FlashMobOfOne
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.
I’m single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.
@artbyflashmob on Instagram
- Comment on Creative Assembly Reportedly Working On A Total War: Star Wars Game 15 hours ago:
Ooo, that’d be fun!
- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 3 days ago:
There are some good responses here.
I’d also add that any time something’s making you uncomfortable at work, it’s a good rule of them to document it. Who said what, date and time, etc.
It’s just good to have that info in case someone’s behavior gets worse.
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 6 days ago:
IMHO also the pinnacle of LOTR-related video games.
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 6 days ago:
As far as I’m concerned, the genre peaked with Battle for Middle Earth II.
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 1 week ago:
It looks so good!
- Comment on Southwest Airlines flight attendants land new contract with immediate 22% raise 2 weeks ago:
Suckwest now sucks slightly less.
- Comment on PSA: Do not approach the wildlife. 2 weeks ago:
True, but on the plus side, it does help cull stupidity from the species, so that’s a plus.
- Comment on conservation 2 weeks ago:
If you’re happy being single, be happy being single.
I’ve been in love three times, and every time it ended and the cruelty of my ex-partner took years to get over. Enjoying your freedom is way better than agonizing over a relationship because at the end of the day, other people are awful.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
This reply came more from the big wins Labor has experienced the last two years, such as the auto, rail, and writers’ strikes being resolved, not individual stats.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
A organized labor gains more steam, this is the kind of bullshit that’s going to be thrust in front of our eyes on the “news” more, and more, and more.
- Comment on People with depression or anxiety could lose sickness benefits, says UK minister 2 weeks ago:
If you want daily violent attacks like we have here in America, do just that.
The rich won’t mind. It doesn’t affect them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
People throw around the term ‘tankie’ like Halloween candy around here, though.
- Comment on Looks like Trump voters won’t ever be happy with a Biden economy 4 months ago:
Did it require 60 votes to confirm Amy Coney-Barrett?
No.
You’re wrong. Rules can and have been changed.
I am rightly crediting Democrats for prioritizing stupid things over their campaign promises, and don’t be surprised when democrats are rightly held accountable in the fall.
- Comment on Looks like Trump voters won’t ever be happy with a Biden economy 4 months ago:
He slowed the rate of health care cost increases,
It’s hard to pretend that this is actually a good thing in a country where that only matters if you can absorb being price gouged, and tens of millions of Americans can’t.
9% of the population which couldn’t get insurance to be able to get it
Only if you can absorb being price-gouged for it, and tens of millions can’t afford a sudden bill.
The Democrats also took advantage of their supermajority to raise the minimum wage from $5.85/hour to where it is today
And they haven’t done anything since, for which they deserve full credit, especially when homelessness grew by 12% last year.
I’m not trolling. I’m just not willing to pretend that the Democrats are doing anything meaningful at this point.
- Comment on Looks like Trump voters won’t ever be happy with a Biden economy 4 months ago:
Obama had it and all he did was make health care more expensive.
- Comment on Looks like Trump voters won’t ever be happy with a Biden economy 4 months ago:
It’s still legal to pay someone seven bucks an hour in nearly half of the US states.
It’s not insignificant that all our Federal Government does is broker and profit off wars.
- Comment on Looks like Trump voters won’t ever be happy with a Biden economy 4 months ago:
There will always be a partisan bias on every issue.
The point is that you shouldn’t ignore the reality of how shitty this economy is for the people whose votes you want, and Dems seem perfectly content do that.
- Comment on Looks like Trump voters won’t ever be happy with a Biden economy 4 months ago:
People were seeing those same stresses beforehand.
Uh huh, and we elected Biden on the promise to change it. Three years later, it’s worsened, and voters likely will hold Biden accountable for that.
It’s not partisanship. It’s that people are struggling.
- Comment on Looks like Trump voters won’t ever be happy with a Biden economy 4 months ago:
No, they certainly won’t.
May Democrats will flip and vote Republican over this economy. They’re paying massively inflated prices for gasoline and groceries, their rent has skyrocketed, and they’re having to work multiple jobs to survive.
Meanwhile the issue taking up time in Washington is finding a way to shovel more money into foreign wars that aren’t even ours.
Those chickens are going to come home to roost.
- Comment on All 10 TOS And TNG Star Trek Movies Exit Paramount+ For Max And HBO (Again) 4 months ago:
AVAST.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 4 months ago:
In America, you only have two choices. If you vote for something other that democrats or liberals, your vote is literally wasted.
That logic is why we are where we are. A 40-loss of personal and economic liberty, because you and yours refuse to see the two parties for what they are.
I’ll vote Green. You should too.
- Comment on Does anyone wish they could go back to the beginning of schooling and re-live their education/school experience from the start? 4 months ago:
No. My life kicks ass and I’m luckier than most.
I do wish I could time travel and give my former teachers some advice, like the one who let me do a third grade science project on the Loch Ness Monster but didn’t in any way try to teach me skepticism.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 4 months ago:
You’re not wrong. 💯
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 4 months ago:
They win me over permanently when they instituted a refund policy.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 4 months ago:
But the R’s cannot win. On this we can all agree.
I’m already planning on their win. The historical trends point that way. Of course they won’t call themselves fascist. Their political PR people will come up with a better name, but they’re going to win, whether it’s Desantis or Trump.
And people are going to blame us DemSocs for it and not themselves.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 4 months ago:
That’s the thing.
I voted Biden in full knowledge very little would change because I thought we needed a cultural win against the rise of fascism here in the US.
Unfortunately, mostly through inaction, he’s aided its rise considerably. Most Americans are working multiple jobs to survive now, and housing is growing more scarce and expensive, and their grocery bills are still doubled or tripled. Trump is not going to have to lie about how bad the Biden presidency has been for the poor and middle class, and voters aren’t going to give a shit if someone’s a Nazi if they are the candidate of change.
Then, there’s social issues, like guns, or being unwilling to challenge Israeli genocide, or abortion, or police militancy, that are inextricably linked to fascism, and he’s done nothing to move the needle forward in a positive way. In fact, when Roe repeal was leaked, the Democrats used it to raise funds and nothing else, even though they had the presidency and Congress.
Long story short, I don’t know that I consider Biden a pragmatic alternative at this point. While he’s been laser-focused on sending more of our money to the war budget and keeping his embarrassing offspring out of prison, workers have suffered.
The biggest plus here is that Biden’s neglect of workers here in the US has gotten so bad its forced unions to become stronger.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 4 months ago:
I also think Hillary would’ve been a great president for real, so no one likes me either.
A lot of people think Biden is a great president, which shows you just how low the bar is these days. FDR had a literal plot on his life and still had the balls to rule as a socialist, and he was so popular he ended up the longest-serving president in US history.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 4 months ago:
See what I mean?
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 4 months ago:
Negative, Ghost Rider.
Both Republicans and Democrats enthusiastically work together to keep us off the ballot and silenced in the media, and that includes federated media.
Dems get particularly upset when you point out the realities of Biden’s America for the working class.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 4 months ago:
I’m a Democratic Socialist so pretty much everyone hates me when I offer my opinions.
With that said, I love Lemmy.
No algorithm and no ads means I get far more positive than negative interactions on average.