Seriously. They act like it’s 1924 not 2024, when ~$3,000 was the equivalent of ~$55,000 today.

Right? There’s people still spouting that “all of that money from the pandemic” is somehow still sustaining the lives of thousands and thousands of people 4 years later.

There is no “God’s Law,” because there is no God. God is a figment of society’s imagination. Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, ghosts, aliens, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster are all more real than “God.”

Also, we don’t have a state religion despite these fuckwads’ desperation for a christofascist theocracy. Can’t they just all fuck off to some uninhabited island and live out their stupidity there?

Maybe try reading the fucking bill bootlicker.

Don’t you just love rent/housing? Oh, sorry you don’t make enough money to qualify for a mortgage. But hey you can pay $1,500/month+ to pay your landlord’s mortgage!

It’s almost like we have no money and don’t have a choice because having ridiculous luxury items like FOOD, requires you know, money.

I agree. Elections are about conning gullible and stupid people into thinking they have some say in what goes on. They don’t. We’re an oligarchy-kleptocracy and have been since at least the 1980s, if not earlier.

People think the primaries allow us to pick candidates, but do they really? Not IMO. How often do you see a random Joe or Jane from a middle of nowhere town of 200 people as one of the candidates? Hardly ever. And even if they were, would they ever get the nomination? Doubtful. The oligarchs pick the candidates for the primaries.

Even if someone honestly believes we have a democracy, we don’t at least not when it comes to presidential elections, not IMO anyways. Those who vote are voting for electors, who is, in theory, supposed to then vote for the candidate the voters voted for, but they don’t have to AFAIK (faithless electors). IMO democracy is direct, not indirect. I know there’s representative democracy (indirect), which is what we have, in theory, but I don’t agree that it’s that democratic. Especially when the oligarchs get to pick who they want to run.

Electoral politics are a sham and you can’t vote out fascists and oligarchs. They will just change the rules if the election doesn’t go the way they want. And yes, both Democrats & Republicans are fascists and run by oligarchs.

On lemmy.world you click the little clipboard looking thing underneath your community’s name on the right side of the screen.

Where exactly did I say to vote for Trump?

My saying doing the same thing over and over and over was perhaps too vague. I meant we shouldn’t keep voting for Republicans AND Democrats and expecting them to fix things because neither have any interest in doing so. They only care about making themselves rich and their donors rich.

Venus? Neptune? Alpha Centauri?

If this doesn’t help convince people that Democrats are Blue Republicans, I don’t know what will. She’s literally part of the other party.

Keep on licking boots. That’ll fix things. You’ve been doing the same song and dance for 40+ years and what’s happened? The rich keep getting richer and everyone else keeps getting worse off. You’re not going to get the results you claim to want by doing the same thing over and over and over and over.

I respectively disagree. IMO, they’re centrists, Neither are communists nor socialists.

Both campaigned on being left. But what have their actions been since they got into office? Campaigning and in-office actions are not always the same.

In Bernie’s case he used to be left, but when Biden got in office he has bent the knee and been milquetoast centrist. And AOC is Pelosi 2.0. Doesn’t care about anything except making money and protecting her own image. She’s full of shit. In any other country she’d be right wing.

What an asshole this guy is. Fuck off with your gaslighting Darren Woods.

Yes, because that’ll certainly help things. /s

Didn’t we already try little to no regulations at least once in this country? Deregulating doesn’t generally help anyone except the rich.

Now you tell me. I’ve been putting my headphones on my eyes for years and wondering why I couldn’t hear anything.

He’s one of the best of all time, without question, IMO.

As per usual, they talk trash but they all kneel and kiss the ring at the end of the day. Fuck Trump and fuck McConnell too.

Right?

Though I’m sure if they can figure out someway to force subscription bullshit in there, they will.

Because they’re Diet Republicans. Years ago, Republicans were conservatives and Democrats were liberals. After Reagan trounced them in the 80s, the Democrats decided it was more important to be more like Republicans and have become more and more conservative with each election. Now Republicans are full on fascists and Democrats are the 1980s Republicans. And liberals have become 1980s conservatives. There is no mainstream representation for anyone who is actually left (i.e. communists, socialists, etc.).

I don’t even have a lawn but they need to get off the lawn still!