Dyskolos
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- Comment on bold words 3 hours ago:
I don’t wanna be your enemy 😁
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 14 hours ago:
Oh no, don’t get me wrong. I like multicultural stuff. But the key-word here is MULTI. That is not what is happening here. I love my occasional asian supermarket, indian shop or even that one bulgarian mini-shop that exists. What i can’t stand anymore is that one single cultural theme taking over complete areas, especially every main street. This is no exaggeration for drama’s sake. Most of the inner-city-shops don’t even have anything in german (or at least english) on their windows. All arabic. You don’t even have a clue what it’s about. Hearing spoken german in those areas is the exception. And they don’t want any non muslim. To them we are…well.
I’m no racist, I’m misanthropic. I think the whole species is a virus, i don’t care for race or sex or whatever. But i do despise religion in whichever form.
If i’d emigrate, I’d learn the language and try to assimilate the culture as much as possible. I would not try to make that new place my old place. Why would I even emigrate then :)
No, I’m not the european MAGA-equivalent. There just a VAST difference between multicultural variety and monocultural invasion. We also have a “little tokyo” here, where there are predominantly japanese migrants. It’s a great place, you’re always super welcome everywhere. They WANT us there.
Also it’s not all of germany though. I happen to be born in a conglomeration of many cities into one big heap of cities next to each other. Long story short, yes, cultural integration can work both ways and it’s dope to discover other cultures (hence i love travelling and have seen most places on this earth). This is no “foreigners bad!”-rant. It’s a sad observation from 40yrs ago to today.
Besides, yes. we have a strong drift to the right here too. No armed hillbilly yokels like you have, but still dangerously strong tbh. I’d argue that the next elections may already be doomed and we will go nazi again. At which point wifey and I will finally move elsewhere.
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 1 day ago:
Sure, 18 months is kinda overseeable. But still very risky. One unexpected financial mishap and you’re rolling into the neverending pitfall of debt. I have not the slightest clue about average car prices in the US, so i can’t really put that $15k into perspective.
Insurance (i assume you meant coverage of potential unability to pay back?) is nice, but also rises the cost noticably :)
Of course, not judging you or anything. In my world, everyone would have car of their choice (within some reason) for free, given by the government (that kinda forces you to work and commute to where you do that).
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 1 day ago:
That is totally and absolutely intentional, rest assured.
And that is the right way, yes. Though it might be hard to start if you have nothing, but getting a loan in that case would be either. Dunno about the US, but here you can really get a shitty car for like 300-500 moneyz. It’s surely not fancy and might break 5s later if you’re unlucky, but it also might live 2years and save you 100 a month for the next. At least it’s YOURS. You often see such cars with stickers here that say “Ugly, but paid!” :)
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 1 day ago:
I guess this pattern is not really just american but maybe universal in capitalism. Here it is the same. We learn from the beginning that your worth is simply measured by your wealth. Especially if you’re a dude. But besides that being totally disgusting bullshit, i, personally, always thought higher of people that drove a shitty piece of old crap but still had some cash left at the end of the month, than of those that drove the newest hot shit but had like -1% net-worth each month just for blingbling.
Sure, i have it easier than most and never had to worry about loans or cash or whatever, but i still live way beneath of what i could. My house is tiny, my car not overly fancy my wardrobe is very compact etc. And i always observed the same: someone earns 1k more a months and his lifestyle goes up 1k. Earns 20k more a month and lifestyle goes up 20k. And on the whole way they complain that no cent is left at the end of the month, yet fail to see the problem.
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 1 day ago:
Without a car sucks too here (Germany). We may have a better public transport but it still sucks bigtime the last time I had to use it. And I will not try it again unless forced to 😁
Also yes, cars got way more expensive and also the dumb cars will soon die out.
But honestly, “being lead by sales people” isn’t really a great excuse to sign your financial ruin. Could be avoided by first assessing what you actually CAN pay in the WORST CASE without being totally fucked, then find the right thing online and avoid salespeople. And I’m not great with money or a very responsible adult. Yet I would never go to a car shop and “browse” there. My desires might overshadow my abilities and salespeople can sniff that 😁
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 1 day ago:
Like that. If that is ones motivation for a car The couldn’t afford, well…it will sooner or later bite their asses
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 1 day ago:
Why do people always have to live above their means and then complain? If You can’t pay cash for your car, it’s outside of your budget.
I see so many people here driving cars that are Wwwwaaay above what they could actually afford. One tiny miscalculation and shit hits the money-fan.
I would never feel relaxed driving a car that is beyond the amount of spendable cash I have. Unless its company leasing. Those are so cheap it hurts 😁
- Comment on Rue the day, mortal 1 day ago:
Not living in some medieval shit hole that does infant gentile mutilation for cult-reasons.
Whoever does this to their child is a disgusting being in my view. Also dumb and uneducated as fuck.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 2 days ago:
If you had read my comment you’d known that none of those stores actually do customer service. Especially not in germany. I tried nearly every shop - mostly electronics - and I heavily regretted every single one. Except those where I never had a reason to use customer services.
Finding other stores is not really the problem.
- Comment on How the "Kill Line" Redefined the American Dream in China 3 days ago:
I said I don’t care for them because they’re very predominantly religious. So a handful are not. That’s a bummer. Those should be left alone of course. Otherwise my point would simply be “eradicate humanity itself” as there only are those two groups. Religious or not.
I’m sure you agree.
Yes, i do. Which is exactly my point.
- Comment on How the "Kill Line" Redefined the American Dream in China 3 days ago:
Innocent? No I didn’t say that. Religious nuts? Sure, couldn’t care less for.
So,.you only want guilty people to die. Like ice 😊
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 3 days ago:
Fair points. We actually do buy much stuff used, even clothes. As a principle. Though I always kinda feel bad to buy stuff others could have needed more or are forced financially to do so. It’s a mixed bag…
As for employees that’s another thing. Offline shopping is so annoying that most stores closed already and the inner cities here basically became lil Istanbuls where you can’t even read the signs anymore unless you can read Arabic. What’s left are mostly chains, of which many are US-owned or lick US-boots (nothing against you guys, but the country and its course). So buying there or at Amazon doesn’t change much. Super large companies that shit on employees and would rather own slaves than pay minimum wage.
And the few shops where shopping is still fun, peaceful and with a variety that sparks joy, are often shops not meant for the average Joe. The last one we strolled through was awesome. Except that unless they see your platinum or better card they wouldn’t even talk with you. And we usually don’t look like we’re loaded and we got treated this way. So fuck them too.
I hate offline shopping. And I loved it 30yrs ago. I went to the city core every day and shopped like an idiot. It was fun, informative and efficient. Now that feels like a story from my dead granny
- Comment on Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information 3 days ago:
Hm, what’s the difference? 😁
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 3 days ago:
I don’t know where you live, but shopping offline is a nightmare here (germany). Not only can you drive a lot to actually find any store that might have the shit you need, but also have to find parking. And then pay more for that than shipping costs of a fucking 200" TV.
And then you have to deal with overcrowded shops with a gazillion stinky people in line just to endure a totally clueless yet unmotivated employee.
And then they offer one or two of the things you want. Nowhere near what you actually want or way too cheap or way too expensive. Or just plain crap. Or exactly what you want, but in pink hello Kitty design.
And then…despite all our legal rights and customer protection laws, you can fight every fucking merchant ever whenever you the dislike the product after a few days or, god beware, it broke and you need a new one or at least repairs.
Amazon got me 20yrs ago when my top of the line gaming GPU broke after 2 years and they just refunded it, no questions asked. And they still do. I literally saved a 100k on their lash policy over those 20yrs.
I hate amazon from the depths of my heart, I avoid any and every us-company, all big tech and social media and whatnot. But those damn fuckers? I would have to spend triple to get a fraction of everything and drive hundreds of hours. And I’m a goddamn cheapskate that turns around any cent, despite having enough.
We only have one other very big shop here for online, and they only have a tiny fraction. I shop there too, but…
- Comment on Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information 3 days ago:
Up to this day I have never had an account and never ever looked at their shit. And guess what I have been missing since then? Exactly. Social media is mostly cancer and Rest Propaganda. Especially if its us-owned.
- Comment on How the "Kill Line" Redefined the American Dream in China 3 days ago:
And you got an answer, but do you have any authority or influence to change anything about it? Your nick suggests differently. Yet also suggests being not so indifferent towards eradication of a pest 😁 (which I second BTW)
- Comment on How the "Kill Line" Redefined the American Dream in China 3 days ago:
No I’m not fine with killing atheists or anyone BUT religious nutjobs. Religion is a highly contagious illness spreading through words.
But even if I’d value every life totally equal: who cares what I’m fine or not fine with? Wouldn’t change a thing. Noone cares if I’m OK with it or not and nobody asked me either.
- Comment on How the "Kill Line" Redefined the American Dream in China 4 days ago:
I despise religious people. Simple as that. What happens to them isn’t my concern and I couldn’t care less. That’s what their god is for.
And I still don’t get your point. I know in very many ways how the USA sucks bigtime and I know a bunch of what is wrong in China. Hence I’d pick the lesser known evil which MIGHT be even the worse evil, but I don’t know that yet. Hence my life or death, A or B choice. Not on preference. What do you do? Choose the USA? If you’re loaded, religious (enough to pretend tho) and hate the poor, then it’s probably a great place to be. But so is every other country too then. China included.
- Comment on How the "Kill Line" Redefined the American Dream in China 4 days ago:
They aren’t specifically an ethno religious group, but the vast majority of them is sunni. So again: why would i heart them? I despise religion, and Islam most of them all.
For those not in a cult I feel sorry. Same as I do for every worker in China or the Tibetans. Or the debt-crushed muricans. Or whomever is oppressed in whichever way in whatever country.
Also, never said China is perfect or anything. If forced to choose China or USA at gunpoint I’d pick China. I know more about the USA than I do about China, so I’d pick the lesser known evil.
- Comment on How the "Kill Line" Redefined the American Dream in China 4 days ago:
I’m not empty enough to be religious, lucky me then 😁
- Comment on How the "Kill Line" Redefined the American Dream in China 4 days ago:
Nah, why would i heart any religious group?
- Comment on How the "Kill Line" Redefined the American Dream in China 5 days ago:
Really? When do you leave?
Why should I leave? I was already lucky enough to be born in one of the “better” countries.
And dude, I don’t doubt that China is far from a great nation. Hence I said if I had to choose at gunpoint. That this article is probably just silly propaganda…who cares. Most of everything is just dumb propaganda nowadays and should be ignored.
Yet, I don’t know enough about China but enough about the USA to surely pick the lesser known evil. If forced at before mentioned gunpoint.
In the end, evil is evil, no matter where. It’s humans that destroy everything good. Everywhere.
- Comment on How the "Kill Line" Redefined the American Dream in China 5 days ago:
Not yet. But I would (And will). But surely wouldn’t visit the USA. Despite speaking much better English than Chinese 😁
- Comment on UK | Antiques auction selling neck shackles accused of ‘profiting from slavery’ 5 days ago:
No silly, we call this capitalism. This is how it differs from slavery:
Where a ruling class with all the money and might controls the vast majority and extorts labour out of them for the privilege to not starve and get wet in the rain. Occasional pain and constant suffering are just byproducts.
No wait…never mind.
- Comment on How the "Kill Line" Redefined the American Dream in China 5 days ago:
Well at gunpoint to choose one to live in, I’d sure pick China without much pondering. Despite many concerns.
- Comment on Afghanistan | Taliban new penal code legalizes domestic violence against women 6 days ago:
Dude. Just because they’re also full of religious backwards numbnuts, who want to reign over women’s uteruses, doesn’t mean they’re even close to the Taliban level of degeneracy.
The USA might be going backwards in time to 1950 and before, but the pedoliban are still in the year 700.
- Comment on Afghanistan | Taliban new penal code legalizes domestic violence against women 1 week ago:
I hate the USA but last time I checked, women were not property by law and also are allowed to get educated. But if you see no difference, fine. You’re surely free to have an opinion.
- Comment on Afghanistan | Taliban new penal code legalizes domestic violence against women 1 week ago:
that allows husbands to physically punish their wives and children as long as it doesn’t cause broken bones or open wounds.
Sure, as if broken bones or open wounds would motivate an abused helpless victim to go against it or take legal actions. Which they aren’t allowed either.
I so hope religions with their hells are right, so these dimwitted pathetic slavers will rot there in all eternity. But…
- Comment on Afghanistan | Taliban new penal code legalizes domestic violence against women 1 week ago:
I hate the usa and their imperialism, but I do hate religions, and especially this “religion of peace” much more. So I’d agree. It was for the wrong reasons, but sure a dead Taliban is a good Taliban. These child fucking slavers need to be eradicated.
It’s 2026 goddammit and those pathetic losers still see women as an absolute property. One chromosome decides your fate…incredible. Let’s not even mention anything queer-ish.