bostonbananarama
@bostonbananarama@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You’re just saying libertarian in more words.
- Comment on Maybe it was someone from the future. 3 months ago:
People need to stop with ridiculous conspiracy theories. You’ve become what you hate
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 5 months ago:
Oh did Democrats stop the Republicans when the winds shifted?
Oh no they didn’t. They went along with them.
What the hell are you talking about? Your comment is entirely divorced from reality. There were 175 cloture votes to break a filibuster on nominees during the Obama administration and 314 during Trump. Nearly doubled in half the time.
When Schumer was minority leader, he vigorously used the filibuster to do just that. Under his leadership, Democrats used the filibuster to block funding for construction of Trump’s border wall in 2019. They used it not once, but twice to impede passage of the Cares Act — forcing Republicans to agree to changes including a $600 weekly federal unemployment supplement. They used it in September and October to stop Republicans from passing further coronavirus relief before the November election. They used it to halt Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) police reform legislation so Republicans could not claim credit for forging a bipartisan response to the concerns of racial justice protesters. They used it to block legislation to force “sanctuary cities” to cooperate with federal officials, and to stop a prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion, bans on abortions once the unborn child is capable of feeling pain, and protections for the lives of babies born alive after botched abortions. - Washington Post
- Comment on How big is this dog? 5 months ago:
Neighbor: Why does this dog eat so much corn!?!
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 5 months ago:
Honestly, everything you have said is dishonest and/or disingenuous. The idea that the price of the vehicle is going to be reduced by 90% as a result of subsidies and innovation is both stupid and dishonest. You should also look up the definition of authoritarian.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 5 months ago:
They responded
You’re saying “they”, but it’s you. And no you didn’t, repeating what you said before isn’t addressing the issues.
Adressed twice.
Never addressed at all, you pivoted to the oil industry. You didn’t address the subsidies from China or the unfair trade practices.
America will not subsidize to that level, if they could, and no amount of innovation is going to combat subsidization or the unfair trade practices.
According to a Bloomberg article, China will sell EVs at under $10,000, undercutting the price of the average American EV by $50,000. Are you seriously arguing that “investment to lower cost” will reduce the cost by 85-90%? That’s simply a ludicrous assertion.
You think US products won’t have spyware?
I don’t think that collecting anonymized usage data, is the same as unlimited spying going back to an authoritarian government. So no, absolutely nothing comparable.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 5 months ago:
You’re literally just talking to yourself, ignoring any mention of selling below cost, which is the biggest issue, with spyware being a close 2nd.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 5 months ago:
Americans get cheaper EVs…
For a few years, until the American automakers go bankrupt, as you said, then the Chinese automakers increase prices 10x.
…and the legacy auto industry gets taught a valuable lesson as companies who refused to modernize go bankrupt.
What a valuable lesson, get subsidized by an authoritarian government so that you can offer vehicles below cost. Also be sure to add spyware for the aforementioned authoritarian government.
Do you even understand what below cost means? No amount of modernization will counteract it.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 5 months ago:
China is subsidizing EV production and selling cars below cost. Allowing them to be sold in the US would kill the domestic EV market. How is that better for Americans?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch 6 months ago:
They may not know step 3, but they know that step 4 is PROFIT!
- Comment on If Hitler was captured, what would have been his punishment in the Nuremberg Trials? 7 months ago:
It’s not though. The question makes the assumption that he would have been handed over for the Nuremberg trials.
It absolutely misses the point, and so have you. It is a hypothetical whereby he was captured, turned over to the Nuremberg trials, and found guilty. That’s the basis of the hypothetical. Saying that wouldn’t have happened absolutely misses the point of the hypothetical.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Capitalism is self regulating
It most certainly is not. The bargaining power of a corporation and individual worker are not the same. It’s why labor unions exist. Additionally governments should regulate commerce for the benefit of everyone.
Lastly, please review and understand the differences between your and you’re, as well as their, there, and they’re. Absolutely frustrating trying to read what you wrote.
- Comment on ‘Zombie Offices’ Spell Trouble for Some Banks - The New York Times 8 months ago:
Wait…are you suggesting we solve a problem? Or even two problems simultaneously? That’s absurd! We need tax cuts, deregulation, and corporate bailouts…I may not know the problem, but I know the solution. /s
- Comment on ‘The View’ Host Joy Behar Scoffs at Young People Feeling ‘Left Behind by the Economy’: ‘Oh Please, Get a Job!’ 9 months ago:
Bow chica bow wow…oh, you meant something else… /s
- Comment on Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email 10 months ago:
My favorite Wayfair story is when I ordered an entertainment cabinet. The majority was brown, but the doors were white. One box comes in, packed tightly, it’s obvious that nothing is missing from the box, but I have no white pieces. Missing the doors plus all the hardware to put it together.
Contact customer service explain the problem, that I think there’s supposed to be a second box. OK, we’ll send another. Same thing, one box, packed tightly, same pieces missing. Call again, explain again, they send out the same thing a third time. Finally I just cancelled my order and threw all three “Box A’s” into the dumpster.
- Comment on Whats the difference between cheap and expensive modern TVs? 11 months ago:
I wish that’s advice I had at the time. Live and learn.
- Comment on Whats the difference between cheap and expensive modern TVs? 11 months ago:
I just threw it away, I was done with it. I definitely should have tried to repair it, but my frustration with all things Vizio made that an unappealing option at the time. The others I just moved to less used areas.
- Comment on Whats the difference between cheap and expensive modern TVs? 11 months ago:
For personal use I buy Visio displays, and have had nothing but success.
I have some smaller, older Vizio TV’s that were great, no issues. I recently bought 3 large, expensive Vizio TV’s and had problems with all 3. All issues dealing with updates. Had 70" get stuck in an update cycle, no fix, even customer service couldn’t help. Other 2 repeatedly will not turn on after an update. Problem persists occasionally, but usually resolves in 5-10 minutes.
Done with Vizio. Sony if I want to spend a lot, Samsung if I want to spend a little less.
- Comment on X advertisers stay away as CEO defends Musk’s “go f*** yourself” interview 11 months ago:
They make a quarter of a million…
You haven’t seen CEO compensation lately. She makes between $6-12m depending on bonuses and stock options.
- Comment on If you can say enough things about a thing does that mean that you know what the thing is? 1 year ago:
If you make a question ambiguous enough, can it have an answer?
- Comment on Am I crazy, or are Americans going insane? 1 year ago:
Have they though? I struggle to find positions that the Democrats hold that are to the left of where they’ve been for the last 20-30 years. They are pro-choice, for racial equality, for gay rights, etc. Republicans on the other hand have swung wildly to the far-right.
I wish the Democrats would move left, but I haven’t seen it in my lifetime, they are a party of centrists, for the most part.