Cherub Rock covered by Carpenter Brut off the new Smashing Pumpkins tribute album is very solid.

It is indeed. Chum on Irene was a real hopper.

Perhaps, if it exists. All I get is the instance login page. !shitfediversesays@moist.catsweat.com should turn it into a federated shorthand link for other instances.

We had our chance in the 1930s and 40s. We failed back then. And with things even more stacked now there’s no chance. I’d like to be surprised. But everyone is still sleepwalking to be sure.

Lemmy is part of a larger ecosystem. Not a monolith to itself. There are plenty of communities targeting other communities like that. But seeing as what one person views as Lemmy could also be piefed, mbin, mastodon, miskey, etc. It doesn’t have quite the appeal.

I didn’t. I would seem like something I might have enjoyed were I still watching MTV at that late date. Post 95 I only watched MTV’s interstitial programming on the weekends exclusively. 120 Minutes and AMP. And when those ended so did me watching MTV . The gif itself was all over somethingawful.com, 4Chan etc though.

Welp

That’s an absolutely valid take. Mine was such a headline was so vague that could literally be anyone at a GOP event. Most of them are serial offenders and a few are sofa offenders.

Your reply is a bit puzzling. Were you intending to reply to someone else. Because you’re just agreeing with me?

Billionaires are buying up years worth of future supply. Not just current supply. It’s not going to be different. If they sell outside China. This will be slurped up just the same.

The only thing that will save us from the tech oligarchs is their collapse.

Decent doge. But no really. Its the difference between you and I thinking things should work one way. But being able to understand that it doesn’t, and why.

If capitalism ever worked as advertised. It was before the automobile or the locomotive. Markets are fine. Capitalism is unfortunately fucked.

How you see it doesn’t matter. It’s how they understand it. And why they’ve muddied the waters so that others don’t have the same understanding. Why they own government, and why things are so consolidated.

What you want is a strong social democracy to regulate and enforce against capitalism’s forced negative externalities. Key word being social… ist. The only time capitalism ever worked in a way close to how it was sold. Was when society forced it to.

No no no. Don’t you see! They saved us by being shit.

Didn’t they say they were just going to sell at whatever the market value was? I’m not sure capitalist China is coming to anyone’s rescue. 🤷‍♂️

How about a little DM today. Buzz KILL covering Everything Counts.

Yep her being a disciple of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. That’s pretty much the one thing you can count on her for.

This isn’t a republican / Democrat thing. In fact if the government is involved it’s not an instance. If it’s not capitalists regulating themselves and making themselves more competitive and less shitty. It doesn’t count.

And it’s easy to understand why this wouldn’t work. Also why we had so much legislation against price fixing which is no longer enforced. Put it this way. The base mechanism on how capitalism is supposed to be self-regulating and improving. Is competition. But if you and your competitors actually compete. Your profit margins will always be minimal. Almost nonexistent. However if you and your competitors agree not to compete. You can simply multiply your margins by many times with no extra effort. Thus outside government pressure you have a fiduciary duty to the business owners not to compete. Competition is only in the consumers favor. Never the business owner.

No disrespect. If it “can” when did it ever? If never, then can it really?

The one and only time we ever came close in the United States was around the new deal. But that was forced on the capitalist. And they spent the next hundred years dismantling it again.

I’d say how it was supposed to work vs how its actually worked. One is a work of fiction on the level of twilight, the other is historically important. Capitalism can’t control or regulate itself. Not as long as people are in control.

Oh, they’re heavily fudging for sure. And the “news” should be hammering them on a daily basis over it. Even 20 years ago this shit would not have flown. And Bush was still horrendous.