I’d maybe go with that, but this isn’t the first time he’s made this claim and it’s clear what he means.

(2018)

At a rally in Tampa, Florida, he said: “You know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card, you need ID.”

“You go out and you want to buy anything, you need ID and you need your picture,” he told the crowd at the “Make America Great Again” rally on Tuesday night.

When you are at that level of rich you don’t go grocery shopping. Hell, Michael Jackson had to rent out an entire store just to experience it hassle free.

Ahem!

His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch (and Blackboard Monitor)

I cannot imagine any business leader crunching the numbers and concluding it’s better to stay with Oracle. I would order an all-hands-on-deck effort to rejigger the company database needs to get out from under these parasites.

Only explanation I got it that they are unwilling to stall current projects and/or hire more backend devs while sorting it out. And yes, I am well aware it’s a monstrous task, even for a small company.

I can argue the uselessness of most American gun laws. I should note, a great many of the arguments rely on the fact of the 2nd Amendment and our court’s historical interpretation of it.

Almost every law I see proposed either runs afoul of the 2nd, is useless, and worse, many are counterproductive.

Nah, his complaint was lack of torque. Very strange, never got it. Figured he was repeating fossil fuel propaganda. But he was a motorhead!

And yes, energy density is the thing no one talks about when raging against fossil fuels. A gallon of refined gasoline packs insane energy. I’ve run my 5-gallon, crappy Harbor Freight generator all night into the morning, powering the camp, heaters and all, never came close to emptying it. Contrast that with a monster LIPO4 battery that died in 48-hours only powering LED lights. (Gotta admit, something weird happened there.)

Had an ex-friend who was a motorhead arguing that electric motors will never beat ICE because they lack comparable torque. Look, I’m no mechanic, but I never got my head around that.

“You mean they don’t have enough torque to run a US destroyer?! Someone should call the Navy.”

Seriously, if you’ve played with even a tiny electric motor, provide DC, it goes, instantly. What could he have possibly been trying to say?

Going to take more than a few years to turn this around. I highly doubt I will be able to afford a new EV to replace our 2002, 2004 and 2014 vehicles.

Couple of girls with average breasts eyeing us at the bar. Now we’re fighting over which one has the stuffed bra.

“Fuck it. Let’s be tacky and just ask.”

If you have nothing to add? 🤷🏻

“No thanks, picked out the bit I wanted to argue, got my ‘burn’, we’re done here.”

OK.

They say the same exact things you quoted without hammering them into slogans, same meanings though. Their voters aren’t as easily swayed by quickie little blurbs, they aim a little higher, longer sentences, but the messages still lack meaning. But maybe that’s why their messaging isn’t hitting? Would you argue the Democrats are winning the propaganda war?

You want to argue the Democrats have real policies of substance? Real plans to move our economy and society forward? Because all I see them doing is killing the tiny minority that have articulated plans. You want to argue the Democrats aren’t imploding? I gave examples I think we mostly agree on around here. You gonna address any other part of my comment?

Lemmy: We hate Democrats, but don’t dare compare them to the GOP! We’ll call you out for ‘both sides’ and nullify your opinion!"

Maybe these don’t explain me, but they hit hard at forming my views of my fellow apes:

American politics

How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind

Which is also explained, among a shitload of other behavior, in

What is the Monkeysphere?

So MUCH of what we see around us is explained in those two articles. I’ve had responses that neither is a complete view, not all behavior, bla, bla, bla. Yeah, I know. But if you want to understand humans, especially why so many seem bugfuck evil, there’s a lot of bang for the buck in there. (Be patient with the Monkeysphere article, old and the formatting is hosed, but I trust you’ll get it.)

Take a political organization with no policies, no substance, only nationalist slogans and propaganda. It should be obvious that such an org, having no plan for real and beneficial change, will eventually turn in on itself because they need someone to blame for the lack of progress. And who did these guys think they would start with?

Assumed I was talking about the GOP? That comment easily fits the Democrats. Observe how they’re turned on players with actionable plans, Platner, AOC, Bernie, Mamdami, et al.

Fine, you’re my wing man. I’ll take the flat-chested friend, you get the thick one.

For some reason I subscribed to your definition IRL, but thought it meant “of age, doesn’t look like it”, which I suppose is how porn sites use it.

divisions of class between your peers becomes less obvious

Nope! Kids will always find ways around that.

And Taiwan is set to blow their chip factories if invaded. Not an official policy, but it’s a no-brainer.

Yes! Our only hope of digging out is to make the case for taxing the snot out of the rich. We can’t all be rich, but a rising tide lifts all boats.

Resources and money are basically the same thing. Spread it around equally, well, kinda like the opening of Snow Crash:

…once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity…

(Awesome novel about late-stage capitalism and arguably the grandson of Gibson’s cyberpunk fiction.)

Yes, our needs could be met at current economic levels and population. But as population and education increase, people want more and more and more. It’s wired into our monkey brains. If everyone has the same shit, many will want more shit. Spread it all around evenly, you’ve only created hyper-inflation.

I don’t have an answer. We didn’t evolve to work in groups of more than 150, 200 max.

Dad popped up drunk at a big college party one night. Went upstairs and saw he had 15 kids sitting around the room in a rough circle. As I walked in I heard, “YOU! Change places with him and argue his point. Switch up.”

Confused looks, brains readjusted, off they went, back to the debate.

Dad always said if you couldn’t argue the other side, you didn’t understand the argument. I have never found that notion to be false.

(Cue the posts telling me their favorite point is unarguable, simply right. I can present the other side of anything. Even if I know it’s bullshit, there is another side, and it’s likely more logical than you think.)