WhatAmLemmy
@WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
- Comment on My doctor's office now has ads when checking in online 15 hours ago:
The illusion of choice under capitalism
- Comment on Trump admin announces plans to shut down the Energy Star program 1 day ago:
This will surely fix the price of eggs
- Comment on Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True 1 day ago:
They’ve had Fox News for 30 years. His nazi party wouldn’t have won without it.
- Comment on Rian Johnson Says ‘I Don’t’ Agree With Netflix CEO Over Movie Theater Model Being ‘Outdated’: I Want ‘Knives Out 3’ in ‘Many Theaters For as Long as Possible’ 4 days ago:
Streaming quality is pretty dogshit compared to bluray or digital cinemas though. The files are compressed a good 5-10x.
That’s only really matters for a few movies a year.
- Comment on Two arrested following fiery protests in Melbourne CBD 1 week ago:
When they’re also implementing laws that could potentially serve to arbitrarily criminalise peaceful protesting you really need to be asking what is defined as “hate speech”. I did not see this in the article.
Do they mean supporting palestinians = “hate speech”, or do they mean calling for violence against groups of people? I thought that was already illegal, so what does this change?
- Comment on "me at the zoo" YouTube's Oldest Video Turns 20 Today 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if the first cave paintings were a dick joke
- Comment on Meta could take a $7 billion hit this year because of Trump's tough China tariffs 2 weeks ago:
Don’t get fooled by the oligarch-owned media. The wealthiest individuals will benefit the most.
Fascism is a fusion of corporation and state (e.g. state-capitalism, like China). The next few years will likely see the largest transfer of wealth in history, and the S&P 500 will consolidate from an ownership of 200 separate conglomerates to 20-50 (example only. not real figures).
- Comment on Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive 2 weeks ago:
They need to federate and decentralize with some sort of p2p protocol, so anyone can donate their spare hard drives for additional redundancy. Seeing up shop in any jurisdiction is a single point of failure.
- Comment on ‘I would defy ICC, welcome Benjamin Netanyahu to Australia’, says Peter Dutton 2 weeks ago:
ConservativesFascists are the same everywhere. - Comment on Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from tariffs 3 weeks ago:
The emperor is a convicted criminal rapist, and probably a pedophile. The trillion dollar fraud is probably one of his lesser crimes.
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 3 weeks ago:
Last action hero is a classic. I fucking love that movie. The second half isn’t as good as the first, but it’s not terrible. It was ahead of its time.
- Comment on A lobby group representing Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Uber, and X has urged the US Government to take aim at Australian laws 5 weeks ago:
How long until corporations are arguing that taxation is “discriminatory” and puts their revenue and profitability “at risk”?
The meaning of life is to feed the corporate plutocracy, after all.
- Comment on Who came up with the idea to cut thousands of public service jobs? 1 month 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 month ago:
These are brown shirts. They are not law enforcement.
- Comment on The billionaires and politicians did it 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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' 2 months 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 2 months 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) 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
The article’s inaccurate then. Israel arrests numerous Palestinians as leverage.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
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Disappointing!
- Comment on That was a great 17 minute wait 2 months 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 3 months 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! 3 months ago:
The same dystopian enshittification is going on pretty much everywhere, you just aren’t aware of it yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 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! 3 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 4 months ago:
Dismantle bridge option was initially chosen because it was believed the tax payers would foot the bill… I guarantee it.