People should organize. If management demands that people go back into the office for nonsense reasons (eg: control, spite), management should be removed. I don’t care if that’s because they resign, or because 20 of us showed up at their house just before dawn for a surprise party.

Someone should stop Musk. With like a piece of metal if needed.

Conservatives are bad people. This is well known. Outgroups to bind, in groups to protect.

There is truth here.

I think rich people will have assets, like stock, and they’ll get a loan out with the stock as collateral. They pay like 2% on the loan, but they get like a million dollars cash. If that was treated like income, they’d pay a lot more taxes.

Not sure the best way to address this, but it should be addressed.

I feel like if we had spent the money lost to tax cuts on enforcing existing laws, like really throw the book at tax cheats, like put them in orange jumpsuits and make them rot in a cell, we’d have had better outcomes.

The ultra rich should be afraid.

Meanwhile, the US is trying to go to 60 hour workweeks and 6-day workweeks.

Labor needs to organize, and the rich need to be broken.

Many people don’t really think about their language. They kind of snap their phrases together like a child with those big duplo blocks.

Most of the time that’s fine, if a bit limiting. But occasionally you get glimpses into how communication could be clearer, or more accurate, if they thought about their words more.

I partly blame our public education system. Not enough funding, some funding misused, other problems I don’t even know about. But it feels like a lot of people are barely educated, and don’t have any intellectual curiosity.

As I said to the other response, I know in my brain that you are right. I, as a city dwelling tech worker, my interests align more than someone who works with his hands in the suburbs than with a billionaire. We’re both labor.

I still want to hit the maga-hat who’s frothing about how the gays are ruining their christmas, but I know that’s not really helpful.

I know in my brain you’re right but in my heart there is nothing but malice.

But as you say, what would earn forgiveness? If this somehow ends and we go back to “normal”, I think a lot of maga-hats won’t ever admit fault. They won’t see the bigger picture, and they’ll fall for the next con.

Anyone who’s been supporting trump is a scumbag or idiot. Anyone who’s still supporting trump is worse.

We should never forgive them.

Republicans are the worst people. If you know one, maybe punch them in the neck.

Ugh I had the same rollercoaster read

If we were all in the room, we could strangle Sam Altman or whatever other capitalist dog was calling the shots.

We outnumber the rich. If there weren’t so many idiots and boot lickers we could fix this problem

That makes sense to me.

But they don’t want to make businesses do anything, even if it means choking the oceans with trash and filling our bodies with plastic. Frankly, they’re bad people that we shouldn’t put up with.

Yeah but like if they find it was fraud are they going to do anything about it? More than a slap on the wrist? Like, jail time? A public hanging? Probably nothing, as usual. but I can hope.

“This violation, if proven, only warrants a symbolic fine,” Spiro argued

Reminded of the narcissist’s prayer

“”"
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
“”"

I hope when the revolution comes, all the people like this lawyer that enabled Musk also go up against the wall.

Everyone who votes Republican deserves shit like this. But unfortunately we’re all stuck with them, and they seem incapable of learning.

Group membership matters to all of us. It’s like one of the primary drivers of belief. We might think we’re rational and cool logical people but that’s a lie. We trust people we see as being in-group, and we trust facts from them.

For some people, like many republicans, it’s also the only thing that really matters.

This may have been a viable strategy in like 3000BCE when you had to stick with your group of idiots, because otherwise you’d be left for dead or worse by the enemy tribe. It’s not really a solid strategy in 2025CE.

But that’s really the whole problem. People (often but not always republicans) put their group membership ahead of everything else. This is happening like deep in the emotional part of their psyche. There’s no easy fix. You’d probably have to get them to join some other group and see that as primary, like maybe appeal to their sense of being American, but it’s going to be hard when there’s a lot of them. It’s like gravity, they all pull each other into the group.

I don’t know how to fix this.

It might come to that. People should organize and arm now. Even though that’s kind of hard and scary and I don’t know where to begin.