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Cake day: May 9th, 2024

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  • I wish Krampus was real and visited greedy adults.

    Imagine how great the world would be if the most effectively greedy sociopaths that basically rule our civilization with an iron fist to drive up their ego scores were simply, magically dissappeared every December 25th for trying to bribe or blackmail their 3 ghosts instead of listening to them.

    As a parent, I would love to be able to look my kid in the eye and honestly tell them not to be greedy, because bad tidings come for the greedy people at night, instead of teaching them to fear them because they’ll mow you down for an extra nickel if they can as they do.


  • As someone who’s also glad, the falsehood that we get what we deserve after we die is a very harmful one.

    Justice doesn’t come naturally or in some fairy tale afterlife. Justice came to Brian because someone else saw to it that it did.

    The world would be a better place if people weren’t deluded into believing the universe or some imagined deity will make things fair. It’s a very pretty lie, but it has equally ugly consequences.

    If we want a just world, we need to make one. It won’t be handled off screen for us. This life is all we get.








  • Again, capitalism amplifies these divisions with the bully pulpits ONLY THE CAPITALISTS CONTROL through government and profit media.

    You can’t have any movement they don’t inform and can’t kill entirely if they wish, because they own the signal, and a few techies on distributed social media doesn’t change that.

    But nothing will change, because there are too many people that refuse to acknowledge that, that think their cause is more important and must take priority when the class war either created or exacerbates their oppression, effects more people, almost everyone, and while identify affirmation is a nice and in a decent society important thing, material needs, food, water, shelter for ALL are objectively a higher priority than telling 10% of the population for any subgroup “I see you, your identity is valid.” I’m all for that. But this is a literal war where people are being murdered, and a cause parade for any cause other than stop murdering/exploiting our very lives for profit us has no place in a war for the vast majority of the population’s survival.

    And it’s ridiculous when people say “we can do both” no we can’t. We can’t do anything. We’ve been in a steady downward spiral for 60 years as income inequity has grown. We can’t do anything under this economy. Not one god damned lasting thing. That is by oligarch design.

    But we won’t as a society unite and forcefully remove that common enemy because someone else has to have their symptom addressed before. Climate change will do what we should have in a few decades, force the permanent collapse of this inhuman economy, but it’ll hardly matter then, and nothing equitable will take it’s place.








  • Allonzee@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldTerrorism
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    8 days ago

    Yep.

    This and virtually all countries were founded by people who would fit the definition of terrorist.

    How history remembers you is solely on the basis of how successful your “terrorism” was.

    George Washington is a very well regarded terrorist in modernity.


  • I phone banked for Sanders on two campaigns. I call and know my reps.

    I live in a rare caucus state. I’ll never, ever forget the silent scowls of neoliberals as leftists came up and tried to convince them to vote for Sanders, not one of them came up either time. Didn’t say a god damned word for their candidate. Just scowled and rolled their eyes wishing they didn’t have to sit through people talking.

    We won the room once by numbers and lost once, with no one changing their minds either time. Neoliberals just go the fuck along and do as their told without any opinion but tow the party line. Pathetic.


  • Lol we ain’t changing shit.

    This country is an oligarch piggy bank.

    Our vote an illusion between sociopath capitalism+ribbons or sociopath capitalism+scapegoats. We don’t get a vote on the economy. We don’t get a vote to end an industry built on conning people into trusting them and paying them for years and then murdering them. Too profitable. That’s why our “leftwing” party declared victory further enshrining that industry into our lives, a heritage foundation plan, to demands by neoliberals we say thank you.

    There’s only one way Americans would ever get universal healthcare, but we’re largely too chickenshit, aside from one freedom fighter that will be made example of. So we’ll continue to be treated as livestock, mandated to pay when well, then told to fuck off and die when we become inconvient to the con industry’s quarterly profits.



  • Allonzee@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksVroom vroom!
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    9 days ago

    Attention dispatch… There has been a mass shooting at the site of the Tank Train collision, but thankfully all victims have successfully had their medical claims for woundcare denied. Time to go home…

    Top Gun theme blares as the Police Mustang drives off into the sunset. And… scene.