The right wing is always stupid. Everyone else is sometimes stupid. But the right? Always completely pants on head stupid, if not cartoonishly evil.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
851 points (97.1% liked)
A Boring Dystopia
9724 readers
759 users here now
Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.
Rules (Subject to Change)
--Be a Decent Human Being
--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title
--Posts must have something to do with the topic
--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.
--No NSFW content
--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Do not attribute malice to that which can be explained by stupidity... But never fully discount it.
Everytime I see this sentence my brain just refuses to understand it. What does this mean?
It means to not assume a person is evil if their actions could be explained by them being stupid instead.
It gets clearer if you flip it around to sound less poetic:
Do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
That which can be explained by stupidity, do not attribute to malice.
Or perhaps in more direct words someone might actually say:
If you can explain it with stupidity, it's probably not malice.
You are walking on the street and a big fat guy bumps into you. Assume they are just clumsy don't assume they were trying to run you down.
This doesn't mean be unaware, this doesn't mean ignore red flags, this doesn't mean to not have a healthy level of caution. It means assume good faith from deeply imperfect people until evidence no longer supports it.
load more comments
(7 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
In this case it's definitely both.
load more comments
(7 replies)
And so begins the parade of Argentinians having their faces eaten off by leopards after voting for the Leopards Eating Faces Party.
They've been getting their faces eaten off, so they voted for the other party that will eat their face hoping it will change this up.
load more comments
(1 replies)
They really watched Brazil get fucked by rightwing policies for 6 years and thought "I want that".
I just don't get it. Every time a right wing government people get fucked and more fucked. Arguably even with left governments, but brexit / trump / bosonaro level fucked it's is hard to achieve..
And people still vote for these train wrecks..
What am I missing? What do I need to do get it? Lower my iq seems to be a possible answer, but I'm really struggling to see it
Most of the people making up their voter base are quite literally brainwashed. I've seen it happen with my parents – years of subtle manipulation by the media eventually turned their brains to mush. They quite literally can't form their own opinions anymore and need guidance from the rightwing cult.
My solution is to block all that content on routers and using a Raspberry Pi. I will even offer my services to hospitals and nursing homes.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(9 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
Make the public dumber, less healthy, less connected, and less informed about the world so they can't stage a revolution and kill you. Perfect plan really.
load more comments
(3 replies)
Trump's advisors are reading that list and salivating.
Is there a Department of Women or is he just going to get rid of every woman in the country?
In case anyone is genuinely curious
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Women,_Genders_and_Diversity_(Argentina)
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
In properly set democracy this should not be possible. President should not have that kind of power to affect other branches of power.
In general president should not have too much power at all, because it is stupid to have just one person to be able to cause so much change in general. Looking at you US.
Presidential offices and ministries are both part of the executive branch of governments, though. Ministries are primarily there to organize the executive's work, so while removing ministries will affect that, it won't affect the separation of powers (like, say, the removal of responsibilities from a court or a chamber of parliament would).
load more comments
(2 replies)
Bolsonaro eliminated the Labor minister first day of his government and made the economy minister absorb its functions. It's had to re-establish it quietly at half of his government because the economy minister couldn't keep with the job, but meanwhile slave labor on Brazil skyrocketed.
Proposed remaining ministries:
Ministry of Men
Ministry of Strong
Ministry of Beer and
Ministry of RRRRAAAARRRGGGHHH
Ministry of the paranormal
Ministry of animal cloning
Ministry of human organs harvesting
Going for the chupacabra vote, I see.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Uh, if you live in the United States, I've got some bad news for you in one year.
load more comments
(2 replies)
I know a few Argentinians and since I live in Chile I know a lot about what's going on there. They have a lot of useless ministers for almost everything, at this point the previous government could have easily added the 'ministry of non-important matters' Their state manages the education really bad, many Argentinians complain about that, all those things managed by the state work really bad and are fueled by taxes. I agree that Milei's ideas are crazy, but seeing the options in Argentina, he was the less bad option there.
Imagine a state sucking almost every currency from every citizen just to fuel useless state institutions. I hope Argentina will recover with this change.
load more comments
(1 replies)
The only ministry they need is the ministry of stupidity. That'll be their national treasure.
Department of Transport, so not even the trains will run on time.
Imho. They are not voting based on those facts. They voted for him because he said the things they want to hear. Nothing to do with the truth; you’re not being kept down by billionaires, it is those (wink) people….
No one who thought about it ever thought trump would build that wall and Mexico would pay for it; but people scared of MS-13 being active in their podunk town rallied around him for saying that
Argentinian here, they voted for him because they believe these ministries are overly burdened with corruption, meaning all the money gets embezzled and the ministries don't actually function. Massa, the opposing candidate, minister of economy had an 150% increase in inflation during his tenure. Lastly, they don't think it can get much worse so why not try something different
load more comments
(4 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
view more: next ›