DagwoodIII
@DagwoodIII@piefed.social
- Comment on I want to write a comic book about a superhero in his 20s who comes from a very wealthy family but my friend says its stupid. Should I give up? 9 hours ago:
All stories are stupid.
It’s the writers’ job to make them interesting.
A lot of the most popular heroes are rich. Heck, Richie Rich comics were a thing for decades.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 10 hours ago:
If you want to fight, you have to be prepared to lose.
Your words.
You are the one with the idea that it has to be a fight.
Like I said, it’s better to compromise and take small victories instead of push for a heroic resolution.
And, unless you feel like answering the question I posed* before, don’t bother to answer.
*I asked why we should do as Frederick Douglas did, supporting imperfect candidates who might be persuaded in the future, over ‘perfect’ candidates with no chance of winning?
- Comment on Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr 11 hours ago:
I don’t think it’s about the age as much as it’s about being in absolute control.
Look at Stormy Daniels. He knew he could coerce her into sex because she wanted to be on his show.
He’d rather have a 40 year old he could torture than a 15 year old who’d fight back.
- Comment on Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr 11 hours ago:
You inspired me to do a search I’ve considered before.
Ivanka Trump is 44 years old and Melania is 55.
I was surprised, and thought that they were much closer
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 12 hours ago:
So, apparently you don’t care how many people suffer and die so you can claim a moral victory.
If that’s not the voice of privilege I don’t know what it.
And I don’t want to fight. I’d much rather find an acceptable compromise and be able to make gains afterwards [like Frederick Douglas did when he backed Lincoln over the Abolition candidate.]
If you feel the need to be a martyr, go ahead. Don’t drag other people down with you.
- Comment on Anyone know where I can buy or get books by the pound to start a new library for our local jail. To help them read and prep them for a GED? 14 hours ago:
Contact larger libraries.
I live in NYC and the public libraries here literally throw away tons of books every year. The big city libraries and colleges in your area probably do the same.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 14 hours ago:
Again, you ignore the actual facts.
Maybe you live in a world of privilege where things like schools, roads, hospitals, and wars are merely theoretical. We who actually have to deal with those things know differently.
Nowhere do you link to a 3rd Party that has any realistic chance of making any change anytime soon.
Quick historical note. Look up a fellow named Frederick Douglas. He was a former slave. In 1860 he had the choice of supporting a full on pro-Abolition candidate who had almost no chance of winning or supporting a candidate who had stated he wasn’t prepared to end slavery.
Douglas figured it made more sense to support a winner and have a foot in the door. He abandoned the Abolition candidate and backed the winner instead.
So, when you reply, please explain why people shouldn’t follow Douglas’s lead and back the imperfect candidate who might win over the ‘pure’ candidate who is sure to lose.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 15 hours ago:
All that effort to show that you can’t tell the difference between ‘bad’ and completely horrible.’
You can babble on and on, but you can’t actually show one time that a strong third party candidate didn’t help the GOP.
- Comment on Quality TV 21 hours ago:
No, you don’t.
A couple of days ago I heard about a dead whale that washed up on an Oregon beach. They couldn’t figure out how to remove it, so they decided to use dynamite to blow it up. I went online and found the news story, thinking it would be really cool.
It was way more fun to imagine it, and just disappointing to see.
Actually observing really stupid people in real life is never as much fun as movies make you believe.
- Comment on Somewhere out there, there may be an alien life form imagining how terrible a planet with molten dihydrogen monoxide in the atmosphere might be. 1 day ago:
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I’m reminded of a very old science fiction story.
Earthman crash lands on Mars. He wanders around and finds a village. It’s fully automated to provide the residents with anything they need. But because it was built by Martians everything is toxic to the human.
The village tries to adapt, but his biochemistry is too alien. Finally, starving, unable to go on, the just lays down in one of the beds and gives up.
When he wakes up, everything has changed. The village smells wonderful, the music sounds great and the bowl of food next to the bed is the best thing he ever ate. The astronaut is so happy that he can’t stop wagging all three tails.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 1 day ago:
Please show me one time in the past 50 years that a third party candidate in the US helped the Left win an election.
The GOP constantly funds and pushes for the Greens and Libertarians because they know those candidates sap the Dems.
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 1 day ago:
There are plenty of rich addicts. Charlie Sheen and Whitney Houston spring to mind. Anna Nicole Smith was a literal billionaire.
“Tough love” is also a real thing. Families throw addicts out all the time. the idea is that if things get bad enough the addict will “hit bottom” and seek help.
The idea of a dealer killing a customer is the part that makes little sense. The dealer wouldn’t give an addict drugs without cash up front. Dealers know exactly how unreliable addicts are.
How about the addict tries to steal from the dealer and the dealer kills them in self defense?
You might want to look up the case of Carrol O’Connor. Famous actor, his son died after an overdose. O’Connor called the son’s dealer a murderer and the dealer tried to sue him for defamation of character.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 3 days ago:
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The difference between naked and nude is that nude just means you aren’t wearing clothes, but naked implies that there’s a plan involved.
- Comment on ...🤔... 3 days ago:
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No, seriously, what the hell happened to you to make you like this?
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 3 days ago:
Obligatory
- Comment on I just want to be loved! 3 days ago:
If you haven’t seen this movie, you’ve wasted your life.
- Comment on People who grew up with Vietnam and the Cold War, is Iran going to be the new vietnam or just a semi cool war? 1 week ago:
Vietnam is considered part of the greater ‘Cold War.’ Soviet pilots flew for the North Vietnamese Air Force.
Angola’s long civil war was another bloody proxy war.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
Saw it on an episode of MASH.
Henry is dating a 22 year old nurse. Hawkeye tells Henry that Henry has bunions older than his girlfriend.
- Comment on the circle of men 1 week ago:
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
This book came out decades ago and pretty much predicted everything.
“Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler. His premise was that the coming Digital Age would divide the world into the people who were going to embrace the changes and the people who couldn’t/wouldn’t give up on the Industrial Age.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
Serious.
How exactly does that work? I’m pretty ignorant of most religions.
I know the Koran came after the Bible and that Moses and Jesus are considered holy. Is Muhammed the ultimate prophet? Can other prophets come later and add to the Koran?
- Comment on anal + doggy = ultimate loophole🫶 1 week ago:
- Comment on anal + doggy = ultimate loophole🫶 1 week ago:
https://youtu.be/j8ZF_R_j0OY?list=RDj8ZF_R_j0OY
Can’t believe I’m the one posting the video.
Lazy so-and-sos.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 week ago:
Also, what “multiple genocides” are you referring to?
I was going to make some sort of sarcastic reply, but I’ll just let your question speak for itself.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 week ago:
Yes, because your point was that there’s no difference between one genocide in Gaza and multiple genocides all over the world.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 week ago:
. Continuing to vote blue no matter who makes everything worse.
Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House in 1976. Every Dem candidate since Jimmy has been close to him politically.
Back in 1976 people were being told not to vote for Carter because he wasn’t strongly against the racist South African regime.
People like that were wrong then and you’re wrong now. “Not perfect” is much better than “truly evil.”
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 week ago:
So, no difference between one genocide and WW3?
- Comment on YSK: Wage theft is the biggest crime by annual losses 1 week ago:
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Back in the day, then-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg introduced a wide ranging plan to stop City workers from unfairly collecting overtime. The project, CityTime, was supposed to cost about $65 million. Somehow, the cost swelled to over $1 billion.
The plan was being run by Bloomberg’s daughter.