Jump to content

bendish

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,430

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by bendish

    Mental Illness Megathread

    in General Banter

    Posted

    School i work at marking mental health day with an assembly on it while working staff to the bone day in day out in shitty conditions

    foh

     

    back in the 00s my school encouraged wellness bs while doing the same

     

    these idiots will never learn

    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

    in General Banter

    Posted

     

    Matt Bruenig writes a lot of great stuff about the scando set up

     

    http://mattbruenig.com/2017/07/28/nordic-socialism-is-realer-than-you-think/

    I think that's all ok, just to note that working social democracies seem all things considered to be more focused towards providing basic needs for everyone (healthcare, education, jobs etc) and less so towards abolishing free markets and abolishing the private sector (altough for the US and other countries to move towards that I suppose some of that is nessesary..)

    Guess you have to start somewhere.

    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

    in General Banter

    Posted

    climate science deniers who are in power and knowingly ignore evidence need to be held responsible for the deaths of millions, unironically.  potentially even the upheaval of the lives of billions and the destruction of large regions of the earth for the coming thousands of years.  just because there's a long time horizon doesn't mean it's not real.  we need to revamp the legal system so that white collar crime and political corruption is taken more seriously than poor people stealing food

     

    it's ironic and disturbing that despite being such an intelligent species with so much technology, we can still destroy our own environment and allow clearly outdated social and political systems rule us to the point where the obvious action that needs to be performed is instead not performed in favor of letting business continue as normal.  what is happening?  clearly democracy is broken and we need a method for legitimately vetted platonic philosopher kings to overrule the mob when relevant.  but that's what the electoral college was supposed to do and it failed.  what do we even do?

    maybe we are just not that intelligent

    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

    in General Banter

    Posted

     

     

    Either way, in the moment, it makes me very sad. Wish people (myself included) could take a step back and focus more on how we're all alike, rather than trying to force one ideology down someone else's throat. 

     

     

    Nope, bash their metaphorical skulls in, they're killing millions with their stances on healthcare and climate change, I don't feel sad, these people aren't humane and won't start being so

     

    It's not some nice game where we're all on the same side at the end of the day and these are just temporary issues, these people are genuinely bad of their own accord, can't keep giving grown adults the intellectual benefit of the doubt with these toddler level anti-intellectual and anti-nuance viewpoints

     

    Indeed. Head in the sand ignorance and brazen refusal to admit you don't know anything. Compounded by the 2018 internet decimation of the ideas of truth and reality. Philosophically pretty interesting time if you can ignore the stupidity of refusing to accept the doom of your species. If only conservative meant conserving ALL life. 

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.