DjangoFett

Preaching to the choir, my friend.

I’ve been to protests and movements and the like. The system comes down hard on anything that has real grassroots potential. They were terrified of OWS back in the day. Its why they coordinated a nationwide simultaneous strike at east coast dawn to dismantle the entire movement.

I’ve stared down cops with military gear in their military formations, using chemical weapons in their own city that would otherwise be considered a war crime while also using barricades as battering rams to pin groups of people against the side of a building while the rear line swarmed in with batons and zip ties. And that is after, mind you, they had sent groups in at midnight on the nose to literally destroy the encampments. Chainsaws were put through occupied tents, pharmacies were emptied of useful over-the-counter remedies for things like pepper spray and bruises - there wasn’t even any tiger balm or Ben gay, I looked - and they just generally made sure to make everyone in that impromptu community as miserable as possible.

It really is Altman and Musk and Trump who are the problem. They pay the politicians who gladly take the bribes to make sure they all stay fat together. The system allowed them to get so big, but it was last generation’s fat cats who really made it possible for the greedy fucks of this generation to run this wild.

Conservatives in this country have long hated the notion of an educated populace. That isn’t unique to the US, but we went and took a sledgehammer to our education system over the course of my life and I actively voted against those policies. Outvoted by the idiots.

Get rid of all that money and influence at the top and things stand a chance of actually changing. As it stands, money makes the rules and the rules say money gets to make the rules, so sucks to suck then doesn’t it you filthy poor? That’s life for most thinking Americans.

This blue wave is something like a fluttering of hope, but it could also just be the final twitches a corpse lets out as all brain activity shuts down. We shall see.

If we were to leave it at him being an evil idiot - which he is - that still leaves him at the helm. He still gets to dictate what goes where because there are always useful idiots who will follow those dollars right into their own destruction in the name of ultimately making the evil idiot more rich.

It can’t be left alone. I don’t have anything like a realistic answer besides “make a law or ten prohibiting such people from doing such things and acquiring such incomprehensible wealth and power,” but outside of that I’ve got the same secret dark wish as everybody else; that Ryuuk will drop his Death Note at my feet and then I’ll rearrange society that way. Otherwise, I got nothin’.

That’s cool and all, but reading comprehension is important when debating online. I definitely specified company collapse. As in, that rich boy stops being rich and goes back to being a pussy bitch that everyone rightly makes fun of.

Finance people: what happens to the company when they get 15 million? Or whatever the realistic-but-nowhere-close-to-the-mark number is. Is it the total collapse of the company us plebs are hoping for?

I miss my city.

Its got hard, dirty edges everywhere, but it is also one of the friendliest, most fun-loving and kindhearted places you will ever have the privilege of visiting.

Just don’t be on any roads during rush hour when people are at their crankiest and make sure to keep valuables close to your skin when in places like Times Square and you will only have good experiences.

He thought it was water and so drank the entire thing. This consumption killed him.

Johnny was a chemist

Johnny is no more

What Johnny thought was H2O

Was H2SO4

The New York Stock Exchange was founded by basically selling shares of itself alongside wheat and tobacco and betting on the fact that it’d be something someday.

There is, unfortunately, no way to know how one would react in a situation until one is put in that situation.

I can imagine, based on what I know of myself, that I’d have gone one of two ways. Either I would have become infinitely more withdrawn and sullen to the point of taking my own life because of the overall repressive situation you very briefly describe, or I would have become an angry, hypersexualized version of myself who would probably have ended up in a similarly early grave through some other, external means rather than deliberately self-inflicted.

Words on a screen, but I am still sorry this happened to you. Nobody asks for this, nobody deserves this, and there are absolutely people in this world who are happier and better off for your presence and who you are, entirely independent of those horrible moments in your life.

Thank you for sharing your story, and I wish you greater joys in your life than all the pain you’ve yet known combined.

I just look forward to the day we can all add “deceased” to the end of the name.

You’re the life of every party you go to, aren’t you?

I’m more European than he is because all of my ancestors were traveling whores, apparently.

That said, I’ve no difficulty pronouncing his name. If you can’t, that must make you one of the following; illiterate, lazy, stupid, or racist.

Any one of these should disqualify somebody whose job is to work for the people.

Van Gogh? Monet? Rembrandt?Most assuredly.

That piece you purchased directly from the artist at the gallery last month? That still has value even if it isn’t in a museum.

I maintain my position.

That’s a number I pulled from somewhere around thin air and my buttcheeks, so if you’ve got data behind any real numbers I’m in more with you.

Who needs more than, let’s be excessively generous and say 500 million in total assets? That can be a really nice house, several nice cars, a boat, and a vacation home in place of your choosing. This asset valuation would then also include artwork and other such items of agreed-upon-societal-value. And if you swear you somehow need more, then youre just a miserable fuck who will never be happy without intensive therapy and even then I worry it wouldn’t be enough.

Gotta support our quack habit somehow.

Imagine how bad your average driver is on a single plane of movement. Like, they’re already going forward and can move in a single other dimension and look at the chaos we already have.

Now let’s go on and add the vertical axis and the exponential difference that makes in just how much a single human can utterly fuck with one or more others.

Now let’s add road rage into the mix and give people the ability to straight up dive bomb anybody they get mad at.

I don’t ever want flying cars in the hands of the masses. Ever.

I stopped believing we were anything but an empire 20 years ago when I took a look at the military bases we had around the world.

Walks like a duck, talks like a duck…

Hilariously yes. The fact that primarily Nazis feed it and warp its data and output continuously to suit their needs is what makes it a political tool rather than being innately political.

I will absolutely die on this hill.

What possible beneficial use can it have? Teaching rational humans like you and me how to recognize dog whistle bullshit and how to deal with it properly - up to and including RUD and permanent disposal.

Again, you’re the only one saying those things. I literally just finished saying I’d burn it down if I could and you’re telling me I’m defending it.

Learn to read better, please.