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- Comment on Would another program like Roosevelt's WPA turn America around quickly from the shitty place we are in? 1 week ago:
Economics aside, the only thing I’ve learned about this country that is consistent, is it’s ability to sustain its fear and hatred in order to bamboozle the public. It’s been my entire life here since 9/11. And it’s been a huge hate grift ever since with disastrous side effects punctuated by democrats rebuilding the economy everytime a republican president slams it into the ground. It’s he idea that the market can sustain externalzing costs like happiness and satisfaction, health etc. is like trying to model climate change. We dont have all the information to really see the real time variables we need to account for.
I just had a conversation with a Finnish person and they were like, “wages have been stagnating here for forever and there isnt unrest like in America” (loose on the quotations on that,) and it’s like well you have so many guarantees that we don’t have.
I guess I just kind of see it as a returns problem that we keep trying to solve with the gdp . And I feel like Dem. Administrations have a tendency to approach my point with their marked investments in social safety nets and programs that benefit the public over the mega wealthy (while also benefiting the mega wealthy but to a lesser degree, because money and being monied is ab affiliation all of its own accord and separate from the common American language experience.)
- Comment on Would another program like Roosevelt's WPA turn America around quickly from the shitty place we are in? 1 week ago:
I appreciate the work that you have put into researching this.
I’m still not convinced that the process doesn’t start at the top and work its way down as opposed to the old tried and true American way of cutting “entitlements” (fucking hate that word) first. I think that it would make much more sense to start by making those who have used all kinds of tax loopholes and defied regulation to shift the burden onto the tax payers (coal plants, Walmart tesla etc.) and essentially have tax payers help prop up their businesses and the government be their piggy banks (defense contractors and Haliburton etc.) than to go back to what we have been doing for so long and cutting programs that actually help improve the way of life gdp and don’t look like real money on paper like snap Medicaid and Medicare.
That’s FDR kind of stuff. And it’s stuff that helps get us back into the black policy and happiness wise which is a metric that no one wants to be added to how to factor the gdp because it would send America to dead last in the world. This place is a prison.
- Comment on Would another program like Roosevelt's WPA turn America around quickly from the shitty place we are in? 1 week ago:
The way out is to make corporations and the most wealthy of us pay their share of taxes and not rob the country blind.
- Comment on Would another program like Roosevelt's WPA turn America around quickly from the shitty place we are in? 1 week ago:
Or we could tax the rich and expand services to the poor and needy?
- Comment on Would another program like Roosevelt's WPA turn America around quickly from the shitty place we are in? 1 week ago:
This we’ve done a full 180 back to the robber baron era of the 19 hundreds but supercharged for the modern age. America is like history wtf is that because one day I will also be rich and wish to run over peaons in the street, or in the case of musk and Trump, sexually assault and starve children with no consequences.
- Comment on Ketamine addict Elon Musk believes puppets are attacking him 2 weeks ago:
Lock him deep in a fucking solitary cell fucking child murderer.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp has mental breakdown in front of reporters 5 weeks ago:
God that man sucks.
- Comment on Why is Christa Pike from TN being kept alive after two failed execution attempts? 5 weeks ago:
What is notable about it? Most people don’t really seem to get any closure from the death penalty and regardless of what this mother wants I don’t think she is going to be able to let her daughter rest or that her daughter will rest with any amount of violence done to the perpetrators. People want these people to die but when they do it seems like it dosent ever really change anything.
- Comment on What would happen if the next President, said I want that ballroom destroyed and the White House put back like it was, and I want to use all Union members? And done in Six months? 1 month ago:
Leave it up. This nation should never forget the epstien memorial ballroom. We fucking let him do this we are all pedophile enablers if you are a U.S. citizen. Our president fucks kids.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I don’t think so. So many of conservative kids I knew in high school parroted that shit for real. And then grew up to be maga.
- Comment on Pastor Dale Partridge says Germany was "attacked from within" by grossly immoral forces during the Weimar Republic which naturally made Nazism "extremely appealing" 1 month ago:
All I feel is rage towards this shit stain.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words 1 month ago:
What a horrible piece of shit.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Fuck that where is GTA7? Can I play it when I’m dead?
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 3 months ago:
Ah yes the intelligent consumer who always has a choice and is never beholden to the whims of a completely dominant supply side economy.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but middle-class workers will get left behind 3 months ago:
Absolute psycho who has no business doing anything at all. Fuck you Karp.
- Comment on It's rigged 3 months ago:
If that were UBI then I would get paid before I was 67.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 3 months ago:
Poverty is more expensive than anything any millionaire or billionaire could buy. Fuck the rich.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 4 months ago:
What dumb fucks they all are.
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 5 months ago:
Anytime.
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 5 months ago:
You seem stupid.
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 5 months ago:
Make it formal. File a complaint with the police and let them investigate me for my alleged rape of you dear internet stranger and see how that goes.
- Comment on Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 5 months ago:
I would say it’s long past time. Just waiting until ice kicks down my door and shoots my cats and puts a bag over my head with this post.
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 5 months ago:
There is what you are talking about and then there is the reality of the sexual assault crisis in America. I understand what you are saying. But the reality of the situation is that people who step forward should be given the benefit of the doubt because of the evidence and history of sexual violence especially towards children and women being ignored in the United States and the absolute miscarriage of justice that is. The balance as it stands now is hardly any of rape or sexual misconduct allegations are taken seriously or even investigated.
Just look at our president and his history with abusing minors and adults basically all out in the open for decades. That is the state of justice with regards to sexual assault in the U.S.
There is not an epidemic of people losing their jobs or becoming social pariahs because of false rape claims. There is an epidemic of sexual violence against children and women and men in the United States. No one is convicted because someone just claims they have been assaulted.
- Comment on Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 5 months ago:
I can see how my statement might have been a little confusing. I would absolutely love to see a global ban of advertising in space coupled with rockets that automatically fire and take out any space billboards that are snuck up there.
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 5 months ago:
I get what you’re saying but you are on the wrong side of this m. Rape cases in America are systematic dismissed buried lost corrupted or flat out ignored. It’s a serious epidemic and the amount of lives ruined by false accusations pales in comparison to the amount of victims that come forward and the amount of those who are too afraid to come forward.
Also you can always appeal your case. Victims have no recourse and now voice the majority of a time. It’s not even close to comparable. It’s almost like voter fraud with the amount of cases where someone has lied about being raped.
- Comment on Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 5 months ago:
Please God no. This timeline is fucking horrible.
- Comment on We're so back 5 months ago:
Oh my god. Fucking horse goop will not save you. Nothing will save you if you get infected. But you probably won’t be infected unless you are rubbing butts with someone who is infected because this particular strain is human transmissible but you gotta be in super close proximity to the infected.
But by all means eat horse paste and dump bleach in your eyes. /s
- Comment on New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs 5 months ago:
Eat the rich. This country is infested with wealthy parasites.
- Comment on Reddit is finally entirely dead to me 5 months ago:
Reddit perma banned me because I commented that someone should “yeet that dude (the ceo of palintir) into space” because he wants war crimes to be legal because it would be better for business.