Prehensile_cloaca

The State should consume these predatory building companies and take over the operations of building houses with all the benefits of scale accruing to both buyers and State residents. Cut out the middle men from every bloated industry.

“we just want someone who will take abuse for low pay.” - employers

So we can assume they will start with rooting out all the pedophile clergy, yes? No more “transfers” from one small town to the next set of vulnerable rubes?

The broader truth is that you can’t be Christian and be pro-Capitalist.

Once you remove Capitalism as the base, the entire “prosperity gospel” falls apart.

Needs more mirrored tunnels

Those poor dogs look heavily overweight.

The fruits rhyme with grapes

Ban social media and advertising/marketing. Smart phones are just a small computer.

Just grow the bangs really long like Cousin Itt

Retile the entire ceiling in cats. Look at all those empty spots in your cat-rack.

The majority of white women voted for Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

"White women are still voting for the Republican candidate

Although women as a whole have historically voted for Democrats, white women have not. Instead, over the last 72 years, a plurality of white women have voted for the Democratic candidate only twice, in 1964 and 1996."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/election-trump-harris-women-voters

If the Marines want to uphold their oaths, they’ll start fighting the cops.

The lefties yearn for the reel

The last human being

I really enjoyed the prior Lemmy wherein people led with their expertise, or approached conversation as an opportunity to learn.

This new paradigm of “my emotional impulse is equal to your knowledge” is definitely a decline, imo.

The pandemic frightened the status quo because for the first time in decades the working masses were forced to pause their grind and consider how we live. And the vast majority of people realized they absolutely hate it.

Which is why “the money” immediately began pushing to crack the whip ASAP to get people back in line, back producing surplus value, and back focused only on the myopic necessities of now.

The pandemic should have been a watershed moment for Labor, and maybe it was- but the Trump administration is actively imploding the economy on all sides now, so there’s very little hope for economic upturn in the next few years. We are in a dark time.

The shift in conversations on Lemmy after people fled Reddit is so glaringly obvious.

“X or Y? Pssh. How can you even consider something I don’t personally understand? Much prefer to voice an ignorant opinion.”

The government should have been taxing the Corporations that made enormous profits from the surplus value their employees generate and then requiring said Corporations to invest annually in pensions matched to Cost-of-Living indexes.

In the US, instead we got 401ks so the poors are required to cheer the stock market and pretend they’re temporarily embarrassed Capitalists, rather than the scornful reality of being wage-slaves.

Republican states have been the real welfare queens all along.

*specifically short-term profits. Executives only care about the next quarter and their own incentives/bonuses. Sure the company is eventually hollowed out and left as a wreck, but by then, the C Suite has moved on to their next host org. Rinse and repeat.