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He bombed children, screwed over the poor and working class, and backed a genocide. He was an average president, which is to say: A terrible president.

Too true. self-hosters represent!

As soon as you go back, and read what I’ve already written, I’ll continue this conversation

I wish this was true. I live in a fairly blue area, and I see them IRL all the time. I’ve been called a “mindless Trump drone” for saying that the Democrats should stop running unpopular candidates and unpopular policies. I’ve been told I was a monster for thinking that the Democrats shouldn’t put up rapists as presidents, and that they shouldn’t bomb children.

While I do think the blue cult is amplified online, I think it is, unfortunately, very real as well.

No, it’s democratic if the voters get to decide. If those in charge get to decide, it’s undemocratic, like the DNC.

Here’s a quick guide on how Democracy works. If you read it first, we can both save time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

I literally just described is as an unfair primary where the DNC had exert influence to get their candidates to win. If you are going to ignore what I wrote, I’m not going to waste my time with you

You mean the same Democrats that refuse to have an actual democratic primary? The ones that openly said in court that they rigged things in favor of their preferred candidates? Yes, they are hurting democracy.

Yes, people ended up voting for Hillary and Biden after the DNC tipped the scales in favor of Biden and Hillary. Maybe the DNC should give him an equal opportunity.

It’s almost like they were, until the Democrats put their fingers on the scale. Weird how that turned out.

Not usually. I don’t typically look too much at the instances I’m interacting on to know if they care about reports or not.

Did he say that? I remember him saying the opposite: “Nothing would fundamentally change”

Anyways, the point I’m making is that your experience was just being unlucky with the quality of the professors you got and the style of teaching they favored.

I think the problem is that experience is pretty common (at leat for my experience in the US). I only learned to love math later in life because I started getting interested in physics, and then I realized that math wasn’t rote memorization.

I generally tag people who are being shitty. It’s totally fine if they disagree with me about things, or downvote me or whatever. But if they just insult others, or openly lie/mislead, or yell at others without bringing an actual argument, then they start getting tags. After enough tags, they get blocked.

The good news is, you have no tags! :)

I’ve heard it’s where all of the Reddit exiles signed up. I have no idea if it’s true or not, but it sounds plausible. I remember when people pointed out factually inconvenient things about Biden on Reddit, they’d get downvote-bombed.

Remember when they got mad after Trump said “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters”? They said it was cult-like behavior by his followers.

But when Biden bombs children, or backs a genocide, it’s somehow not cult-like behavior to keep supporting him.

awesome, I’ll check that out

Chris Crawford was talking about this problem in 1992 and we still haven’t learned anything

The Dragon Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrj4S24074

I couldn’t find a transcription, and it covers a lot more than education, but it’s a good speech. The relevant part starts at ~12:45

I forget where I heard the quote, but:

Stack Overflow is a great place to find answers. Stack Overflow is a terrible place to ask questions.

That’s the opposite of what I saw. I’m not saying that you are wrong, just that I saw differently. I saw Democrats spend most of their time saying that it’s not OK to attack the current Democratic president. I wonder how much of that difference is based on the circles we run in, or the news sites that we visit.

I love horror movies. Gory, scary, disturbing, gross, high quality, low quality… doesn’t matter, I’m down. But I hate jump-scares, and too many horror games rely on jump-scares. It makes sense since it’s an interactive medium, and jumps have their place, but designers rely on it way too much.