TronBronson
@TronBronson@lemmy.world
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
The question pressed by the post? No there’s nothing exciting. Going on behind the scenes. It’s actually fucking worse when you look under the hood. His original description of a turd circling a drain is quite apt for the situation.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
Okay fair. And we make a good bomb, and a nice fighter jet. Our propaganda is effective. We do a lot of good in areas that are not good.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
No.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s so sad watching them successfully recycle the same washed up material decade after decade.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
When you turn 40 the ghost of Ronald Reagan takes your knees and gives you a house
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Get off my yard!!!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Tfw you’ve been watching the same two groups of people kill each other for 40 years in the same damn place.
- Comment on Lemmyshitpost lately 2 weeks ago:
Gabba ghoul giggity
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 2 weeks ago:
I’m with this guy. Drug dealers killing valuable clients is incredibly rare. ODs are common. It feels more natural. Even the cartels make people work off debt. Dead man can’t pay either.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 2 weeks ago:
Oh, it’s gambling because I’m addicted
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 3 weeks ago:
Duke nukem and castle wolfenstiens love baby will save gaming.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 3 weeks ago:
Yea but like its the best way to avoid the feral people in the real world so kinda sucks.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 3 weeks ago:
they came for gamers…
- Comment on An old excuse 3 weeks ago:
WMDs springs eternal!
- Comment on Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI: 4 weeks ago:
This is beautiful art. Masterpiece of our time.
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 5 weeks ago:
Basically I’m trying to access some social services now, and the administrators don’t give a fuck about the community they are paid to tend to. Real sad
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 1 month ago:
They’ve literally structured our economy around paying you enough to qualify for it. Not your fault our leaders are morons.
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 1 month ago:
No lmao. I’m fighting them right now for that money. I paid into the system, the system bankrupt me, now the system pays out. Social insurance.
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 2 months ago:
You pack a lot of memories in there. Your mind will compartmentalize them. The packing of time into memories is a strange sensation but I don’t think I’ve lost my sense of self. The memories are less vivid and feel further away as time passes. Your memories together with your thoughts form your sense of self, that’s hopefully not something you lose.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 2 months 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... 3 months 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... 3 months 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 months 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 months ago:
The Chinaman is not the issue dude.
And please Asian American is the preferred nomenclature
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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