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- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 3 hours ago:
Some have been good for individuals, some have been bad. Like any decision made by the unwashed masses over decades long time frames. I mean, at the end I’m living in a capitalistic hellhole, if that’s what you mean.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 4 hours ago:
I don’t know if it’s a language issue or what, but you sure seem to be coming at me with a strong attitude for something or other, and I can’t really figure out what you are trying to accomplish.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 4 hours ago:
Direct acts, as in voting to drive from here to there, or build a building someplace? Or acts, as in legislation that determines how gov’t is run? I think we are/were on a semantic parallel or something.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 4 hours ago:
I think you replied to the wrong person.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 4 hours ago:
On the federal level, that’s not what or how a representation democracy works. On the state level, my state usually has quite a number of direct voter initiatives.
- Comment on bold words 2 days ago:
Not worth it.
- Comment on Baby's On Fire 2 days ago:
It sucked to find out they are such awful people. I used to really like them.
- Comment on Ali got the Wiki "was" 2 days ago:
That’s cool and all, but where are the missing Epstein files?
- Comment on Uhh show me the data 😫😫😫 5 days ago:
So stupid. Perfect community post.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like a vague concept of a band idea, but not an actual plan yet. Maybe they should just call themselves Sybian.
- Comment on PROTIP 2 weeks ago:
Times, they have changed. I was the same, as were most of the people I went to school with. Pocket knifes are just handy, I still carry one most of the time.
- Comment on Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches 2 weeks ago:
The tl;dr is:
- That dementia riddled shithead Reagan changed the law to allow companies to buy back stock. This is classic stock manipulation and was illegal before that piece of shit was elected by the same degenerate demographics that are fucking up shit today.
- Billionaires will “borrow” say, $100 million dollars, using their stock as collateral. Now they only have to pay the interest, low single digits, instead of actual income tax.
And a key quote from the article:
As a result, loopholes abound that allow the wealthy to shelter their money from taxation. These mechanisms are so effective that even though the wealthiest 1% of Americans own $50 trillion, the entire amount collected by the estate tax in 2024 was about $30 billion, an amount that Musk has gained and lost in a day.
- Comment on Save as PDF 3 weeks ago:
What a great shitpost. Fueled a strong comment section. Well done!
- Comment on Hrmmm 3 weeks ago:
It’s all shooting, but the indoor galleries seem to make the concussive effects a bit worse.
- Comment on Hrmmm 3 weeks ago:
People should also be aware that shooting guns causes physical brain damage, so they should take that into consideration.
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 3 weeks ago:
That was hard to watch. Jesus christ. This damn country is so fucked up.
- Comment on Billie Eilish and "stolen land" 3 weeks ago:
I could be wrong, and I’m sure I’ll be pilloried if so, but I don’t think the ‘stolen land’ part is really the point of the statement. To me it’s more about pointing out the difference between ‘undocumented’ and ‘illegal’. In the same vein as ‘unhoused’ vs ‘homeless’. Or the classic ‘tomato’ vs ‘tomato’. To me it seems to get lost in pedantic weeds and I prefer the Shakespeare observation of a rose by any other name.
- Comment on Ohio State Stars Make Bonehead Comment About Indiana After National Title Run 4 weeks ago:
They lost by a field goal, so players saying they’d win in a rematch is a “bonehead” comment? It’s a stupid sport with stupid players, but this is weird baity writing. Or I should say, real “bonehead” writing. Besides we all know <fill in team name> would beat both of them in a rematch.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
You, and I, typing this, in a thread about non-standardization certainly blows a hole or two in your simple thinking. It’s weird to think of flexible thinking as simple. I would say I envy your rigid comprehension, but I don’t. It would be awful to be lost when someone says N Celsius instead of N Fahrenheit or vise versa. What a miserable, difficult way to try to make it through life.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
These threads always make me laugh. Maybe because of the way/where I was raised I really don’t care at all what anyone uses.
- Comment on What's the cure to doomerism? 5 weeks ago:
Cryofreezing
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 5 weeks ago:
Looks like you’d have some good point breaks. Like legendary.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE: OnePlus Is Being Dismantled 5 weeks ago:
I’ve had a 7t for I don’t know how many years. I always hate phone shopping. I hope that there is something like fairphone available when this thing dies. I just want to have a replaceable battery. I’d probably still have a phone from a decade ago if I could replace the battery.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
Huh, I didn’t know that about China. TIL.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
Russia invaded Ukraine and was immediately under many sanctions. I don’t get why the world doesn’t treat the US the same way. Aside from greed.
- Comment on Meetings 1 month ago:
Most meetings, in my obviously limited experience, are held by people who don’t have anything else to do. And all the people who need to get shit done are pissed about having to sit through a meeting that could have been handled with a short email.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 1 month ago:
Ah, I thought that Hillary ended up getting more votes. I must be wrong. I’m in no way denying the fuckery that went along with it, from the DNC to media doing everythign they could to keep Bernie out, but in the end, voters are the ones who vote. Tell me again about how it’s not ultimately the voters.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 1 month ago:
How does/did Schumer, Grassley, Graham, Pelosi, McConnell, Feinstein, and so on, stay in power? I always get downvoted and naysayed when I say this, but American voters fucking suck. Just the absolute worst. People will blame the two party system, and they do have a point there, but those same people don’t show up in the primaries to make a difference. They’re too scared to vote for change, as they’ve shown over and over. Just a bunch of ignorant, self-satisfied, cowards.
- Comment on Why do Interstate highways exits post the nearby jail/prison/detention center? 1 month ago:
I’ve only noticed them at the prisons that are out in bummfuck Cali. Off the 5 in the Central Valley, like OP said, or out in the desert off the 10.
- Comment on Why do Interstate highways exits post the nearby jail/prison/detention center? 1 month ago:
So you won’t pick up escapees hitchhiking.