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- Comment on pain plant 1 week ago:
Just pepper spray your mouth at that point.
- Comment on Good vibes 1 week ago:
They’re totally pissing.
- Comment on Trump yanks $400 million from Columbia over allegations of antisemitism 2 weeks ago:
People thinking that American politics needs to dominate every single place of conversation is mildly infuriating at least.
- Comment on Ah shit. Here we go again. 3 weeks ago:
I’m just happy to get rid of that shit.
- Comment on Johnny Somali’s trial in Korea seems like it’s going to go poorly for him 3 weeks ago:
Will be good to finally see this guy face consequences for his actions.
- Comment on Private employers added just 77,000 jobs in February, far below expectations, ADP says 3 weeks ago:
If anything, I’m surprised jobs were added.
- Comment on Are you a chicken? 3 weeks ago:
Das ist sehr, sehr gut.
- Comment on I don't wanna, but I gotta. 3 weeks ago:
So much delicious food on display, I have to hold myself back from buying too much every time.
- Comment on Almost made it 4 weeks ago:
Getting paid to shit AND shitpost? That’s winning right there.
- Comment on I'll care when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers. 4 weeks ago:
The company I work for likes to hold a meeting every quarter to tell employees how the company is doing and they love to talk about the stock price as if we’re supposed to care. Executives get rewarded with shares, not us, we’d have to actually use our own money to buy shares and the number of shares we’d be able to buy with our own salaries would be meager by comparison. Still, they proudly boast about share buybacks, while if you look at the publicly-available data, the execs are selling tons of shares (not just for tax purposes). So they’re using company funds to pump up the stock price while offloading their personal shares. Real inspiring leadership, really drives me to put in more effort so they can get a bigger payout while I and everyone else gets diddly squat.
- Comment on 1987 4 weeks ago:
The anger is irrational and thus cannot be rationally explained.
- Comment on Thinking of those times I wasn't strong enough to say no to going out. What a waste of money. 4 weeks ago:
When I stare at $8 in my hand and start thinking of how that could actually buy something 3 years ago.
- Comment on People never understand the sacrifices I make for them. 4 weeks ago:
Some days at work I’ve got only half-hour gaps between meetings. I don’t care how adept people are at taking meetings, no one is going to get proper thinking work done in those gaps. If it was repetitive work, sure, you could get back into the groove of things, but even that takes some wind up time. Even worse if you’re in-office and expected to attend the meetings in-person.
- Comment on Hell nah brah 5 weeks ago:
Better that than a nonconsensual call out of nowhere.
- Comment on Meta approves plan for bigger executives bonuses following 5% layoffs 5 weeks ago:
The same Meta that pissed away billions of dollars on “the metaverse” because the super genius Fuckerberg had some grand vision that he felt so strongly about that he even had the company renamed to reflect this vision?
It’s never the so-called leaders who suffer when they make poor decisions even though their job is to call all the shots, but they’re always first in line to reap the rewards off of all the people who actually do the work.
- Comment on How was your valentines day weekend? 5 weeks ago:
I fucka da pizza
- Comment on How dare the alarm I set betray me like this? 1 month ago:
Sometimes my alarm does me a solid and keeps quiet.
- Comment on Uniquely American 1 month ago:
Work smart means getting other people to do the work for you and keeping most of the profit for yourself.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The interest rate isn’t at near-zero anymore so instead of growing with insane leverage, they’re trying to keep the juicy profit margins going by cutting while still raising prices as much as they can. Squeeze is a very apt term here because us peasants are getting squeezed every which way. When the fumes run out from the post-covid squeeze, the decline will accelerate. Government and corporate coffers are getting raided by the rich on the way out.
- Comment on It really is like this 1 month ago:
The entire country tried to revolt in 1984 and millions of citizens were killed by their own military.
What?
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 1 month ago:
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 1 month ago:
Sanders is working with what he’s got, but it’s clear that democrats refuse to actually make primaries democratic. They’re inherently undemocratic with so much importance placed on the early states that by the time the later states get their chance, it’s already been decided. There is a reason why democrats moved South Carolina up for the primary schedule of 2024 even though Biden was running practically unopposed.
The only performance being played out here is the performance of the “democratic” process which is like handing a kid a toy steering wheel and making them think they’re driving the car. You’re clapping along thinking the system works and you fiercely defend it against any criticism. In fact, you’re so uncomfortable with questioning the system that you admit that you feel reluctant to mention support for any candidate that could possibly be associated with the idea that the process is not the perfect democratic process you think it is.
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 1 month ago:
Do you think that makes it okay?
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 1 month ago:
So you decided to completely ignore the point of my post to reiterate “Biden got more votes?” even though the whole point of my post is to show how that’s a fallacious argument. Then you went on to spit out a tired talking about “most progressive president in our lifetimes” which is an extremely low bar to clear when democrats refuse to let anyone actually progressive through their party-controlled primary process.
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 1 month ago:
If Biden was getting more votes, why did the democratic party collude to make all the other candidates drop and put their support behind Biden while funding a super PAC to keep Warren in the race to split votes with Bernie right before the critical point of super tuesday? They also had their buddies in big media play the narrative of “the Biden miracle” where he edged ahead in South Carolina thanks to a single critical endorsement by Clyburn but was doing poorly before then. For this favor, the democrats moved South Carolina up in the primaries in 2024, even though South Carolina went to Trump in both 2020 and 2024 for the general election.
The democratic party felt so threatened by Bernie that they put their thumb on the scale during their own party primary which is already biased towards party-favored “moderate” candidates since people more in line with the party are more likely to vote in them.
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 1 month ago:
Don’t forget: 4.5. Leftists get moderated for saying Biden supported genocide (with the reason given for the moderation being “misinformation”) and receive a ban.
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 1 month ago:
Speaking of 2020, remember when democrats worked hard to pour all their support behind Biden over Bernie? What was the explanation for that?
- Comment on CSS moment 2 months ago:
T-that’s just a coincidence…!
- Comment on Same 2 months ago:
Also, when fleeing Earth, they don’t try to solve issues. They just set up new corporations doing the exact same stuff in other places. When the game presents a problem where taking down a CEO would be one of the best possible outcomes, it isn’t an option. Literally everything you do in the game is maintaining the status-quo of the modern world, despite it being the source of so many issues in the game. You can’t change anything and no one wants to either.
That sounds pretty realistic to me. I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but this counts as a commentary on our social situation. Probably doesn’t make for a compelling game, though.
- Comment on Same 2 months ago:
Did Starfield become a good game?