ShareMySims
@ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on A Night at the Garden - 1939 pro-Nazi rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden archival footage 2 weeks ago:
On a related (and unfortunately still relevant) note:
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
Tories also have a manifesto, it’s just the word used here for, well, a manifesto. Not specific to any political leaning.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
Then how about you stop contributing to the problem by hoarding properties you don’t live in and exploiting those who can’t afford to, for profit?
No?
I didn’t think so…
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
because I didn’t want to be "part of the problem "
And yet, you’re still a landlord… 🤔
I guess the greed won over, eh?
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
Broken clock moment.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 3 weeks ago:
This is incorrect. Not only did humans used to work significantly less and we (the working class, anyway) in the past few centuries have less leisure time than ever, but if anything, the introduction of what you consider “civilisation”, and especially class and money, harmed art more than anything by giving the power and control over it to those who aren’t creating it, and leaving those who are, starving, like the rest of the plebs.
- Comment on Super Bonsai Entertainment System 3 weeks ago:
!bonsai@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
They are police
FTFY
There is nothing weirs about it - those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
- Comment on Northern Lights shimmer over UK in stunning photos 5 weeks ago:
True, I’ll keep that in mind when I inevitably miss them again tonight 😂
- Comment on Northern Lights shimmer over UK in stunning photos 5 weeks ago:
I don’t have the app, but actually looked at it on my pc the other day after someone mentioned it in the comments to another post, with full intention to go out and have a look, but my brain is like a sieve… 😂
Thanks though, I’ll give the app a look
- Comment on Northern Lights shimmer over UK in stunning photos 5 weeks ago:
I can’t believe I missed them again! Going to do my absolute best to try and remember to look tonight, though forecast is for cloud all day today and tomorrow, so I doubt I’ll have any luck 😩
- Comment on Water companies must return £158m on customer bills - Ofwat 5 weeks ago:
This is a very bare minimum start.
Next they need to reach in to their own fucking pockets to not only fix their outdated and unfit for purpose infustructure, and clean up the ungodly mess they’ve made, but also reimburse the taxpayer for the damage they’ve caused to our common waterways and supply.
Then once they’re done paying, nationalise the motherfuckers.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
But Twitter is a real fuckup for him
Except it clearly fucking isn’t, it’s doing exactly what he bought it for, including convincing people like you to feel sympathy for him and his “loss”, which is equal parts hilarious and really fucking sad. You’re looking at his life from the point of view of a poor person, something he never was and never will be, yet he’s still so easily manipulated you in to feeling bad for him (and the billions he’s lost, leaving him… still the motherfucking richest person on the planet), and even fucking (think you) relate to him and the idea that he can “fail” just like you can, using you as a living breathing mouthpiece to make his life easier. Not yours.
perfect boy genius mystique
I just threw up a little in my mouth, thanks.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
Thanks, that’s one race I definitely don’t keep up to date on. All billionaires need to cease to exist.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
And yet, he’s still one of the what, 5 richest people on the planet?
He doesn’t give a shit, and neither should you (as nice as the schadenfreude might feel). He got something money can’t buy - an established propaganda platform, which he is using as he intended - to war monger and otherwise interfere in politics to ensure fascism progresses as fast as he can help it. The “dent” (more like a surface scratch) it put in his finances is completely invisible and irrelevant to him.
And it should be to you, too.
He is NEVER going to end up without means or power, not even fucking close, unless we take them from him, and abolish the system that encouraged and enabled him to amass them in the first place.
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 1 month ago:
I think that’s the point, just like with “a few bad apples”, the original intent of the saying has been subverted to help those in power keep the rest of us down (if you just do this impossible thing, you’ll be just like us! Why don’t you just do that impossible thing already, you useless lazy bastard? And so on. It’s part cognitive dissonance to make themselves feel like they’re “self made”, part gaslighting convincing us we’re just not trying hard enough).
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 1 month ago:
I will remember survivorship bias
The just world fallacy is another one worth remembering, in the context of your post, but also generally.
Also
If hard work led to success, then a poor person working three jobs should be rich.
You got George Monbiot’s quote almost exactly word for word: If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.”
He didn’t have to work three jobs to pay rent, but he is set up as a rags-to-riches story, using elbow grease and grit to become the mogul he is.
Lastly, you’re right, but it’s important to remember what he does have, and why - privilege, and lots of it (being a white man from a rich background, with a supportive family to boot? They all put his starting points miles ahead of most others), which he is given by white supremacist patriarchal capitalism, which is why he (and many others, even without the billions, privilege is one hell of a drug) will never work to end those systems and work towards creating a world where everyone has equitable access and opportunity.
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 1 month ago:
Capitalist propaganda.
“Aspiration” to be more precise, it’s one of the ways capitalists convince large segments of the public that they’re temporarily embarrassed millionaires, who just need to pull their bootstraps up hard enough, and they will make it, like the people in the programme did (conveniently they never address things like racism, sexism, queerphobia, ableism, and other barriers that many people have to face just to survive, never mind thrive, and the fact that all of these barriers are artificial and created by people who benefit just as much from dividing society up and pitting us against each other, as they do from selling us rags-to-riches bullshit to get us to work harder to make them money).
- Comment on Watermelon brandy 1 month ago:
I’ve not tried that, but I’ll keep my eye out for some, that sounds delicious!
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 1 month ago:
- Comment on Watermelon brandy 1 month ago:
I rarely ever drink, but I would try this, it sounds amazing I love melon.
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- Comment on I'm listening to a motivational speaker at a corporate conference when I realize... 1 month ago:
teach us how to relax, enjoy the moment and be happy again.
That’s not what they’re paying the motivational speaker to do. They’re paying them to make you more productive and trick you in to thinking they care about you so that you might stay loyal and work harder to make them money.
- Comment on 'Global Oligarchy' Reigns as Top 1% Controls More Wealth Than Bottom 95% of Humanity 1 month ago:
This is some wild reverse temporarily embarrassed millionaire bullshit right here.
No matter how many times you repeat this responsability shifting nonsense, it won’t ever make the people earning 60k responsible for what billionaires are doing.
Maybe visualising the scale of the numbers being discussed will help you see just how laughable your point is.
- Comment on There exists a position inside the earth where it is possible to cook a perfect pizza just by leaving it there 1 month ago:
Can’t argue with that…
- Comment on There exists a position inside the earth where it is possible to cook a perfect pizza just by leaving it there 1 month ago:
Probably, but is that position also accessible to you to put the pizza there in the first place, and be able to get it back out? Because if it isn’t, all you’ve done is sacrifice a perfectly good pizza. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Bulletproofing America’s Classrooms - Ballistic armor companies are marketing protective products designed for the military to parents and schools 1 month ago:
War is a racket, even if it’s against your own people. Gun culture and the shootings epidemic, and the subsequent industries that have sprung up as a result like this one, are massively profitable for a small group of people who either work in government or have it financially by the balls via “lobbying” (bribery), and they will always prioritise that profit over your life. Every, single, time.
- Comment on How a Child Got 65 Years for a Murder the Police Committed: lawyer explains broken US justice system 1 month ago:
The system isn’t broken, it’s rigged by design.
- Comment on Fears for patient safety as GPs use ChatGPT to diagnose and treat illness 1 month ago:
Lets not forget that AI is known for not only not providing any sources, or even falsifying them, but now also flat out lying.
Our GP’s are already mostly running on a tick-box system where they feed your information (but only the stuff on the most recent page of your file, looking any further is too much like hard work) in to their programme and it, rather than the patient or a trained physician, tells them what we need. Remove GP’s from the patients any more, and they’re basically just giving the same generic and often wildly incorrect advice we could find on WebMD.
- Comment on How many squirrels do you think you could take in a fight to the death? 2 months ago:
Depends how well trained they are, I suppose?
