Mnemnosyne

Remember when people were posting articles on how stupid and ridiculous DOGE is because it wouldn't have the authority to do anything?

Well, in essence and at its purest level the difference in thinking between Leftwing and Rightwing is the difference between “I want people to have a better life” and “I want to have a better life”.

Not even that. The difference is between "I want people to have a better life (objectively speaking)." and "I want to have a better life (as compared to those people)." As long as their lives are better when compared to those people, the conservatives are satisfied. Even if everyone's lives, including their own, get objectively worse.

Gandalf should be more like: knows the solution, forgot he knows it.

Something I've been thinking a lot lately is that democracy is a process. It is a means by which we attempt to ensure a just and fair government for all. It's not an end in itself; we don't want democracy because democracy, at least not once people really think about it.

Which leads me to a saying. "The ends do not justify the means." This is a commonly held statement. However, it also works the other way:

The means do not justify the ends.

That means it doesn't matter if something was done by the rules, using the process, it doesn't matter if we voted for it, it doesn't matter what process was used to achieve it. If the ends are wrong, going "well, it's what was decided democratically" isn't an excuse.

If one person or a few people have a definition wrong, that's a thing that can be corrected.

If the majority of people think that's the definition, and it's been that way for decades, then you have the definition wrong.

To be fair, hasn't made much difference cause one, he got caught, and two, nobody else has done it.

I don't blame any particular person for it, of course. Hell, I share the blame myself. I haven't killed any CEOs or politicians either.

But it's not gonna work unless more of us gather up the courage Luigi had and take action.

Nationalize the companies involved in production and distribution and eliminate profit, making and selling everything at-cost also works.

The job of politicians shouldn't be considered to be to make people feel represented. It should be to actually represent them.

If it was to make people feel represented, then I'm sorry to inform you that Donald Trump is the most successful President in my memory, perhaps the most successful ever, because that is his appeal - he makes the MAGAts feel represented, and he does so very very strongly.

That is how it works as long as no one does anything to stop it.

Same as how Trump is not eligible to be President by the constitution, but that didn't stop him.

I like this template so much better than the Spider-Man one that people constantly use backwards.

There was in fact a Dragonlance movie in 2008, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. I have not seen it to know if it was even a little bit good, but hey...there was one!

Not even that, it's just a matter of what's really important. They threw out the filibuster on supreme Court appointments the instant it might've blocked them from appointing those who would give them more power.

So as soon as something comes up that they consider genuinely important rather than performative, it's gone.