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Imagine going out of your way to pay to watch Jimmy Kimmel, regardless of what has transpired over the past few weeks. Fucked up simulation, indeed. 

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5 minutes ago, Deej said:

Imagine going out of your way to pay to watch Jimmy Kimmel, regardless of what has transpired over the past few weeks. Fucked up simulation, indeed. 

Imagine that you do something that gets Marjorie Taylor Greene and Joe Rogan out there publicly showing some actual common sense and saying extremely rational things.

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

And Joe Rogan was saying something similar about the Kimmel situation, and that MAGA better watch it, because if they get comfortable with government leaders calling for censorship, what happens when the other party is in control.

LOL.  LMAO, even.

  

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

And Joe Rogan was saying something similar about the Kimmel situation, and that MAGA better watch it, because if they get comfortable with government leaders calling for censorship, what happens when the other party is in control.

Counterpoint: this approach is evidence of how utterly fucked we are as a society.  That's because the ONLY motivating factor for any policy action or item is "but what about ME?"  It's the "Leopards Eating People's Faces" problem, nationwide.

Government action X hurts the fuck out of person Y.  Who cares?  In fact, it's worse than "who cares" -- it's "awesome! Suck it, other guy!"  It's only when Government action X ends up hurting YOU that you say "wait, Government action X is bad!"

The dominant social dynamic in the US is -- for example -- people only worry about massive losses in the availability of healthcare when it hits them.  When THEIR hospital closes, when THEIR medicare coverage evaporates, etc.

The contra-approach -- one that is functionally dead in this country -- is that people should worry about massive losses in the availability of healthcare that hit their neighbors and fellow countrymen.  We should ALL want Lorene and Cletus to have access to basic healthcare, because a healthy commonwealth is a good thing.  It's an objectively good thing.  It doesn't matter whether it directly benefits me or not.

We should want a government that doesn't shit on basic constitutional rights because that is bad for the commonwealth, and destructive of basic governing principles that are social positives as a whole.

TLDR; the approach above is just more of "all that matters is the 'me' good, zero consideration for the common good."

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100% Marge and Ted are looking at this from how it affects the 2026 midterms and them staying in power

White House could not fucking care less, because they will still be in power after 2026 and will just bypass Congress if it flips hands and rule by fiat. 

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