Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco...
by lazyasciiart on Friday September 12, 2025 @04:43PM
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Jesus. They were literally answering your question of “how can anyone be committed to someone they describe as a lesser evil”, very clearly not even using a specific side as the lesser evil, and you’re mad that anyone is able to elucidate or understand the reasoning used? You didn’t want to know how people do that, you just wanted to mention that they are terrible people and it’s a bad choice?
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco...
by godelski on Friday September 12, 2025 @04:53PM
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> your question of “how can anyone be committed to someone they describe as a lesser evil”,
That was not my question
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco...
by gus_massa on Friday September 12, 2025 @05:02PM
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The problem is that the GP forgot the /s
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco...
by godelski on Friday September 12, 2025 @07:08PM
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> the GP
michaelt?We're at a point where if that is parody then it is indistinguishable from reality. I hope you're right and that it is parody. But hell, just the other week I saw someone pull out the "bUt YoU dIdN't UsE a SoTa MoDeL" card in reference to a GPT-5 output and I mistakenly assumed this was a joke.
Sarcasm doesn't seem to translate well over the internet. Fewer clues and people conflate the ability to read with literacy. I love sarcasm, but it appears Descartes was right
> Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company.
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco...
by gus_massa on Friday September 12, 2025 @08:01PM
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I hope it was sarcasm, because I didn't want to offend anyone. Perhaps I'm reading too much in the details, but highlighting my team and the other team made me think that. (Anyway, I agree that it's better to avoid sarcasm online.)
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco...
by godelski on Friday September 12, 2025 @08:32PM
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I hope you're right. I used to default to assuming sarcasm but that changed. I hope I'm wrong though, because you are right, there are enough elements where I did take a second to consider if it was
This is a given.
And what? We obviously have decided who we believe the lesser of evils is. That was never the point. The point is that by showing strong devotion to the lesser of two evils is still showing devotion to evil! There's a big difference between begrudgingly choosing between two evils in a rigged game and aligning with that evil.One does not need always compare. We can both evaluate a single political party by its merits, absent of everything else, while also being able to evaluate how they stand comparatively. In fact, you can't even do the latter without doing the former first!
All you've accomplished is perpetuating the two evils. You perpetuate the evil you vote for my allowing them to excuse their actions in justification of fighting the greater. You have no power to change what you've chosen as greater and you've abdicated the power to make your lesser even less evil, instead choosing to gave it power to become more evil!
Think carefully about what you say. It's not only Siths who speak in absolutes, but evil does thrive on over-simplification.