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- Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 11 months ago:
Not sure I agree. I think many people who are “defeatist about voting” have observed that the surface-level differences between Democrats and Republicans (namely social issues and the more visible fascism from Republicans) just mask an underlying corporatist/fascist state that’s sacrosanct and immune from popular pressure and legislative change.
- Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 11 months ago:
In effect, the bonds I mentioned are just inverted loans. The Treasury takes in $1k from payroll taxes for these programs, issues a bond to the trust fund saying “I owe you $1k plus interest”, spends the $1k on whatever (I guess primarily the discretionary budget) and eventually has to somehow generate money to pay it back with interest.
In terms of whether or not bonds were “borrowed” - this wouldn’t exactly matter in a meaningful sense, but I’m not clear this ever actually happened in the first place. There was some claim about, when the trust fund was mixed with the general fund 1968-1990, maybe the government took bonds out of the program, but you have to remember that inside the government, that’s not something of value, that’s just an obligation the government has to pay to itself, it’s a big nothing burger.
- Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 11 months ago:
Read any SS Trustee’s report. It doesn’t have “money”, it has debt instruments, which are essentially a document saying “the government (us) owes SS (us) money”.
- Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 11 months ago:
Social Security doesn’t have assets, it has debt obligations, which to the government, are something you can conjure out of thin air. The only senses in which it can “run out” is if outlays exceed receipts, or if it runs out of debt instruments to cash out and has to ask for a pile of more debt instruments.
- Comment on TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion 1 year ago:
Just like Shifa Hospital isn’t used as a terrorist base.
Despite the raid ~24 hours ago, and the release, deletion and then re-release of an “uncut” video of the hospital since then, this remains to be proven.
- Comment on TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion 1 year ago:
“Godwin’s Law” only said that the comparison to Nazis becomes inescapable the longer a conversation goes (not the common interpretation “whoever says Nazi first loses”). If I remember right he actually went back later and said it’s perfectly fine to draw the Nazi analogy to fascist states.
- Comment on TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion 1 year ago:
reuters.com/…/despite-bidens-doubts-humanitarian-…
The health ministry is a medical organization, regardless of being under Hamas rule.
- Comment on TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion 1 year ago:
Yeah, Hamas isn’t as bad as Israel, it’s literally a resistance movement to the people that ethnically cleansed their population from their land and kept them in a concentration camp for two decades. The unbalanced condemnation tbph is the result of a concerted Israeli/Western propaganda campaign to obscure the context and nature of the attacks, including the hundreds of Palestinian people killed in 2023 before Oct. 7, and more fundamentally, the fact that Israel has been keeping 2.4M people in a high-tech concentration camp for the last two decades.
The atrocity claims against Hamas from Oct. 7 have some serious evidentiary issues at this point, even including some unknown number of the civilian deaths being attributable to the IDF (literally firing at, shelling and bombing Israeli citizens - though to be clear, there is video of Hamas shooting civilians as well).
- Comment on TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion 1 year ago:
Maybe the U.S. upvoted that to discredit China
- Comment on TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion 1 year ago:
Russia arguably gains vis a vis ties with Iran and decrease of U.S. influence in the region. But insofar as news, reporting, information are concerned, it’s pretty irrelevant, if there’s actual propaganda then let it be shown and debunked, and even Iranian RT right now is barely saying anything surprising to anyone who’s been watching what’s happening on the ground.
- Comment on TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion 1 year ago:
It’s shocking to me people keep repeating this. The accusations of genocide almost universally relate to after Oct. 7.
- Comment on TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion 1 year ago:
The comparisons to the Nazis are actually inescapable. I struggle to think of a centrally orchestrated and mechanized system of apartheid/oppression and now genocide that’s more similar.
- Comment on Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe 1 year ago:
Nice
- Comment on Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe 1 year ago:
Nice
- Comment on Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe 1 year ago:
Honestly thinking this all week - pretty much every country in the world either voted yes or abstained on the Gaza/Israel ceasefire resolution, except for the U.S., who just coincidentally happens to have billions of dollars earmarked every year to go to Israel on the condition they spend it on arms from U.S. companies.
- Comment on Stop using Fandom 1 year ago:
I got special Stylish CSS blocking half the shit on Fandom. IDK about any politics about them but the site is borderline unusable.
- Comment on Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU 1 year ago:
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- Comment on So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 1 year ago:
Yeah, you have time for acting like a 10 year old and “I know you are but what am I” but reading 4 whopping paragraphs about how you’re wrongfully antagonizing other people is too much for you.
- Comment on So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 1 year ago:
Not impressed.
- Comment on So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 1 year ago:
Then don’t attack people and then launch into bullshit back and forths about how they’re wrong for defending themselves.
- Comment on So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 1 year ago:
He equated it to “shitting on someone because they don’t like pink sauce”. I pointed out there is an ethical consideration.
- Comment on So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 1 year ago:
I am not “going out of my way to play the persecuted martyr”, I opened the Lemmy home page and “post trashing vegans” was post #3. I thought I left this shit behind when I left reddit, but now it’s here too.
Not using animal products is not exhausting. I’ve done it for a decade and it’s a remarkably easy change where 99% of the difficulty comes from the wider society being hostile to it.
It is an ethical position based on an actual reality of animal agriculture causing vast suffering that we have chosen to opt out of supporting. It is absolutely reasonable and selfless to advocate for the rights of others at a minor, negligible personal sacrifice. It is not a sign of a need to shame others, a need to be a martyr, or any other personality defect that you’re going to project on vegans based on a stereotype despite knowing NOTHING about any of us as individuals. Nobody is trying to make you “feel ashamed”, we are pointing out objective facts about how the animal ag industry causes harm to animals and people like you, like you’re doing in this comment right here, launch into this whole frigging diatribe about how vegans are shaming you and judging you and have a god complex and should just shut up and go back into their corners, because god forbid anyone should ever suggest that anything you’re doing is less than perfectly ethical.
- Comment on So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 1 year ago:
Because vegans ever speaking their minds is automatically interpreted as “preachy”.
- Comment on So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 1 year ago:
In absolutely no way is that “preaching”.
- Comment on Time to grow up. 1 year ago:
It’s not that either.
- Comment on Time to grow up. 1 year ago:
It’s not that.
- Comment on So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 1 year ago:
Yeah, says the guy who posted the frigging thing to begin with.
- Comment on Time to grow up. 1 year ago:
Yep, calling it here.
- Comment on So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 1 year ago:
You’re literally lumping people into the stereotype that they’re obnoxious and preachy based on them defending themselves against public accusations that they’re obnoxious and preachy. That’s an irrational, circular stance.
- Comment on So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 1 year ago:
It’s not about just food preferences, it’s about right and wrong.