CharlesDarwin

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6天前

Donald Trump ripped for behavior at dignified transfer: ‘Take your (expletive) hat off’
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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 6天前
I'd take Biden, even in a coma, over PEDOnald at any age or health condition.
Any day of the week.

6天前

Most Americans think their fellow citizens have poor morals

My favorite take right now from the reactionary/enlightened centrists is when they point at things like RFK jr saying something about food dyes. Or getting rid of pennies.

Really, things like that make all the rest of it worth it? I just can't even with that bunch. Imagine flipping the script: if the Democrats were letting Biden just go buck-wild with the country and no one was stopping him? Would these "centrists" be talking about dyes and pennies?

6天前

Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 6天前

And I guess this isn't "cancel culture"?

7天前

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 7天前

Sounds like you have a set of work goals and that's fine. I just don't think that needs to be imposed on others who have very different ideas of how to get fulfillment from their work. If the average age of retirement is 62, that means people on average would have 17 years (or more) of life where they are legally prevented from doing the job they love, even if they serve the voters' interests. I'd say many people would love to continue doing a job they love far past the age of 62, and they should be able to do so, not have some arbitrary law keeping them from that. Ageism is already quite rampant in the private sector; I'm not sure it should be codified into public service.

If you (or any voter) find instances of politicians not sharing your interests, by all means, vote them out.

7天前

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 7天前

Eh, I've seen people doing a job they like way past the "standard" retirement age. But here's the important part - IF they are not being forced out by the company and/or the culture. It so happens a lot of people like having a sense of purpose and doing a job they like is often a big part of that. Telling people to wander off to go play shuffleboard or whatever the fuck and just wait to die is not much of a purpose.

Often it's doctors I've seen work well into their 70s/80s, though I think the corruption brought by acquisition of practices/hospitals and insurance companies is probably changing that, I've known of at least one doctor more or less forced into retirement against his will.

Some people actually really do believe in the idea of civic duty and serving their country, so I have zero problem with politicians that work way past the "standard" retirement age. I'd have to take it on a case by case basis. I definitely have zero interest in arbitrary age limits and term limits removing good candidates from the field entirely. That should be up to the voters.

Someone like Pelosi irritates me no end, but it's more her stance on insider trading and the way she has tried to gatekeep progressives from entering than anything else. She could be in her 30s and on her first term, and it would still drive me up the wall.

7天前

US senator seeks perjury investigation into Kristi Noem over DHS spending

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 7天前

LOCK. HER. UP.

I would so love to see someone doing some cosplay bullshit in front of HER prison cell. 🤣

7天前

More Than 1 in 5 New Car Buyers in the U.S. Are Taking Out Loans of 84 Months or Longer

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 7天前

This one - Live Debt Free, by Ted Carroll

https://archive.org/details/livedebtfreemake00carr

Even reading this in the early 00s was kinda wild when it came to some of the talk of house prices. Most of the principles still hold, though, especially when it comes to deferring gratitude and so on.

The notion of moving somewhere low-cost is probably more relevant than ever, though, given the idea of remote work having been broken wide open because of Covid. Prior to that, most companies viewed it as something slightly scandalous to even ask about.

1周前

BlackRock fund limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 1周前

So tired of the winning.

1周前

Trump Reportedly Expressed ‘Serious Interest’ in Deploying Ground Troops to Iran

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 1周前

It's too bad we couldn't have put AI to good use instead of the thing most of the elite have reached for first (destroying jobs).

We could have generated deepfakes of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers saying great things about Donvict (while out of office), fabricate an entire election for him in the run-up to 2024, and surround him with a set of paid actors telling him he's President, letting him sign bullshit EOs and legislation. Have someone fashion a Nobel Peace Prize and deepfake the news about it and so on. All "channels" on his screen(s) are just a stream of AI deepfakes all praising Dear Leader Donvict.

Just generally making him feel like a Bigly Important Big Boy, all tucked away in an old folks' home or Mar-a-Lago.

I would even take someone like a Romney over this nightmare. Certainly Kamala would have been 1000x better than this...but apparently we cannot even have mildly nice things.

1周前

Trump Reportedly Expressed ‘Serious Interest’ in Deploying Ground Troops to Iran

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 1周前

Huh, after all that gaslighting about "woke" wars from Petey Hegseth and semantic word games about it not really being a "war" from several of his apparatchiks.

1周前

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 1周前

I just don't think term limits are anywhere near the panacea some people seem to think they are. I've heard crusty old conservatives mutter "term limits" about politics ever since I can remember. Almost in the same tone I hear some of them say "cull the herd" and "tort reform" these days. It just seems like some mantra to repeat.

And now I see others outside the conservasphere sometimes taking up this mantra. It strikes me as a distraction, if I'm honest. The real problem is money and legalized bribery and I don't know what term limits would possibly accomplish, other than just having more people with no experience in these roles. There is nothing to say they could not be groomed by the likes of Thiel and just do self-dealing from minute one just because of their age or the number of terms they have had.

I've always been baffled by this heroic notion of a magical outsider, brought into politics, and simply by virtue of being an outsider that it would be a good thing. Politician is about the only endeavor where there is this odd wish to have a NON-expert in that position. The term limits mantra often seems to go hand in hand with the pining for the outsider thing. And I'll just never get it.

Being a politician is like any other field, and requires expertise. I don't see people pining for term limits on doctors, mechanics, plumbers, businessmen, dentists, etc., and I sure don't see people signing up to be the first to have their teeth drilled by an outsider, just to "shake things up".

1周前

Trump skirts Congress over Iran war as Republicans simply step aside

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 1周前

Also:

Senate blocks war powers measure and House follows suit – now president can bomb Iran free from congressional interference

"Interference"? I think they mean even the least amount of oversight, LOL.

The now-hypothetical balance of powers is not something we should be calling "interference".

1周前

Trump skirts Congress over Iran war as Republicans simply step aside

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 1周前

All the cons, like Mikey Johnson, should be given a cuck chair.

Maybe someone like Newsom can orchestrate something where he presents all the cuckservatives a golden cuck chair to watch Donvict having his way with the Constitution.

1周前

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 1周前

If a viable candidate runs in the primary, and the voters show up, then that's the opportunity to have the old guard pushed out. I don't see any problem with that and it's how it is supposed to work. What I object to is some kind of blanket rules about term limits or age limits. That removes the opportunity for voters to reward candidates they like.

1周前

More Than 1 in 5 New Car Buyers in the U.S. Are Taking Out Loans of 84 Months or Longer

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 1周前

Yes, that's so true. I remember coming into a small amount of money and had been saving a little bit, and had just paid off a ridiculously long car loan on a used car - still one of the dumbest financial decisions I had made in my youth - 5.5 years on a used car, WTF was I even thinking, LOL.

Anyway, I was itching to buy some new car possibly, as I had never bought new. Someone handed me a book about finances and the author reiterated what my parents had always tried to drill into my head - about the only worthwhile debt is real estate.

For cars, he had this notion of "paying yourself" the car payment once you pay off a car. Do that for many years, and use that savings for your next car, preferably used, about 2 or 3 years old, after which the depreciation has had the steepest drop.

So I skipped buying something new or used. For so many reasons, I am glad my co-worker lent me that book at that particular time.

1周前

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 1周前

It is true: I am highly dismissive of some kind of arbitrary cutoff based on age or term limits.

I completely understand the deep frustration with certain individuals, for example, Schumer and Pelosi. But it has little to do with their age or the number of terms they have had, in my view. Things like this should be determined, by voters, on a case by case basis.

If people are really that animated about changing the guard, then they need to do the work and show up on primaries, whether that is going so far as running themselves, or working for campaigns, or at least voting. But arbitrarily preempting the choices that others may want to vote for if they like a candidate, regardless (or perhaps because) of age/years of experience seems very unwise.

1周前

The National Park Service Is Removing Signs Staff Reported as ‘Factually Accurate’

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 1周前

Yep. The right loves to pride themselves on being rational (lol) and the other side as being "emotional", but these are the same morons that cannot stand to come up against an idea that offends them.

Ironically, they also whine about being "cancelled" but cheer having this corrupt administration police and/or shut down school content, park signs, and late night comedy shows.

1周前

The National Park Service Is Removing Signs Staff Reported as ‘Factually Accurate’

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 1周前

I sure hope all these things are being kept somewhere so that if sanity is ever restored by having a Democratic administration, they put all this back up in like one day or one week, and broadcast that fact very prominently.

1周前

Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 1周前

Yep. I don't really see any positive organizations/groups love-bombing young men.

Honestly, my generation also heard rather dire messages of a bleak future for us - literally, one of my first memories of punk was listening to "No Future" by the Sex Pistols. We were watching our parents grinding it out as economic hardship and new ideas about how to run corporations hit our parents. Ronnie Raygunism and Thatcherism seemed to result into young men falling into groups like the neo-Nazi skinheads in some areas, but that was at the margins and there were no "influencers" and there was no way for people like to "find the others" like this.

Back then, if someone bitched like these incels or these douchebros wanting a trad wife - they'd be told they are just too chickenshit and lazy to clean themselves up and learn to talk to women. They were not able to all find each other, en masse, have a few of them profit off of it, and then tell each other it is all the fault of the womenfolk. That's not to say all of us were in a healthy place, but at least there was no multiplier effect like there is now.

I was one of the biggest fans and boosters of the 'net in the early days. These days, it seems to have so many negative effects, especially on the impressionable.

1周前

Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands

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CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 1周前

I think there is a real male loneliness epidemic and a crisis of identity among younger males, it seems.

Few people/institutions seem to be offering men an off-ramp from this confusion and stress...except for this toxic brosphere stuff, sadly. It really explains a lot about things like the Proud Boys.

Like you - I would not suggest a church as the solution. I really don't know what the answer is for healthy outlets and support structures for men truly is, though. People yelling "men suck" at them is likely to only push them deeper into the worst behaviors.

Historically, this kind of discontent has never ended well.