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For sure, that's definitely a big American thing. The entire irony is that the term "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was coined to say how you can't do that, meant to describe an impossible task. Somehow conservatives took it and then made it mean the exact opposite, which is exactly on brand for them.

sure but in every comment I made it very clear what I think of those programs

See how quick you were to go to the extreme and start strawmanning everything in your previous comment though? That's the problem.

I'm not saying the government shouldn't help the people who need it though. Bring back FDR. I think that's the big reason why I'm not actually conservative. The help should be there, but people should have an internal desire to rely on outside forces as little as possible. I think many already have that desire, but not enough by far.

Without some kind of mechanism to cap off growth, I think any social media service will end up like Facebook. As for the concept of a fediverse here, I think certain instances will definitely turn to shit, but it's up to the individual instance rules to figure that out.

Who said any of that? You're making up stuff I didn't say...

People that need help should absolutely get it in all those forms. I'm talking about like, not participating in the economy as much. Growing your own food, relying on yourself as much as possible. Like I said in other comments here, I think I've horseshoed around off the left and I've ended up in a hyper-local community driven economy mindset.

Basically what I mean is the mindset of doing everything possible in your power to be self-sufficient. I think I've gone so far off the left side I've horseshoed around. Everyone should be striving to be as self-sufficient as possible and not need to rely on external forces. I'm far from it, but I'm trying, at least given the past few years (and especially this month) I'm preparing for bad situations.

Ideally you'd have multi-party coalition districts with RCV or STV to elect them. We have a duopoly because of FPTP.

Nah, I'm not talking about the actual current Republican party nowadays. They need to die out and form a new party that's actually conservative. It's the most corrupt swamp straight outta Uzbekistan or Russia at this point. The things they're doing now, no Democrats should compromise on ever.

Reddit has been Facebook since like 2019-2020. Any social media service that gets too big just becomes a complete shit hole, hence my joining the fediverse.

Sure that's fair. Whatever you want to label it, there needs to be some kind of balances against full progressivism so it doesn't go extremely far to the left. I say this as a pretty far left progressive in most things, but have some minor conservative ideals (such as individuals wanting to support themselves without relying on outside sources). Again, I'm well aware that's not modern Conservatism in the US these days.

All things said and done, this isn't the worst pick I've seen in this hellscape administration. I was fully expecting an Exxon CEO or something. It's still extremely worrying how easy Jacobs can throw away any scientific integrity for Trump's loyalty (e.g. Sharpiegate).