rational_lib

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[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

That's what they did this election, and we got fascism and the DNC doesn't matter anymore. So now what?

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

Do a hostile takeover of the GOP instead. Many states don't care why party you register as, and if they do just register as a Republican and vote in their primaries. Pick a socialist candidate and get them to run as a Republican, and vote for them. This is in essence what Trump did, but of course he did it for fascism and got Nazis to vote Republican. The same strategy can work for anyone else. This can start in safe blue states where no one votes in the GOP primaries and spread from there.

This is a far more realistic strategy because third parties are vulnerable to the spoiler effect and will always fail due to people being worried about electing Republicans.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 5 points 27 minutes ago

I used to be open to dating Republican women, Then I actually dated one. Now I'm no longer open to dating Republican women.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 1 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

Network effects, boomers being unable to figure out how to switch

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

There will be Fox News appearances.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Who could see this coming, other than literally everybody

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

That's not actually related to my point though. This is more like:

First they tweeted offensive things about women, and I made sure that thing they tweeted is now the only thing we talk about.

Then we couldn't talk about all the women dying of not getting abortions on time because we're too busy talking about tweets.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Imagine if there was a hack so bad that it caused everyone to become unable to develop in C and C++.

Classic "let's just make the cure worse than the disease" mindset among security enthusiasts.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 231 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Politically-motivated tea tax, what could go wrong?

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think this is intended as satirical but given the multitude of illogical reasons some give for supporting Trump it's hard to tell.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah there would've been no defending this if it happened. Rogan controls the mics and would do whatever he could to end her campaign right there. Maga would post all over X (with Elon's amplification) that she got "owned" as Rogan shouted over her her, and the left would be angry that she appeared on his show in the first place. It would have been a pure loss.

 

Yes I know, your least-favorite idea goes here. But seriously, someone must have come up with the concept before. Like a bad get-rich-quick scheme could fall into this category, where joining the scheme makes people lose money and become more desperate, so they become more likely to do desperate things like invest more in the scheme. But it can apply to a number of other bad ideas.

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