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hey imagine if ALL this stuff were like this, and all the stuff our systems of organization did were stuff like this.
that would be pretty cool, right? like, no offensive wars, no weird syphilis shit, no trying to find the lethal dose of LSD my spiking random dudes' drinks.
just, like, being cool and making things better and building shit. wouldn't that be great?
We know the lethal dose of LSD is high enough that nobody can afford one!
and we have the CIA to thank for that discovery.
I want custom debit cards again...
And coincidentally those minor improvements are only proposed a second before the election. Probably will never come through. Then you vote and then come another 4 years of tax cuts for the rich and money transfers to israel and the military.
We call this system a democracy, because you see, the power lies in the hands of the people. The power to tick a meaningless box that is.
You can't take the politics out of politics. Of course the timing is suspect, and on average efforts to make changes like this don't succeed. But occasionally they do, and now is a good time to start talking about them. Forcing Republicans to take stances on things before November is an excellent idea, because the Republican party itself is in the process of crumbling, and depending on the outcome of the election, there is a chance to pass legislation on various issues that would make life better for the average American.
As you point out, the whole process is totally messed up, politics is so dirty, large corporations and the ultra wealthy are so powerful. But on occasion we do see positive change, so we shouldn't write it off as impossible or meaningless.
elections are not politics. they are a symbol that signifies absence. the big ones at least.
Maybe add to that "speaking to a real human" thing the provision that they be real humans who are actually empowered to address issues directly and immediately, instead of some call center where they keep you on hold for two hours before transferring you to someone who transfers you to someone else who hands the phone out the window to a passing town drunk who stumbles over to another call center where he chucks the phone through a random car window in the parking lot which just happens to belong to a manager just arriving at the office, who gives you a bunch of platitudes before telling you to mail a postcard with delivery tracking to a satellite office in the mountains from where it will be relayed on goatback to the bottom of a lake in a nearby fishing village.
Coopting this for a dnd campaign. The quest to end the 24hr gym membership.
At some point we might realise just how little power the greatest office on the planet actually has.
They have power, they just don’t use it in a way you want them to. They serve the oligarchs not you.
But the people do have the power to elect someone who is wlling to make change, bernie for example. Most people just dont vote for their best interest.
The people did vote for Bernie in the 2020 primaries, then the Democratic Party said they knew better than us and made Clinton the nominee anyways. And oopsy the two party system means you don't get to vote for someone who represents you, just for the person who is slightly less evil.
That's not what happened. People voted... for Hillary. She won the popular vote, that's not the controversy. I mean it's the made up controversy that people buy into. What happened as far as them playing kingmaker was that they put party support behind a candidate before the votes had been made. They nudged people to vote for her instead of being unbiased. They did vote for her though. She would have won without the super delegates, but people like to complain about bad things even when they aren't what caused the bad outcome. I also think you mean 2016? Biden had the votes by a larger margin in 2020.
I wish range voting can be implemented somewhere so people see its power
lol no we don't. not through electoralism alone, anyway. they need to be AFRAID to offer a compromise candidate like FDR. like, 'the russian revolution just happened and those circumstances are happening here oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck I do not want to die in a coal mine and the coal miners ARE ALREADY FIGHTING THE ARMY AIR CORPS shit shit shit shit shit' afraid
It would be strange if it happened at some time other than right before an election.
It would be nice if any of the big election year promises actually got implemented.
We're supposed to be getting high speed rail, which Obama totally didn't already pretend to do, and I'm still waiting for Biden's $15 minimum wage lol.
Better law: almost nothing can be a subscription.
Printer ink should not be subscription. You should just be able to buy ink. Shows and movies should not be subscription. You should just be able to pay for what you want. Internet service should not be a subscription. You should just pay for your usage.
There's an incredibly small number of things that benefit the consumer by being subscription. Subscriptions are to benefit the seller and usually by trying to offer as little product as possible for as much money as possible.
Shows and movies should not be subscription
In addition to the other complaint about internet services, which I agree with. This also makes little sense. Cable was essentially a subscription service to media. Media should not be locked to a service, it should be freely available to buy yourself or stream providers to license for their services and compete for price. There shouldn't be media silos where content producers also act as sole distributors.
slight disagree on internet, usage based pricing does work for a fair amount of people, but there should also be price tiers for guaranteed speed and latency without having to resort to business plans. For example, if the ISP advertises 1gbps, they should be held to a standard of say 800mbps for at least 3 9's reliability, and/or ping within some deviation based on your distance to the local hub.
internet should be a free public service, and if we're going to have a government, they should be running it. the one major disadvantage of that is that they would absolutely spy on you, which the corporations freely let them do anyway, but charge us out the ass for. fuck them.
and if you want to keep the corpos (why?) it's not even about speed: the only costs of internet access are initial infra, backbone licensing, and maintenance. none of those are super use dependent; the parts are not mechanical, and do not wear much faster with increased throughput.
Ya know honestly I'd be happy if they had to guarantee only 10% of what they advertised as the "up to" speed. In the afternoon, I'm only getting 0.1-0.5 mbit/s upload on my Gbit plan. It's infuriating to wait 3 minutes for a teams message to send
Add shipping companies to this list, I shouldn't have to call the wrong number and get passed around for an hour just to talk to a person UPS