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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I live in the UK and see nothing of this promised land, on the contrary my life is quite shitty, I’m barely making the ends meet

    I think the point missed by a lot of people is that the immigrants are experiencing even worse lives and living conditions. Even after they immigrate.

    Also, the whole “they took err jerbs” thing, really just spits in the face of economic theory and …idk… Reality? Jobs exist because of demand for them and that demand goes up as more people join your society. Jobs aren’t being "taken " from anyone. It’s not like there’s some imaginary pool of jobs that once they’re gone they’re gone.

    Now, caveat, it’s more complex than that but this whole notion of jobs being “stolen” is just a false narrative used to stoke the fires of infighting amongst us proles while the rich laugh at the top.




  • the extreme vast majority of those are Samsung appliances.

    Bro, fuck the Samsung fridge engineers that decided my ice machine doesn’t need to actually be properly insulated and designed an ice box that’s basically going to break and it’s only a matter of time.

    I have to keep reminding myself to defrost and clean it out. Last time it got so bad I couldn’t even take the ice tray out without a ton of force. Then I melted the ice but derped and warped the little guide post thingy with heat. Had a tech come out and say it’s unfixable, cool time flushing my money down the toilet … After that I did what I should have done and just reheated it again and bent it and voila problem (I made) solved.

    But seriously I hate that fridge with a passion. So much so I’m going out of my way to never buy Samsung again, their customer care is atrocious and quality is hit or miss. I have some Samsung appliances that have been bulletproof so far but I genuinely don’t want to have to cross my fingers their QA didn’t fail because trying to deal with their support for anything is a Kafkaesque hell.









  • Edit: this was meant to be a reply to a comment on here about how the Dems/Republicans are the same where dude threw in a bunch of links to “show” stuff that the links didn’t actually show. So deserved down votes I suppose but will leave this here.

    Not sure if they have a terrible memory, I think you just have poor reading comprehension. Just glancing through a few of the articles you sent trying to “gotcha” some poster(s) here shows you didn’t even read them. If you did read them you did a bad job understanding the material.

    Just for the deportation example: Biden’s deportation and immigration enforcement was not the same as Trump’s now. Biden was aggressively going after actual criminals and he was working to create a path to citizenship for folks that have been here illegally for years and put down roots and contributed to our economy. Now we’re seeing ICE rounding up people for nothing more than their skin color and a “suspicion” they’re not documented. So, just straight up racism.

    You included an article where the Dems wanted to keep the green party off a ballot, ok … And? They’re not trying to keep people from voting or suppress the vote. They were trying their best to not have a spoiler candidate on the ballot and felt that aligned with the state’s election laws.

    Anyways, I wouldn’t call the parties the same when you can just look at what policies and legislation passed under Democrats vs Republicans. Easy example - the affordable care act.