What?! No, I’m advocating for change. You can go and do the change, since I’m not there. Go and do it, and I’ll do change where I am here.
Or is your strategy hopes and prayers for government instead? You should make tiktoks praising Bernie. And post on Lemmy your preferred government plan. That will definitely do practical help.
Funny you should mention temporary - in a way, that’s true of Christian view. ‘Heaven’ in a broad sense is much broader, but the sense of where are ‘you’ after you die, is temporary until the resurrection, where people are once again in a very physical body (but now immortal and undamaged) on a very physical (re)new(ed) earth.
Tends to on a nation scale. But there’s still some good lessons to learn from it for smaller scale and nation scale too.
“If everyone would just stop being racist”
“If everyone would just vote for honest politicians”
“If everyone would just be faithful to their partners”
“If everyone would just trust scientific medicine”
“If everyone would just put people first instead of profits”
“If everyone would just not abuse children”
No. Sure, you’ll never get everyone doing a good thing, but it’s useless to give up entirely on society/community as a whole doing things right. Imagine if 90% of families abused children on a regular basis, and you don’t even hope for those families to change, you just plan on government alternatives?
And that shit is EXPENSIVE.
Or takes all of society to get involved, rather than outsourcing it to government via taxes.
Seems like that dollar did pretty good results.
Now there’s a comment I can hear!
Do you die if you don’t leave the toilet before the music stops? Is your seat your last save checkpoint, or do you respawn right back at the airport?
You see, they have the most to lose, so they’re the most vulnerable!
I presume most Republican voters didn’t anticipate Trump wrecking the system of accountability and checks in government, or don’t understand what’s happening. I’m sure many think he really is destroying the bad that’s allegedly entrenched in the system, and a good one will settle in its place.
If you want to understand them more, I think the problem is you’re seeing different aspects to what they do.
‘Large’ government with lots of power might sound more like totalitarianism, overseeing many aspects of life that - in the opinion of many - ought to be left to people’s freedom.
Running the government like a business, on the other hand, implies having pressures on it to do only what achieves its aims, and do that efficiently. And a CEO-president means the power to fix the government without being restricted by bureaucracy.
… Of course to me, by that point, it sounds like a king, exactly as you said. And running a government as a business sounds about as stupid as you can get. But these things aren’t exact, and understanding how a different perspective can make something look good helps us to understand the people with that perspective. It also helps us see things to improve that our perspective might be missing.
*octopodes (pronounced, I am reliably informed, like a Greek hero!)
Don’t malign the whole species from some evildoers. ADAB - All Dolphins Aren’t Bad
Sometimes people who’ve had a rough past are the most aware of the need to treat people right, now.
I also choose to identify as the founder of Tesla.
All right, but we’re doing the study on rats as per usual and extrapolating to humans. Please turn up at the lab Monday 9am sharp.
Can you measure something like, D-C–cup milk since the total volume isn’t all milk?
Measure in ml if it’s outside, or g if it’s in the baby, I think.
Indeed