Bullshit. The last election and the next election may be separate things. You might support the right group in the next election, but that doesn’t mean you didn’t fuck up in the last election. Either you voted for Kamala in the last election or you didn’t and as a consequence of that you led to the problem we are currently in.

You have the opportunity to vote against this problem next time, if there is a next time, but that doesn’t absolve you from your past mistakes. Don’t be a child and hide from past mistakes, admit them and change, don’t pretend they weren’t mistakes.

This discussion is about owning mistakes, not forgiving them. I’m happy to forgive someone for making a mistake, but before forgiveness comes repentance.

The previous post I responded to said that we shouldn’t be “Punching down by portraying people you theoretically want on your side as villains.” Well at some point those people need to take responsibility for their own actions rather than pretending they didn’t have a part to play.

Maybe when Medicare and Social Security are gone, nonviolent immigrants are in a prison in El Salvador, and trans people are arrested for taking a piss you might start to change your opinion about the last election.

Yeah no. You’re trying to make a simple question a more complex debate than it ever was. Either you voted for Kamala or you didn’t. You can have lofty opinions and idealistic aspirations, but that isn’t how the US electoral system works. If you didn’t vote for Kamala then you have a part of the responsibility for the current state of affairs.

If the US had a different system of government then you might have a point, but within the system we have you had a choice. If you didn’t make the right choice then you’re part of the problem. This statement isn’t specific to you, it’s to everyone who had this choice.

Part of the US system, whether you like it or not, is playing the game. Even Bernie Sanders played the game when he ran for office. The only fools are the people who think they can ignore the game, play stupid games, win stupid prizes, and still act like they aren’t part of the problem.

Maybe but it could crash anyways. JP Morgan tried to stabilize the stock market in 1929 by buying up stocks, but it collapsed anyways and led to the Great Depression.

A few years ago I saw an article that Gen Z struggled with file organization. In basic terms, search functions have gotten so good that the majority of Gen Z doesn’t use file organization on computers or phones. When in a work setting they are confused when digital items need to be organized into a file structure. Part of the problem is that most of them have never had to use a real world filing system. Part of the problem is that they are only used to handling their own disorganized files. In a business setting it generally isn’t acceptable to dump all your files into a local “Downloads” file and rely on the search function to locate mission critical files.

When the article I am referencing came out other people stated that they had experienced similar phenomena in the PC world. They remembered when soldering was an expected norm of PC building, but with the passage of time it was no longer necessary or expected.