Unfortunately his words have an impact.

K, you first.

Combination of dumb, hateful, and self-righteous. The ratio changes but every Trump voter I’ve known is drawing from those three wells. And they tend to have poor emotional understanding and regulation, so they’re easily frightened (and being scared makes them mad).

Companies are stupid, which is why they do things like demand return-to-office even though employees are more productive on average working from home with less micromanagement. And they’re incredibly short-sighted.

Just pointing out that the crazy shit is regrettably not confined to one state’s laws.

Same sky daddy as all the bank holidays, private school charter programs, on the money and in the pledge of allegiance, trusted to enforce truth in a courtroom, anti-gay laws of all stripes, all this nonsense, and uncountable other ways in which Christian supremacy is the presumed default in western (and especially American) culture.

AT&T used to include Usenet access as part of your Internet connection

And this was commonly seen as a Bad Thing (see the Eternal September) because normies change the culture of specialist spaces when they show up in large numbers.

50? 100% of all wealth, income, property, and capital in excess of $1b combined. Give em a badge that says “Capitalism Winner” and take all their shit.

There was a while when the US was on top, revolutionizing automotive manufacturing. Ford’s Model T and later Model A sold like crazy.

Damn near the entire internet is “social media” but people usually mean “social networking sites”.

Homer’s brain is anyway, the thoughts don’t usually make it all the way through Homer.

If you study economics deeper than 101 you learn that supply-and-demand is mostly a fantasy in the modern age and the problem is oligarchal control and lack of regulations.

But both of your issues boil down to the same point: there are more people than there are useful jobs. The solution is not more jobs or fewer people, it’s decoupling productivity from food and housing. Anything else is admitting that a permanent underclass of jobless, homeless people must exist as an implicit threat against the working class if they get too uppity.

Also, immigrants commit less crime on average and get less in government benefits than citizens. Your “statistics” (that you did not even cite) are made up right-wing xenophobic propaganda.

Fuck em. Stop giving religious people special rights and permissions and exceptions and privilege. Give them no new things and start taking away old ones.

They did a pretty good job in that lane during the xbox/360 era.

When did I say anything about banning drugs? I just said I don’t think it’s a good idea to make more addicitive substances for the sake of addiction.

Someone with a vested interest in s healthy, functional society of educated adults.

Beats the hell out of existing in a state of constant anxiety, of second-guessing every decision, of looking suspiciously at every stranger I pass.

Eh, I refuse to be that scared.

Plants are also alive. The assumption that they are less worthy of respect than animals is arbirtrary (though understandable, since we too are animals).

“I’d like to reduce suffering” to “We need to control nature, eventually”?

This is the totalitarian villain slope. Who gets to decide? How long until “there can be no suffering if there is no life at all”?

Easy: there’s nothing ethically wrong with killing animals to eat. Life requires death.