PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org
Why don’t you have a second account?
Lazy. Don’t care if my shit gets fucked. But if you do care if your shit gets fucked, then you shouldn’t rely on centralized social media.
—PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@vlemmy.net, Professional Life Regretter, about a week before his shit got fucked
- Comment on Bully the nerds who say this is wrong 13 hours ago:
Octagon deez nuts
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
As a child coming from communism, I know it’s not that bad as it was there and I believe or think the problem here is more about fascism but either way, I think I am just confused???
Full disclosure #1: Lemmy has a lot of communists and anarchists. The Lemmy developers are communists and IMO it informs the design of the site. Lemmy.world has a liberal anti-communist bent IMO.
Full disclosure #2: I am an anarcho-communist, i.e. a libertarian communist in the vein of Peter Kropotkin. Anarcho-communists and state communists have a glorious history of fighting like cats 😆.
Full disclosure #3: I had a nice upbringing with a white family and I had lived in a rich American suburb for almost my whole life. Most people in my position are simply too comfortable to talk like I do.
So here is what I actually want to talk about: it’s pretty bad here in America for most people! It’s worse than a third-world country in the rural deep South. Everywhere in the US, black and indigenous people are at best second-class citizens everywhere in the country, a system designed from the ground up to keep black people subservient and destroy indigenous people and uphold white supremacy. And Sinophobia has been a driving force in American politics since the 1800s. And we interned Japanese people during WWII, and even some Democrats use that historical comparison to justify what is happening to people detained by ICE. Healthcare is hard to get even for wealthy people. Mental healthcare is almost non-existent. Homelessness is answered by cops. School shootings are so routine that they rarely make national news anymore. Almost everyone is one big medical incident or one missed paycheck from homelessness. Our privacy has been gone for decades; we voluntarily carry mobile surveillance devices (cellphones) in our pockets. Workers have almost no rights. Dissent is only tolerated if it doesn’t threaten power, and while it’s worse under Trump, it was never really tolerated under any administration. The cops are tyrannical and completely unaccountable. We have the highest prison population per capita on the planet. We spend the most money by far on our military. Schools are physically crumbling and there is a teacher shortage because we don’t pay them enough. Infrastructure is crumbling and needs to be repaired, and even if we do repair it, it’s car-centric infrastructure so you basically have to have a car to survive in this country. Higher education is incredibly expensive but simultaneously expected even for entry level positions…which people aren’t even hiring for anymore, even in traditionally “safe” fields like engineering.
I could go on and on and on. And everything above applies during and before the Trump administration, and it will almost certainly apply afterwards as well, because we don’t have an organized left and the Democrats are basically diet right-wingers who are literally paid not to rock the boat.
Honestly: everything sucks here, we’ve been on the brink of a civil war for decades, and the only reason I haven’t left yet is because I don’t have the money to make the move. If I ever found the money to do so, I’d drop all my shit and be on a plane out of this shithole without even kissing my parents goodbye. I genuinely do not understand why people come here (although I welcome you nonetheless!) if you could go almost anywhere else.
I’m not saying it’s not bad wherever you’re from. Just that it’s not good here and that you kinda need to expect that things are going to be trash in order to not get trampled.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
ICE is out of control right now. (My mom was born here)
That fucking sucks 😞… Fuck ICE
I appreciate you comment because I am over her reeling, my family left all that government because it horrid and came here legally unlike Trump’s family of war dodgers, both him and Elon’s family came here illegally so what he is doing is so savage!
Personally, I don’t oppose Trump for being a draft dodger or Elon for being an “illegal immigrant”. It’s… literally everything else.
IMO when the drafts were active, Americans had an ethical duty to get out of them because the wars America fights are for private interests. And no one should be illegal, i.e. following the law with respect to immigration only shows the wealth of the immigrant and says nothing about their character. For example, if I was to propose a law that instantly made all immigration legal, would you oppose that?
I just can’t wrap my head around everything going on.
American politics is weird and complicated. Take it slow.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Mao didn’t invent the phrase, he only used it. The phrase vastly predates communism in China.
Trump is not any kind of communist, Maoist or otherwise. For example, he’s not nationalizing any industries, he has not abolished private property, he has not supported workers’ rights, he has not attempted to disempower the capitalist class nor has he promised to do so, and the de-facto redistribution of wealth is from the poor to the rich, i.e. the opposite direction of what communists call for.
Trump is a fascist like every other US President. However, Trump is accelerating the decay of American capitalism into full fascism at an alarming clip.
- Comment on Casually Explained: Engineering 1 week ago:
Electrical engineering: … you learn everything else on the job
What job? 😆😂😭
- Comment on Classy 2 weeks ago:
I genuinely have no idea who any of these people are 🤔
- Comment on 2025 Ig Physics Nobel Prize goes to perfect pasta sauce 2 weeks ago:
I’ll find it. 😈😈😈🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴🏴🏴
- Comment on 2025 Ig Physics Nobel Prize goes to perfect pasta sauce 2 weeks ago:
Exactly what I’m looking for but I will proudly be stealing this one for his connections to Epstein and Bill Gates 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴🏴🏴
- Comment on 2025 Ig Physics Nobel Prize goes to perfect pasta sauce 2 weeks ago:
I think it would be so cool to have a cookbook cowritten by physicists/chemists and professional cooks.
- Comment on Pretty good idea. Color codes easy to understand 2 weeks ago:
Urethra 😬
- Comment on We're down again 🎉 2 weeks ago:
Okay we’re back 🎉
- Comment on Become who you were meant to be 3 weeks ago:
Way ahead of you 😆
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 3 weeks ago:
Try
doing yourstealing from work maybe? - Comment on What's the FBI gonna do when white nationalists turn on Kash Patel (current director of FBI)? 3 weeks ago:
Fire him and get someone else to do the job?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
God I hope so
- Comment on why 4 weeks ago:
I’d never forget to clean that toilet 😆
- Comment on The girl is just batty. 4 weeks ago:
For anyone like me who’s never heard of Chimney Swifts before… the birds choose to be in there and can get out. It’s not just someone stuffing birds into a chimney for a photo op.
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 1 month ago:
I’m autistic, currently pursuing a PhD in one of my special interests. I am perfectly content with being autistic. Tl;dr; we need inclusion like neurotypical people already get from systems designed in their image, not elimination.
I needed some services to get to where I’m at…but even neurotypical people need services, at a bare minimum diaper changes and feeding, but practically a lot more things like education, parenting, social networks, shelter, and a healthy environment.
Really, what autistic people need in general is to be included in the wider world, with all of the prerequisites and consequences it entails. Eugenics is, being extremely charitable, an extremely poor attempt at inclusivity by restricting humanity to the types of people the system is already designed to include. In practice, eugenics is simply a way for the in-group to eliminate an inconvenient out-group, and anyone who says otherwise is either wrong or lying to you.
Instead of changing and abolishing people, who in my view have intrinsic worth, we should change and abolish systems, which generically have no intrinsic worth. And in many, many cases, the currently existing systems are worse than worthless even for most neurotypical people, for example racism, capitalism, sexism, LGBT-phobia, nationalism, statism, ableism etc., even before neurodivergence is factored in!
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 1 month ago:
Racist ass idiot.
- Comment on SDF Lemmy down? 1 month ago:
Okay we’re back again
- Comment on SDF Lemmy down? 1 month ago:
Yeah I know, I’ve been here for over two years now… how time flies. It’s still a little distressing when it goes down 😆
- Comment on SDF Lemmy down? 1 month ago:
Okay we’re back 😀
- Comment on SDF Lemmy down? 1 month ago:
Happy days! We’re back 🎉
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
- Comment on The Yachting World's Hidden Rules! The "Rich Play" You Think Is Just a Rookie Mistake! 1 month ago:
Who the fuck cares about this rich people shit?
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 2 months ago:
Take breaks.
- Comment on go to sleep 2 months ago:
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R - Comment on Personally I'm quite suspicious of this community 2 months ago:
Try DIGging here:
- Comment on Personally I'm quite suspicious of this community 2 months ago:
- Comment on Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov rescued from near-drowning incident in Turkey 2 months ago:
Dictator fought a swimming pool and lost 😆
