PlasticExistence
@PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Seriously. The global ultra rich are all working from the same basic playbook. It’s just happening here first due to the extreme concentration of wealth.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Much like your stupidity
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Man, how astute and useful. Do you think this won you the argument?
The fact is you all want to see one thing: for all those guns Americans own to be turned on each other. If you think that you’re advocating for anything else - or if you think there will be any other outcome - I don’t know what to tell you.
It’s real fucking easy to wag your finger and say, “Just do X!” as though we’d never thought of that!
Get a clue and understand that you don’t understand.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Go fuck yourself. Sitting on the sidelines sneering at other is most certainly tedious and exhausting.
What would you do, tough guy? You wanna come and defeat all the baddies single-handedly?
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
I never said impossible. I was also involved in a lot of community action during Trump’s first admin.
See how far that got us?
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
That’s a strawman argument. The Arabs were united enough to succeed.
Jesus, this does not help the stereotype of the angry internet commenter upon whom nuance and understanding are lost.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
That’s a nice assumption you’ve got there, but you know fuck all about what I’ve been doing for the last ten years.
Enjoy your distance from the problem and the arrogance of assuming you’d do better.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
You need enough, and we don’t even have that.
Come live here for a while and then tell me how easy it is.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
What did you think I meant by, “we are not a united people”?
You can’t organize peace with people who idealize a fascist society
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
That is not the choice we face. Disruptive protesting gets you killed in this country unless you’re “protesting” for fascism.
I do think other countries risk less when they protest, yes.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
You first
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
I can make this simple: would you be the first to step in front of the firing squad when you have no idea if others will join you in rushing it?
We are not a united people here.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
I’ve often been surprised at how living in America is perceived by the world. I’ve met a lot of people from all over the world, and while some have actually spent enough time here to understand the good and the bad. The rest who have not seem to believe in the shiny veneer that we export in our movies and television.
We are absolute wage slaves here. We are one missed paycheck from homelessness. But sure, blame the slaves for not overthrowing their owners.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
The key context to the USA’s relative passitivity with protesting is that we can easily lose our jobs for one of several reasons (none good) if we go protest AND that almost certainly will mean we will also lose our healthcare insurance.
The average person cannot weather an extra expense of only a few hundred dollars, has no savings, and borrowing money in that position usually leads to a debt trap where you’re continually punished for being in a temporary bad spot.
And that’s before we consider what cops and ICE are like here. They’ll just straight up murder us without consequences.
I get that the world is frustrated with us, but I also get that the world fails to grasp how much more desperate things have to get here in order to overcome the hurdles put in front of us.
- Comment on I love my friends 1 month ago:
The call screening feature has put a stop to this for me since iOS 26. It plagued me for years prior to that.
- Comment on Pain of unlocking a bootloader on Xiaomi device (Redmi Note 4) 1 month ago:
I used to love unlocking phones and flashing ROMs, but that era is basically over. I hate it.
- Comment on currently busy 😅 2 months ago:
I sense a plot to destroy the toilet bowl
- Comment on currently busy 😅 2 months ago:
“Just as prophecy foretold, you have come. Enter and meet your destiny!”
- Comment on currently busy 😅 2 months ago:
I like money
- Comment on 2 months ago:
IMO, we need that outside of academia too.
- Comment on "Gen Z won't understand this but back in my day, if you ever saw as many ads as you do on social media today, it meant you had at least 3 viruses on your computer" 4 months ago:
Slight facial tick
- Comment on Are we SURE Reagan didn't cheat in the elections??? 4 months ago:
Which, credit where due, is an impressive accomplishment
- Comment on 4 months ago:
That works for me. I’ve come to appreciate games that keep it short but tight over long games full of filler.
- Comment on I know which one I'm picking! 4 months ago:
Fair
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I think the current AAA system should die. It’s brutal for the people making games and it’s completely unsustainable in the long run.
- Comment on Christmas is 6 months away and I'm already getting ads for Nativity scene Angels 4 months ago:
I assume that retailers are worried about consumer spending, as well they should be. We’ve been squeezed so hard for so long that I expect this holiday shopping season to be grim.
IIRC, last season was fueled by credit card debt. I don’t expect people are going to do that again with the way prices have spiked over the last year.
- Comment on Remember what you did with these? 4 months ago:
Launched them out of a Nerf Bazooka at my cousins
- Comment on When you finally figure out it's all about genetics 4 months ago:
It really is crazy. My grandmother lived into her 90s while smoking most of her life
- Comment on Why can't I apply SPF50 sunscreen twice to get SPF100 protection? 4 months ago:
Neutrogena works great and feels great. That’s why it’s more expensive.
- Comment on When you tell the average mf in 2009 that you watch anime 4 months ago:
Don’t forget taking about the team as though they are a part of it and not just an invested spectator