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To me, it seems like a possible manifestation of the sunk cost fallacy. I've personally seen it in IT security audits and policy rollouts. As you try to make a domain more secure via more aggressive group policy rules, more authoritarian approaches become more acceptable than when you started. Part of it is a sunk cost of "well, if we don't take this more aggressive stance, all of our previous work could be undone." mixed with a sentiment of "We are already blocking users from accessing x service, why not also block y service". Blocking y service would have been unpopular before service x was blocked, but now there's something more acceptable that you can point at as justification. This process just repeats further and further until you're essentially blocking everything and selectively allowing services.

I'm sure I've noticed it elsewhere, but that's one example that I have encountered quite a few times.

Huh, I'd noticed the ratchet effect before in a few different subjects, but I hadn't heard of it specifically. I think you hit the nail on the head, thanks for helping me learn something today.

Is this not just an illustration of the concept of the Overton Window?

Is this a revelation? It's stephen miller. Everything he does is with the intention of either consolidating power or to get lefties killed.

They hold water for high level pedophiles and are a major contributor to the US's current nosedive into fascism. This isn't anything out of the ordinary for fox.

I'll stop calling him a fascist in exchange for him doing some deep sea diving in a carbon fiber hulled submersible.

What if we just stopped enabling shitty private health insurance companies? Dumb.

33% of people approve

For real? We're so fucked.

Wow, 60% of Americans are blind or illiterate. Rough.

I've only seen right wingers saying he's a mastermind. The left just says that he's senile and demented or evil and lawless. He's doing the shit in the open with minimal statecraft or political finesse.

He's a tyrant fascist through and through, but he's not all that smart, he's just willing to brazenly ignore any rules that get in his way because consequences don't apply anymore. Republicans think this makes him a skilled politician, but he's just a bull in a china shop.

The album Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails has been getting a lot of play for me, recently. It's amazing how long the alarm bells have been going off for people paying attention.

You can still be a 90's kid, we won't kick you out

"push my fingers into my eyes" is a reference to Duality by Slipknot, as well. Sorry to break it to you, but it was 2/4

The type of people that found Fred durst hot in the 90s probably still think Fred first is hot. Just two brain cells in a cage match for the last 30 years.

Classic

Be nice to Canada, they have the worst neighbors

Could be a coincidence. Only way we're going to know is if we occupy Winnipeg.

Only thing that could get those big boys hustling that hard. Gotta protect daddy.

Epstein files

Came here to say this. The last decade has truly flipped my perception of the rest of america on its head. Well, my perception of conservatives, at least. I always knew that people are people and there's a spectrum of good to bad. I've come to realize that Republicans literally do not care about trying to help anyone else unless they see some sort of personal return of either money or power. I've seen so many people that I thought were "a good, slightly dumb person misguided by politics" fully throw themselves behind Trump. Everything that they say they believe in is apparently a lie, since they so readily line up to worship a person so antithetical to what they pretend to believe. I can not and do not trust anyone that identifies with Republicans or even conservatism at this point.