FlashMobOfOne
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.
I’m single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.
@artbyflashmob on Instagram
- Comment on Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes orders the immediate and full suspension of Rumble in the country due to noncompliance with court orders. 4 hours ago:
Love it.
The bastards’ shitty little platform has no power if people can’t use it.
- 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:
Correct. There’s a reason why Strom Thurmond switched parties.
- 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:
I find it funny that Democrats are the ones who invented superdelegates so that their candidates can’t actually be selected democratically.
Yes. Our political system is crap.
- 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? 3 days ago:
LOL
Where have you been the last three weeks?
- 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:
The funny thing is, when Biden had Congress people were making this same excuse.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
They’re trying, which is honestly kind of cool, especially right now. His social media feed is doing its best to reinforce the worst notions about trans people and it’s probably taking effort for him to consider other perspectives.
- Comment on YSK there's a web page where the defense team of Luigi Mangione shares updates about his case and dispels misinformation. 5 days ago:
SMASH THAT UPVOTE BUTTON.
For player 2.
- Comment on Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer? 5 days ago:
No. I’ve completed my personal bucket list though, so I’m never in a great rush to do things these days.
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 1 week ago:
Yup. They’re doubling down on performative bullshit, as always.
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 1 week ago:
What the Dems did to Bernie, and the procedures and rules they built around preventing another uncrowned presidential contender, is largely why I think it’s useless to vote for either of the two major parties. Sometimes it’s fun to think about how far forward the nation would be if he’d have had EO power, though.
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 1 week ago:
This infuriates me more than anything else, but the Republicans were very clear on their intentions and were elected democratically.
It sucks that we don’t have a legit opposition party that actually cares about the poor and working class.
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 1 week ago:
Hopefully they are active and interesting people.
- Comment on I'm just like some ordinary dude upset about what the government is doing. Doesn't anyone with any sort of means or influence care? Where are those guys? 1 week ago:
Yeah, that person’s comment reads like a corporation blaming the individual because they don’t recycle enough, as if the individual’s recycling habits are in any way comparable to the widespread pollution corporations create.
Unless you’re a billionaire or willing to go player 2, you have no meaningful power to change any of this. What you do have the power to do is make your own little corner of the world slightly better, and everyone should.
- Comment on I'm just like some ordinary dude upset about what the government is doing. Doesn't anyone with any sort of means or influence care? Where are those guys? 1 week ago:
No one with any real power to make meaningful change cares, because they’re benefiting personally.
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 1 week ago:
I have a friend in NYC who searches his entire apartment every year or two because he had a few BTC on an old thumb drive. It is a bummer that he lost it.
I got some dogecoin at a one cent and sold it in the twenties, which was a nice little gain, but nothing huge like being an early BTC holder.
- Comment on Tumblr to join fediverse 1 week ago:
Is it still the same SJW hellhole it was a decade ago?
- Comment on Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration. 1 week ago:
True, but in America, you’re far more likely to get an armed protest than a general strike.
- Comment on Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration. 1 week ago:
Change will come much quicker when protest groups ditch peaceful protest and show up armed, en masse, with AR-15’s.
Guaranteed.
- Comment on YSK: Charles Lindbergh Pushed Anti-Semitic Conspiracies As Part of the America First Campaign 1 week ago:
His existence is just wild in so many ways.
- Comment on YSK: Charles Lindbergh Pushed Anti-Semitic Conspiracies As Part of the America First Campaign 1 week ago:
Schools do not teach about him. I didn’t learn about him until reading history books for fun as an adult, but yeah, Lay was an incredibly courageous individual for his time.
- Comment on Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration. 1 week ago:
It will take the protests being armed.
Because if the protests aren’t armed, they’re not going to accomplish anything. There will be no change if the wealthy class isn’t made to live in fear of the public.
- Comment on YSK: Charles Lindbergh Pushed Anti-Semitic Conspiracies As Part of the America First Campaign 1 week ago:
I hate that phrase “product of his time”.
People like to use it to defend this sort of shit going back centuries, but I know about Benjamin Lay, the badass 1700’s-era hobbit (no really, he lived in a cave) who was friends with Benjamin Franklin and told him to his face what a motherfucker he was for being a slaver. He also walked from city to city spreading his views, because he was a vegan before his time and felt it was wrong to ride horses.
There are always people who know something’s wrong, and generally plenty of people willing to say it.
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 1 week ago:
Oh wow. They’ll shut down a website for a day.
Whoop-tee-doo.
- Comment on Is there any way I can realistically send a message to Donald Trump and have him read it? 1 week ago:
No.
- Comment on I'm suppose to believe I now live in a world where a Democrats can become president agoant and put George Soros at the head of DOGE? 1 week ago:
This country never course corrects after a seizure of executive power, so yes, that could happen.
But, if historical patterns hold true, Trump will lose Congress in the midterms.
Not that it matters much. Drms are conservatives too.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 1 week ago:
I love that you’re self-righteously typing this out on a computer produced by slave labor, likely involving kids.
You’re better than me for sure.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 1 week ago:
Also a good option, but I like that Brave’s native adblocker works better without addons.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 1 week ago:
Use the Brave browser and you won’t get any ads. Glorious.
- Comment on 23-Year-Old Elon Musk Rep Granted Energy Dept. IT Access Without Security Clearance 2 weeks ago:
What’s awesome is that this kind of thing is objectively bad.
But 50% will defend it, not because they think it’s right necessarily, but because their guy is the one in charge and 99% of US voters form their opinions solely on the basis of convenience.
- Comment on Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week? 2 weeks ago:
You don’t have to work out at all. Just eat clean and don’t drink. It helps if you use a calorie tracker, so you know what you’re taking in numerically.