And on top of that, an "I won't vote to fund unless (list of demands)" stance automatically includes "and I will hurt whoever it takes for as long as it takes to get that". When the other side says "great, we wanted them hurting anyway", you don't actually have leverage.

People are always confusing my weakness for kindness

Meh. I don't think it'll take all that but I also don't feel we're terribly far from there either. What's expensive and what is cheap is often more question of govt policy than actual complexity involved

I like it but I know what you mean. I think we're going to have fake meats that are better than the real thing soon

😅 feels like that tbh

In that regard I am not smart!

At least blocking makes it go from "removed by author" to "blocked" in the UI.

It really fucking pisses me off when people remove my quotes. I wasn't even disagreeing with this fucking loser. Oh well. Good bye shithead. Don't have to worry about me interacting with your precious posts every again.

Yes at a certain point the veblenian sabotage is pretty much indistinguishable from a death drive. Welcome to US politics in 2025.

This isn't your grandfather's autocracy. Project 2025 is about sabotage.