MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on Dana White isn’t a fan of college athletes getting paid: “It’s a problem. Money ruins everything” 4 days ago:
Well, and university funding…which is used to fund the sports again.
- Comment on Trump Administration Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections 4 days ago:
They probably see this as “culling the weak.”
Eventually they’ll have a workforce working for pennies on the dollar that can withstand high temperatures and don’t mind skipping breaks or something.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 5 days ago:
For us that just means putting 3 to 5 lbs of loose change in a thick sock. =\
- Comment on The uber wealthy arent leaving. Its a lie. 1 week ago:
Dammit, how are we gonna run them off now?! Lol
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 1 week ago:
It feels like the worst parts of Las Vegas and “Big Box Retail.” Everything is being parted out to private equity, and it’s not for us people (or even U.S people) anymore.
I use Vegas as an example because all of the fun family-ish attractions and locals’ incentives have all but been eradicated, replaced with celebrity-DJ’d highrise night/day clubs and luxury shopping that seem to pander to the most egregious ends of wealthy foreign money. (Probably where a lot of shady deals go down, too.)
The other end is conventions, of course. If you wanna woo a guy who knows a guy to give
youyour boss’s boss’s boss a government contract for kill-drones, it probably happens here.The majority of residents’ place in this new structure is as servants, hawking luxury goods and experiences they themselves couldn’t possibly hope to attain because they’re actively shut out.
Feels like the entire country is following this ruinous pattern.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
The purposes they will be used for against the poor who will never be able to afford or control one.
I dunno, we might end up seeing them become commonplace. They’ll be on an “affordable” monthly loan perhaps, but you’re right, it would be like having a snitch and a cop in every home. That’s the only reason it’d be subsidized.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Ya got the lanky one, and ya got the stout one 1 week ago:
That top one would 100% freak most of us out big time if you caught it on an IR trail cam.
Let’s make a little deer skull hat for it one night just to keep the
horrormysterious wonder alive. XD - Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 week ago:
“Heehee what rules? In this market you gotta move fast and hurt people!”
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 1 week ago:
That’s awful! :(
We’re pulling for you guys! Anyone will a brain here in the U.S looks up to and admires how fiercely the French people defend their rights. You don’t roll over and let the suits do as they please.
Please keep being that shining example to us all! The world is very dark for the working person right now. We need you!
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité! ✊🇫🇷
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 1 week ago:
Precisely!
It’s so weird how the “Communism is when the government gives people stuff” crowd just so happens to be concentrated in places where, were the surrounding states and federal government to stop subsidizing public services or industries or funding, they’d be almost completely destitute over night.
Like you said, it just wouldn’t be worth it to private interests to reach an already-poorer population in the middle of nowhere with services like hospitals, shipping, or telecom.
I really wish they could understand this. Not in a “See what we do for you?” kind of way, but more like “See? Things are actually better when we’re working together with government to take care of each other.” Kind of way…
If they succeed and all those benefits get pulled in favor of private parasites, they’ll be even poorer, even angrier, and still blame the Democrats.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 1 week ago:
It kinda feels like our postal service in the U.S.
They defund it, then complain about it, then start ranting that it “Doesn’t even make a profit” even though the whole point is that it’s supposed to be an affordable and accessible mail service.
They’re even doing the same thing with schools. The entire conservo-righty playbook anymore is to get rid of our public services so they and their rich buddies have more to gain at our expense.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on corporate America just posted record profits this week. The stock market is at all time highs. If your paycheck didn't do the exact same thing, take a wild guess why. Their record margins are literal… 2 weeks ago:
Since 2008 I’d be guessing, honestly.
…or the dotcom boom…
Or like the 80’s…
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 weeks ago:
In an ideal scenario, other countries would see our prosperous age after taxing our billionaires, and they’d want some of that sweet stuff so they’d do the same.
All the billionaires would have to fairly pay back for the value people provided to make them so rich, or retreat to some uninhabited island somewhere.
Either way we’d totally win lol.
Then again, as an aside, did you know if you’re a U.S citizen and leave the U.S you’re still subject to income tax abroad? Isn’t that interesting?
I seriously wonder if all these asshats would actually revoke their citizenship en masse to avoid taxes.
…and then even if they did, we’d be rid of them so society would start to balance out again…
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 weeks ago:
Lol right? Like seeing a kid getting beat up by a bully with an obvious born-with advantage and being like “I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU SPECIFICALLY ASKED FOR THIS THO! YOU’RE SO STUPID AND AWFUL, KID!”
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 weeks ago:
Or if that majority is powerless to do anything, then they should cry out that america is not democracy so loudly that other countrys couldnt ignore it,
Ok. And then what?
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 weeks ago:
Funny enough I feel like presidents and other officials are shockingly cheap, monetarily, too.
I bet you get a lot further simply with promises of access your network of other wealthy a-holes who are influential simply because they’re wealthy, and wealthy because they’re influential.
Ugh. 🤢
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 weeks ago:
“All the evil shit” basically comes around when somebody inevitably shows up and says:
“Look, those books are a lot of words. You’re too stupid to handle such responsibility. You need me/us to interpret it for your busy, feeble little minds. Don’t worry God gave us special authority for some indiscernible reason so you have to listen to us. 😉”
“Wide is the path to destruction” definitely comes to mind when it comes to people choosing the path of least intellectual resistance. (In the modern era, with reasonable literacy rates and unparalleled access to scripture.)
Sorry I’m more trying to signal boost you here because you’re so right:
Christianity practiced in earnest was a big time obstacle for the wealthy and powerful. They couldn’t stamp it out by force, so they do what they do with any culture: They stole it and sold it back in a way that glorifies themselves.
Nothing is more opposed to Christ than the disgusting greed and nationalism displayed today. It’s disgusting.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 weeks ago:
Seriously, would be near-utopia in like a year.
Imagine all the JOBS that would “create” with so many public projects to handle all at once! Public transport! Healthcare! Education! USAID! Roads without potholes! Bridges not on the verge of collapse? Think of the dams!!
Wow. Seizing the ill gotten gains of like 3 to 5 people would fix almost everything, and yet here we are. I truly can’t comprehend it…
- Comment on Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14. He gets paid leave.Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding paid leave at least 23 times. 3 weeks ago:
Does it help knowing that you made my day with that comment? :D
- Comment on All workers deserve the same Paid Time Off deal as Mitch. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah and we’d get fired for a “No call, no show” like next day.
- Comment on Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14. He gets paid leave.Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding paid leave at least 23 times. 3 weeks ago:
I WISH magas thought about Jesus.
Jesus: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock…”
Magas: SOME SHAGGY IMMIGRANT BUM IS ON MY RING CAMERA, PROBABLY CASING MY PLACE TO STEAL MY TRUCK AND PATRIOTISM. GET THE SHOTGUN.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 3 weeks ago:
Or even 7.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 3 weeks ago:
Allows?
I hate to be a doomer but at this point it’s practically foundationally built on that very notion.
That’s why it needs to be scrapped and rebuilt entirely.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 3 weeks ago:
A zombie movie realized would be so stupid…it sucks we’re in the stupid timeline. ._.
- Comment on All part of their scam plan 3 weeks ago:
“… And we pass the savings on to you!” , if not an outright lie, means they stole or cheated it from someone else.
- Comment on Theft 3 weeks ago:
Two things felt painfully obvious:
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They, being wealthy political class themselves, were completely detached from the people’s plight and motivations.
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They knew no matter how badly they threw the fight, they could still be chilling back, buying low and selling exponentially high through whatever easily avoidable economic crisis hit our (not their) country next.
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- Comment on Literally 4 weeks ago:
That was beyond embarrassing. 'Pubbies dragged him through the mud for a spectacle to feed their news apparatus to get their seals clapping again.
He rightfully exercised his rights and gave them nothing as they just slandered him over and over.
Guy did the best he could while working for a bunch of cultist buffoons (who would share a single braincell, if only they could share anything, because sharing is socialism.)
They’re desperately clawing for ANYTHING to support their bizarre conspiracies and pin their disaster on him. And of course distract from The Files and The War I guess.
- Comment on AOC vs Graham on Social Security. 4 weeks ago:
Hell upgraded their acoustic dampening. How nice of you to notice!
