Pretty much every time I go to one of the local grocery stores I see a crew of firefighters roll up in their truck buying food.

I just link people to good posts I find on here.

You’re not going to get a typical apathetic person to change anything.

• Bandcamp
• see who tours together. If you like A and they open for B, you might like B
• indie record labels
• see who’s playing at local venues.

If the legal system concludes that he cannot be charged for murder, then the legal system is in error and should be amended.

The legal system is not a sacred, immutable, thing. It’s a bunch of agreements.

. I will never understand how he got these people so duped

They are stupid. So, kind of tautologically, they reason poorly and make bad decisions.

How would you prevent the cognitive test from being used to remove candidates for political reasons?

“Sorry, he failed the test because he couldn’t sing the texas anthem”

You could maybe have the questions and answers public, but the voting public is poorly informed and educated.

You could have some sort of third party do it, but then the conservatives would spend decades corrupting that.

It’s not enough to just remove them from power. They shouldn’t go on to live a life of luxury giving talks on Fox News or whatever.

And if they stay, they get hung because “following orders is not an excuse”

I think ideally they’d stay and subtly fuck up the administration’s plans. Like how prosecutors routinely fail to indict cops. But that’s asking a lot

Thank you. I really hate this trend of a video when a few paragraphs would do it.

If you call it out before it happens, they call you alarmist. If you point it out afterwards, they’ve already normalized it

They’re not engaging with facts. That’s a whole other plane that doesn’t intersect. It’s just feelings and in-group.

When you point it out early, you’re disparaging the in-group so that must be rejected. When you point it out after… You’re still disparaging the in-group so that must be rejected.

That’s all there is to it.

Yeah some mods on some instances give real pearl clutching vibes.

Yeah, true. Too much jury nullification of any sort means you’re systems are failing. Not good for a society.

Ehh kind of. But, you know, nullification is when the laws say they’re guilty but the jury says no. Typically because the laws are unjust. But there’s an opposite where the laws might say they’re innocent, but the jury says guilty because the laws are also unjust.

What’s the opposite of jury nullification?

I don’t like listening to podcasts but they provide the full transcript, which was a good read.

Every Republican that leaves office, by whatever means, is good for the world.

I guess I’m lucky almost no one I know is trying to side hustle slop their way into money. I don’t think I would put up with that happily.

Good. As expected. So tired of cars having such priority and special treatment.

While we don’t all need to become total vegans, reducing the number of domesticated animals would have a significantly positive impact on both the environment and the quality of those animals’ lives.

This is where I’m at. Half-assed vegetarian. I don’t buy meat but if someone serves it at a dinner I don’t refuse to eat. Baby steps. It’s making progress without the shock of an abrupt change all at once.

Really want the news media to stop quoting and normalizing trump voters. They are idiots. I don’t want to hear what they have to say. Unless it’s a clear “I was wrong and will never vote conservative again”, I’d rather all the space be given to people who are more worth listening to.