FlashMobOfOne
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.
I’m single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.
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- Comment on Regarding a US Government Shutdown: What's stopping Musk from continuing to fund DOGE with his own money and continuing to tear apart the government while all the federal workers are put on leave? 3 days ago:
LOL
Where have you been the last three weeks?
- Comment on Regarding a US Government Shutdown: What's stopping Musk from continuing to fund DOGE with his own money and continuing to tear apart the government while all the federal workers are put on leave? 3 days ago:
The funny thing is, when Biden had Congress people were making this same excuse.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
They’re trying, which is honestly kind of cool, especially right now. His social media feed is doing its best to reinforce the worst notions about trans people and it’s probably taking effort for him to consider other perspectives.
- Comment on Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer? 4 days ago:
No. I’ve completed my personal bucket list though, so I’m never in a great rush to do things these days.
- Comment on I'm just like some ordinary dude upset about what the government is doing. Doesn't anyone with any sort of means or influence care? Where are those guys? 1 week ago:
Yeah, that person’s comment reads like a corporation blaming the individual because they don’t recycle enough, as if the individual’s recycling habits are in any way comparable to the widespread pollution corporations create.
Unless you’re a billionaire or willing to go player 2, you have no meaningful power to change any of this. What you do have the power to do is make your own little corner of the world slightly better, and everyone should.
- Comment on I'm just like some ordinary dude upset about what the government is doing. Doesn't anyone with any sort of means or influence care? Where are those guys? 1 week ago:
No one with any real power to make meaningful change cares, because they’re benefiting personally.
- Comment on Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration. 1 week ago:
True, but in America, you’re far more likely to get an armed protest than a general strike.
- Comment on Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration. 1 week ago:
Change will come much quicker when protest groups ditch peaceful protest and show up armed, en masse, with AR-15’s.
Guaranteed.
- Comment on Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration. 1 week ago:
It will take the protests being armed.
Because if the protests aren’t armed, they’re not going to accomplish anything. There will be no change if the wealthy class isn’t made to live in fear of the public.
- Comment on Is there any way I can realistically send a message to Donald Trump and have him read it? 1 week ago:
No.
- Comment on I'm suppose to believe I now live in a world where a Democrats can become president agoant and put George Soros at the head of DOGE? 1 week ago:
This country never course corrects after a seizure of executive power, so yes, that could happen.
But, if historical patterns hold true, Trump will lose Congress in the midterms.
Not that it matters much. Drms are conservatives too.
- Comment on Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week? 1 week ago:
You don’t have to work out at all. Just eat clean and don’t drink. It helps if you use a calorie tracker, so you know what you’re taking in numerically.
- Comment on How can Doge access critical government infrastructure and fire people if it isn't even a real department? 2 weeks ago:
It’s good to be a king, and that’s what Trump is now. The people in charge of defending us from this took the money instead.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t.
All I said was there was good news coming out of Palestine, which is just a fact.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not pushing anything. I’m just make sense of a premature question, and I think most of the people who voted Trump want the border secured on both sides.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
Not at all. I support legal immigration.
But I think the majority that voted for Trump firmly believe fewer illegal immigrants is a good thing.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
I think the best way to describe it is a dedicated militarization complex for cops. Here is the wikipedia on the one in Atlanta.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for sharing your perspective.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that’s actually true, if you look at his record.
Trump withdrew the US military from Syria and negotiated the end of the war in Afghanistan. I have no illusions about the fact that Trump likely personally profited in some way from those deals, but Democrats love their warmongering and opposed these. Obama was bombing seven countries at once (that we know of) when he left office. Biden enthusiastically helped Israel stack bodies until his literal final day in office.
There’s just no comparison.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
No. The judiciary’s acting to counter it, as it is designed to do.
Also, fascism is and has been a fact of life in America for decades. The Patriot Act is two decades old. Open torture in America is two decades old. Ferguson was ten years ago, and nothing changed. (except militarization of police got worse and now we have cop cities) Despite vast opposition to the genocide in Gaza, Biden made sure Israel got their WMD’s. Most people in America are working 2-3 jobs at upwards of 100 hours a week for the privilege of barely surviving in a roach-infested studio. School shootings are not only a more regular phenomenon, but now people want it to be legal for people to 3-D print their guns and have them be completely untraceable. Abortion is criminalized in Idaho and soon it will be in the majority of the US states due to Biden’s failure to act.
It’s hard for me to pretend that things have suddenly gotten worse when they’ve already been bad decades and it’s just that half of the population is always willing to ignore it because their guy is in charge.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
This is very true.
Here in Missouri, for instance, voters went red but also passed a $15 minimum wage, required paid sick leave, and voted down an abortion ban. It’s ironic, considering Democrats always insist that if they just get more
conservativecentrist they’ll win elections. - Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It’s nice to see Democratic voters finally pretending to care about genocide, even if it’s only out of political convenience.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
I agree. I would like to see a more robust legal immigration system too, but I don’t think that’s ever going to materialize.
There are some issues that are a golden goose for the two ruling parties, and the Republicans make a whole lot more money with immigration being illegal than they do if we have an immigration system that actually works. That’s money they can legally pocket by loaning cash to their campaigns at 20% interest, on top of taking “gifts” in exchange for lobbyist access, so they have a vested interest making sure it never changes.
With that said, this is what America voted for. We’re stuck with it.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
Clearly you are. I don’t think that’s appropriate.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
I couldn’t speak for them. I only know what I’ve read, like everyone else.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
The ceasefire was reached while Biden was president
No reasonable person thinks Biden was the reason the ceasefire was reached, as the genocide continued until the literal final day of his presidency. There’s a very good reason why he had the nickname Genocide Joe, and that reason is that he did everything to earn it.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
Lesser numbers of illegal immigrants entering the country, both as a result of the tariff deal and increased enforcement.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
I think this question’s a tad premature, as it’s been less than two weeks, but in the short-term I imagine the major beneficiaries are the border cities along the southern and northern borders.
Other than that, it’s the same culty shit we see no matter who’s elected. Dems pretend their guy is a good president. Republicans pretend their guy is a good president, even when they’re doing objectively atrocious things.
- Comment on Anyone here good at drawing political cartoons? 2 weeks ago:
I’d recommend MJ Hiblen Art.
Highly.
- Comment on Why is deportation done instead of imprisonment or making people become documented? In other words, why does deportation exist? 2 weeks ago:
Because we’re a cruel people.