Well… If you found your way here, it might mean I said something that triggers you enough to check me out.
No problem. Feel free to disagree with whatever it was, just know that I usually make an effort to not engage with anything I may perceive as a provocative or that won’t lead anywhere, or reply to things I don’t believe merit discussion.
If for any other reason, be welcome and cheers.
Been saying it for years. Sadly there are too many at the bottom mesmerized by the elite propaganda telling them “you can also be like me, if you work hard”, as if they earned billions that way without any dirty tactics along the way, and despite even with success still needing such tactics to take more and more.
What was he gonna say?
“Oh yes, yes. Mr. Garcia enjoyed the finest torture available in El Salvador, courtesy of me - the self-proclaimed world’s best dictator. Everyone’s welcome, we have great torturing facilities and the best staff for you and your loved ones. 💝”
Closeted men of war preaching about peace. Closeted gays fighting against gay rights. Judgemental/greedy/racist religious people putting themselves on a pedestal about how you should “take care of thy neighbor”.
It’s always the ones who preach the most, the same ones doing the exact opposite of what they preach. Always the ones bitching about the bad in the world actively hard at work making the world a shittier place.
Seriously, if Trump says the sky is blue I’ll immediately look up just to check if it hasn’t turned red/green/pink/whatever.
Be always wary of the ones telling you how to live, and watch out for their actions closely. There’s no hate like the ‘love’ of these hypocrites.
I bet if that was that easy he and most of the administration would already be 6 under, with the increasing amount of people with nothing to lose.
They know what they’re doing, they know they’re wrong and they’re hated. They handpick and filter the crowds through various means.
The only real time someone got an ‘honest’ shot at Trump was at that fateful rally where a far-right guy suspiciously got to spend hour-plus at a nearby rooftop, completely noticed and without action from security. And then the miraculous ‘shot’ that granted Trump near-martyrdom as God’s chosen representative before his cult. Funny all things considered.
Yup. Just saw it and came back to check if someone had already replied the obvious before I could. Thank you.
What a joke of a justice system. Things are where they are because as slow as Fat Blob Trump is, he’s still faster than the law. By the time they finally decide to actually state his actions are illegal it’ll be last year’s news already, while another judge’s order gets paused on the latest scandal of the day.
If the law were any good neither him or his ilk would even get the chance to run a first term. Because many of them would be jailed for all sorts of crimes, and the rest wouldn’t dare to act with fear of the consequences. Weak men create hard times.
Lemme guess. He’s gonna appeal and another judge will pause this decision while they take their time to review the appeal, because Trump shows daily how deserving he is of the benefit of the doubt.
Meanwhile things keep escalating and people get hurt.
Right?
Keep giving fingers, keep losing arms. Trump relies on shortsightedness to advance, and there’s plenty to go around. You falter, he swallows you whole before you can even react. Be cordial, get taken advantage of, like a sucker. 100 out of 100 times. Guaranteed.
While I believe this may very well be the case (there sure are big red signs pointing to it, beginning with Musk) - it won’t do much unless there’s hard undeniable proof. And I mean, the kind of unignorable nuclear bombshell where they start scrambling and telling on each other to save their sorry behinds as a last ditch effort to salvage anything they can.
And even then hardcore MAGA will still call it fake and in their desperation go even crazier before anyone has a chance to take them out of power.
Besides, “every accusation is a confession”, as if by accusing their opposition of doing something it gave them the justification of “they did it so we are free to as well”. You know damn well Trump wasn’t going to leave it to fate a second time, especially after failling his insurrection to stay in power the first time.
It’s not about fighting for “my (twisted) view” of a fair world. It’s about me finally having the chance to act upon my wet dreams of power and cosplaying as the ‘badass’ image I always wanted to be, and how empowering it is to be able to pick on the weak.
I bet you, these are only ‘cosplaying’ as elite soldiers fighting an imaginary war because cosplaying as superman or batman would be far too obvious and non-threatening in real life - seriously, who wouldn’t laugh at these clowns who think they’re serious shit? Otherwise you’d absolutely see the barely-laughable Justice League or the wannabe Avengers going down the street dishing out ‘justice’ cartoon-style.
Peace and Justice are only as strong as the willingness to recognize and punish those who break the rules. If there’s no consequences for breaking the law all of those pretty values aren’t worth anything, and anarchy ensues.
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Vance and co. needs meat for his economic meat grinder when he reaches Trump’s age. Trump, egomaniacal as can be, is doing it “for the greater good”, whatever it may mean for him.
The US’s founding fathers would be proud of how the nation they forcibly took away from the British Empire is being used as a dirty rag against every single democratic value and representation of the individual in a fair society. The very same values which allowed these wannabe kings to rise from peasants who would otherwise have to kneel before the british monarch.
Shameless, to betray the very foundation of the nation that took them and their ancestors in and allowed them to prosper, to be able to enjoy the “american dream” they so want to deny others.
Right, plus car keys.
Earbud case and home keys on the left.
Well, Europe welcomes them, their talents and their research. And it’s a stable place, which in any other circumstance would just be the bare minimum instead of an actual benefit.
What better way to manipulate someone with self-worth issues who must flaunt his “power” and “wealth” to “prove others wrong” than stroking his fragile ego?
Small pp energy. Or rather, botched pp energy in this specific case.
Same for the Trump and co. axis of evil - a bunch of adult children with ego issues wanting revenge on the world that belittled or thwarted their constant schemes, all banded together.
Oh shoot. What did Biden do this time? Who’s constantly letting him sneak back into the White House to sign random stuff with the DJT signature?
God damn, being true… I consider myself quite the imaginative and creative person, but these folks have me beat.
Still, props to these people - if they applied all this creativity and effort for good instead of evil, we’d already be living in an utopia, there wouldn’t be hunger or poverty in the world, I dare say. Instead we’re gliding down into dystopia.
Just when you think we’ve hit rock bottom they’ll yet again prove you wrong - as they say, “where there’s a will, there’s a way”, especially for evil.
Yes. Minimum wage is supposed to cover every basic living necessity at the very least - from rent to food to even a modest amount of leftover money meant for a bit of fun here and there. It’s not supposed to allow a lavish lifestyle or allow one to eat at restaurants every day, obviously, but it should allow you to live modestly and support your household regardless of you living with others or alone.
So for these McDonald’s overlords who live lavish livestyles thanks to the thankless work these workers put in, then why should they even work at a McDonald’s in the first place? With inflation constantly rising and wages staying where they are someday even a McDonald’s job won’t be worth the hassle for the non-livable pitance of money they receive in return.
Down with overly rich billionaires living off other people’s misery. If your business allows for you to live the most lavish and extravagant life while your workers barely have enough to make ends meet, you are not a successful businessperson, but a grifter to society and use your power to keep the status quo as it currently is. Flipping burgers on a McDonald’s or working in garbage disposal are still essential jobs to serve society, and people are needed for them.
So they should still be properly valued and compensated as humans trying to live their lives while they supply the vital workforce for those same jobs - those positions have to be filled anyway and are of importance to society at large, so let’s not pretend we don’t need people for them and treat them like less-than-humans. Plain and simple - there’s more than enough for the rich to still be rich and live their lavish lives while regular people maintain a satisfactory level of life, and no need to ghoulishly hoard all the wealth (in many cases through tax loopholes which should not be legal whatsoever) like they were gonna live eternally.
And no, I’m not a minimum wage worker, so with this I’m not advocating for myself, but for what’s right for us as a society.
Things like that do tend to make me lose a bit of respect for people.
Oh noes! However shall I live without your “respect”, my dear anonymous paragon of righteousness? I depend on it like living creatures need water to stay alive! /s
Ironically for someone who claims to value respect to and by others you certainly didn’t do much to garner any of it - which makes it quite hypocritical to expect others to assume mistakes they made on your mind only, while you yourself adamantly refuse to acknowledge your toxic attitude, and what you get wrong. Which to be clear, I don’t mind at all, unlike you - how you choose to view the world and if you wanna live in self-delusion is entirely a you problem and does not affect my self worth in any way.
You don’t have my respect either, for that matter. Now look at me, being a hypocrite just by replying to you after telling others to not bother with your sad excuse for an existence. Anyway, really moving on by blocking you this time since I’m not a source for your self-validation or dopamine needs, cheers.
Seriously my dude. No point in arguing with this person, it’ll only wear you down.
I’m not even joking or exaggerating - look at their beautiful lemmy rep sheet, full of bans for the most braindead stuff - such as blatant trolling, genocide denial, spamming and misinformation - and starting not long after account creation. Truly a pitiful state of existence, and that’s coming from me, a neurodivergent.
They’re here only to vent rage on others for whatever straws they can grasp and spread around their own personal misery, nothing else. They get their dopamine fix from this.
Anyways, cheers and stay well!
What? Where do I even hint that I would deny “Qatar’s human rights are of significant concern”? Or that I am surprised that Trump is accepting bribes?
My statements on this matter have pretty much been: Trump openly takes bribes -> Trump should be held accountable -> Regardless of where the bribe takes place or from who it comes. And one commenter starts derailing it because “Hurr durr Qatar and Syria are not the same place”, while another goes “why are you denying Qatar has a human rights problem”, both of which don’t even come near the point I was making. Can’t we just agree what Trump is doing is wrong and not look elsewhere for excuses to nitpick and create chaos? Are the internet points for having “good obvious opinions” really that important?
Literally nothing to do with defending wrongdoing from anywhere or trying to justify it- which is just twisting words to make them seem like something else and go from there to create needless drama - which in turn is why I ignored the other commenter in the first place.
Oh my. Many would do it for free, but with this much incentive perhaps someone more “skilled” might want to get some skin in the game and expedite results.
Under other circumstances I’d find this kind of effort deplorable, but oh well. I’ll label it balance/Newton’s 3rd Law and call it a day. When you have these elephants dancing around with billions of lives there tends to be a push back of some kind, sooner or later.
Even if not now, with this specific effort, someday the bill will have to come due to those involved. Just like Hitler managed to get pretty far in his quest to spread suffering but eventually got his comeuppance. A marathon, not a race, as they say.