tamman2000

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They are even more surprised that public services are one of those things that actually saves money for a community. Like, spending on fire protection lowers insurance rates more than enough to offset the cost of the fire department...

I'm like, great, now do a basic social safety net and the costs of crime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yup, and you can make people more conservative by blasting them with propaganda about how scary "the other" is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're so right... Firefighting is my volunteer gig. I'm a data processing engineer for astronomy missions for my day job. My boss (comet scientist, astronomy PhD) is one of those guys who's a libertarian that always votes for Republicans. He thinks that funding science should be done by the government, because private industry won't do that, but everything else should be privatized

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They were worried about those things because they knew what they would do if they had the power.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Or pageant owners...

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago

This is what happens in societies that have increasing income inequality.

Why should workers feel compelled to bust their asses when it benefits their bosses, but not themselves?

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 months ago (6 children)

One of the worst things about being a firefighter is how many of my colleagues are republicans.

It makes no sense. You do a job providing services to people for the government and you vote for the folks who tell us that government is unable to do good...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't know how they claim that would work. But it's important to note that only telemessage makes that claim, not signal.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm a white dude, and this reads like you're just pissy, but I'm open to the idea I might be wrong or blinded due to my privilege.

Please explain what you're getting at? If I'm in the wrong about this, I would love to know and become better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It does make sense. But only if you accept certain facts about the morality of the Israeli administration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I think the reddit user base is shifting too. It's less "just the nerds" than it used to be. The same thing happened to Facebook. It fundamentally changed when everyone's mom joined..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The inflation which was most likely due to Trump's bungled handling of COVID...

The attention span of the average voter is short than that of a goldfish.

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