OrteilGenou
@OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
- Comment on Diagrams 5 hours ago:
Tighten up those triangles dammit
- Comment on If it ain’t broke… 2 days ago:
2007 he went wild and bought a camo backup tee
- Comment on On trees... 2 days ago:
Imagine looking down at a bunch of cute little things crawling all over you for hundreds of years and then one day one of them shows up with an axe
- Comment on On trees... 2 days ago:
Concentrated sun energy sinks
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 days ago:
Eastwick!
- Comment on >:)> 4 days ago:
- Comment on >:)> 4 days ago:
Yes
- Comment on >:)> 4 days ago:
Derpception
- Comment on Avowed Director Leaves Obsidian For Netflix Games 1 week ago:
Imagine openly admitting that you’re a director
- Comment on George Wendt, Who Played Norm on ‘Cheers,’ Dies at 76 1 week ago:
It’s a dog eat dog world, and I’m wearing milk bone underwear
- Comment on Yep 1 week ago:
Oi to the punks and oi to the skins
Oi the hip that’s partially made of tin
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 week ago:
That really qogA.
- Comment on Damn 😱😱😱 1 week ago:
The “Cave In Yo’ Girth” weight loss program?
- Comment on Damn 😱😱😱 1 week ago:
???
- Comment on Outstanding work 1 week ago:
With that little grin at the end this looks more like Found than Loss
- Comment on Not enough real estate 1 week ago:
Do Do
- Comment on Max changing name back to HBO 2 weeks ago:
The W factor
- Comment on Thats a polar bear 3 weeks ago:
That’s clearly a manatee eating peking duck
- Comment on What's the matter Aquaman? 3 weeks ago:
Aqua Chuck Norris
- Comment on Is it time to stop? 4 weeks ago:
The doeping tom
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 4 weeks ago:
Yeah there’s nothing I like more than having AI integrated into everything I do. It’s sure fun to have educated guesses crowbarred into everything I do!
- Comment on This is how we do it 4 weeks ago:
A theory is valid only when no proof to the contrary is known, after which the theory must be adjusted to accommodate the new findings, or discarded.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 4 weeks ago:
A display of and testament to your eternal commitment, so that your loved one feels the intensity of that love, and your brother in law can get hammered and try to fuck your second cousin.
Seems pretty straightforward to me
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
If you know you know
I mean, I presume… I don’t know, so I don’t know
- Comment on Made one deadly slip 1 month ago:
Honor is dead
- Comment on I was supposed to pick him up from preschool today? Whoops. 1 month ago:
That kid is going places. Primarily the morgue
- Comment on Thanks for nothing 2 months ago:
Well that’s just not ambitious enough. You need to wallpaper a room with minimalist coffee table books
- Comment on Jon Stewart lacerates hand on air, for the second time. 2 months ago:
Ya gotta respect his bit commit
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 3 months ago:
And the angel of the lord came unto me Snatching me up from my place of slumber And took me on high and higher still Until we moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself And he brought me into a vast farmlands of our own Midwest And as we descended cries of impending doom rose from the soil One thousand nay a million voices full of fear And terror possessed me then And I begged Angel of the Lord what are these tortured screams? And the angel said unto me These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard Tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat Like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared "Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers!
- Comment on I am in the US and its gotten very political but as pretty much a peon do I just tune the stuff out thinking its fear mongering? Or should I closely pay attention to it? 3 months ago:
Honest question, in the pre-Trump days people rightly pointed out that the "ruling class " (Koch brothers, Adelsons, Soros, Bloomberg, etc. etc.) would try to buy influence in their preferred party but also donated to the “other side”.
Those people were called oligarchs.
Now that Trump has taken the reins, the term has turned toward him. If you look at the donors in 2024, the top six or so donated to the Republican party (Elon tops that list) but it’s not THAT far off from previous years.
Aside from the obvious (Trump being a dangerous radical, to put it mildly) has anything changed in the way influence is bought and sold, or is the increased use of “oligarchy” more of a tactic to try and mitigate the damage that Trump can do by calling it out as loudly as possible?
I’m Canadian, and I’ve heard the term oligarchy thrown around in reference to American politics for many years, but never do often nor so forcefully as in the past two months.