But your “fair and balanced” puts all the onus of clean up on the next person. Kind of like how parking far to one side of a parking spot puts all onus of creating enough space for people to get out of their car on the next person.

It’s passing the buck because you can’t be bothered to clean up after yourself.

You’re the kind of person who parks all the way on the passenger side of a parking spot, aren’t you?

As someone who used to take care of office supplies (I was in accounting, btw) because everyone in the office is lazy and doesn’t wanna deal with complex things like grounds and filters.

Life is unfair, but unless we acknowledge our own failings it will never get better.

You want to walk through life blaming everyone else for everything that goes wrong in your life and take no responsibility for your own actions? Feel free. But just know nothing will ever get better for you.

I even acknowledge, multiple times, that it is not solely the fault of the person. But that does not mean they have no will of their own, no ability to change their circumstances. Sometimes that freedom is not enough, but unless you do something to take charge of your own life, again, nothing will ever change.

Failure often comes at multiple points, it doesn’t just fail at one. It’s a failure of education, of social pressures, of lack of positive environments, and yes of choice. The problem with free will is that you have the chance to choose wrong. You can blame everyone in the world, but if you don’t take accountability for your own actions and choices, nothing will change.

There has never been a time with as much access to information as now. While there as much, likely more, misinformation… that does not mean individuals have no culpability for their own lack of knowledge or understanding.

That doesn’t mean it’s exclusively their fault, or even anywhere near a majority. But that does not mean they lose all free will for their own actions. It does not mean they have no ability to be better.

Should we place the weight of the world on their shoulders? Absolutely not, that is liable to break them. But we also shouldn’t hide them from the burden of their own free will. That only weakens them.

They’re not really paying attention to him, they’re paying attention to Fox News or newsmax or whatever propaganda channel they prefer.

And, at the end of the day they’re not voting for a person, they’re voting for the big three: abortion, guns, and racism immigration. That and “sticking it to the libs”.

The problem is it’s not the last resort, far from it. We still have some semblance of democracy, no matter how often people are screaming that it’s all lost already (like yourself). We still have options, just because so many people choose not to consider them doesn’t mean they don’t exist, it just means it takes more effort than lighting a bottle of alcohol with a rag in it on fire and tossing it at the people you blame for all your inconveniences.

Yes, we have a problem at the federal level, and yes it’s going to be hard to fix it. But it’s not the only thing that matters, and treating it like it is is how we’ve lost so much ground already. People gave up long ago because everyone keeps telling them their thoughts don’t matter, that everything is already broken and there’s no way to fix it. Not because it’s true, because it’s the easiest way to get people to stop resisting effectively.

You want people to do something meaningful? Stop backing them into a corner by telling them they have no options left. Cause as we’ve seen already it just means they give up.

That we think in absolutes, and either are hyper violent or apathetic, both of which lead to no real resolution? Yeah, definitely a real problem.

If you organize that many people you can get what you want without resorting to a form of violence that will really only create a power vacuum, not a better future.

Violence is just cheap and easy, as long as you don’t have to think about the consequences of your actions.

Some people also wear a label as a badge of honor, or as an excuse for their malign actions. Elon has little to lose with his claims, and so much to excuse.

The odds are 1000:0 that they won’t, and I still wouldn’t take that bet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GCrzjVdmSg

Egger suits are expensive these days.

“Working on” implies pre-production, at least to my understanding.

Then again if game companies can do Early Access, why not banks?

So we should make one with human intelligence, you’re saying?

Okay, but hear me out, what if we make one that isn’t dumb?

Yeah, but what about my hourly latte and avocado toast?

And if you get rid of the board, the shareholders will appointment a new one. If you somehow get rid of all the shareholders, like-minded people will slot themselves into those positions.

The problems are systemic, not individual.

Is it the new “I’m gonna turn 360 degrees and walk away”?

Any poll that asks the general public to pick something is inevitably going to turn into a popularity contest, irrespective of its original intent.