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Comment Re:Different usage? (Score 1) 92

Maybe people shouldn't believe everything they see online, and learn how to research the candidate/incumbent themselves.

Any time I get a political ad, I read at least 3 sites (as diverse as possible) and average the overall "facts" that the sites say. Maybe candidates could switch from only bad-mouthing other candidates to the candidate just saying what they're campaigning on.

I know you're saying this with the best of intentions, and I'm sure you're surrounded by capable, at least moderatly intelligent people because people tend to surround themselves with people like themselves. But most people are not like this. Seriously thinking this is a reasonable solution paints you as painfully naive.

Comment Re:Subprime [Re:Uh HUH] (Score 1) 73

That's not the incentive that caused the subprime mortgage crisis at all. Where dod you get this idea from?

The incentive that caused this was the ability for originators to easily sell loans, and the demand for such loans of nearly any quality by the aftermarket as packaged loan tranches were making good money. It's basic market dynamics once you understand the change the precipitated it.

Comment Re:Enough is enough (Score -1, Troll) 71

But, but how els would a pedantic /. loser be able to prove that they know more than the rest of us other than to miss the intent of what is being said in order to build a strawman that they can then use to demonstratie their supposed expertise on the subject?

Comment Re:Seriously... (Score 1) 372

If you think the big tent thing was from 202 we're not even talking about the same things. But you sure had a lot to say. Hope that tuckered you all out. Inreality, the Democratic party has been pulling this playbook in earnest for nearly a couple decades in its currrent form. If you can't seer that you're missing the plot I'm talking about. Which tracks because you seem to have some correct observations but are baffled about or just confidently wrong on the how and why.

Comment Re:Seriously... (Score 4, Insightful) 372

It's clear from your post that "Kick your radical leftists out" would never be enough for you. There would always be something else. Some other boogeyman, some other enemy, some other problem. I want to be clear: you are the problem. You are on the bottom of that horseshoe, closer to the people you hate so much on "the left" than you are to me or the person you are responding to or the bulk of the country. I would appreciate if you really think about that for a moment, but I doubt you will.

Comment Re: no need for AI slop (Score 1) 372

And by the way: boomers pretty much built most of what is today the internet.

I'm not sure that's a good thing. Look what it's turned into.

In any case, the "boomers bad!" thing being repeated is just more sheep behavior. The real problem are a subset of conservative boomers. The smalles part of that group have found themselves in power and are smart and capable, yet cruel. The largest part of that cadre are idiots who are easily manipulated to vote against their own self interests if it just means someone will pay attention to them in any way, even if the only way to do that is by hurting others. Many of them were successful in life, retired and now can't understand why nobody will liten to them or care about what they have to say and they don't know how to handle that. Manmy more were never successful and are just bitter old losers who's family have cut off because they aren't worth dealing with anymore.

Comment Re:Seriously... (Score 0) 372

There is a kernel of truth in that argument - i.e. the continued failure of the Democratic party's "big tent" experiment, where they allow the voices of people who are just as radical as the magas have too much of a voice. This triggers the magas/cruel, irrelevant, conservative boomers and they tantrum. Lots of this is explained by the Horseshoe Theory and general lack of people thinking for themselves and instead doing the identity politics thing because they are desparate to fit into some group. But to be clear, this is a radical left and radical right shouting over top of the rest of us at each other. And it's getting exhausting.

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