So… Putin can’t take Ukraine and is losing a not insignificant part of their military capabilities and yet we’re concerned that we’re going to deal with more war with Russia? Are they going to be coming after Europeans with sharpened sticks?

Not in that term, but as a concept. I do know it now though so thanks!

I have absofuckinglutley no faith whatsoever in our society to do the right thing in this respect. We value ownership waytoofuckingmuch when it comes to businesses, were never going to get past the argument of “I put forward the capital for this business, I am entitled to all of the profits. Who cares that there is no work for you? No work no pay.”

I forsee a gigantic increase in homelessness and politicians will use that as an excuse to further cut any social spending as they’ll pin all our issues on “communist policies.” :(

I saw a post “Lemmy seems to have way more leftists than xyz.” So I wouldn’t be surprised to find it’s political nonsense, people attacking a site they see as “the left.”

“Then there’s no journalistic accountability when they do get caught with their hand in the cookie jar.”

Literally Fox News Entertainment when brought to court over Tucker Carlsons bullshit…

“We’re not news we’re Entertainment™©®, no reasonable person would believe what Mr.Carlson is saying is true.” So they don’t need to have any integrity whatsoever…

It’s pretty much the story of Arsenal Gear in Metal Gear Solid 2 lol

Kojima always had a way of seeing into the not so distant future and pretty much nailing it.

Duckduckgo is a wrapper for bing? No wonder it sucks… I want to like it, but the results are usually pretty bad in comparison to Google. Takes me much longer to find what I’m looking for with DDG. :/

“I just cannot believe that there are decent people left in the country who vote Republican.”

The problem is that the vast majority of them don’t see this in the same way we do, they get their messaging from propaganda outlets that tell them our description of what is happening is completely wrong and revisionist, taking the bite of of the accusation we lay against them as well.

They can be completely well meaning and just want “real history” to be taught, trusting their kids will be intelligent enough to sort out what was really bad or really good. They’ll also try to look elsewhere and say “see white people were slaves too, some countries enslave their own people, it’s not about racism!” They run with whatever messaging they’re given and truly think they are “good people.” They can be good people while still being mislead and spouting garbage…

I’ll never believe ALL Republicans are hot garbage terrible people. I was once a 9/11 truther, I once fell down the rabbit holes of various conspiracies, so I have “faith” that a lot of these people are well meaning and are mislead, that they may at some point finally see what they’ve been told is just a lie. It takes time and a conscious effort to pay attention. I’m an absolute complete and utter moron and if I can climb out of that hole so can others, there isn’t one single, tiny, iota of a thing that makes me special or intelligent if anything there’s more reason to believe I couldn’t escape the rabbit holes.

Then of course there are the hate filled, literal Nazis waving actual Nazi flags… There’s no defense for them lol

I’m “technically/mechanically inclined” as they say, but formally, “professionally,” I’m just a worthless factory worker schmuck lol

I believe it’s also largest in dollar amount by a long shot.

https://tcworkerscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Wage-Theft-vs-Other-Theft-1024x730.jpg

Just a quick search found something from 2018 so don’t crucify me if it’s not accurate anymore lol

Not so fun fact: the constitution allows for slavery as long as it’s a punishment for a crime.

Hmmm… Nah, those dots don’t connect at all.

Are you saying that Lemmy does have those algorithms? Because this shit is never boring lol so many instances I never wanted to see or know existed…

Slightly related: how many freaking instances of “yiff” shit do we need!? I couldn’t believe I was STILL seeing it after I blocked like 7 separate instances lol

“Give your workers what they need and their families benefit too.”

This implies that they care about what your family or what you need. Every business exists for the sole purpose of extracting money from something, they do EVERYTHING in their power to pay you the LEAST amount possible. All they want are meat machines that can make decisions, press the correct buttons, lift the heavy thing and listen to commands all as cheaply as possible.

It’s pretty bad where I work, if you don’t fight for a raise you never get one. I have coworkers who have a hard time speaking up (some don’t even speak fluent English) and they’ve never gotten a raise in the 6 years I’ve known them because they never ask and the boss is more than happy to not have to spend a single dime more.

Being uneducated doesn’t help either, I’m considered as valuable as the decayed dog droppings Mr.Dogwalker never picked up. Some might even argue the droppings are actually contributing resources back to the environment which is more valuable than my uneducated ass. But hey, my boss owns a helicopter so that’s nice.

That line of reasoning just ends up being “we NEED poor people because otherwise there would be inflation and I’d have to spend more.”

We don’t NEED poor people to exist… We NEED full time jobs that pay a living wage.

Just take a look on any job site, forget burger flippers, ANY JOB that doesn’t require a masters degree and like 15 years experience ALL offer disgusting wages that you NEED 2 people to live off of. 30-50k for everything under the sun… In NY that’s a joke, in rural bumfuck Egypt it would work, but the jobs aren’t there, they’re where the people are.