It’s not even selfish. It bites the people who fight for it in a thousand different ways.

It’s just silly. If they were any good at being selfish, they’d want people to have healthcare, because everybody else’s shit makes your world better or worse regardless of your money or whether you acknowledge it.

Suck that strong conservative ladydick, fellas 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

I don’t know about “with any value”. I think he just thinks he’s the only person. And the other people are…something else. Like people, but not.

By a thin margin, yes.

And only because “non-engagement” can’t run.

Americans very much almost didn’t vote him in. Also a fact, and it paints a very different picture.

I really hope you’re right about them not being able to do their jobs. That is its own kind of disaster of course, but one that’s far better than the proactive, aggressive, needless harm I’m thinking they could be ramping up for.

You can’t do it and be right, but you can do it and be dumb and wrong.

The US widget buyers in the fantasy scenario are 100% not getting fucked by tariffs, because–again, fantasy scenario–their dollars are not supporting slavery, wage slavery, or some unjustifiable bullshit that’s barely technically not wage slavery. Gutting economic opportunities for bad actors that exploit labor is a win for everybody, and claiming otherwise is evidence of a misunderstanding born of too narrow a scope.

Basically, if I save a buck by poisoning my town’s water, I haven’t won.

That aside, I loved reading this. I already kind of knew it but your version made me know it better. Thanks for writing it.

Kids understand in about two seconds. Effortlessly.

If guns had a function besides murder, that would be a bad argument, but they don’t. Defense is just the threat of murder.

Shooting at the range for fun, I suppose, but if people are actually serious about that they’d want to store their guns there because there’s no need for them anywhere else.

It’s not any more strange than literally any republican voting to shoot themselves in the foot. Nobody benefits from it. Not even the rich! It just feeds their money addiction like a drug dealer feeds a junkie.

You have to be especially shitty to side with the guy after it’s all come out.

How am I supposed to have fun if I’m not better than you???

Edit: ???

People would, in general, really love to pay a reasonable subscription to youtube that gets fairly distributed to the video creators they watch the most.

So if there’s ever a way to do that, they’ll probably use it.

Some other country is gonna have the new nasa, and the united states is going to fall even further behind. It’ll just be a brain drain and most of it isn’t going to go to space-x.

The only way to make money is to convince people to give you money. If you wanna do it by acting like it’s because of some skill you have, that can work.

He’s afraid that if he doesn’t slide us into unlikeability gradually, the shock could kill us.

4D chess?

The internet has been mostly enshittified. The corporations are guaranteed to continue sucking in predictable ways. It’ll never get better or good enough.

The fediverse is something new. It is, at the very least, immune to being reddited and twittered. If the internet has a future, it’s on the fediverse, or on something like it that doesn’t exist yet. Going back to shitty corporate stuff just delays the future.

Your real issue is that spez, musk, etc all suck. That’s what you hate. This is the place where we are free of them, and it can only get better.

What the fuck is this stroke of a title?

Out of the two and only two choices Americans had (thanks, first past the post), she was overwhelmingly and objectively the best.

But yes she was weak on Palestine and that was bad. Ranked choice for actual third parties, please.

It’s like not commenting, but with more effort.