Triasha
@Triasha@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer 1 day ago:
Ukraine has archeological evidence of cities of 20-40 thousand people with no evidence of hierarchy or rulers.
Source: dawn of everything by Graeber and Wengow
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 days ago:
Fixing what trump has broken will be a generational project, and nobody will be given the time required.
- Comment on The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer 2 days ago:
Humans lived for 10s of thousands of years under communism. Capitalism was invented and within a couple of centuries the human race is commiting collective suicide with falling birth rates.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 days ago:
We thought we couldn’t do worse than Bush, but here we are. I’m not holding my breath for the future. I’m expecting 4 years of someone not a total asswipe and then we elect mecha hitler or someone somehow worse.
- Comment on Typical US worker has less than $1,000 saved for retirement, report finds 6 days ago:
Depends on where in Europe. Dutch housing is comparatively affordable, British? Irish? It’s worse then the US.
In general, Europeans have it worse for housing than the average American.
- Comment on Typical US worker has less than $1,000 saved for retirement, report finds 6 days ago:
That’s deeply unfortunate if you were planning to retire next year, but you might just have to live simply for a few years while the market recovers.
Otherwise, no big deal unless we reach Russian or Argentinian levels of collapse.
That’s possible. The East Asian demographic cliff, a US debt crisis, global soil collapse, there are plenty of imaginable scenarios.
But none of them have happened yet, unless you live in Argentina or were a Soviet citizen. The west could continue to get lucky.
- Comment on Typical US worker has less than $1,000 saved for retirement, report finds 6 days ago:
US you get comparatively low cost food and housing, but you have to pay for medical care.
You win some you lose some.
Also, in the US you have to eat US food.
- Comment on God bless the Midwest 1 week ago:
The northwest territories were north and west of the original thirteen colonies, more or less. They are not more north east of the country as a whole, because westward expansion continued.
- Comment on Are we about to see the WW3? 1 week ago:
Correct, if the US goes after China, that would also be ww3.
- Comment on Are we about to see the WW3? 1 week ago:
If China invaded now, the US would help Taiwan as much as we are helping Ukraine.
We could defeat China in a few months by blocking the Malacca straight.
Unless Xi cut a deal with Trump.
- Comment on Are we about to see the WW3? 2 weeks ago:
Xi understood that 10 years ago, but he’s purged or fired everyone near him that would tell him that now.
The US understood that 4 years ago. But then we elected Taco for a second go round.
I’m not saying they will, I’m saying that dictators and fascist assholes don’t always do that makes sense.
I forsee America entering a debt crisis and China might see that as an opportunity.
- Comment on Are we about to see the WW3? 2 weeks ago:
The odds just got higher. If China goes for Taiwan, and the US goes all out to defend them, I’m willing to say thats it, WW 3.
It won’t be as cinematic as the second, but that’s my line.
- Comment on bold words 2 weeks ago:
If I know it’s me, “mine some Bitcoin” if I don’t necessarily know it’s me? “You transitioned… Me”
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 4 weeks ago:
His religious argument for progressive values is what makes him a strong candidate for Texas.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 4 weeks ago:
Talerico is serving in the state house, Crocket in the national congressional delegation.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 4 weeks ago:
Talerico. Brings his sincerity, faith, and working class background in in one of the poorest school districts in the country. He has integrity and and a way of invoking Christianity that I think resonates in Texas. He appeals to a broad swath of voters without compromising his progressive ideals.
I would vote for Crocket if she wasn’t up against Talerico. But as is, I think he has a better shot at the general and I trust him more.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 4 weeks ago:
This is u ironically why the rich should support a wealth tax.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 4 weeks ago:
This is why we need a wealth tax.
- Comment on 'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. A lot of getting good at something is practicing. No one wants to spend time doing something they suck at, especially in public, but rather than practice in private, we can try to trick ourselves into believing we are actually already talented, faking it to get the practice that is needed to build the skill.
This might also help with mild imposter syndrome.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 month ago:
Hard disagree. Their base will believe anything.
If we set up gas chambers in Florida some people would be insisting they were harmless showers while they were being forced into them.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 month ago:
Yep, there is no organization capable of staging armed opposition to the government. A series of mass shootings and maybe some explosives is all we are going to get.
Given the number of incidents, I wouldn’t be shocked if historians decide later we are already living through it. Political assasinations in Minnesota, the attempted murder of pelosi’s husband, attempted trump shooter, charkie Kirk, the car bomb in Memphis that didn’t go off a few years ago. The United Healthcare CEO hit. Attempted kidnapping of Gretchen Whitmer.
There is plenty of violence to go around, but nothing that would rise to civil war.
I have imagined a scenario where a debt crisis degrades the capacity of the federal government and polarization leaves citizens and national guard more loyal to their state than the federal government, but we are a long way away from that.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 month ago:
Sure, the billionaires are the ultimate problem. They are not the office holders.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 month ago:
Those outlets would not publish that propaganda if it did not sell. It’s not that there is no interplay, but the media figures pushing the fascist propaganda have no incentive to stop and cannot be forced to stop without abandoning core principles of our society (freedom of speech)
Executing, exiling, or dispropriating enough billionaires would make a difference, but again, you need fascist tools to stop the decent into fascism. There is a significant segment of our society that wants the violence. Not a majority, but enough that I see no peaceful way through. The violence will come for us eventually.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 month ago:
Hard disagree. The Republican politicians are not leading the masses to dark places, the masses are pulling the politicians to greater extremes and the politicians are holding them back, because they have a greater understanding of the consequences than the average voter.
Ask the average Republican if undocumented I’m immigrants should all be deported, and they will tell you yes. That’s 14 million people, and the only way to accomplish it is to build up ICE to 5 times it’s current size, and do what they are doing in Minneapolis in every city in America. What they want requires fascism.
Ask them if abortion is murder and they will say yes. They don’t care about the women that are dying from pregnancy complications, the children that will be orphaned, the families that have been torn apart because the treatment for many conditions is abortion of the pregnancy and if it’s murder you can get treatment.
Ask them if environmental regulations are too stiff and should be rolled back so the economy can grow, and they will say yes, they don’t care about the ecosystems that will be lost forever, the diseases that people will suffer from pollution, or the rights of communities to avoid those harms.
What holds them back is that individuals don’t all want the same things, so the party pulls in different directions, because some people understand the disaterous implications of a specific policy, so they don’t support that particular cruelty, but they don’t question the wider ideology, and the basic ideology is a death cult.
What you get over time is generational frustration that the corrupt politicians refuse to do what is necessary and support for more and more extreme individuals in office. People that hatch plans like the federalist society, to corrupt the courts, and project 2025, to destroy the administrative state and consolidate power into the executive, and congresspeople who will support the descent into violent fascism, because that’s what is required to give the masses what they demand.
Democracy slows down the process, but the American voters will get the cruelty, suffering, and death they demand eventually.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 1 month ago:
Both. Definitely both. Our minds can experience two emotions at once.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 1 month ago:
That’s a calculation each of us has to make personally. If you are white, a citizen, have people that rely on you, and are wealthy enough that they can fight a legal battle for you, maybe don’t resist and hope for the best. If you are none of those, and you think you might get sent to a concentration camp or Africa, maybe defend yourself as best you can.
Good luck to everyone.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
World leaders are doing things. Europe has committed large sums of money to building out their defense industries, China has been building out it’s military capabilities for decades, Canada has used tarrifs to strategically punish the US for it’s tarrifs on Canadian goods and joined the European defense partnership, presumably to gain access to the aforementioned defense industry build out in Europe. Japan is increasing it’s military spending and moving to amend it’s constitution to remove the restrictions on military force.
Sanctions against the US like those on Iran are possible, but for a country as large and wealthy as the US with such a diversified economy, even if the entire world sanctioned the US it would plunge them into desperate poverty.
It would wreck the US economy, no doubt, but most world leaders are not willing to even suggest their people should endure that level of hardship over Nicolas Maduro. And the US would still have most of the world ability to project military power, so driving us into a corner like that would be incredibly dangerous.
Make no mistake, every world leader and especially every head of state in Latin America is considering the chance that delta Force could pull them out of bed at 3 AM, I imagine Sheinbaum in Mexico, Lula in Brazil, have a few new grey hairs and especially Cubas head of state is sweating bullets. They don’t have the power to prevent it.
I am personally reviewing my options for how to protest this action.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 months ago:
Yeah, Israel was able to launch a shit ton of Missiles into Iran, and some of the Iranian Missiles hit Israel, even through the Iron dome, the tightest missile defense system in the world.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 2 months ago:
AI. Is huge capital investments. Just tax the wealth. Any fortune over 10 million has to pay 4% of the gross total per year.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 months ago:
That’s definitely where my mind goes.