This is the equivalent of the "bad boy fantasy" but for males.
"Yeah I want a bad boy who is badass with everybody except with me" Yeah, sure
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"Yeah I want a crazy slutty girl who only gets slutty with me" Yeah, sure.
Nobody against data centers understands data centers.
Nobody against Flock cameras understands how they work or what they do.
Nobody demanding Medicare for All knows how Medicare currently functions or what it would cost.
Nobody saying “tax the rich” knows how much the rich already pay in taxes.
Nobody saying “seize the means of production” knows how to build or maintian the means of production.
Nobody saying “fund education” knows how much we already spend on education.
Nobody saying “no new wars” understands geopolitics.
Nobody saying “ban corporate landlords” knows what percentage of homes corporations actually own.
Nobody saying “developers are greedy” understands why housing costs what it does.
Nobody demanding price controls understands what happens to supply when you cap prices.
Nobody saying billionaires could “end homelessness” knows what governments already spend on homelessness.
Nobody saying “just build public housing” knows what it costs government to build a single unit.
Nobody demanding free college knows how much universities already receive from taxpayers.
Nobody saying “just nationalize it” can look at what the government already operates and understand why that's a bad idea.
Modern politics increasingly rewards having the strongest possible opinion about something you have spent the least possible time trying to understand.
The American voter increasingly demand sensationalism and they have no idea how wealthy they are compared to the rest of the world.
They may end up being the cause of their self inflicted belt tightening and they are in no way ready for an ounce of actual poverty.
We need immediate competence to take over sensationalism and social media, especially tiktok is the enemy of that.
@Howlingmutant0 i dont get why people use junko either, George floyd is literally the opposite side of the coin of charlie kirk humor and hes already been a meme for awhile. Seems like people just wanted somehting edgier and chose a teenage girl that has nothing to do with american politics? sad
The Russian elite loot the state on a staggering scale and still stand in the Kremlin, listen to the national anthem and get moist eyes. Like children.
That is Stephen Kotkin’s great insight: the patriotism is real, and so is the theft on a national scale. They desperately want Russia to catch up with the West, to be feared and respected as a great power, all while simultaneously plundering the very country they claim to love. All while turning it profoundly dysfunctional, at every level of its existence.
A profoundly fucked-up place.
@Truthful_ast 1. I don’t think conservatives are generally pro-Flock
2. You’d have to be totally retarded to think building all that high speed rail is as easy as building flock cameras.
3. Conservatives are not anti-rail anyway, and lefty govts that have been trying to build it have failed.