pinkdrunkenelephants
@pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on Can't block admin? 4 months ago:
Just use an account from a different server and then block the admins before you post. That way they can’t give you any problems or censor you.
It’s reason #4647386 why Lemmy and federation itself is broken.
But you can and really should do it.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
That’s impossible because it will require bloodshes in which millions of people will die, whereas a non-profit cooperative effort can provide people goods for free, especially when fully automated. And corporations can’t beat free.
You might want a war but the rest of us don’t, and we can solve our problems through peaceful means.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
Making stuff ourselves and breaking free of the corporate vice grip is the only way we can make doing that viable.
Unless you thought corporations won’t just stop producing until the people surrender.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
That’s not true, people have been making their own stuff for thousands of years before these corpos came up and we can do it again.
And we can collectively set up our own we all own and that actually serve us, too.
You just have to believe it’s possible, which it is. And you have to believe in yourself. If you think those are lies, your worldview is just negatively skewed. People can and do make change all of the fucking time. It’s time for our generation to be among them.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
What you are is being sent outside.
Go touch some grass and then you’ll see it’s possible to actually do for yourself. You won’t discourage us from breaking away from your masters.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
Then why are you here instead of buying stuff like a good corporate shill?
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
Honestly, if we all grew and shared our own food, that alone would be enough to turn the tide and improve our lives.
We could use the money we save from groceries and use it to buy land, and with that land take back economic power from corporations, politicians and the ruling class.
We could organize and pick representatives amongst us that aren’t part of either party to take local offices and use their powers to change zoning laws to enable more housing to be built, and to allocate funding for such, and to pass laws banning anyone other than primary residents from buying the properties.
Assuming you want to do it legally. Arguably one individual could accomplish a lot more with the proper use of a .50 cal.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
The same. You can even get wood for free sometimes if someone in your area cuts down a tree in their yard and curbsides the refuse.
It’s not difficult. You just want to make it seem difficult to justify not having to put thought and effort into solving problems. You can’t just buy your way out of everything.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
Just gonna add onto here:
DO NOT FEED THE ANTI-DISESTABLISMENT TROLLS
THEY’RE EXPLOITING NON-VIOLENCE TO STOP YOU RISING UP TO PROTECT THEIR MASTERS
DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM OR ENGAGE WITH THEM AT ALL. NOT A FUCKING WORD. DOWNVOTE THEM AND MOVE ON
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
What we need are non-profits who engage in agriculture specifically to sell basic goods cheap and to undercut for-profit companies. With automation advancing, it’s possible to slash prices in that way.
That would help shift Americans away from capitalism to a post-scarcity economy where they don’t have to worry about buying food and such.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
You can get tools cheap at flea markets, garage sales or Facebook Marketplace though. And they last for years.
Though remember I label it Hard Mode for a reason
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
Start being an actual adult and start making your own shit.
The only way to free yourself from the slave racket is to stop being dependent on it to survive.
Easy mode: Learn how to cook, and cook clean whole foods. Stop buying processed junk garbage.
Hard mode: Get tools and equipment and learn how to build and fix your own shit. Difficult and will take time, but 100% worthwhile.
Both methods allow you to produce goods and offer services you can sell to other people, too. That way, those that actually can’t make or do for themselves can turn to you and not shitty corporations for survival.
- Comment on What happens if flat Earthers go to space? 5 months ago:
They just deny it. They deny everything, even obvious facts, to gain control over the conversation and no one sees through their bullshit.
- Comment on Which burn was worse? I'm gonna vote for #11. 5 months ago:
This bullshit is not real.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 5 months ago:
3 and 5. I would wreak so much havoc, it’d be fucking great
- Comment on This split sink 5 months ago:
It’d be better to have the three-sink setup they have in commercial kitchens which are stacked next to each other so you can move a dish to the next without dripping water all over the counter.
- Comment on Does anyone feel like an actual adult? 5 months ago:
I find all of this talk about being an adult weird. It doesn’t matter how old you are. What matters is that you can take care of yourself.
- Comment on Does anyone feel like an actual adult? 5 months ago:
You’re perfectly fine. Really right now you’re a young adult and your older peers are just calling you a kid because they’re at a different stage of life development than you and so don’t relate to you anymore, hence they treat anyone outside of their little clique with derision to enforce their unwarranted sense of superiority. In short, if they’re being mean about it, they’re ageist bigots; remind them they will never have the youthful beauty, potential and opportunities you have when they do it and watch them fume.
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 5 months ago:
That’s a terrible idea. You’d pay more than an entire paycheck just to play a typical JRPG which typically have 40+ hours of gameplay. I’m not paying $600 to play one game.
This is developers incrementally conditioning you to accept an even worse state of things for games. And if they follow through, I’ll pirate their shit and never give them a dime of my money again.
- Comment on If you look closely, you'll notice he doesn't treat people well. 5 months ago:
It’s because the people who support him are the dumb, ignorant, selfish bullies who wish they had the guts to be a serial killer like him.
They try to absorb power from wherever they go and in him they see power because he kills with few repercussions. It’s sad to see, really.
- Comment on If you look closely, you'll notice he doesn't treat people well. 6 months ago:
IIRC he’s supposed to be a satire of stockbrokers from the 80’s.
- Comment on It's just good story-telling 6 months ago:
Giving the finger to a cop isn’t illegal, it’s just most people don’t have the resources to fight the charges.
- Comment on Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 6 months ago:
Yes. It’s a distinction we draw based on nature and it’s vitally important to have that distinction. Comparing fetuses to people who are disabled; etc. are false equivalencies because they’ve already been born and thus already have those rights. Birth is the quintessential start of life.
But we both know you’re never going to accept that because you want to subjugate women and deny them happiness, and that’s all this is really about.
- Comment on Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 6 months ago:
Nah, they won and you lost. And you’ll keep losing all the way to a jail cell where you and the other fascists belong.
- Comment on Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 6 months ago:
When it’s born.
- Comment on Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 6 months ago:
No they’re not
- Comment on Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 6 months ago:
Good news, it’s not.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 6 months ago:
Seriously? You’re that mad at me for telling the truth? For all I know, you’re using bots to try to get revenge against me on the internet.
You need to touch grass so bad.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 6 months ago:
How was I downvoted just now, then?
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 6 months ago:
It’s what was up for dispute, pay attention