Lincoln’s.

I’ve no idea whether Reconstruction would’ve been successful with him at the helm, but it almost certainly would’ve gone better.

and you have stockholm syndrome for capitalism, but I forgive you.

yeah but it’s almost like those comforts and services of modern society should be able to still be performed without trying to extract value for shareholders and we just choose not to because line go up make (rich) monkey brain happy. I believe there are, in fact, plenty of people willing to do the things that make the world run, completely for free, if only we did not operate on a global system that enriches shareholders, executives and politicians while paying the people doing the actual work a pittance and forcing them to struggle to survive.

And let’s be very clear about what your definition of “obligations to society” is – busting your ass creating value that is extracted from you for ~40 years for comparatively dogshit pay on the tenuous promise of retirement somewhere down the line, a promise that is actively being taken back by the upper class. Now, you work until you die unless you’re very, very lucky. I don’t find that a very compelling or fair deal, and if you do, would you be interested in purchasing a bridge?

You can, unless your teeth or something else becomes a health problem you can’t fix.

✨ they already are ✨

to add to what @Kaerkob@lemmy.world said: because here, I get to decide exactly how much interacting with people I’m willing to engage in and have multiple ways of controlling who I do so with (blocking certain instances so I don’t see their posts, blocking smartassed trolls, etc.)

there’s a reason my username is shortened from the Latin for “I want to leave”. I don’t necessarily want to die, I just don’t want to be here anymore. Unfortunately for us both, leaving society as a whole without dying is rather difficult.

if I could just exist in a room with my things and a pet dog forever (or just the rest of my natural life) and never interact with another human being ever again, I would jump at the chance. The social contract I have been forced to participate in merely by being born – one in which I have to pay money to live (read: live normally. yes, you can live off the land off the grid in the middle of buttfuck nowhere, this does not make it a practical solution for everyone and their grandmother), unlike every other living creature on this planet, in a world of adversarial sociopaths controlling 99.9% of said money – I would have chosen not to sign had I had the opportunity. The juice is simply not worth the squeeze, not in this world, not for me in this life.

I’m hoping someone takes it upon themselves to have them torn down after his reign. State sanctioned or otherwise.

and this is different to normal… in what way, precisely?

Or are we just reaffirming what we already know? Is the next headline to be “Demented Orange Rapist Still Demented, Orange, and a Rapist”?

I hope people just don’t show up in the first place. Boycott the event. I say this as an American, the only languages these evil fucks in power understand are money, and violence – do not give them any money, do not come here, do not pay to watch the match (pirate it if you must). It is both incredibly dangerous for foreigners in the US right now, and hurting business (like the tourism industry) in America might be the only thing that actually drives the US populace and the money away from MAGA/right-wing christian nationalism as fast or faster than ICE murdering people in the streets. I can already tell you as someone that has worked in the hospitality industry, US hotel chains are probably already feeling the sting of the ICE crackdowns, and the fewer “heads in beds” there are, for longer and longer, the more pissed off all of them will get.

comprised of what?

The man is clearly insane.

Put him in a home. Or just buy him a proper, sharp pizza cutter. But if he didn’t consider doing that himself rather than whatever the fuck this is… I still say he needs professional care.

they have the opportunity to do the funniest damn things to the tankie triad.

I know they probably won’t, but god, I wish they would.

I do not believe anything is “all good” when a website starts speaking R’lyehian.

with the amount of geriatric bastards in our government, all we would need is a statistically significant increase in the amount of tripping hazards throughout the D.C. area (but specifically focused on congress and the white house) and pure chance would do the rest; even if she doesn’t fall down some stairs, some ancient old fucker doing an awful job probably will.

hello, welcome to the less awful part of the internet. not the right community to post in but you’ll get the hang of it.

what brings you here beyond the great firewall? The search for better shitposts/memes, better news, or better porn?

unfortunately, if ever there was an era of truth, we are now well into a post-truth era. the world is full of, is run on, and is continually generating more: utter bullshit.

Not only does “pics or it didn’t happen” no longer have any meaning, neither does the stock market or the SEC or any of this rule of law or liberty and justice for all horseshit we were fed as kids in school, or any of that trickle down Reaganomics horseshit our parents and grandparents were fed. AI is only the latest in a long line of advancements in the manufacturing, repackaging, commercializing, re-distilling, and the redistributing of greater amounts of complete bullshit than ever before.

It is Bullshit 2.0. It is New Bullshit. Crystal Bullshit, if you’re more a bepis fan. Bullshit Classic was what got your parents and their parents riled up in the aftermath of 9/11 – Fox News and all the other things Rupert Murdoch infected. Now, we can get custom, personalized bullshit for each of us parsed through whatever moral lens ChatGPT is paid to have (or, worse, parsed through whatever moral lens Elon Musk gives to Grok). We have “people” acting as little more than a sausage casing for an OpenAI/Claude API key churning out more infuriating bullshit on the internet every waking minute of the day (and some of them, I’m almost certain, automate some of this during the night while they sleep). And in any form you like – text, audio, video – we have bullshit generators for any and every sort of media you like. Whatever makes the narrative they want to push just that little bit more believable to the gullible.

what a wonderful world indeed.

they’re so close to figuring out that a rising tide lifts all ships and why a min wage increase/paying livable wages in general would actually be a good thing for their bottom line. So close.

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