BarneyPiccolo
@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 11 hours ago:
Slut. Got her number?
- Comment on She deserves it 1 day ago:
Mom will breathe a sigh of relief. It could have been so much worse.
- Comment on OCUPADO! 1 day ago:
Like Romans.
- Comment on OCUPADO! 1 day ago:
Be enthusiastic about it: “OOOOH, come IN!”
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 1 day ago:
Many of the best things in America are Socialist: Public schools, libraries, museums, fire departments, municipal parks/playground, state parks, national parks, highways, bridges, monuments, etc.
Many people are far more afraid of the WORD Socialist, than actual Socialist concepts. Socialism and Communism have become far too closely associated, to the point of being synonyms, and the Dems have to change that perception.
That’s just one key part of their messaging game that they have take control of. The Conservative Propaganda Machine does a great job of not only controlling their own messaging, but the Dems have always allowed them to define Democratic concepts as well. It’s long past time when the Dems flip the tables, and take control of their own messaging, and start defining MAGA as treasonous, corrupt, racist, and pedophilic, and depraved.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 2 days ago:
All my life, I was told SS wouldn’t be there for me, and now I’m collecting it.
If you tell DC that you expect it to go away, and you’ll accept that outcome, no matter how much you hate it, that’s exactly what they’ll do.
Stop surrendering in advance, and wasting your time posting such pathetic messages. Use your posts to warn them that they are being watched and JUDGED, by the people who have that right. They need to be afraid of us at all times.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 2 days ago:
Nobody should work for free, that’s exploitation. UBI should provide basic assistance, and then people should be free to do what they want with their free time. Many, like myself, would pursue artistic goals, but many would still want to work and earn more money, and that’s okay, too. Even artists may want to sell their work.
The point is that nobody HAS to work for money, but they can if they want to.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 2 days ago:
And the rest of us are on their side, and it’s time to start throwing our weight around.
It starts with elections. The only reason the Establishment guys are paying attention is because the DemSocs are winning primaries, even against entrenched incumbents. Even worse, those that have been elected are far more effective that the average elected loser, and those wins have tended to be on the side of the Citizens.
They’re doing everything right, they’re succeeding, and they are gathering followers FAST.
No wonder the incumbent losers are panicking. They’ll eventually accept it, and get on board. Except the MAGAs, they should be panicking.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 2 days ago:
Stop talking.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 2 days ago:
Nobody made him, he felt it was the ethical thing to do. He gave the money to a third party to invest, and they botched it. When he left the presidency, he found out he was nearly bankrupt.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 2 days ago:
She needs to keep a home in both DC and NYC, two of the most expensive cities for housing. That will eat up a LOT of income. She also has student loans to pay.
She has a relatively high paying job, and this is as far as she’s gotten. Imagine the average college graduate, who is probably making far less that $100k annually.
Student loans are crushing our economy, and thousands more students graduate every year with the same millstone around their necks, and our children economy. It is a National Security Threat that will only grow worse with time. Student loan debt makes EVERYONE susceptible to bribes, espionage, and corruption.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 2 days ago:
MAGA wants it both ways. On one hand, they want to accuse her of being a corrupt millionaire, but when she proves that’s a lie, they make fun of her for not making more money.
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 2 days ago:
That’s propaganda for you.
And most of that minority are going to end up liking the results of his actions as time goes on.
- Comment on this is so dark, Black Mirror couldn’t have imagined it 3 days ago:
Sounds like a way to get hired, implement all your automations, then you’ll get fired.
The better move would be to package your automations, and then sell the package to corporations, including up charges for implementation, testing, and customization.
That’s how you go from being a worker wage slave, to being independently wealthy.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
One of the Trump kids?
On my first trip to Las Vegas, I was walking through the lobby of the second rate hotel I was staying in at about 3 pm in the afternoon, and I heard a voice that sounded a bit familiar. I poked my head into the lounge, and there was Frank Sinatra, JR, doing a free set, at 3 in the afternoon, in a second rate hotel, with about 3 tables watching.
That’s the Trump spawn - nobody cares about them. MAGA is a classic cult of personality, and once he assumes room temperature, there will be NO replacement, by a Trump, or anyone else. Plenty of them will claim that they deserve to take the helm, but his followers won’t accept ANY of them.
When Trump croaks, MAGA, and the entire right, will fall apart. It will be at least two election cycles before they even start to get their shit together.
The Dems should be preparing for this moment, and should have a plan to exploit it ruthlessly when it happens.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
If he runs, Obama should run, with AOC as his VP. When he wins, he can resign, and AOC becomes Prez, and appoint him Chief Justice of the newly expanded 29 seat SCOTUS.
- Comment on The legendary PS2 3 days ago:
I’m am amateur musician who has gotten into recording over the last couple of years, and I been buying old recording tech from 20 years ago for super cheap. I’m buying barely used gear that was hundreds of dollars (or more) when it was new, for less than $50. This is gear better than classic albums from the 70s and 80s were recorded on.
- Comment on The legendary PS2 3 days ago:
It’s hard to explain to young people how much the world changed just about 15 years ago, when the Smartphone was first released. That was an invention on par with the TV.
- Comment on The legendary PS2 3 days ago:
When I was growing up, I met older people who had seen the Beatles perform live, had seen Jimi Hendrix perform live, and had gone to Woodstock (and hated it).
- Comment on They really hate artists 3 days ago:
It would be great if the people managing the AI rollout thought of AI that way, instead of seeing it ONLY as tool to crush and control and manipulate the masses.
A gun can be used to hunt for food, or it can be used to murder an entire civilization. They intend to use AI the second way.
- Comment on Every heartwarming human interest story in America... 3 days ago:
“That sounds like Commie talk! You a Commie?”
- Comment on Karoline Leavitt. She says she wear a cross because she is a good christian. 3 days ago:
She seemed to be a happy member of the team, happy enough that she had another kid, did her maternity leave (which YOU can’t have), and came back to work, seemingly re-energized. And within a few weeks she bails.
I can’t help but think that leaving her on a plane that he was so sure was going to be shot out of the sky, that he got off, but didn’t want to alert the bad guys, so he let her fly off, an Iranian surface-to-air missile coming after her, had a little something to do with it.
The press corp that she shepherds was super pissed about it, and certainly let her know, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she agreed with them 110%.
- Comment on Karoline Leavitt. She says she wear a cross because she is a good christian. 3 days ago:
Why? The Trump administration represents true Christian values more than any other president - greed, hypocrisy, exploitation of the stupid, pedophilia, etc.
Many of them consider him a literal prophet, sent by God to lead America into our White Christian Nationalist future. When he is out, you can expect them to pivot to him being an actual God-anointed living prophet, and you can’t put a prophet in prison.
But they can collect as much money as they want, from whomever they want, and they can get tax-exempt status, and not explain their revenues to the IRS, or anyone else. It’s the perfect set-up for a money launderer.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 3 days ago:
THIS math may not work, but there is math that will work.
A good start is the America First Fund (irony intended), which is what we will use as seed money for the social programs that this country desperately needs to be able to compete with ever other industrialized nation.
The American First Fund is where we will collect things like the tariff repayments. Why should those go to the government, when they were stolen from the Citizens? That money should go into the America First Fund. Any corporate fines collected because of their crimes against Citizens, should go into the AFF.
And fines against corporations and Sociopathic Oligarchs should be increased enormously. The minimum fine for ANY infraction should start at $1 billion. Fines should hurt them, just like a $200 “rolling through a stop sign” ticket hurts Citizens.
And confiscation should be on the table. Corporations are to be operated to benefit the American economy, and the Citizens. If you continue to operate your business to your personal benefit alone, at the detriment of society, your entire corporation will be confiscated, and operated as a non-profit to benefit society, with any excess revenues going to the AFF. And Oligarch families who find themselves destitute because their entire estate was confiscated due to their sociopathic behavior toward their fellow Citizens, will NOT be eligible for the AAF benefits funded by those confiscations. In the future, the only homeless people will be former oligarchs who have EARNED their homelessness.
The America First Fund’s level will be mentioned nightly on the evening news. When the wealthy tune in to see what the Dow/ NASDAQ/ S&P were for the day, the rest of the Citizens can see where the America First Fund stands, and the wealthy will also see it, and know that their money could be removed, and added to it at any time.
American Citizens should benefit by fines against corporations for abusing us, they shouldn’t go to the government to build more bombs or golden monuments, while we’re told there is no money for food or healthcare or education. Those fines belong to US, and the America First Fund makes sure those funds are spent on US, and not the Sociopathic Oligarchs who caused the fines in the first place.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 3 days ago:
Bottom line is that stock valuation shouldn’t be allowed to be use for collateral. If it doesn’t exist for tax purposes, then it doesn’t exist for collateral purposes. You want billions of dollars to play with? Liquidate your assets, pay your taxes, and have fun.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 4 days ago:
But then they’ll get smart, and when AI has led to a permanent 65% unemployment rate, they will demand UBI, and take it from the Trillionaires.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 5 days ago:
I’ve lived in several places, all FLAT. Whenever I visit a mountainous place like Denver, it always seems so weird that there are these mountains always looming over me. At least you always know which way is west.
- Comment on Those damned leftists!!!1!! 5 days ago:
You don’t have to PLAN to get married, it just has to be BEFORE you get married. It’s a loophole.
Once you’re married, you can only do it for procreation, and only after you’ve prayed.
- Comment on Those damned leftists!!!1!! 5 days ago:
I’ll give it all up, except my weed smoking patio.
- Comment on onions 6 days ago:
I thought my parents’ cooking was great, until I grew up and started cooking myself, and discovered I had a talent for it. Now I realize my parents couldn’t cook at all.
Now life is reversed, and I’m taking care of my Mom (Dad’s gone), and I do ALL the cooking.
I still despise onions though. That wasn’t my Mom’s cooking, I just despise onions. And green peppers.
It isn’t about growing up, onions just taste terrible to some people, the way cilantro or asparagus tastes bad to some. I know a guy who is fine with onions, but feels the way I feel toward them about CUCUMBERS, of all things. They basically taste like water, but he can’t stand to be in the same room with one.