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Hey baby are you a lib? ‘Cause you seem pretty owned.
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Submitted 3 days ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
For a bunch of people who purport to hate socialism, they sure do like being publicly owned
oppy1984@lemm.ee 3 days ago
If there was lemmy gold, I’d give it to you for that one.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I wish I could claim it as my own. It’s a good line though.
JustJack23@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Saving this one
snekerpimp@lemmy.snekerpimp.space 3 days ago
“Just tighten your belt bro. Just buy two dolls bro. It’s just a little bit of pain for the orange god-king bro.”
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Surely his shoe business could have survived if he had only bought 2 shoes instead of a whole inventory.
Auntievenim@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Look, this guys failure to properly plan his business around his own politics is reason itself for his business to fail lmao
How does one own a small business, vote for the guy campaigning on a trade war, then get shocked when your small business is ruined by the trade war?
Oh no, the consequences of my actions, what have I done to deserve this!
aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Everyone gets a fixed allotment of pencils bro Isn’t capitalism great bro?
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
what’s hilarious is they could be out on the street freezing and starving to death and they STILL will bleat their praises for dear leader trump, rather than admit that maybe they’ve been completely utterly 100% conned by the con man everyone’s been calling a con man for the last several decades
Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What a novel sacrifice they must make to make sure the other is properly hurt!
And can you imagine how much worse things would have been if Harris was elected?
piefood@feddit.online 3 days ago
As someone who grew up fundamentalist-religious and right-wing, but then got out of it, it's becuase of a few things:
You'd have to restructure a lot of your world-view, and that is very hard. You have to take a fundamental part of how you see the world, discard it, and watch a bunch of other values and beliefs come crashing down. Rebuilding from that is scary and hard.
You have a lot of social investment as being part of the "in-crowd" of your community. A lot of your friends/family/colleagues/social-circle all keep reinforcing your beliefs. This makes it hard to step away from those beliefs, because you feel like you are betraying that community. Many communities will indeed abandon you, especially if you go to the "other side". You suddenly have to become the enemy that you've been rallying against.
Sunk-Cost fallacy: You've already spent so much time and effort in this belief, that youre really hoping something will happen, and your faith in the person or system will be justified. Eventually it'll pay off if you wait just a little longer. Of course, "wait a little longer" ends up being years and years, and at that point you have more compounded mistakes that you have to admit to. This makes you feel like a bigger idiot than if you had just admitted your mistakes up front.
tl;dr: It's a cult!
b_tr3e@feddit.org 3 days ago
The same old song. Fascist voters believe that they will profit from fascism while only “the others” will be hurt. Idiots don’t realize that they are nothing but disposable assets to a fascist regime. That’s what fascism is all about.
DrFistington@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Because you were never in their secret little club. That’s what these idiots don’t understand. They think that because they have a few million dollars, or tens of millions and a business that they are ‘wealthy’ and therefore Republicans are one of them and vice versa.
If you don’t have at least 250 million, you are never going to be the intended beneficiary of Republican policy, and in fact, you will be harmed by their decisions. If you went to one of their little fund raisers and proudly announced that your business made ten million dollars last year, they’d fucking laugh at you, because you’re a joke to them. A donkey that thinks it’s a Thoroughbred
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Tracaine@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Face meet leopard.
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 3 days ago
Can’t you just make your own shoes? All you have to do is build your own shoe factory and then hire a bunch of illegals and children to work under the table for cash. You don’t even need a website, just sell the shoes on Facebook Market Place. That’s literally all there is to it.
TheRealKuni@midwest.social 3 days ago
I 3D printed some Crocs, does that count?
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Definitely. Seize the means
Belgdore@lemm.ee 3 days ago
And this is why I don’t care about most small businesses. Unless they are a co-op or a genuine charity the vast majority are run by people like this.
themaninblack@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Many petty tyrants who couldn’t hang in a normal job. I dealt with these guys in a tech support role. Many are genuinely nice. Some have oppositional defiant disorder
bystander@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
So like, a sample of the general population?
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 days ago
“I voted for a power fantasy”
Well, the rich / big business did too, and their power is bigger than yours.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Your business has been sacrificed for his rich backers. HTH!
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
When they privatize the USPS and “raise the market floor” for small packages it’s going to kill my wife’s garage business. No one wants to spend $18 to ship a $35 item. $5? Sure, no problem. Even if it only doubles to $10 it’s still going to make the bulk of her customers pause.
yarr@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Well duh, just open up a factory in your garage.
DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Lol, self-owned 🤣
Arigion@feddit.org 3 days ago
And he still does not know the difference between taxes and tariffs and who’s gonna pay them.
dickalan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I wish I was still on Twitter so I could see all the replies, flaming this guy
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
You know for fuck sure this guy is going to vote Republican in the midterms and then do another insurrection to make sure Trump is “elected” in 2028.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, but he’s owning the libs or what ever the fuck that means.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I genuinely think they won’t, one thing that does make people like this learn is when they personally feel the consequences of their actions.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 days ago
ratel@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Thabks for linking, ironically this guy makes patriotic shoes with flags and ones that say “Gulf of America” on them according to the thread.
So much to unpack here…
dickalan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thank you for putting in the effort, I wish only the best for everybody involved🤣🤣
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Here’s the thing… You voted for the bad thing, you stupid fucking idiot.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
A “business” where you need de minimus. Dude wasn’t even importing enough to have stock. There are Amazon resellers with more robust supply chains.
AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As always: You get what you fuckin‘ deserve.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Let’s not go that far. This lady got something she deserved. Generally speaking, what someone deserves has little to do with what they get.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Clearly, that doesn’t happen. Especially not always. We wouldn’t be in this fucking boat if everyone got what they deserved. For example: Trump does not deserve the whitehouse. Republicans don’t deserve power. Are they getting what they deserve?
janonymous@lemmy.world 3 days ago
not a shitpost
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 days ago
[deleted]Dampyr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Honestly it always looked like a shitpost to me
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Conservative is a misnomer used for propaganda purposes.
After all conservative aren’t really in the game of conserving.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 days ago
You don’t get to decide that.
janonymous@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes, officially “everything goes”, but I feel something shouldn’t be considered a shitpost if it’s just something funny. For me a shitpost needs to be deliberately low quality and/or dumb in itself. This is just an arguably funny post, that I’d expect to find in funny or politicalhumor.
wildcardology@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Does he still own the libs?
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 days ago
He doesn’t own the shoe shop anymore.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Literal NPC behavior… That first tweet is full-blown parody
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
kevin2107@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Owned themselves 😂 funny thing is im better off now then when she decided to own herself lmao
some_dude@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Oh no, not Steffi!
Cocopanda@futurology.today 3 days ago
He spent the entire day insulting people and posting conspiracy theory bullshit. He got what he deserved and won’t complain about Trump directly because his followers would shit down his throat. He’s a pussy ass bitch.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
He’s gone even further off the rez: “Tariff supporters are socialists”.
Like, no. It’s the exact opposite.
wanderwisley@lemm.ee 3 days ago
The leopard’s are gonna be eaten good by the summmer.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 days ago
hnnhmn7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
surprise pikachu moment
davidagain@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Conservatism is, as always, a complete failure of empathy, a lack of ability to recognise that if you don’t care about other people and you choose to put people who also don’t care about other people in charge, the people in charge simply and absolutely don’t care about you or your friends or your family.
Conservatives don’t understand that “them” and “us” are actually all just us.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes!
frunch@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well said, and i love your user name. Happy Friday 🥂
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
This is a bit of an extreme view. Most conservatives do have empathy, though they will prioritize their closed ones with it.
The problem with this specific scenario with the tarrifs is just people being misinformed and buying everything the party tells them, but I wouldn’t blame it on lack of empathy. If they’d actually known what the repercussions would be, I don’t think most of them would have voted for trump.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Many, many conservatives voted for dump to punish immigrants. Many, many people voted to “own the libs”, just like the person cited in this very post.
Please… point to the “empathy” in “owning the libs”. They might have the tiniest drop of empathy for some, but the problem is they have a lot more HATE for people they don’t even fucking know. That makes them terrible people no matter how much you say, “butbut they still have some empathy!”.
Yea, the problem is they have more hate than empathy.