WhatAmLemmy
@WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Who came up with the idea to cut thousands of public service jobs? 5 days ago:
Conservatisms goal everywhere is to destroy representative government — to render it toothless by making it a tool of the oligarchy — and return the peasants to feudalism, ruled by a corporate plutocracy.
That’s why all conservative governments do the exact same thing; starve the beast, defund and privatise.
- Comment on Video of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest 1 week ago:
These are brown shirts. They are not law enforcement.
- Comment on The billionaires and politicians did it 2 weeks ago:
And repeat those successes it continuously for 50+ years
- Comment on Jewish Council of Australia slams universities' adoption of dangerous, politicised and unworkable antisemitism definition 4 weeks ago:
They’ve been fully absorbed by the hydra of capitalism and now solely act in the interests of money. Wealthy people insisted they adopt it, so they did. It’s as simple as that.
- Comment on GP visits to become free for most under $8.5b Labor [campaign] Medicare promise 4 weeks ago:
Neoliberalism and conservatism is failing everywhere, because it’s a universal fallacy.
- Comment on Coalition vows to match Labor's $8.5 billion Medicare [campaign] pledge 'dollar for dollar' 4 weeks ago:
The Coalition has vowed to match Labor’s pledge to boost Medicare funding by $8.5 billion over four years, describing a drop in bulk billing rates as a “mess” created by the government.
Sure is! A mess created by the previous decade of Lib mismanagement… But the average chucklefuck doesn’t pay attention so will only know what fashcorp & co tell them.
- Comment on Meta approves plan for bigger executives bonuses following 5% layoffs 5 weeks ago:
It’s legal because we live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as “democracy”.
- Comment on Fair Work Commission cancels industrial action by NSW nurses [working in private hospitals] (VIDEO) 5 weeks ago:
If the government can choose when workers strike, then it’s not really a strike is it?
- Comment on ‘Wilful act of bastardry’: Henry condemns tax system for crushing young Australians 5 weeks ago:
You get the politicians you deserve. Shit in, shit out.
The average human is simply just too selfish and ignorant. They hurt themselves in their confusion.
- Comment on Labor to ban foreign investors from buying existing homes for at least two years, replicating Coalition policy 5 weeks ago:
Wow, copying a conservatives bullshit do-nothing plan… Such progressive and forward-thinking leadership!
- Comment on What's the difference between a hostage and a prisoner? 5 weeks ago:
The article’s inaccurate then. Israel arrests numerous Palestinians as leverage.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
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Disappointing!
- Comment on That was a great 17 minute wait 1 month ago:
This is the most infuriating display of sheer incompetence. You’re logged into your fucking account, likely secured with 2FA, and the chat session you start is not authenticated in any way! You have to provide basic account info… The kind of info you are authorized to change because you are logged into your account… Corporations are a wet fetid sack of dog shit.
- Comment on Ley compares First Fleet to Musk's Mars mission in Australia Day speech 1 month ago:
Who’s going to enforce these laws? Who’s responsible for stepping in and blocking the payments? Arresting the individuals who accept these payments?
The Murdoch media is the propaganda machine directly behind Trumps rise to power. They’ve been sowing the seeds for fascism for decades. What makes you think he wants a fascist dictatorship in the states but not the rest of 5 eyes, or the world?
I’m getting real tired of “Liberals” acting like it can’t happen here, and we don’t all live in plutocracies where most state and federal pollies are bankrolled by the wealthiest oligarchs, corporations, industries, and multinationals.
- Comment on If you shop by unit prices, double check the math! 2 months ago:
The same dystopian enshittification is going on pretty much everywhere, you just aren’t aware of it yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Revolutions are actually more like a powderkeg. Once a significant proportion of the population become apathetic and angry, all it takes is a spark to ignite it. This has repeated many times throughout history. Most recently in Syria, where a decade of civil war deadlock completely evaporated in a few months.
What we need is a relatively small number people like this youtube.com/watch?v=V74AxCqOTvg
- Comment on If you shop by unit prices, double check the math! 2 months ago:
What happened? We live in corporate dictatorships where corporations can false advertise, price gouge, kick your dog, and fuck your wife… and your only recourse is a class action lawsuit where you make a few bucks after a decade.
- Comment on Vomit-inducing article about Jeff Bezos’s obscene wealth 2 months ago:
Dismantle bridge option was initially chosen because it was believed the tax payers would foot the bill… I guarantee it.
- Comment on But of course we don't want to poison our child. 2 months ago:
Yeah. This guy seems to think “the reckoning” will be some sort of revolution, where in the real world we’re steamrolling into fascist dystopia.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 3 months ago:
While most work is hard, and I dunno how bespoke this gig is, there’s a massive difference between a generic fry “cook” and a restaurant line cook/chef.
Most fry cooks, like a Macdonald’s, are a finely tuned production line where most of the food is pre-prepped and premade (most of the “cooking” is done in a factory). The “cooks” in those roles usually just assemble the pre made components, and in the case of fast food, have finely tunes tools to serve their generic menu.
A restaurant cook/chef requires significantly more attention to detail, skill, flexibility, and knowledge because most of the food is made from scratch, using raw ingredients, which is why there are culinary schools. Real restaurants can’t succeed with a kitchen full of deep fryers and teenagers pushing buttons.
- Comment on graceful wombats 3 months ago:
I once came across a large adult wombat just chilling in the middle of a single lane road in a national park. Wikipedia says they grow up to 35kg, but I swear this one was pushing 50kg; like a large bulldog crossed with a pig. He continued to waddle down the middle of the road as I swerved from side to side, trying to get him to move over so I could go around. I had places to be, and drugs to consume. He did not give a fuck. He couldn’t give one single iota of a fuck. I eventually got outta the car and chased him. The majestic chonk ran faster than I could for a solid 100 meters before he darted off into the bushes. Don’t fuck with a wombat. They are the honey badgers of Oz.
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 months ago:
Take that time! We totally futured your ass!
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 months ago:
because I came from a farm
I know what you mean but this amuses me immensely.
- Comment on California voters reject Prop 32, raising the state's minimum wage to $18 4 months ago:
You’re basically saying you voted against it because it was only 3/4 of what you wanted, with zero downsides.
This is the dumbest take I have heard in a long time. This take is so mentally deficient it is special needs.
- Comment on Why is Gen Z so Poor? 4 months ago:
Every day I see posts by Liberals bashing Gen Z for being stupid, without any self-awareness that 50 years of neoliberalism created Gen Z and gave them a horrific future outlook in housing security, employment security, financial security, climate security… all the conditions necessary for fascism to flourish.
We’ve told them this would lead to fascism for decades, and they still think they were right, spending their time pointing their fingers at everyone but themselves.
- Comment on George Carlin everybody. 4 months ago:
Yup. I already had a vasectomy years ago, in my late 20’s. I wish I did it at 18.
At no point was I gonna accelerate the collapse or force my children to experience it.
- Comment on George Carlin everybody. 4 months ago:
When you look at what humanity has done to the planet, especially in the last century, an extremely selfish humanity — deserving of the suffering they cause themselves in their confusion — was always self-evident.
We’re quite literally killing the planet to the extent that it will likely become unviable for human civilization within a century or so, most living species will be exterminated, and billions of people will starve to death … and every day most of us choose not stop the destruction because it individually grants us a constant stream of dopamine hits from consumption and consumerism; the consequences are out of sight, and out of mind.
We’re extremely ignorant, arrogant, dopamine-drug-addict, talking chimps, on a one way trip to oblivion. If it makes you feel any better, we never really stood a chance.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 4 months ago:
Considering the mass of the earth, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’d be nearly impossible to capture a difference between a feather or bowling ball. You might have to release them at 100m or 1000m above the surface, but then maybe the moons miniscule atmosphere or density variances will have more of an effect.
- Comment on Unsubscribe? Nope! We'll Just Add You To An "Unsubscribers" List! 4 months ago:
Don’t contact the company. They’re breaking the law, and they know it. Report straight to the regulating authority.
- Comment on Volkswagen to shut three factories, axe jobs and cut pay by 10%, says union 4 months ago:
If the controlling shareholders and board can approve spending money they don’t have on a dividend, they should be held personally liable and fined for that 4.5 B.
We’re taught that corporate criminals can act with impunity behind the liability shield of an LLC, but it is only this way because the people accept it.