And maybe cotton candy will shoot out of my butt and feed all the starving orphans.

The frog jumps out when it’s uncomfortable no matter how slow you heat the water, despite what the meme tells you. The issue is that there’s plenty of people more than willing to provide yet another pot of water to boil for the frog to jump into, because the frog just wants out, it doesn’t care where it goes.

It’s not really a die toss because the people with power maintain that power and have the most influence in what comes out of that shit-pool. It needs a functional shakeup at the deepest level, and not superficial changes at the surface level to make an effective difference. Otherwise things will just continue to repeat until we destroy ourselves. The problem is that kind of shakeup requires that people remain vigilant and involved for their entire lives, which isn’t going to happen if their only concern is that their own lives are getting disrupted and they want it to go back to par, which is our current standoff.

Yes… but at the behest of the shareholders. If the shareholders want to trade off empathy for profits, they will. And it will be a trade off. And the shareholders will want more profit without regard for the fallout. Because their only stake in the company lasts until those profits last, then they cut their losses and run, in a much more expedient way than the CEOs.

Pre-death Deadmau5?

Isn’t a shit ton of retirement money in the stock market? I imagine it’s mostly not voting shares, but that’s a major reason there’s so much resistance against making the stock market less of a factor in our economy.

They are hired and fired at the behest of the shareholders, though. Their motives and ethics are what decide the kind of CEO that takes the reins.

If your view that progress is only progress if you get everything you want with no downsides what so ever, you’re doomed to be disappointed for the rest of your life.

The last guy was shockingly progressive for a pope. If that’s not something to at least appreciate, even if you’re not going to laud it, then all this bitching is pointless grandstanding.

Neither are most news outlets these days.

What does dystopia mean to you? This is akin to having sticky notes to remember things, just in a more compact convenient application. Having social lubricant is also not really a bad thing. If anything it can help people keep from isolating themselves from others.

It can be abused… but then again so can sticky notes. The problem isn’t the technology, it’s the application. Keeping track of friends and colleagues and having simple prompts to encourage interaction is good, keeping databases of dissenters and subjugation tools not so good.

Jingoism, the term is Jingoism.

I… what? Are you taking this meme as some sort of statement of deep-seated ideals and not as something humorous?

The show, yes. The game is more like the comic.

I mean, it’s kind of a prerequisite.

Global warming: Hold my CO2…

“Crime, boy, I don’t know”

It was a pretty bad point. They were entering a discussion about extremes and brought up center-right politicians.

So nothing specific at all just, kind of lashing out for the fuck of it by latching on to some random nonsense.

Biggest advice anyone can give you right now: let it go. Reddit can’t hurt you anymore. Constantly obsessing about it, no matter how much it does suck, will only drag you down a spiral of contempt and despair.

Most of all, dont drag others down that spiral either. We’ve got much bigger issues than some reddit mods or whatever abusing power.

Who is “they” in this situation?

Not at the end game… yet. Plenty worse it can get still.

If you let them define your politicians by a single issue, you will only exacerbate your problems.