbating the problem. Even now, many American politicians focus purely on reducing government expenditures, specifically social programs, rather than raising tax revenue to address the federal deficit despite the fact that the best economic times in America for consumers had high tax rates.

Finally, assuming another Trump administration is actually a threat of authoritarianism, the fact that Americans fondly remember the economy under Trump as compared to Biden's should be inconsequential. A good authoritarian economy is worse than a bad democratic economy because having your political autonomy taken away precludes economic autonomy.

People are subservient to the economy. And it pisses me off seeing all these homeless people in my city whenever I go out, standing sadly on a street corner, with one who had a sign that read "Spread some cheese on this cracker", while the median home listing price is $799K and the cost of living is high af.

My 2019 Hyundai Ioniq SEL has been incredibly reliable for the last 5 years. It's a very boring car compared to alternative hybrids, but I save money on gas, which is what I got it for.

Slay, bish!!

Basic neoclassical econ 101:

• The demand curve is made of those willing and able to pay
• The supply curve is made of those willing and able to produce

That's why there's a market for overpriced Gucci bullshit apparel while people literally starve in the streets.