Well shit color me Trupid – I missed one of the braindead anti-ideas

I might know which user said that to you. I had a run in like that too. They kept telling how I was objectively a fascist for agreeing with the sentiment – was explicitly explaining that I am not sure how you would implement it precisely, but that it was understandable. NO ITS fAsCisT and UnCoNsTitUtIoNaL!!!

Honestly, you might be right about the SP episode. It was good criticism for its time, but people are literally too stupid to process context/nuance.

Lol he has latched onto literally the only obvious idea one could execute as president which would be guaranteed to do the opposite.

Thank you. It drives me bananas that people are so fucking lazy they can’t see any shade of gray. This is why bOtH sIdEs is popular. People just cannot be bothered to look at a fucking detail every now and then. Makes me want to scream.

You were corrected by someone else here, but I just wanted to say that I hate that because Democrats suck in many ways, they literally get no credit for what good they actually do and then because of that, equated to Republicans who are a billion times worse. Which leads to bullshit apathy and that leads to the present situation.

Another example everyone will conveniently forget is that the Biden administration did something that should’ve happened 25 years ago: they forced Ticketmaster to include fees in advertised prices. Yeah it’s not the biggest accomplishment but they did fucking something positive, unlike Republicans.

The Biden administration also forced airlines to be better about refunds. Again, something that makes a small material difference in lives.

Presidents ought to be better but that doesn’t give you license to be so mentally lazy that you discount literally every good thing done which falls short of your wishlist.

What’s worse is that the public is so fucking moronic that they EVER believe a word of it. It would be impossible to underestimate how stupid voters are. Honestly. They only surpass their stupidity with their selfishness

I’d agree with your breakdown. I’m early 40s and I feel like most people here are give or take 10 years of me

I guess we know (if they live in the US) what they didn’t do on tuesday.

That’s what I was getting at ;)

You might be right, but sometimes we sort through things by saying the wrong things first.

Nice. They were a troll who started an account 2 months before the election and began immediately flooding lemmy with an average of 82 posts/comments each day. Just about everything they posted was encouraging people to vote third party.

After piles of complaints, the account was finally banned two weeks ago. Besides shilling for Stein, they also were a prolific sealion, knowing exactly how to piss everyone off to the greatest extent while “not breaking rules” (they absolutely broke the rule against trolling, constantly). Mods pretended this was simply a matter of a “shitty opinion” but when the outcry reached its climax, they finally banned the fuck.

Sounds pretty fucking privileged that you even have the option of moving on from the topic

It may not surprise you that the person you responded to was a hard defender of banned troll universalmonk.

When has apathy ever backfired though??

I somehow suspect you like more than one thing about it

Oh, right.

I don’t understand what this is supposed to be. The path we just took was toward the people and we also added spinning chainsaws to the front of the trolley

I use that occasionally but only like 2-3 times a year now. I use my bank’s app primarily just because it’s a fast dedicated way to check my balance. But I’d use the web app if I needed to for some reason

I don’t understand the banking comment, and I’ve seen it several times. Don’t other people’s banks have web portals? Other than maybe depositing a check remotely, are there features you actually need a native banking app for?