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  • This. It's all a giant, "Nuh-uh, you!"

    They create a specious argument, present it as a straw man of "what democrats want," and then ridicule it as if they didn't make the whole thing up themselves.

    It's dumb as shit, but it's all on purpose. These people are ivy League lawyers who took speech and debate. They know what a fallacy is, they just choose to use it for its effectiveness in mass psychology rather than actually governing or leading.

  • They understand. They just know if they say the shitty thing, it will give their bubba voters a misogyny hardon, which translates directly to votes.

  • Russia stopped pushing Jill Stein quite so hard once they compromised the major parties (democrats by releasing their emails, republicans by using their email trove as kompromat.)

  • Most people consider conversations ended if neither party adds anything for a space of time.

    A reasonable space of time is definitely overnight.

  • Just remember that it's business. It should be boring. They raised your rate, it isn't worth that price to you, and be bored with asking them to process the cancellation.

    If it is worth some price to you, they may offer you another deal. Know what you're willing to accept, but don't expect anything.

    Also, you may be able to bypass all of this by checking to see if you can cancel from their app or website.

  • Rob's is assuming he 1) sees everything, 2).didn't or can't miss anything important, and 3) that his interpretation is correct.

    That's why it's arrogant and stupid and people get annoyed.

    Seriously, have you never been upset or hurt and had someone try to tell you that you're not?

  • Come on, that's the point of this post. They're saying that they want other people to try even a fraction as hard as they are.

    I agree that in the end you can't expect anyone to do anything, but the frustration is valid, and your comment seems to be bending over backwards to be the kind of judgment OP id venting about.

  • In America they'd have to wait until he's 25 to do that.

  • Anecdotal. 1.2 trillion in infrastructure spending barely touches the overall need. If that were all used to fix what is breaking, it would just do that. But then it wouldn't cover new projects, projects in planning stages since they like to fund "shovel ready," and it doesn't touch the shit show that is private utilities.

    It's a start, but we've got decades of catching up to do. Also consider that your 1.2 trillion figure is a multi-year cost.

  • Same as last time - undoing the budget surplus, massive tax giveaways to oil and gas, and shutting off the tap to anything that helps anyone who doesn't give campaign contributions. Last time, they closed all of our state hospitalsand laid off large swathes of the state work force, and bankrupted the state's employee insurance fund. This time, I am willing to bet they gut the emergency fund at the first opportunity.

  • We have backlogged projects, let alone maintenance on existing infrastructure, not even getting to the costs of upgrading ancient infrastructure - a lot of municipalities still use clay pipes.

    Right now deferred maintenance is roughly a trillion dollars.

  • It's usually bags of money and pallets of equipment that go "missing" and find a new home with a warlord.

  • There's room for being understanding - but these bad faith actors use our willingness to give the benefit of the doubt so that they can build plausible deniability for themselves, while never intending to operate in good faith.

    Imo, three strikes and you're a shill.

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  • I don't think you can expect rational discourse from a collective concern.

    Some people will agree with you. Some people will disagree, because at the end of the day, if you're willing to vote for someone even when they don't do what you like, then they have no incentive to consider anything you like.

    Neither position is wrong.

    Our system, which sets up two bad options, is what's wrong.

    This is ultimately a false dichotomy. We operate as if there are only two options, because no one person has the power to fix this, but instead of recognizing that the system is broken, we blame each other for not going all in on what we all admit is problematic.

  • Bad behavior goes back forever, but many cultures dealt with it as a community. A person acting out was seen as a symptom of a group problem.

    Now, with everything hyper individualized, and with capitalism in its metastatic era, it's nearly impossible to hold anyone accountable when they can just flip around and say, "I wanted the money," and a solid 20% of the population will attack anyone who says that shouldn't be the primary driver of our society.

  • He's deliberately provoking so he can claim Persecution Points. It's the biggest PP he's got.

  • I've noticed that a lot of these people will lean left for a minute, because they hope that it will get them a get out of jail free card for being problematic in specific ways.

    They find out quickly that the left doesn't do that. I can support your stance on XYZ while still disliking you and not wanting to do business with you because of ABC.

    So then they switch to regressive stances, because those people will cheer you on for being awful.

    Same thing happened to Reagan. He created the EPA as an executive agency to avoid Congress creating and empowering an independent entity that the executive wouldn't be able to control. He thought it would get him votes from the left. It did not, and he pretty much immediately stated that he regretted it because lefties didn't buy his bs.

  • They know. That's why they hate theatre.

  • Is he granting permission? This should be exhibit one in any cases against someone punching him in the face.