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Maybe they should instead build technology that people want and that solves their needs.

Hierarchy is simply a reality. Believing in hierarchy is like believing in reality itself (i.e. someone is going to be better than me at weaving baskets voilà you have a hierarchy: simple as).

That's not exactly what was meant by hierarchy. It's more like having some people rule over others is good and natural. And that people don't really change their station in life. You're a peasant so course the royal family rules over you. They're good at ruling. Perhaps innately.

There is no obvious limit to what can be considered “charity.” So, if the government takes responsibility for providing charity instead of leaving it to individuals and communities, it can use that as a reason to keep expanding its power and responsibilities.

I don't find this a compelling argument. "Something bad might happen so we shouldn't do anything". I'm sure many of the people suffering from lack of food, shelter, and health care also do not find it compelling. You shouldn't go outside because bad things can happen there. You shouldn't lend your phone to your friend because there's no obvious limit what they can do with it. You can use this argument to avoid anything.

The appeal to the "founding fathers" is not very effective. They lived a very long time ago in a very different world, and were not saints.

this is what Conservatives actually believe

It kind of is! They believe in hierarchy, and that people need to be in their correct place for the world to work. It's a reason they oppose things like social programs- things that try to bring people up contradict the natural order and lead to bad times!

They're kind of bad people, fundamentally.

The reason many conservatives don't like socialism is because the wrong sort of people will get nice things. That's it. If white people benefit then it's cool.

They are bad people by any reasonable metric.

I think something is just wrong with some people's brains where they go with in-group solidarity no matter what. Overrides almost any amount of logic and reason

Maybe he's a magical pinata and if we hit him money will come out.

Incels don't typically like real women. They live in a fantasy/nightmare world.

That's pretty typical of the US justice system. You can be falsely accused of something, spend a bunch of time with lawyers and bad press, and then they can just drop it. You don't get compensated.

One recurring problem is there are a lot of people who don't really want democracy. They want hierarchy. Many of them don't need to be at the top, so long as there are people below them.

It's conservatives. Conservatives are the problem.

I leave my PR in draft until the checks pass. I don't want anyone reviewing it when it's broken.

The other day I saw some dude throw his cigarette on the ground before getting on line in front me to get carded to enter a bar. For a long moment I considered picking it up and going "hey, you dropped this" and handing it back to him.

But I didn't, because there's no way that ends happily.

But man, fuck people who litter.

My job had the entire engineering team spend 12 hours in "training" with Microsoft for AI. All they did was show us like some basic GitHub functionality.

Utter waste. Management are a bunch of fucking idiots.