Comment by alterom
1 day ago
>And disheartening that people continue to gravitate to a political party that proudly announces desires to abuse this data.
The same party that promotes distrust in the government (that is justified by the abuse the same party does when in power).
Amazing, innit.
> The same party that promotes distrust in the government (that is justified by the abuse the same party does when in power).
Perhaps because they know how corrupt they, themselves, are, they assume everyone else is the same way:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror
Perhaps the possibility that others are more altruistic does not enter the realm of possibility in their minds.
The worse things get, the better they do. It's an insidious, vicious cycle.
Iran, Haiti, Russia, Syria, Lebanon, Argentina have been at the "worse and worse" stages for decades and there is no "better" in sight.
> Iran, Haiti, Russia, Syria, Lebanon, Argentina have been at the "worse and worse" stages for decades and there is no "better" in sight.
Unless I’m completely misunderstanding things, it’s "better for the party". Our new Nazi party in Germany (AfD) even said something like that openly.
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>Russia ... have been at the "worse and worse" stages for decades and there is no "better" in sight
What do you mean? In the last 25 years life expectancy in Russia has risen by almost 10 years
[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.MA.IN?locat...
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No, this isn't a natural law of the universe. Sometimes thing get worse and then stay bad for a long, long time. We happen to exist in a relatively stable, prosperous period. We have used that prosperity to build a system that is more complex and brittle than any time in the history of the species. It won't be pretty when we reach the inevitable crisis.
The people in charge have never seen suffering and don't understand the essential role they have in preventing it. Instead they're disassembling the plane for parts while we hurtle toward the ground.
The premise of the Republican party for half a century now has been: "The government can't do anything right, and if you elect us we'll prove it!"
And it's something of a coin flip whether people prefer that philosophy to the other mob. Trump has made it to a seconds term and is talking about a third because of the stunning policy failures of the US government over the last 50 years.
Were you alive in 2024?
Trump won by <1% against an incumbent in a time that incumbents lost by >10%.
It's absolutely not that people like Trump, it's just that democrats are inept. Literally all democrats had to do was run somebody that didn't have a record of losing primaries.
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Trump came to power because too many people have forgotten what kind of man it takes to tear it all down. No more, no less. It's like a clock.
One generation bleeds and dies on a battlefield somewhere so that eventually a few generations later their ancestors can make the same conditions arise again.
He's arguably in worse shape than FDR in his last term. I've come around to seeing such talk as yet another clever and effective bum rush to stave off hisgetting written off as the lame duck he actually is.
Think what you want about him, he is if nothing else, a manipulative genius, so it tracks.
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You should never trust a politician, especially one that claims to be on/in the left.
These two statements are equally as vacuous.
You misunderstood, the meaning was roughly "one who claims his actions to be virtuous".
No, the first one is true. It's the copycat comment that is vacuous and doesn't even make any sense -- "in the right" has a clear meaning, "in the left" is nonsense.
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Your comment brought the song lyrics from Murder - Sepultura:
I got no comment on the essence of your comment, but (in your implied meaning), the very last of the song was matching what you wrote.