TronBronson
@TronBronson@lemmy.world
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 2 weeks ago:
Well considering we had a huge head start, I really don’t value the comparison that much anyway.
Let’s look at it a different way, is their middle class growing while ours is contracting? Let’s consider the trend and not the specific point in time.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 2 weeks ago:
My aunt and uncle went on a state sponsored trip and got the impression that they have a stronger middle class than we do. From what I can piece together I’d tend to agree. But ya I guess we’ll know for sure with more hindsight.
Gotta love the two biggest economy’s in the world and you can’t find/trust good data
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 2 weeks ago:
Umm do you want to break those numbers down for the bottom 75% or earners? Or the median? I believe that is just the billionaire holding up the statistic that the Fed is presenting. Also, those numbers were in billions representing the whole country not an individual in thousands……
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 3 weeks ago:
How much money do you think the median American takes home these days with cost of living and suppressed wages? -2000 in credit card debt once the budget gets tallied?
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 3 weeks ago:
The Chinaman is not the issue dude.
And please Asian American is the preferred nomenclature
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 3 weeks ago:
I would say “the Chinese invented many things in the last two millennia.” And “China is constantly posturing against Taiwan” to separate the people from their government.
“The Chinese” doesn’t have to be racist it can just include all the people of the region across all times. It can be a bit ignorant but doesn’t flag maliciousness
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 4 weeks ago:
Technically if you took out a bunch of bad loans the government would be bailing out the banks. Like 2008. Let’s ride!
- Comment on Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden 5 weeks ago:
I’d urge you to consider most of americas downfall in the last 60 years was sold through fear not greed. Red scares, war on terrorism. Fear caused us to erode our rights to the greediest power-hungry grifters in town. If we were so greedy why would we continue to impoverish ourselves to form an oligarchy. I find the Marx argument on the subject, a bit old and lacking in modern nuance.
- Comment on Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden 5 weeks ago:
Do you think the average American politician is more greedy than: a Saudi politician, a Russian politician, a British empire politician, an Africa warlord chopping off kids hands? An Israeli prime minister?
- Comment on Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden 5 weeks ago:
Well we had to define “the system”. If you ask the monarchists: democracy is the corrupt system that allowed the greed and corruption to take hold? Perhaps the uneducated masses don’t need political power because their personal greed and ignorance empowers the capitalists in charge?
I don’t have any fundamental issues with humans owning land and investing in businesses. I don’t think that specification is the one where we went completely wrong. I’d say socialism is where we went wrong (just for lols) we taxed the masses and gave the resources to the few. The government took power from the individuals and handed it to small groups of their friends. And they used it to entrench power in the government. It’s just backward socialism with the money trickling up. The Republican congressmen all got rich on Medicare fraud. It’s crazy how these socialist programs end up solely benefiting the people in charge of them.
Is that a problem with the economic system or the government?
- Comment on Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden 5 weeks ago:
Like was citizens united a failure of our economic system or government? One would argue Americans could have pressured their government to legislate that out but were too stupid to see that a cause of the problem: is that capitalism or a lack of education and active citizenship
- Comment on Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden 5 weeks ago:
No you’re on point we value greed more in 2025 than we did in 1925-1950. I don’t think capitalism or the system its self is problematic. There’s lots of room for social programs, regulations, taxation etc in capitalism to balance the scales. I think having an uneducated overworked population, and decades of political corruption are probably more of the cause than just saying “capitalism bad”. Personally I think having large top heavy institutions always leads to corruption and strong men so add any political system you want. With enough centralized power comes corruption and exploitation.
- Comment on Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden 5 weeks ago:
Idk traveling around the world made me more empathetic and understanding of people. Some people travel the world and decide to conquer it… ya know? It’s just people.
- Comment on The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard 1 month ago:
Wow a massive ass McMansion with no thought placed into the architecture. That tracks
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 2 months ago:
Bro we were climbing towers in Zelda for the thing in 1997.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 2 months ago:
I feel like Nintendo 64 was the real OG adapter of open world RPGs. The success of Mario 64 and legend of Zelda had already proven the genre wildly profitable
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 2 months ago:
This article is old enough to buy cigarettes now.
- Comment on They were made in a factory. A *bomb* factory. They're bombs. 2 months ago:
Hahaha not for me mom.
- Comment on They were made in a factory. A *bomb* factory. They're bombs. 2 months ago:
Jesus. This is a workplace safety and workers rights issue bro. The people packing powder are not the people starting wars.
- Comment on Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime 2 months ago:
He’s the most anti-capitalist ever to grace the White House. I’m certain I can prove it!
- Comment on The solution to many problems 7 months ago:
Would you like me to analyze your ethical decisions and judge you publicly? I am certain we can find some unethical behaviors that you partake in every day that hurt the environment and the people around you. I don’t have time in my day. It’s just a really weird thing to pick out and have a moral battle with. It’s a personal choice. It’s an addiction. There’s plenty of bad people out there. The cigarette smokers are not trying to hurt you intentionally.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 7 months ago:
lol I hope you get addicted to some to some ratchet pussy and it ruins your life
- Comment on The solution to many problems 7 months ago:
It’s alright they never had to suffer from the utter brainwash advertising we had. They are brainwashed the other way. It’s probably a good thing. World used to be a smoke cloud.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 7 months ago:
Yes. We are American. We’re destined to die from a gun. Who’s got time to be afraid of a plant? What is a healthcare?
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 7 months ago:
If you play 1-2 hours a week you probably haven’t even unlocked the free stuff yet, or got meaningful upgrades. The new guns are not that great. I use the same shotgun from day 1. Same OG kit. The game plays fine without the BPs. The game gives you free access to BP. The core game itself is very fun to play and the rewards come pretty naturally.How is this an issue?
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 7 months ago:
Here the thing, if you only play 1-2 hours a week you barely have enough time to get a good load out figured out. Why don’t you just enjoy the game as is, when you have 40 hours in the game you should have unlocked a battle pass. It’s how games are monetized now. Enjoy the content available to you or fork up the cash. Welcome to 2025 we all hate it here.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 7 months ago:
Also was loosly talking about my increased business costs associated with china tariffs. Let the chinese steal shit and make it cheap for me thats what im talking abou.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 7 months ago:
I’m talking about 70$ games man. Im talking about IP being locked away for decades. Genres of games dying off to push profitability of bigger projects. Strangling out smaller studios any way possible. I’m talking about Gamers. They came for GAMERS.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 7 months ago:
Eh it’s all just stolen and borrowed code. Whens the next Dawn of war or command and conquer coming out? Oh never. locked behind IP laws and timid corpos.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 7 months ago:
I just wanna know which amazing video game innovations We are protecting here in America. Are we talking about the failing franchises that have been milking their customers for 15 years? Have we done anything really innovative recently? Remakes delayed games and flops.