Man it’s weird how things happen. I was literally just listening to Bo Burnhams “funny feeling” this morning and he has a line about “Robert (Bob) Igers face” and I thought hmm I actually don’t get that, I don’t know who he is. Then I open Lemmy and see this lol
Tariffs are taxes, but they’re taxes for companies not individuals, and they’re only applied to importing, so they won’t affect me.
Typical Magoo (literally my dad in 2016): “you can’t tax business owners, they’re going to just make everything more expensive for us! They pass on the burden to us!”
Also Magoo: “Yay tarrifs! They are a tax on business but that won’t get passed on to me!”
The Magoo motto: Whatever words I need to use to suit my purpose I will use, to hell with reality.
Do you think roaming bands of Leftists, marching on main streets in ever major city in the US, and taking over university commons from coast to coast, in defense of Islamic Jihadi terrorists seeing to kill half the Jewish population in the world in Israel, while screaming “From The River To The Sea” scared the bejeesus out of just Middle America, or all of it?
Well I can see where you get your news from, jeez… That’s an interesting reality.
“because it validates his assertion that American democracy is a sham—that there is no democracy. All that matters is power and self-interest. The rest is sanctimony and hypocrisy.”
…I mean… Is he that wrong? We vote for who the donor/ownership class allow us to vote for. Anyone else doesn’t even show up on the radar. There was an actual socialist candidate, literally the only place they ever showed up in “the news” was here on Lemmy. People are only exposed to those that will play ball with the ownership class.
Once someone like Bernie Sanders showed to be gaining in popularity during the primaries leading up to 2016 so-called “liberal left wing” MSNBC started running “Bernie loves Castro, Bernie loves communism!” stories to scare people into choosing someone else. One chucklefuck on MSNBC went as far as to say if Bernie was elected people “like him” (the wealthy news propagandist) would be put up against the wall, invoking the idea of authoritarian regimes and firing squads…
Lol lunch breaks. I wonder how soon it takes for that to be on the chopping block too. :(
Trump on election night: “MASSIVE FRAUD IN PENNSYLVANIA, POLICE INCOMING!”
He wins big: “teehee, what fraud? I never said that.”
I appreciate the correction!
for some reason lots of folks like to vote for the dogshit with ground glass mixed into it because they think its funny to watch other people eat it.
The majority of the political videos showing up on my YouTube feed after the election was just right wingers laughing at “the left.”
Their whole identity is hating others.
And-Shove-A-Lightbulb-Up-Your-Ass.
At least then they could say they had a bright idea!
…I’ll see myself out.
I think that takes more thought than even those who vote with us do. I think we seriously overestimate the political intelligence of the people in this country. Not to say 0% were those people, but if we’re talking millions I think we’re talking about typical ignorance.
I think the vast majority vote D for social issues, but once their pocketbook gets hurt it’s time to sit it out or worse “punish” the party in power by voting for the opposition. :(
Good, these poor poor billionaires need more. I mean it’s a goddamn travesty they aren’t trillionares!
Geez people how fucking greedy do you need to be to accept a paycheck from these people when working for them? Can’t you just be charitable for once and help them become decillionares?
I swear we’re so greedy.
It wasn’t even exactly that. It was MILLIONS of people who voted Democrat previously just sitting this one out. I don’t think there are 15 Million “Gaza or bust” voters so this was just pure ignorance…
“Trump is horrible, but the Democrats made inflation. I’m not voting for either.” (Conveniently forgetting COVID and the necessary cash injection that helped keep people paying bills on time and kept businesses afloat to be there to rehire when lockdowns ended.) Ignorance…
Not that it was perfectly executed by any stretch of the imagination, but the alternative was everyone “non-essential” goes broke and businesses everywhere collapse. There was no world where we just didn’t do lockdowns, we don’t have the luxury of hindsight when something new happens obviously. We probably didn’t need the lockdowns because COVID spread regardless :(
LiBeRaL LeFtWiNg MeDiA!!!
…yeah… Reich.
Republicans donors: “…and Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm.”
Not that there was any hope before, but now it’s solidified that we will not be getting any help with the housing market moving to a fully landlord controlled renters market… Goodbye homeownership hello neofeudalism!
https://democrats.org/contact-us/
Their system is so bad they accepted “[email protected]” as my email so have fun.
I told them all to resign.
“Soldiers on the battlefield have reported seeing the robotic AI driven dogs charging enemy positions shouting “STOLEN ELECTION! VACCINES CAUSE RABIES! JEWISH SPACE LASERS!!” it has been considered a resounding success.”
God describing my recipe:
Magnets, how do they work?
Alien sex technology refined by bear gods of forgotten religions obviously
printing press fired up in 2020 and real estate investors seemed to get plenty of that cash.
Maybe I’m just ignorant, but in a just world that should have never been allowed to happen… I’m sure our politicians had nothingggg to do with that “oversight.” :/
Thanks for the links!
Ughh… I have to talk to someone?
…I don’t know, maybe fascism isn’t as bad as they make it out to be, ya know?
:P