Probably just ironic humour.

People in Japan still have access to search engines and have brains.

people using ai tools for things they’re not good for and then calling the tool bad generally as opposed to bad for said task do a disservice to any real issues currently surrounding the topic such as environmental impact, bias, feedback loops, the collapse of Internet monetization and more.

The most moral republican

Wow you’re really cheesed.

Is this how you engage in political discourse? You just blow up at whoever you’re talking to? Assume they are evil and stupid?

Fucking relax.

Jumping to trolling with the comment equivalent to “u mad bro?” while pretending to care about civility is wild.

This is legit the most bad faith response ive ever received.

This right here is straight projection, especially given clearly some others thought my comment fit perfectly/was a reasonable interpretation of yours.

What “solution” did I even offer?

Because as long as our political strategy amounts to “shame anyone who demonstrates an affective affinity with the right, and vote” we won’t be able to resist the creeping threat of fascism. In 5-10 years it will be full on Nazi shit and I dont want to die in a concentration camp please and thank you

You are clearly suggesting that not shaming the fascists is part of the solution here and now you’re feigning ignorance to having said that.

Explain to me, a regular person just trying to get by, how immigration doesnt affect me. Convince me.

and

I asked a fucking question.

Yeah, nah. Now, with the rest of the comment as context this seems more like an effort to sealion than a real question, especially with you saying:

Explain to me, a regular person just trying to get by, how immigration doesnt affect me. Convince me.

Which completely changes who you’re portraying yourself to be and asks me to waste my time with a right wing talking point that is now suddenly the focus, as if the uncaring people think this is a major point anyways.

I probably spent to much effort responding to this comment that is clearly actually in bad faith.

I mean look at this shit:

What real work are you doing to help people and resist fascism? Are you just getting mad at people you made up in your head? Im pretty sure you aren’t doing shit, because people who are doing the work dont act like this.

Pure right wing, 4chan style ragebait trolling.

This comment doesnt make sense in context. You act like you’re answering a question, but no question was asked for which this is an answer.

You also clearly are trying to pretend that somehow acknowledging that mike johnson is christian is the same thing as accusing every christian of being exactly like him, which is obviously and openly in bad faith.

There are plenty of Christian churches whose hierarchies do not extend past the community they exist in.

If by plenty you mean a tiny minority then sure!

There are plenty of benevolent churches

Fucking lol to this idea. I’ve never seen something more ridiculous stated in such a matter of fact manner.

Throw away the baby with the bath water to make your foul point but you sound like a Fox News anchor raving over Islam

Thats funny, because thats exactly how you reveal yourself to think when you refuse to acknowledge that bad people can be christian.

Responding to me 3 times on one comment is legitimately psycho behaviour, and acting like calling out a no true scotssman fallacy is in anyway related to adolf hitler is childish and nonsensical.

I know you arent participating in any type of revolution, so this bravado apathy building talk only hurts real people.

I know that your wanting to own the democrats is clouding your rational judgement about the only pragmatic way to turn the country around when you acknowledge that this is a 2 party system that is still currently in place and one you arent changing any time soon.

I think your idea that it will only decay the system slower is part of the problem. With enough enthusiasm and effort, it can change the course of the ship. The thing is, if you are doing campaigning for the other party, you arent helping that happen.

“Kid” is an imprecise term that just means someone who is young and inexperienced

I think most people assume it means under 18.

Yeah, it’s ambiguous, that’s kinda how language goes. It can mean anything from a baby to an old person, given context.

Sure, but this context was about voting age people. That was the whole context.

I would hope the context here (voted multiple times) would be enough to show I wasn’t referring to an elementary school kid, but a young adult.

You were still using it as an excuse for not paying attention though.

Today, the most impactful policy is immigration since my SO’s family are immigrants and we’ve only been able to help with my SO’s parents.

This sounds directly like it impacts you.

The reality is that both parties suck when they have a massive majority

This type of bothsiderism indicates that you still don’t pay attention when you refuse to see nuance past this.

That’s not left/right thing since they prioritized a liberal area over a conservative one.

Providing better things to richer people isnt a left/right thing??? You basically choose to stick your head in the sand is what it sounds like.

Then your understanding of libertarianism is misguided.

I highly doubt this.

It’s a big tent, with everything from socialists

Nope.

Here are some policies I support:

Almost none of these policies are actually supported by any libertarian politicians.

expand school choice by replacing school buses with city buses in metro areas, and encourage schools to specialize

This sounds dangerously close to privatizing schools, especially where we’re talking about basic education necessary for life (K-12)

eliminate federal student loans, expand Pell grants, and replace most other functions of the Department of Education with an independent group that assesses school performance across states

Sounds dangerous and vague, once again, almost like privatizing education by replacing a government agency.

mandatory balanced budget

This sounds pipe dream like. Everyone dreams of such a thing, and itll happen right after the US switches to a proportional representation system.

Really, Im getting the impression, that like many conservatives (including the ones who call themselves libertarians), you’re presenting a prettied up, as clean as possible sounding list of policies that with a little bit of digging reveals that its all headed towards the classic libertarian problems where these ideas only work if everyone is assumed to act in good faith, and somehow privatization is more efficient than a government doing things.

Plz fucking give us the clear option

I considered myself a “kid” up until I had my own kid.

This arbitrary milestone that is only meaningful for you doesn’t really translate well in conversation no?

More than that, it feels like it hints at, but does not fully confirm a sort of “I didn’t care till it affected me personally” angle to it.

That’s when I found libertarianism, and now I look less at party affiliation and instead try to find the least insane option.

Ok, here I was not jumping to conclusions and then you end with libertarianism… the self defeating ideology that really translates to “Don’t tread on me, but fuck everyone else” and when asked how things will still run responds with a shrug.

Kids cant vote tho, and you indicated that you voted that way for multiple prior elections.

because I thought they cared about small, responsible and privacy-respecting government.

Sooooo you did no research whatsoever??

You misunderstand. They don’t think racism doesnt exist. They simply approve of racism. You’re trying to think about this from a point of view where things have to make sense.

I think you’re trying really fucking hard to pretend that there are people there worth saving and it eats at me that your perspective is not only popular, but common.

These people are irredeemable. Their primary goals are to hurt others for their inalienable traits.

You don’t need these people. When the common opinion was such that they had to hide their shitty opinions, everyone was better off for it.

What you need, is people who don’t pay attention to pay attention. Stop focusing on the magas. You can never find compromise with them, nor convince them with reason, because all of the arguments they give are fundementally based on “I hate that person because they are the out group”.

That trumps literally everything else to them, as you are clearly seeing here. They are not outliers. Thats the common maga mentality.

You doing mental gymnastics to pretend that the common person just has to be good is a coping strategy that is killing you.

Because as long as our political strategy amounts to “shame anyone who demonstrates an affective affinity with the right, and vote”

When has that been anyones political strategy. Thats what the right says it is (instead its trying to sell people on a DNC lead democrat party that fundementally does not want to offer noteworthy change).

Firstly, we should shame them, because the right wing is demonstrably awful, and pretending it has merit does no favours. That is what the DNC wants to do, and has done for the past… very long time.

So shame is not the solution, but its also not the problem.

Instead, the problem is that an average person here’s 2 people put up some arguments, doesnt think about it further, thinks “ah well both sides” and then stops thinking.

Left leaning people often don’t help this as they screech more loudly about the party closest to actually being moldable into something positive than they do the party doing harm, which helps keep precisely the group they need to convince the most in that valley of “both people are shouting, both sides I guess” and then that person stops caring.

Also,

we won’t be able to resist the creeping threat of fascism.

Creeping threat??? You’re currently trying to fight your way out and you call it a creeping threat. Just part of the problems.

My opinion on the world is that 50% of people don’t really care all that much about anything and have an extremely mild positive bias, 30% of people are just awful, and focus more on hurting others than making things better, and then 20% are the inverse of the 30%.

Your “solution” involves somehow convincing that 30% instead of figuring out whats stopping that 50% from figuring out how this will personally affect them, and to snap out of they’re “both sides” voter apathy/general apathy delusion.

Part of the problem is that their position is self defeating. They think nothing works, everything is corrupt, and so there is no point doing anything, and that entrenches all of those problems, making them even worse.

Thats the real struggle; getting them both to see the personal threat to themselves (as they don’t care about the larger picture) and then getting them to see that they do in fact have none bloody death alternatives to that.

All of this just emphasizes how disastrous it was that the democrats folded and didn’t let people see the consequences of their actions with the government shutdown.

I’m trying to tell you there’s no slow process change out of this administration.

You better hope there is, because you certainly aren’t going to be participating in any fast “you first” ones.

There is a slim chance that people who spend more time ensuring democrats don’t get votes, bitching about them while complaining there is a solution, stopped doing that and democrats won in 2026 with sufficient margins to withstand all the bullshit levied at it.

This would of course involve things like prop 50 being in place (which passed), and thats all increasingly looking like hail mary too, all because yall wont accept anything except a perfect hail mary, which will never come.

Even in your comment you point out it won’t be fixed in one term as if that’s the expectation, but that’s what I’m talking about here. It was never going to be 1, 2 or even 3 terms. Its a long, slow process.

When people don’t see immediate rapid change and give up, instead waiting for it to get so bad, it gets even worse (fictional revolution thinking), this just makes the system as it is more entrenched. They’ll happily keep you at bay.

Best reason to fight climate change

It’s funny due to the obvious absurdity

You see, the DNC, leaders of the DNC know that your only sensible options are voting for them or sawing your own legs off, and they know that the reasonable people know this and the loud people are not smart.

This means that any time they lose, they can use that opportunity to shift more towards the right, as they are for the most part old rich conservative people.

The only thing they actually fear, is people being consistent long term in both voting for them, and voting to replace them slowly with more progressive elements, but we’re back at the loud people being dumb and encouraging voter apathy amongst themselves and others because it feels cathartic to complain when this is exactly what the DNC wants. They want voter apathy so they can continue to shift to the right. If they kept winning, and progressives kept winning, they’d have no choice but to shift to the left.

It feels so obvious, but on this site, it seems you are seen to be crazy if you suggest anything other than some fantasy solution involving guillotines and a lot of “no, you go first”, or more self foot gunning.