DrFistington
@DrFistington@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 1 day ago:
So another way to look at it is that by eliminating a few thousand parasites, we can reshape our political landscape…
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 1 week ago:
The main reason is that if we stop being the biggest shark in the tank, the next two biggest sharks (China and Russia) can’t be trusted to not feast on the smaller sharks. And if they do feast, they will become too large for the American shark to deal with.
- Comment on Study finds persistent spike in hate speech on X 1 week ago:
So if you do nothing to prevent a problem, and In fact, actively encourage the problem, it gets worse?
- Comment on US immigration agents barred from LA baseball stadium: team 1 week ago:
Oh, so if a private company owns property they can tell ICE to fuck off, and it’s no problem, but if the governor of state tries to do, then it’s not ok?
- Comment on What the fuck 1 week ago:
I think that preggo test had a buffer overflow
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 1 week ago:
Or things like gourds
- Comment on Parents sue over son's asthma death days after inhaler price soared without warning 4 weeks ago:
If consequences dictate course of action then it doesn’t matter what’s right, it’s only wrong if you get caught.
- Comment on Am I weird for avoiding flying on prop planes, and only fly on jets? 4 weeks ago:
So if we’re being real, a jet engine is basically a super high rpm propeller that’s enclosed in a cowling. If anything the stress it’s under makes it more prone to failure. I could see avoiding single prop aircraft, which for pretty much all passenger flights would be propeller driven. But honestly any aircraft would be fine for me provided it has an experienced human pilot and at least 2 engines.
- Comment on Mexico says 10 Colombian ex-soldiers arrested after deadly blast 4 weeks ago:
Trump is letting the leaders of Mexican cartels into the US…
- Comment on I genuinely think we can get the billies to do it themselves if we make this: 5 weeks ago:
Can you design one with a giant boulder on a chain instead of the blade? Then put an anvil for the head to rest on
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Short answer, without trying to use political adversaries to try and provoke an unfounded fear response, no they absolutely can’t. Their entire ideology is that government is out of control, it takes too much, spends too much, and doesn’t give enough. But then the first thing they do when they gain power is entrench government power, control, and overreach, while they simultaneously strip citizens of their rights, and means to acquire enough wealth to make significant changes and contributions from a financial perspective.
If you want the TLDR, conservatives hate our government, and by extension, our country. unless they, and only they can wield it’s power to the full extent, and gain all of its benefits, at the expense of people they disagree with, or view as ‘less’ than them. With they cannot do that, they will claim that the government takes too much, and has no accountability, and exceeds its means. When they are in control however, their only concern is that the ‘bad people’ are trying to constrain their power, and force accountability.
They exist because they create a political environment that’s dysfunctional, blame the other side for the dysfunction, then Everytime they gain power, they entrench bullshit that will further perpetuate political and societal dysfunction.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Against Epic Games Due To A.I. Darth Vader 1 month ago:
No, I want it voiced by a trained actor.
I thought Terrance Howard was great in the first iron man, I was really bummed to find out they dropped him, then I saw the second one and you know what? Don cheadle knocked it out of the park.
I thought the daily show would be shit without Craig Kilbourn, and then bam, we get Jon Stewart. Pure gold.
If we had just used AI to knock off the originals we never would have seen other actors shine in the role
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 1 month ago:
Does Lemmy have an equivalent of the reddit sportsbook sub? That’s literally the only thing I actually go to Reddit for anymore, and I’d prefer to just use Lemmy if possible
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 1 month ago:
Wait, so are you now arguing that only binary options exist?
- Comment on Moody's downgrades United States credit rating, citing growth in government debt 1 month ago:
Saw this coming a mile away. Going to hurt borrowing across the board
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 1 month ago:
That was my hope during his first term. I figured he was so massively unqualified that he’d fuck up so badly he’d get impeached and hopefully executed for treason. The frustrating part is that I was right about him being a massively unqualified fuck up, and the impeachment. I just didn’t think that 95% of Republicans were complete traitors that cared more about Russian bribes than Americans.
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 1 month ago:
I never actually criticized people for supporting trans rights. I just pointed out that the topic can be divisive in American culture, and that is someone wanted to sow division, an easy way to do it would be to talk too much about that one very narrow topic, when we should be focusing on broader cooperative efforts at the moment. It doesn’t mean trans people deserve any more or less than anyone else.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I mean… Who’d have thought anyone in North Korea was allowed to have a sense of humor…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Because you were never in their secret little club. That’s what these idiots don’t understand. They think that because they have a few million dollars, or tens of millions and a business that they are ‘wealthy’ and therefore Republicans are one of them and vice versa.
If you don’t have at least 250 million, you are never going to be the intended beneficiary of Republican policy, and in fact, you will be harmed by their decisions. If you went to one of their little fund raisers and proudly announced that your business made ten million dollars last year, they’d fucking laugh at you, because you’re a joke to them. A donkey that thinks it’s a Thoroughbred
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 1 month ago:
You must be an active mod on one of the tankie instances with that kind of thinking.
Everyone is a piece of shit in their own respect. It’s our jobs to find common ground in spite of that
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 1 month ago:
When you define anything that involves trans people and something you don’t agree with as transphobic then you’re not going to be able to take three steps out of your door in the morning without encountering something transphobic.
Everyone deserves basic human rights and the dignity that comes with them. And someone can feel like they are whatever they think they are, absolutely fine. And others may fundamentally disagree with what you think, which is also completely fine.
The fact of the matter is that the majority of the people in the world, don’t give a shit what bathroom someone uses, or what an adult decides to believe or do with their own body. They never did. So by putting such focus on an issue that impacts hardly anyone directly, one which many people fundamentally disagree with, you’re just making more division.
everyone in the country had their civil rights suspended, so try and think a bit larger than just one microcosm.
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 1 month ago:
Advertisers are basically just arms manufacturers, supplying the wealthy with the tools needed to manipulate and use the population. Cut the head of the dragon
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 1 month ago:
I pointed out that constantly posting about ‘trans rights’ was just a way sow division with a topic that directly impacts a very small portion of the population, but gaslights a large portion of the remainder. Got banned.
- Comment on Cost of US military offensive against Houthis nears $1 billion with limited impact 1 month ago:
I mean, with all those tarrifs, global shipping traffic will be reduced significantly, which will deter pirating. You didn’t have to waste a billion dollars, dipshits.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 month ago:
Yeah bullshit. What mobile is are they moving towards? Oh, Android OS? Yeah makes sense since there isn’t any competition
- Comment on Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with rural Americans 1 month ago:
The irony is that they tried to prove how smart and un-hickish they are by blindly following someone who panders and talks down to them, and is also completely dishonest.
- Comment on Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with rural Americans 1 month ago:
Hey, that asshole who’s never worked a day in his life because he had a rich daddy and cheats on his taxes seems like a really trustworthy guy. What I like the most about him is the fact that he would never want to have a beer with me, and if he somehow did, it would be the most painful experience in my life. He really gets me!
- Comment on Amazon says displaying tariff cost 'not going to happen' after White House blowback 1 month ago:
Time to cancel your Amazon prime subscription
- Comment on Canada will ‘never’ yield to Trump’s threats as Prime Minister Carney declares election victory 1 month ago:
Just saying, if Canada we’re somehow able to liquidate Trump, Vance, Ron, Johnson, bondi, Rubio, and all other Trump appointees, it wouldn’t even be in the news after a few days. We’d have a special election and just kind of forget about it.
- Comment on US | Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show 1 month ago:
Wait… There are people that DON’T immediately pull the fuses for any on star features in their car?