Juan Ciscomani literally walks away from Arizona voters rather than admit he supports the abortion ban.
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Posted in r/phoenix by u/RealtorMcclain • 1,795 points and 461 comments

“When someone says both sides, its obvious they have not been watching the actions of the political parties. Lets look how they vote.” - /u/armored_cat

Really annoys me when I read apathetic people saying that Dems and Reps are the same. Yes, there’s a lot of crony corpos in the Dems side but they are in no way even close to the same. There’s a lot of stuff the Dems have done that I’m not a fan of, but are still not even close to being the same as Reps.

This is a great comment that outlines the stark differences on voting records that I archived so it wasn’t lost.

They are not the same, make sure you vote to keep the fascists out. Also vote in the primaries so we can get more progressive/populist representatives as candidates. Voting is not the only answer to salvage the future but it’s definitely a part of the answer.

  • HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Ayn Rand is so very much not the person I want to be the guiding light for AGI. That’s not even a subtle failure.

    Anyhow, this is the stuff I’m actually pretty focused on in day to day life. I have a fair degree of fatalism because I have a well-grounded idea of exactly how hard it is. That doesn’t mean I’ve given up, but I don’t think covering our eyes and ears and saying, “LA LA LA SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP” is going t solve the problem.

    “Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

    • KawaiiMathematician@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 years ago

      Have you really looked into her philosophical work? I think she’s historically the closest to constructing a convincing ethical system based on logical principles connected to reality. Your last quote is something that might as well have been a toned-down version of her ideas, given how close it is to what she believed in her life.

      I don’t suggest ignoring anything. However, many people take the fatalist perspective as a careful one without really evaluating its accuracy, and thus it spreads and locks an uncertain future into the result it assumes.

      • HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        The “greed is good actually” line is the one I take issue with. It’s very shortsighted and I really don’t want anything with more power than our species taking it to heart.