Bingo. These are the same people who will say that most political violence comes from the left while removing a study showing the opposite: a study about a statistical trend that has been well known and documented for longer than I've been alive.
They don't care. Their beliefs shape shift to fit whatever is most expedient in the moment. They will openly lie to your face, without even trying to hide that it's a lie while they smile and say they're being honest. The people who gaslit the nation about project 2025 only to have cabinet members gleeposting about implementing it on social media.
Truth is irrelevant and reality is an inconvenience. Hypocrisy is as dead to them as the corpse of civility they prop up whenever it suits their narrative.
Same reason why tankies don't just move to China, or why some Canadians had Trump bumperstickers: the point is to take over and wield authority as a weapon. Of course they try to invade and pollute every space they can and muddy waters wherever possible.
You'd think legislatures would care more about elder care given the fact that they're all fucking ancient but I guess 1) theyre rich so fuck the poors and 2) ghouls don't care about discomfort anyways
JXL is the rightful heir to the throne and none of these treasonous corporate usurpers in the court can convince me otherwise. I'll never bow to the Webp or Avif factions. While it looks bleak, I pray the crown finds its way to the head of the true king. Long live the Jpeg bloodline!
But really, webp was pushed because it supports DRM and avif is an implementation detail turned feature afterthought just because webp adoption sucked as much as the format does. I love AV1 for video but avif isn't fit for purpose and webp is garbo. I really wish they didn't take jpegxl out behind the shed for no good reason... It has some awesome engineering.
I get it's trying to be timely clickbait but why the FUCK would i want to read anything he else he's said? I heard enough thanks. Tons of people are glad he's dead just for the very fact we don't have to hear his constant bullshit anymode; why would I click to read more?
Unless he texted "ugh this sucks, I wish someone would shoot me rn" I really don't care.
I agree about the visas. The problem is the constant uncertainty and chaos. And similar to the situation with undocumented labour: huge chunks of the American economic system are predicated on exploitation. There are right ways and wrong ways to correct it... But this is neither. No one wins.
From jobs to housing to crime to inflation to foreign policy: compared to what trump has been doing, it would be difficult to damage the country more if you tried.
TL;DR I was predisposed to skeptical and critical thinking, learned other people had emotions, actually believed in the right's fake freedom rhetoric, and fell in love with a cute lefty boy (unrequited but good friends)
Edit: accidentally typed out my life story. See other reply for TL;DR
Unfortunately I can give no useful insights (except: empathy, understanding, and the desire for both). I was raised Christian and reasoned my way to paganism thinking there didn't need to be a god for miracles to exist; then to atheism when I tried to prove magic and ghosts existed as an explanation; eventually debunking and abandoning the belief in the very concept of supernatural miracles. Similarly with my political views: it seemed more to be an inevitable journey, where I started in one place and, without my core beliefs changing, drifted to another which was more aligned.
As a teen I was big into Alex Jones and conspiracy theories to the point of losing friends before it was cool (pre-maga). Unfortunately for him, I took his advice and "did my own researcher"; becoming more disillusioned with his bullshit the more I learned. For one example, there was a great analysis paper on the sorts of energies and temperatures involved in 9-11, whose models perfectly matched the real world structural damage: no thermite or lasers needed. I bought into the h1n1 vax hoax from Ventura after I had the shot and thought I'd be crippled when then turned on the signal or whatever... But I wasn't. Same with the Fukushima disaster Alex fearmongered about; turns out we're not in a radioactive apocalypse. Retrospectively: he had a terrible track record for predictions.
I was a diehard freedom absolutist: yell fire in crowded theatres, everyone should open-carry everywhere. I wasn't even American but I bought into the mythos, especially as promoted by the right. However I was a fan of star trek as a kid... And I hated the very concept of monetary systems. I wanted people to live free of control, and have the best lives possible. Still do. I also never cared for the social conservatism: i was bi* and was cool with LGBT; "the government has no place in a bedroom between consenting adults". Also no racial prejudice: all deserved freedom (humans were foreign enough to the probably-autistic me; no need for further outgroups...) A severely existential and somber perspective has always been the basis for my worldview (I was a pretty fucked up kid).
That none of that has changed... But one thing did.
Beau of the Fifth Column yt channel, now Belle of the Ranch, was where I first heard this after my change towards the left: they said they believed in "the most amount of freedom for the most people"... I had believed "the right for me to swing my fist ends at your nose", until I realized that threatening to hit someone can have just as much a real consequence for them as actually doing it. Race doesn't exist biologically, certainly in no form that people would recognize colloquially: but people were racialized; racism self-manifested through systemic failures and active oppression. I could no longer pretend that race didn't exist: it absolutely did, but we made it. Trying to be blind to it would cause more harm than using it as a shortcut tool for informing various socially-caused inequalities. Understanding that taught me, vividly, the concept of a real and impactful "social construct"; a concept which I had great disdain for: "facts don't care about your feelings"...
However, if I had to point to something, there was one catalyst... My whole life, I've tried to understand people. Empathy, emotions, and even 'the self' did not come naturally to me. I learned with great effort and (luckily, through birth) the resources to permit such efforts. The one thing that really pushed that forward was falling in love. He leaned left, but hated SJW / tumblrite stupidity leading up to the height of gamergate. We had many overlaps, and I grew exponentially in the decade since meeting him and exploring these feelings. As creator ShoeOnHead would say about Sargon of Akkad (para): "I hated SJWs because they were terrible optics; you hated them because you thought they were causing the fall of western civilization"... Turns out we were both the former as well. The divide between the alt-right, their rhetoric and growing popularity, and the things conservatives claimed to care about became more evident, and my growing awareness and knowledge of social issues was pushing me much further to the left.
Just like when I was 8 years old, I still think money is pretty fucking stupid, and people should be able to live comfortable and free. What changed is that I think some "freedoms" are actually just tragedy-of-the-commons oppression (e.g. "freedom" to discriminate based on race) and must be restricted, and not everyone needs to be packing heat to live free (not needing to is more free... an armed society is not a polite society; polite people don't need the threat of violence, much like good people don't need the threat of hell)
I've gone from being super far rightwing to now being super far leftwing over the course of my life; yet somehow, "Brianna Wu is a fucking idiot" has remained constant.
Honestly haven't heard that one. I've only heard "I used android for freedom. If android is becoming a shitty apple, I'll just use the better apple"