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[-] [email protected] 144 points 7 months ago

Wow, what is up with all these people getting elected Dem and then switching. Where are all the Gopers switching to dem? smh.

[-] [email protected] 151 points 7 months ago

It's easier to make money as a conservative.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

This tracks... I've seen home shows with John featured on them and I was always shocked how normal he lived.

I guess he saw enough of his colleagues to think "I'm no pleb", so he switched sides to enrich himself. He's an elite now, so he thinks he's better than all of us.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

People who are actually Dem don't like playing dirty. The nature of believing in things like equality and justice and so forth tends to mean you believe in telling the truth and doing things on the up & up. Pretending you're something you're not is anthetical to one's upbringing. "Ends Justify Means" isn't usually a belief held by those on the left.

Whereas, if you're a sociopathic grifting opportunistic dipshit, you'll exploit this to nefarious ends.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

People with truly noble aims are always playing catch up to people with ignoble aims, because the former operates under a set of rules, and the latter does not.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

I think that's why chaotic good tends to be held above lawful good. Lawful good sits by and does everything by the book, resulting in a constant game of catch-up. Chaotic good puts a cap in a ceo's ass and makes the others paranoid.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Yeah playing by the rules only works if the other side is bound by them as well. So the Lawful Good basically has one or both hands tied behind their backs while they take these relentless cheap-shots.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I guess lawful good works best when there’s a critical majority of people following the law and suffers when the legal system breaks down (as it has clearly done in the US).

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Chaotic good is the best one out of any of them and I've been shouting it for 15 years

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

It's a reference. And he's not wholly wrong.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Ah, yes, I missed it, because I am good.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

No, Darth Helmet said it. Source: Spaceballs (movie)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

TIL ignoble is a word.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Or basically any of the neoliberals that have dominated the Democratic party for the last 40 years.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

I’m guessing they get more money since our government was sold to corporations.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

Much easier to grift off FUD than hope, and for many that income stream and power are near impossible to walk away from. If they tell themselves a lie enough they begin to believe it almost as much as their base does, and it's easy to get caught up in and go down the rabbit hole and end up outside of reality.

It's also easier to rationalize being the victim of "them" than it is coming to terms with being out of touch.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I suspect you are spot on with that. Sigh.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Less chance of falling out a window

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