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 should I get my online friend for their birthday? 4 days 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. 4 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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. 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Hello friend.
This point has been discussed elsewhere in the thread. I hope you have a nice afternoon.
- Comment on 2 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 2 weeks ago:
I hope you’re right.
- Comment on 2 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 2 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 2 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? 2 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 2 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] 3 weeks ago:
Can’t even articulate an actual critique. Definitely a cop.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Yup. Seems that way.
- Comment on 'Death Stranding 2' proves more video games need to get weird, experts say 3 weeks ago:
Getting weird is why we love Bioshock so much.
- Comment on Why do Conservatives physically look evil? 3 weeks ago:
It’s just because you think they’re evil. Otherwise, they’d just look ordinary.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 3 weeks ago:
What a bummer. Might get it second hand then instead.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 3 weeks ago:
I think I’m going to get the Dead Space remake (90% off currently), Granny: Escape Together (I like horror), and Escape the Mad Empire to start.
Might pick up more later in the sale, but this will keep me busy.
Remember you can get things refunded if you don’t end up liking a game.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 3 weeks ago:
So… who’s getting what?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
At least here in the US, every election, 99% of voters choose Democrat or Republican and just ignore the last 40 years of these politicians chipping away at our economic and social liberty, and the people who do that have to convince themselves somehow that they made a good choice.
Most justify it to themselves by gaslighting themselves into believing their guy isn’t as bad as the other guy, but it just never crosses their minds that APAB because they don’t want to think they’re the bastards for empowering these people.
- Comment on Lies of P: Overture devs actually rewarded for making a solid DLC in rare industry W: Getting a bonus, 2 weeks vacation, and a free Switch 2 4 weeks ago:
I hope you have fun with it. :)
- Comment on Lies of P: Overture devs actually rewarded for making a solid DLC in rare industry W: Getting a bonus, 2 weeks vacation, and a free Switch 2 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I had to put it down.
The gameplay was ultimately just too annoying to me, which is a bummer because the ideas and aesthetic were exceedingly cool.
- Comment on Lies of P: Overture devs actually rewarded for making a solid DLC in rare industry W: Getting a bonus, 2 weeks vacation, and a free Switch 2 4 weeks ago:
Did they fix the janky dodging though?