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- Comment on Jon Stewart's Debate Analysis: Trump's Blatant Lies and Biden's Senior Moments | The Daily Show 2 days ago:
Have you ever watched the Daily Show? What you describe has never been the practice there, they shit on everyone, it’s great.
- Comment on do humans shed more skin when sunbathing? 4 days ago:
Ahh, you have skinitis, be glad it’s not boneitis.
- Comment on The stats don't lie 1 week ago:
Just one of those days.
- Comment on California Democrats agree to delay health care worker minimum wage increase to help balance budget 1 week ago:
The population always pays. Why?
The population always pays. Why?
The population always pays. Why?
The population always pays. Why?
The population always pays. Why?
The population always pays. Why?
The population always pays. Why?
The population always pays. Why?
The population always pays. Why?
The population always pays. Why? - Comment on CRANKIN' MAH HAWG!!! 1 week ago:
Omg you’re right. That means I can check Wikipedia, he is 82 years old.
Now please OP, update the image. For no one shall disrespect THA HAWWWWGGZ THAT’S RIGHT I WAS ONE THE WHOLE TIME CRAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN…
- Comment on CRANKIN' MAH HAWG!!! 1 week ago:
Yeah but how old is red face white hair man.
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 in the works with Josh Gad starring, Mel Brooks producing 1 week ago:
And if we are lucky we’ll all each reach a point in our lives where most everyone we ever knew is dead and we’re there just… hanging on.
Sometimes I think about the perspective of my 80 year old neighbors. Every day could be their last. I suppose the world would be a better place if everyone of all ages realized how fragile and fleeting this life is.
- Comment on Cannabis 4 weeks ago:
Idk wtf that cat is but I’m on team cat.
Fuck lemmings, worst thing to happen to Lemmy! - Comment on +rads 4 weeks ago:
You have to swallow the rock for the cure.
Do it, eat the rock.
- Comment on Non-binary 5 weeks ago:
It was more of a rant inspired by your comment than directed at you, I tend to write that way for whatever reason. It’s just how I think through things. Usually I get lost halfway through writing my comment and forget what I’m talking about. Sorry it must make for a confusing thing to read on return, lol.
- Comment on Non-binary 5 weeks ago:
I’m going to use “you” a lot in this post but know I’m using the global definition, I’m not directly addressing you.
Right, but you must realize that is your perception and not reality.
If you’ll allow me to take some liberties and use you as an example :
They are asking you to change your perception of them.
You are asking them to change/disregard their reality to conform to your existing perception.One can be done, one cannot. They’ll still be what they are and now their way of defining themselves is forbidden, by who? Why? This path seems completely irrational.
And what value does your perception hold anyway? The meaning of every word, sound, and thought in your head is arbitrary, it’s all made up. So obviously language needs to be calibrated with reality from time to time.
Language has changed to such an extreme degree that you wouldn’t understand your own language 300, 1,000, 5,000 years ago. Why not be upset about that? Seems kinda silly to start a movement to rollback english to 1724, eh?
That is how I feel about those who oppose groups of people seeking to better define themselves. “I don’t feel what they describe, they’ve organized millions of people who claim to feel the same way to fuck with me, I’m mad!”
TLDR, it’s logical for language to change and people to carve out niches. Humans aren’t born male and female only, so it seems silly to puritanically declare that because of an ancient understanding of humans, we should ignore modern biology.
- Comment on Report: Since 2020, almost two-thirds of all new wealth went to the top 1% 5 weeks ago:
It’s cool. I mean we’ve been historically fine in earnings. It’s not like there was a massive drop in compensation relative to productivity in the 1980s that continues to today. Wait, I suppose there was.
What is the value of 50 years of under-compensation for the vast majority of Americans? How many homes never purchased, vacations never taken, businesses never started? We can’t afford to do any of that. We barely exist.
But wait, record stock prices! Woo! Who needs money when the corporations poisoning us with PFAs and lobbying the government to destroy itself are earning more than ever! I mean we can’t afford stocks and 80+% of the market is owned by like 5% of the population, but that’s good! Good and fine!
I mean sure, people will become homeless, starve, resort to crime to eat, but we should rejoice that the billionaires are living their best lives.
Given their reluctance to release power, and the size of the imbalance, historically it seems like the lower classes would need to harm members of the CEO class to bring about change, but that is vile and uncivil and no one would want to do that. Plus you’d need a population with nothing to lose and nothing to work for, American workers are more incentivized and happier than ever.
Go rich people! Take more! And more! And more! And more! Never too much! Surely this impoverished house of cards will stand for millenia!
- Comment on Anon catches her boyfriend in a private moment 5 weeks ago:
Add a Baby Yoda Oven mitt and I’m in.
- Comment on Seriously 5 weeks ago:
This is so stupid. But I laughed. What does that say about me? Yet still, I laugh.
- Comment on In case some of y'all are still looking for a job 1 month ago:
I like drawings of flowers as well, I understand this is popular among Yakuza, and I have my own supply of JNCOs. That’s it, I’m joining the Yakuza.
- Comment on Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs 1 month ago:
- Comment on According to the Federal Reserve Americans owe over $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, with the average borrower owing $37,667 1 month ago:
It’s cool. We’ll stimulate the economy once we are 65 and out of debt. Surely nothing ill will occur to allow an entire generation to send all of their expendable income to money lenders.
The American dream.
- Comment on Will Billionaires Destroy Worker Rights? | Robert Reich 1 month ago:
Can anybody get ahold of Ja Rule?!
- Comment on Will Billionaires Destroy Worker Rights? | Robert Reich 1 month ago:
I mean. They know best.
After all, there are tons of them and only a few of us right. Not like being a billionaire is a mental illness rooted in hoarding or anything like that. They’re totally stable and normal, just look at all of the vocal billionaires in the world. Always saying sendible and relatable things.
Power makes you awesome, absolute power makes you absolutely awesome! No side affects!
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 1 month ago:
Questions. Stupid no?
- Comment on Remember... 1 month ago:
You should have stolen their gender and held it hostage.
- Comment on Remember... 1 month ago:
I like this. It’s exactly right.
- Comment on Remember... 1 month ago:
One of the reasons I value autistic traits, literally everything seems arbitrary to me.
The invisible fabric of society that everyone seems to revere appears to me as a heavy suffocating blanket with no rhyme or reason.
Idk, or maybe I’m an egotistical know it all. Always gotta leave room for being wrong.
- Comment on Root Vegetable Abuse 1 month ago:
This makes my carrot so hard.
Wait, carrots are normally hard.
This makes my carrot remain in the default state so hard. - Comment on Just asking questions 1 month ago:
- Comment on Living 1 month ago:
Hahahaha. Jeez I hope not. I love the little guys but I’d flip the fuck out. I drop them down into my basement, usually never see them again tho sometimes they make their way up to the main house.
- Comment on Anon ends racism 1 month ago:
You’re right about everything you said. Except me not understanding. I was intentionally antagonizing them because they initially annoyed me, then it became a game for me.
Is that wrong? Maybe. But sometimes I enjoy it. I had a great time practicing my writing to achieve a goal, and yesterday the goal was as stated. Today I’m bored of it.
But I appreciate the effort that you and people like you take, you seem like a genuinely good person.
- Comment on Anon ends racism 1 month ago:
Cool, is the genocide of Jews happening now?
Is it in the room with us now?
Can we have this discussion after Israel has killed 60% of Palestine then?
What are the rules again?Victim victim, play the victim, blah blah. It’s so old.
Somehow you’re the victim even when 30,000 people die at the hands of a Jewish state.
That’s next level stuff brother. - Comment on Anon ends racism 1 month ago:
Perhaps in a sane world anyone who justifies a genocidal state should feel uncomfortable.
The Israeli government is the one putting you in this situation.
- Comment on Anon ends racism 1 month ago:
You make a good point. Now, of course we should apply that same way of thought to those who speak of Palestinians? We get a new quote each week coming from top positions in the Israeli government.
An Israeli lawmaker from the ruling right-wing Likud Party on Wednesday offered fresh evidence that the Israeli government’s aim in its bombardment of Gaza is a genocidal effort to kill or forcibly remove the more than 2 million Palestinians living there, declaring, “Gaza should be erased.”
Tell me, of those you and I just mentioned, which have more power in the situation?
Or should we perhaps not cherry pick quotes? Which would you prefer? Both seem to go against Israel.
Let’s change focus.
Perhaps instead we could go by death count? 30,000 Palestinians dead (which is presumed an undercount by major authorities) since October 7th, 75% being women and children. Can you please tell me how many Israelis have we lost in that time?
Reply in your own time.