So Musk had nothing intelligent, insightful or even interesting to say in response. Sounds about right.

All I see anymore is, “Trump said stuff”. When are those grocery prices coming down?

That’s sounds pretty close to where I’m at now. Ideally I want a libertarian society, but I don’t believe it will work in practice in a lot of areas (like health care or completely unregulated capitalism). On those issues I’m more aligned with the Green Party.

I’m not sure what the “best” solutions are, but I know wealth and power are way to consolidated now and we need to decentralize.

I agree. This is what I’ve observed: Pride and moral superiority are the primary sources of political extremism. Any attempt to reason in that emotional state is going to be filled with a ton of confirmation bias. Mix in some greed and it gets even worse.

These people have a tendency to strongly identify with their particular brand of ideology and consider any challenge a threat. They label people that disagree as evil or stupid which makes them feel even more certain in their moral superiority. They close their minds to any dissenting opinions and hide in their echo chambers continuing the vicious cycle because being right feels good and being wrong feels bad.

Some humility and genuine curiosity are ways to reverse the cycle.

That’s how most libertarians I’ve talked to think. There are some people who call themselves libertarians who actually just want the government out of the way so mega corps can control everything, but i don’t think Jimmy Wales is one of them.

In what way does Wikipedia defy Jimmy Wales own rules?

TempleOS is really impressive for an OS made by one guy! Terrence Davis had some mental health issues, but he’s legendary as a programmer.

So let’s just call our guy “Diaper Don” in the history books. It’s the best nickname I’ve heard. Pretty fitting to his maturity level and how he’s constantly throwing tantrums.

We now have a President who just posted a video of his personal fantasy which is himself wearing a crown and literally shitting all over the American people exercising their first amendment rights!

No, here in the US, our fascists are wimps. We just need to make them fear for their wallets.

Where did you go? There were a couple thousand of us in Montpelier.