As an outsider, I honestly and sincerely invite anyone to explain how any of what’s going on in the US today isn’t as American as apple pie and school shootings?
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nonentity@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a really popular game franchise you just can't get into?213·1 day agoCapitalism: I refuse to develop my sociopathy to the level required to participate.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, are incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
nonentity@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•To fight Trump's funding freezes, states propose a new gambit: Withholding federal payments2·3 days ago¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ve found the most difficult concept to dislodge from the terminally disengaged is that there’s no such thing as taxpayer money at the federal level.
It’s a tremendously useful weapon for those in power to wield when they need to convince the poor to vote against their interests.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, are incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
nonentity@sh.itjust.worksto Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Computer drive sizes over the years90·3 days ago5MB of storage in 1956.
nonentity@sh.itjust.worksto politics @lemmy.world•To fight Trump's funding freezes, states propose a new gambit: Withholding federal payments34·3 days agoThe states are currency users, and as such are intrinsically subservient to the currency issuer, namely the federal government.
The US federal government doesn’t need whatever money the states, or anyone else, pays it. Every cent a currency issuer receives is instantly obliterated from the economy, and conversely the origin of every cent is conjured out of thin air by their budget.
That said, the states withholding federal payments could work on the chucklefucks currently in charge, because many of them are likely to believe strongly in the fiction of zero-sum economics, but I’d hazard a critical mass hold a world view built on some other fantastical hallucination from hotboxing their collective farts.
nonentity@sh.itjust.worksto News@lemmy.world•Zohran Mamdani says 'I don't think we should have billionaires'221·4 days agoFinancial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
nonentity@sh.itjust.workstoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Y'all forgetting they were gathering period data and were arresting women who had 'abortion-like' procedures?English211·5 days agoLow birth rates are only problematic to carcinogenic ideologies.
nonentity@sh.itjust.worksto Global News@lemmy.zip•Wealth of Global 1% Has Skyrocketed by Over $33 Trillion Since 2015: Report15·7 days agoFinancial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it.
nonentity@sh.itjust.worksto News@lemmy.world•Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports31·7 days agoFinancial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it.
nonentity@sh.itjust.workstoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•A week ago, a MAGA pastor assassinated two Democrat politicians in an act of terror. It's not even in the top three stories of the month281·10 days agoThe US hasn’t been a country anyone should treat seriously since 2024-11-05, and won’t be again until they can prove their ability to hold another legitimate election.
It’s a coin flip as to whether I’ll see that within my lifetime right now.
Seniority should demote individuals, from positions of power, to those of advisory.
Privilege readily blinds those who experience it.
Authoritarianism is most attractive to the weakest.
Religion is the most destructive human invention.
I’m not into kink shaming, unless practicing it inflicts harm in a non-consensual manner.
I’ve never allowed my TV to have an active route to the internet since I bought it in 2019, it’s exclusively fed over HDMI by gaming consoles and an Apple TV.
The thing is, HDMI 1.4 added HEC, so what’s to prevent media players from serving as an Ethernet switch and providing an internet connection to TVs.
nonentity@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging - What we're seeing: More hate, more fear, less freedom.English81·16 days agoFriends don’t let friends use Facebook[1].
[1]Corporations are the only ‘persons’ it’s acceptable to explicitly deadname.
Mountainhead [2025].
Rookie numbers.
41,700 US gallons, 278 refills.
https://australiainfo.com.au/2023/05/19/worlds-largest-fuel-truck-road-train/
nonentity@sh.itjust.worksto Fuck AI@lemmy.world•We need a slur for people who blindly copy LLM outputs2·1 month agoSlopvangelicals.
Slaptists.
LLM thumpers.
Until there is legitimate, sustained, and effective opposition to this Alligator Auschwitz, the rest of the world sees it as American as apple pie and school shootings.
It’s speed running to the wrong side of history.