Asafum
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- Comment on FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal 1 day ago:
It slightly saves my sanity. Only slightly though.
- Comment on FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal 1 day ago:
Compelled speech it is then?
So when are bakers going to be forced to bake cakes for gay couples?
Oh, right, hypocrites. Naturally.
- Comment on 6,000 IRS employees to be fired as DOGE continues sweeping slashes 2 days ago:
If they have specialties at the IRS I would wager anything that the vast majority of these 6k people were those that focused on audits of the wealthy.
- Comment on Pope funeral 'is being rehearsed': Swiss Guard 'prepare for pontiff's death after the 88-year-old warned 'I may not survive' pneumonia 2 days ago:
New Executive Order just dropped: Trump declares himself officially Catholic.
- Comment on Trump literally referred to himself as "King". Surely conservatives are against a monarchy forming? 2 days ago:
I wonder how many conservatives are actually on here. This thread kind of feels like as a large group we stormed into an after school club with like 4 kids in it lol
- Comment on I find it funny that American republicans seem to want a king, when the definition of republicanism is a government without a king. 2 days ago:
Well knowledge can be found in a library…
Can’t trust anything that comes from something that even sounds like liberal!
- Comment on Regarding a US Government Shutdown: What's stopping Musk from continuing to fund DOGE with his own money and continuing to tear apart the government while all the federal workers are put on leave? 4 days ago:
Because you still need the Senate. The GOP almost always votes as one since it’s almost always about benefiting the rich. When the Democrats “had power” they had 2
Republicans“Democrats” that would always vote against them whenever it was something that would help people that aren’t billionaires.I wish I wasn’t an atheist so I could believe Manchin and Sinema would rot in hell when they die. :/
- Comment on Regarding a US Government Shutdown: What's stopping Musk from continuing to fund DOGE with his own money and continuing to tear apart the government while all the federal workers are put on leave? 4 days ago:
At the same time, Democrats can’t see idly and do nothing.
Here’s what the Democrats currently have the power to do:
- Comment on Regarding a US Government Shutdown: What's stopping Musk from continuing to fund DOGE with his own money and continuing to tear apart the government while all the federal workers are put on leave? 4 days ago:
Honestly with the DOJ entirely in Trump’s camp there’s nothing stopping them from doing anything at all. At least nothing that wouldn’t force every military personnel to storm the White House.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 1 week ago:
Not enough people unfortunately, although I’m sure there is some overlap between those that don’t vote but still watch the news. I think we overestimate how many people are “politically engaged.”
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 1 week ago:
Because most people are blissfully ignorant. They’re going about their day and if anything they’re possibly reminded that Trump is president by some news channel they pass over on their way to the newest true crime show or whatever the hell is on tictok.
Most people couldn’t be forced to care if you had a gun to their heads as evidenced by our disgusting voting numbers. “Didn’t vote” would win every election if it was a candidate.
Most people “aren’t political” which is nice if only politics didn’t affect your life so deeply. :/
- Comment on Are Dating Apps Getting Worse? 1 week ago:
A little late to the conversation there wired.
Match group killed most dating apps years ago when they acquired as many as possible and turned them all into tinder clones, literally removing useful features, not even including them in “premium” versions.
Hinge was the last to hold on to being “acceptable” to those that used it (I need more profile than pictures so I didn’t care for it) but I guess that’s changed now too.
Monetizing human needs never ends well… Seeking a partner is a human need and these corpo fucks know it and drooled over the prospect of exploiting it. I gave up on them a few years ago so I’m just staying single I guess.
- Comment on Nature is healing 1 week ago:
If all you consume is right wing propaganda then yes, the dismantling of all our civic protections and the complete disregard of the Constitution by the executive branch and all the negative impacts on local communities and farmers that depended on aid now gone would seem like paradise as you wouldn’t even know it’s happening. You just get some vague “were elimination wasteful spending!” Without any definition as to what was wasteful.
Since when does the Executive branch have the right to ignore the Judiciary? Biden didn’t. He tried the executive order to allow studen loan forgiveness and got smacked down by the courts so it didn’t happen.
Trump gets a ruling he doesn’t like and suddenly Elmo musk and Vance are doing some “judicial overreaching” dance. Literally stating "Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”
They have legitimate power to issue an executive order, they do not have legitimate power to have that executive order violate the constitution. That’s the whole point of the Judiciary to combat against. They don’t have the legitimate power to fire inspector generals literally there to watch out for fraud and illegality. As per Republican Chuck Grassley
- Comment on Okay, this is getting out of hand 1 week ago:
Libertarian Paradise:
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”
He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.
- Comment on Events are occurring! 1 week ago:
IT’S THE MOLE PEOPLE!
- Comment on Trump to ‘defend the rights of Christians,' announces new faith initiative led by controversial televangelist. 2 weeks ago:
"In a 2021 opinion article, Vought wrote that Christian nationalism is “a commitment to an institutional separation between church and state, but not the separation of Christianity from its influence on government and society.”
Russel Vought newly appointed, major contributor to project 2025, plainly stating that separation of Church and State is a one way road… Government can’t touch religion, but religion (only their religion of course) can infect all of government and affect all of us.
Get ready for blasphemy laws.
I so fucking happy to be alive, the two things I despise most in life running out country: religion and billionaires.
- Comment on "Poetic take" on the state of the US 2 weeks ago:
Instead we have “Now listen, you rich people, cheer and dance because of the greater wealth that will be coming to you. Your wealth has fattened, and gold adorns your clothes. Your gold and silver is polished by an army of tongues of bootlickers. Their saliva testifies to your greatness, you will eat the flesh of the finest beasts. You have and will continue to hoard wealth as is Good™ to do. Look! The wages you fail to pay the workers who built your empire are justified, they are just immigrants and liberals. The cries of the workers are of silent text on screens, read by the unimportant, the powerless. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence and will continue to do so. You have fattened yourself on another day of your joy. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who you’ve made to oppose one another, and laughed at their suffering. Good show.”
-Me now:today
- Comment on MSI and ASUS hike GeForce RTX 50 series prices in official stores, now up to $3,409 for RTX 5090 2 weeks ago:
“Nvidia to relase RTX 7090, get yours for only $23,000!”
- Comment on New No Man's Sky update adds walkable gas giants among "trillions" of new planets, just in case you were running out 3 weeks ago:
Finally! I’ve been waiting forever for this update! It’s freaking huge!
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 3 weeks ago:
“blatant disrespect” of their rights… Yeah, that’s the subtext of this administration.
Trump II: blatant disrespect of their rights.
Coming to an everywhere near you!
- Comment on Starfield's abandoned gore and dismemberment system sure would have made it less grey 5 weeks ago:
As far as I know there have been no meaningful changes to the game other than the addition of a ground vehicle and the dlc everyone seems to hate.
I really really really really wanted to like the game, but the bean counters won again and had an incredibly soulless safe product released for all audiences. As they say, a game for everyone is a game for no one. :/
The way I got around what you mentioned in the spoiler was to just save my second playthrough as the “real one” so what you do still mattered.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Hits Over 2 Billion Mod Downloads 1 month ago:
…I may or may not have just bought a new NVME drive so I could handle the lorerim mod and not have to delete everything else on my drive.
500GB total is pretty disgusting for a mod to be honest.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 1 month ago:
“Get an LNG tanker. Bitches love an LNG tanker.”
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 2 months ago:
I was just recently informed of a podcast called “blowback” the other day on Lemmy and their first season actually goes into Iraq and the lead up to it. It’s a very good podcast for anyone interested in the topic of American intervention in other countries. Very well produced for the subject matter.
Long story short there was nothing that was going to stop us from going after Iraq. “We” wanted that for a long time and it’s not just a simple “cuz oil” thing.
- Comment on If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation? 2 months ago:
Depends on the structure of the simulation. If it’s general enough then they didn’t specifically plan to have this capacity, it’s just the result of the inputs and constraints of the simulation.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
It’s so fucking disgusting to be honest… I’m just a worthless dumb shit uneducated factory worker and at 17 I could see right through that garbage… I was going to join the military after highschool to get training since I’m poor and had no real direction to gamble on college, and then take it from there whether to stay in or not.
Once talk started of invading Iraq I immediately said fuccccck that. I still blame Bush partially for my current situation. :/
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 2 months ago:
Sniveling Johnson trying to fit into the picture like “hey I’m here too! Don’t worry boss I’ll have the house ready to do your bidding. We don’t represent anyone but you!”
- Comment on Disney Said to be Considering a Surprising Replacement for Bob Iger: EA CEO Andrew Wilson - IGN 3 months ago:
Man it’s weird how things happen. I was literally just listening to Bo Burnhams “funny feeling” this morning and he has a line about “Robert (Bob) Igers face” and I thought hmm I actually don’t get that, I don’t know who he is. Then I open Lemmy and see this lol
- Comment on THE HECK? Documents show FEMA official ordered workers to ignore houses with Trump signs 3 months ago:
… because right wing people have been threatening FEMA officials because of bullshit lies about immigrants taking enough FEMA money stopping FEMA from helping “real Americans” and helping immigrants “invade.” This what happens when disinformation goes too far…
foxcarolina.com/…/deputies-investigating-violent-…
apnews.com/…/fema-north-carolina-disinformation-t…
“FEMA made operational changes to keep personnel safe “out of an abundance of caution,” agency Administrator Deanne Criswell said at a briefing Tuesday.”
- Comment on Trump’s likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he’d run the agency 3 months ago:
Looks like I’ll be cancelling my already stupidly expensive Internet service… I hate these fucking people…
Back to the stone age with all of their fucked up “policies.”
