BarneyPiccolo
@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
- Comment on Who is going to be the next Pres of Venezula after all this US stuff? 22 hours ago:
Trump.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 22 hours ago:
There may have been more difference in the past, but after watching the Dems do literally NOTHING to blunt MAGA’s return during the entire Biden administration, and almost helping them take back the country. Biden put the case in the hands of his AG, and he managed to find the most unmotivated REPUBLICAN of all time to do the job, who gave them a 2 year head start. The Dems deserve a significant amount of the blame.
The Dems obviously don’t want to make things to difficult for the Sociopathic Oligarchs. Look at the last shutdown. They let people lose their food assistance for a few weeks, but the minute it started to hit the airports, and the corporations couldn’t move their operatives around, the Dems folded within 48 hours, and surrendered with absolutely nothing in return.
Either the Dems are in cahoots, or they are cowardly and negligent. Either way, the result is the same, so who cares if there is a technical distinction?
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 23 hours ago:
If you don’t think the Dems and MAGA serve the same Sociopathic Oligarchs, you are delusional.
They are like the management tier in your workplace. Some managers are pretty cool, and some are terroristic assholes who make every moment at work agonizing. But despite the difference in approach, they both want you to toe the company line, and put the company’s interests ahead of EVERYTHING. Nice or not, they both want to enslave and exploit you on behalf of the company.
We’d all rather work under the nice manager, but if we really want to make the workplace work for the workers, then we have to make the managers fear the workers enough that they appeal the top. That’s unlikely, and eventually we will be forced to bypass them, and take our grievances to the top ourselves.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 1 day ago:
People buying toys for 20 times their price are not “fellow working people.” I’m not worrying about taking their money.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 1 day ago:
This is why Sociopathic Oligarchs rule the world. The first time a regular guy gets a chance to make money, everybody jumps on him. Before you get mad at me for finding a way to afford a decent Christmas for my family, get mad at the parasites who are working everyday to take away your medical care, your workplace protections, etc.
I found a way to separate people with more money than sense from a small amount of their treasure for a change. MAGAs do it every minute of every day. I’m not going to apologize for exploiting people with money, just like they do to the rest of us every fucking day.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 1 day ago:
No, it’s the poor spell check version
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 1 day ago:
Do you intend to sell your house for what you bought it for? If you make a profit on your house, are you a scalper?
Tell it to Wall Street. Supply and Demand, it’s what our entire economic system is based on.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 1 day ago:
Years ago, the Ticket Me Elmo dolls were the hot Christmas gift, and nobody could find them. I happened to walk into Target, and they had just set up a new display of their newly arrived shipment. I bought 10 them for about $30 each, and sold most of them for $150-200. The final one finally went for about $80 just before Christmas.
Paid for ALL our Christmas gifts.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 2 days ago:
All translated from translations of translations of languages that nobody speaks. So I’m sure the final product of this inter-millenial game of telephone is perfect. Why? Because it is the ordained word of God, so of course it is. Checkmate.
- Comment on The Wall People 2 days ago:
I’ve known a few families with 6 or more kids, and in nearly all cases, each of those kids goes on to have 6+ kids.
I once dated a girl who was one of five, and they were the smallest branch of the family. Each of her parents came from 8 kids, and each of those 8 kids had at least 6. I went to a family holiday weekend party, and there were HUNDREDS of people, all related, and all within a couple of generations.
I was one of two, my wife is an only child, and we only had one. My brother had two. Any more than that sounds exhausting. We had a bunch of cats instead of a bunch of kids.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 2 days ago:
That’s easy, it’s all in the Bible. You can’t deny anything that’s in the Bible. That’s always the checkmate.
- Comment on Nothing to see here. 3 days ago:
I hear he has advanced dementia.
- Comment on Nothing to see here. 3 days ago:
He was doing it right there. Why do you think they’re smiling.
- Comment on Why did an old friend who stood up for me in school block me when I messaged him on Facebook? 3 days ago:
Not everybody wants to reconnect with any random person from their past. He did a nice thing for someone years ago, that doesn’t mean he wants a relationship with that person for the rest of their life.
- Comment on Belief 4 days ago:
There we go, next level Critical.Thinking. Nicely done.
- Comment on Belief 4 days ago:
people frequently do stupid bad things not because they are bad, but because they are stupid,
I get that, right up until you start talking about MAGA. Those people didn’t grow up being ignorant of MAGA’s evils, and then were seduced by them. MAGA gave voice to the evil that was already brewing in them, so they enthusiastically joined in.
Some people may do bad things out of ignorance, but MAGAs do bad things because it’s fun for them. They may be ignorant, too, but that’s no excuse, they don’t get a pass because of it. Some people are just bad people, who have lost the benefit of the doubt.
- Comment on Belief 4 days ago:
The world is getting dumber and meaner, so good morality stands out more.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 6 days ago:
1-2%, so I never noticed any separation. I always shook up the milk whenever I used it on my cereal anyway. Probably still would, if I ever was to use milk for something.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 6 days ago:
I hate milk, so I never drink it today, but as a kid, I drank a lot of thawed milk. My mom always bought two gallons, and froze one while we used the first. It might not please a milk connoisseur, but it always tasted fine. It certainly wasn’t spoiled, or anything like that.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 6 days ago:
I always believed that it was to allow for expansion of the product when it freezes. I often freeze similar jugs full of water, to use in coolers, and that big dimple always ends up pushed out after it’s frozen solid. If it hadn’t been for that expansion dimple, the jug would have split.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 1 week ago:
The assertion was that no gorilla has ever asked a question, not that they’ve never asked a GOOD question. Asking if they can have a drink of water, or something to eat, is a question. A simple one, but still a valid question. It didn’t say they have never asked a philosophical question, and I wouldn’t expect them to.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 1 week ago:
Pay closer attention, they are communicating all the time. We had a cat family of five, and we’re down to the last one, a 17 yo. She has an extremely wide vocabulary, and absolutely asks for water, food, snacks, cuddles, etc.
They all knew each others’ names, and ours. I have definitely seen them watch something unusual, and turn to us for an explanation.
When the Daddy cat, Jake, died, his son and best friend Charlie walked around calling for him for weeks. He would still do it now and then until the end of his life. He was clearly asking where Jake was, and calling him.
They are asking questions and communicating all day long, if you only pay attention to them.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 1 week ago:
Scientists speculate that this is why no ape has ever been on Jeopardy.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 1 week ago:
Yeah, the moment I read that, I thought it sounded like bullshit. I doubt there’s a database of every sign language interaction with apes that proves that no ape has ever asked a question.
- Comment on Been a long time since I smoked but if I opened the door to my fireplace and tossed in a kilo of pot and just let the smoke fill up the house will everyone in my house get high? 1 week ago:
Does your house fill with wood smoke when you use your fireplace? Of course not, it goes up the chimney. That’s what’s going to happen to your reefer smoke, too.
Just a waste of good ganja. Just toss a bunch of joints on the coffee table, and invite everyone to blaze up.
- Comment on True of mine but he more than made up for it 1 week ago:
I bought gloves, socks, underwear, toys, all kinds of stuff. I always buy up a bunch of their greeting cards, whenever they have them. Cards that would be $10 anywhere else, are like $1.50.
- Comment on True of mine but he more than made up for it 1 week ago:
Yeah, she likes it, of course. My idea of Christmas shopping is watching the Aisle of Shame in Aldi, and when I see something interesting, I buy a few for gifts. If you need stockings stuffed, I’m your guy.
- Comment on get it Mildred 1 week ago:
They’re “Losers” because they are working the only job they can find? Perhaps it would be better if they just relied on government assistance, huh?
How many of these Losers are working a second, or even third, job here? How many would love to work somewhere better, but the jobs don’t exist, or they can’t afford the education required without going tens of thousands into debt? How many are working it because it’s a second household income, and this manager will schedule around a family’s or student’s school schedule?
Anybody that disparages ANY working American because their job doesn’t measure up to their snooty expectations is a fucking PIG!
That includes everyone in this thread laughing at this post. I was appalled when I first saw it, and that should have been everybody’s reaction.
You should all feel ashamed of yourselves.
- Comment on True of mine but he more than made up for it 1 week ago:
That was me this year. I had no idea my wife had been buying so much stuff.
- Comment on Hospital Bill 1961 1 week ago:
At some point, the government is going to criminalize debt. They are already starting to, with student loans. Also remember that the 14th Amendment allows the government to literally treat prisoners like slaves, and force them to work.
So, prepare for debtors’ prisons, where you will be forced to work off your debt.