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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

People trying to stop an industrial war machine built on religious differences and racism by saying "I'm not voting for ______ until _____ happens" are ineffective idiots too stupid to understand the blatant bullshit they're peddling or the power they have in their vote.

If you want to change a politician's mind, you don't do it by dangling your vote on a carrot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

So many people on the Left ignore basic nuts and bolts politics and waste time, energy and votes on Utopian nonsense that most voters have never heard of.

Then, when someone like AOC comes along and actually makes effective changes in the Democratic Party, these Left folk attack her for not setting herself on fire.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

People trying to make change from within a system by rewarding politicians for being the lesser evil.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

If you want to change a politician’s mind, you don’t do it by dangling your vote on a carrot.

So how do you do it?

[–] Maeve 0 points 3 months ago

https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained