The problem with that is it limits the government’s ability to change in ways that have no correlate in industry or culture. This inevitably leads to the government being unable to respond to changes that have already occurred or are currently occurring, and in the case of change driven by industry (i.e., most societal change in the US) that invariably leads to regulatory capture.

Both fit in the same category of unfortunately necessary and terrible goods…so the merger makes sense to me.

Welcome to the club!

I’m there. I vote Democratic but there’s basically no representation for my views to be found.

EDIT: Have you really thought through your political philosophy beyond pleasant sounding notions though? While “conserving the present” sounds nice, taken a bit further you’re basically talking about fighting the Buddhist notion that “no man steps into the same river twice”. Things change and if the government doesn’t change along with them it gets eaten alive. That’s partially, I would argue, what happened with technology in the last thirty years.

Or the kid that died due to a school shooting that happened on the same day.

fucking cabbage patch couch fucker is a taddle tale?! who could possibly see this coming (besides everyone on earth)?

Conservatives have always been regressive, period. Their entire philosophy emerged as a reaction to the “excesses” of the French Revolution. The forward “movement” (if you want to call it that) was from the “divine right of kings” to the “divine right of lords” (chosen by the market).

To quote the infinitely quotable (Wilhout, from the top rope…with a fucking blog comment):

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

The whole “left vs right” divide itself originates from this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left–right_political_spectrum

I understand the desire to take the positive aspects of a word, apply them to your political stance, and pretend that you’re part of a movement. But it isn’t true. It reminds me of when lefties (often in a USA centric thread) describe themselves as “left libertarians”. All this crap does is confuse people and make you sound like a pedant.

If you think this is what conservative means and that’s what your politics are, you’re basically just politically homeless…and have been since you started calling yourself that.

They just aren’t that hard to use.

As Thelma says, “can’t be that hard, idiots use them all of the time”.

No different than TV shows or magazine ads that do these same things. But there’s no warnings there.

What TV shows you watching that aren’t started by “viewer discretion is advised”? You keeping it to the Disney channel only?

Good.

I just want this shit to end

As fascists advance their program, they always need a new “them” to throw under the bus. It’s, by its nature, a politics defined by who isn’t part of “us”.

In other words, it’ll never end with fascists in charge.

I’m going to go the opposite way and say that their books should be more open than they currently are.

Quarterly reporting itself does not force this.

Relatedly, people compensated mostly through stock options will continue to think short term with an emphasis on the stock price of the company for the duration of their particular vesting period.

He also owns a large portion of a publicly traded company and is seeking to be able to obscure his finances there more than they already are.

The cost of living crisis is going to deepen.

It’s certainly the case that at least some – maybe most – inflation was caused by a combination of corporate greed, and supply chain disruptions. Those are no longer the causes.

We have moved forward with these stupid taco tariffs that make imported food more expensive, while simultaneously cracking down on brown people who work in the domestic food industry.

Going forward, the $15 bananas are going to be a product of 100-level macro economics course issues. Supply goes down, and demand stays the same…prices go up.

Seems like a laughably unconstitutional law but this supreme court will probably let it fly if passed.

I think the same about the story of seasons games.

It’s pretty cool, reminds me of Kid A era Radiohead art.

Trying to trigger a race war? Could be.

Edit: their stupid little race war which never happens because most people aren’t as racist as they are

Lol, this headline was basically unreadable because of the sheer volume of idiot clickbait in it.

Can you imagine if anyone else suggested that you could “solve wars” via some huggy pies between the involved country’s leaders?