michaelmrose

The filibuster means that senators from 20 states elected by 9% of the US population can keep a lid on things the other 91% of the population wants.

It's not something most functional democracies emulate.

In what universe are polls ever anywhere near within half a point?

Always makes me wonder what other people do to their houses to fuck them up so bad.

You figured people must all be doing damage to lose their deposit. Lots of people don't understand what their rights are or what to do to protect them because the poor are habituated to the reality that they don't have much in the way of rights.

If you are on the bottom of the food chain there are basically no good things compared to other developed nations. I would shred my citizenship docs for a better choice.

Here let me help you. Landlords vary wildly in quality and decline quickly as you go down in price furthermore being ignorant of your rights or lacking in options due to money are both easy routes to getting fucked. Not understanding that people pretty regularly get fucked out of their deposits because you haven't is like wondering why other people get raped when you have avoided it.

hey aren’t really incentivized to return it to the tenant

Yes lots of landlords here just steal it as a matter of course. The US is basically a garbage country with a great military.

You have a right to speak but not a right to an audience that doesn't want to listen to you. I think certain groups are accused of harboring pro Putinistas because in fact they do actually feature them.

Most users prefer to defederate from socialist instances because “tankies”.

To the degree that people bother to defederate from anything (most users don't) I would assume its because apologists for Putin and China are about as odious to talk to as MAGAs

People so stupid as to believe this crap are on average too stupid to change their mind by communicating with them. You don't win them over any more than you convince creationists or flat earthers. Picture a series of concentric circles. In the center is 20% of the US pop true MAGA believers. They are unconvincable and vocal. Neither they nor their audience reacts to reasoned careful discussion. You humiliate them and make them look like the evil garbage they are. The next 15% or so is watching the humiliation and getting quieter. The next 10% at the fringes you pick away as the bottom 20% get less and less cool.

By the time the entire group has shrunk from 45 to 35 rendering it perceptibly impotent to get anything done and making its proponents look like losers. The 15% publicly claims not to have been that into you and even the true believers get quieter.

People rely on social proof of truth more than logic or reason.

In the US white supremacist ideals are held by 1 in 10 but publicly these are humiliating ideas to hold and defend and as long as this is so they wont be making a come back

Taking obvious crazy at face value isn't having low standards its having low expectations.

Maybe so but commit a little genocide here and there and suddenly nobody wants to give you the benefit of the doubt.

This is white washing his crazy. There is no reason to give someone who constantly babbles nonsense the benefit of the doubt. If it sounds like he meant something crazy he probably meant it just so.