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 What if a billionaire wants to help you? 1 minute ago:
They don’t.
- Comment on Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant. 4 hours ago:
That’s likely not a person, but a bot.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 2 days ago:
Probably. I haven’t read JL in a long time.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 2 days ago:
Oh cool. I didn’t know that. :)
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 2 days ago:
It’s actually worse than that.
Batman actually keeps green kryptonite in the Bat Cave as an insurance policy, should Superman ever go rogue. He has contingencies for everyone in the Justice League except Wonder Woman.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 1 week ago:
That’s pretty fucking cool.
- Comment on Remember the guy who lost a bitcoin wallet worth millions in a landfill? There's a game about that now 2 weeks ago:
Bummer.
You can still buy bitcoin though, just wait for the next dip and get right in.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t consume a lot of content from mainstream news sites, and that helps.
Most of my news exposure is through Lemmy or Mastodon, through which I can automate the curation of my feed and I don’t see things that are going to rile me up as much; and therefore, I only see things that might rile me up when it’s my intention to do so.
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 2 weeks ago:
No, the USA is not fucked.
Everything happening now has happened before, and worse, and the USA has endured. It may take some time, but the US will be fine.
- Comment on What should I get my online friend for their birthday? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re friends with them on Steam you should be able to see their wish list. That’s what I usually get my friends for Christmas, just something gifted that they’ve already flagged on their wish list.
- Comment on Andrew Cuomo wants to become Mayor of New York City. This is his driving record. 3 weeks ago:
Jesus. Most of these are for speeding in a school zone, which in some states or cities might not be that big of a deal, but in NYC where most people are walking… WTF?
- Comment on A year after Trump's near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man 4 weeks ago:
Yes, I am against tariffs, because we can look at history and observe that they are a stupid policy.
I’m particularly opposed to Trump’s method of tariff policy, because it’s chaotic, undisciplined, and doesn’t function within the safeguards outlined by federal law. It’s actually illegal for a president to declare tariffs, but Congress is controlled by Republicans who are resolute in their opinion that Donald will be allowed to rule by fiat.
In 12-18 months when the new international trade deals materialize that undercut US trade, I wonder if you will finally stop making excuses for this demented man.
- Comment on A year after Trump's near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man 4 weeks ago:
LOL
Told you so: Inflation accelerates in June as investors eye tariff-related price increases
Another proven lie by our demented president that you swallowed hook, line, and sinker.
- Comment on A year after Trump's near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man 4 weeks ago:
I don’t care what every other country does.
I get that, but it’s a stupid notion, especially when we can observe that every other major country pays less for health care and gets better health outcomes. It costs less to fly to Europe and get an MRI than it does to drive to the doctor up the street and get one here in the US. In most countries medical bankruptcy doesn’t even exist.
It’s absolutely silly that you think it’s a good thing that we do health care differently than the rest of the world. Taking pride in doing things differently than the rest of the world, and also in a way that’s observably stupid, is unreasonable.
Tax their rich less. Tax their middle class more.
LOLOLOLOLOL, now you’re just being absurd. Every other major country provides far more to the middle class for the taxes they pay, whereas here in the US, we don’t adequately tax the wealthy AND do not provide value to taxpayers for the taxes they pay. In return for our generosity we get a few hundred billionaires and war in seven countries at once.
I guess you have GoFundMe when you can’t afford your insulin, so there’s that.
- Comment on A year after Trump's near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man 4 weeks ago:
You’re right, inflation hasn’t increased yet, but it will. Trump knows this, which is why he’s demanding that companies simply eat the increased cost. (Link Link)
This is the other problem with how you’re trying to argue this. You’re simply denying the inevitable long-term effects because they haven’t yet fully materialized, but one can look at the trade deals happening outside the US to see the writing on the wall. (Link)
This is also the same reason that the negative effects of the BBB aren’t scheduled to kick in until after the mid-term elections.
To take advantage of misinformed people like yourself.
As for health care, again, you’re wrong. Every other major country on earth pays less and has better outcomes than we do, so monetarily and in terms of public health, what we can’t afford is the disastrous public-private partnership that currently exists, because all it’s accomplishing is killing people and fattening up CEO’s.
- Comment on A year after Trump's near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man 4 weeks ago:
Your comment is a tad hysterical.
The critique here is how disorganized he is, changing tariff policy by the day, which is a notoriously stupid thing to do. The effects of this are felt in the market, the supply chain, and harm our international economic prospects as the rest of the world reconfigures the supply chain around the fact that the US is no longer a reliable trading partner. Tariffs also have a negative effect on inflation, as it constitutes a tax that is passed on to consumers.
Also, you’re wrong on health care. We should be spending more, not less. We’re the only major country in the world that doesn’t use people’s own tax dollars to provide for their health care, and it’s self-evident what a bad policy that is.
- Comment on A year after Trump's near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man 4 weeks ago:
Yeah.
His dementia’s gotten worse.
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 4 weeks ago:
This is it.
All you need is to parrot what more popular accounts say and have a phone and you can make money as a political streamer.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t have kids, but I do have a brother who is young enough to be my child, and I was very happy when he broke the nose of his bully.
That motherfucker had to learn.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Hello friend.
This point has been discussed elsewhere in the thread. I hope you have a nice afternoon.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I dunno, H.
I may be wrong in saying it’s indicative of a crash, and I’m okay with being corrected.
As to inaccurate or inflammatory, maybe it feels that way if you’re on the winning side of the equation.
I think we should be inflamed about this. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that thirty years of high functional unemployment being ordinary is an objectively bad thing, but when you couple it with the increasingly supercharged price gouging and inflation the US has experienced over the last several decades, things that seemed improbable before suddenly become feasible. (Like making fascists electable.)
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I hope you’re right.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
That ship sailed under Reagan, and it’s never getting back to port, sadly. Thanks to him, families now needed two incomes.
Then, Bush and Clinton came along, and you needed not only two incomes, but two college degrees. Now, with Dubya, Obama, and Trump, not even that’s enough, and they’re capping student loans instead of regulating student loan interest, so your only real shot at being a doctor now is being born in the right zip code.
America, baby. Dig it.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Also, not so fun fact, but this got me curious so I looked up the unemployment rate during The Great Depression: apparently then it was around 20% to 25% as well, so I feel like that reinforces the point I’m making a bit.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
We’re already there. The only reason we aren’t calling this a depression is that the stock market hasn’t been affected much.
But when 25% of Americans are functionally unemployed, it’s hard to argue we aren’t already largely ‘crashed’.
- Comment on Does the "White Power Ranger" seem like an odd title? 5 weeks ago:
Only when taken out of context.
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 5 weeks ago:
I know it doesn’t matter, but after all I’ve read about Nintendo and the Switch 2 in the last year?
Fuck 'em. I’m going to get a Steam Deck or a Lenovo handheld, and I’ll just enjoy the Nintendo I have. I’m not spending a small fortune on a console that they can brick remotely, or force me to buy a $50 proprietary charger for, or a “virtual game cartridge”.
Fuck all of that bullshit.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Can’t even articulate an actual critique. Definitely a cop.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
^ This guy is a cop.
- Comment on Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction 1 month ago:
Yup. Seems that way.