That’s always been the easiest way to distill their m.o. – “Fuck you, got mine”

Sometimes i think of wealth disparity in terms of an enormous game of musical chairs. Maybe I’m being naive, but i at least like to think that there’s enough chairs for everyone on the planet to get a seat. People carrying that “fuck you, got mine” mindset are hoarding chairs. The worst offenders are hoarding square miles of chairs. At the end of the day when the shit hits the fan though, everybody only needs/fits on a single chair. All that hoarding for something they’ll never use while denying folks who couldn’t get one at all.

Guess we’ll never know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(I too, was disappointed to get a little ways in before hitting that same wall myself)

If they did, I bet it would be one of those enormous cheques, like on Publishers Clearinghouse

No better way to expose your opposition than to… Pretend to be them and shoot a film under that pretense?! I know genuine creativity is something conservatives are generally incapable of, but it’s at satire levels now. They can’t make a compelling argument for anything they stand for because the truth would lose them support

See how many words and how much energy it takes to properly explain the situation thoughtfully? The morons spreading those falsehoods don’t need to expend nearly as much time/energy because they’re just lying.

It’s at the point now that conservatives are willing to accept anything in place of the truth as long as it suits their agenda. Guess they could be called “Not-Sees” given their tendency to embrace blatant lies while ignoring obvious and clear truths.

Thank you! Like i said, i figured there’s something I’m missing–that would appear to be it.

It honestly just never occurred to me that such a transformation was allowed/possible. A nonprofit seems to imply something charitable, though obviously that’s not the true meaning of it. Still, it would almost seem like the company benefits from the goodwill that comes with being a nonprofit but then gets to transform that goodwill into real gains when they drop the act and cease being a nonprofit.

I don’t really understand most of this shit though, so I’m probably missing some key component that makes it make a lot more sense.

Also catching a whiff of Woody Allen 🫢

Tell you what though–he can’t hide those inhuman eyes no matter what kinda clown glasses he puts on

Here’s my proposal:

I’ve heard the claim numerous times that people leave a tremendous carbon footprint. Each person would be assigned a certain amount of “carbon credits” that their life is worth, and the value slowly declines as they get older. If they choose to, one can hop in the expiration bin and donate those remaining credits to a cause of their choice: they can give them to their children, family, or friends, donate them to a charity or research group, etc.

I can just imagine the ads where companies try to compel you to take the early-expiration route while relinquishing your credits to them “for the greater good” or some other such nonsense

Children mass-produced for the glorious stream of carbon credits it would award

Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla et al provide “expiration tanks” in convenient places that send the credits directly to them after each “donation”

Wtf i need to go back to sleep, lol

Night night lemmy ✨

down 30% in a year.

Thrice decimated 🧐

That would be inconvenient to Trump’s claims except that the truth doesn’t matter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The gears of justice move slowly (or some similar line of dismissive bullshit)

That’s the key difference here

Thank you!!! I was going to post this but figured I’d make sure nobody else had already. Terrific taste, Twin Peaks is my all-time favorite tv show 😗🤌

This really does seem like the endgame for all collectibles–to eventually get capitalized to the point that outsiders come in and start speculating/buying out new releases/limited editions solely to flip for profit.

In plenty of cases I’ve seen, they never even have the product in their hands–they’ll just transfer the order to the highest bidder. I guess it’s the nature of collectibles and limited-edition stuff, but it just takes away the fun for a lot of the people who enjoy the hobby/collectibles/etc… it’s kinda deflating when you can’t even get the item without paying a premium to some rando that has no interest in it first (instead of just paying the vendor/manufacturer directly at their list price).

Or be “victimized” by Russian right-wing propaganda?

Possibly overrepresented Prominently featured on a couple Frank Zappa albums…

Kidding aside, it’s all a matter of taste! Luckily with Zappa there are tons of flavors to choose from 😆

I’m buying as much TrumpCoin™ as my bank will allow me to transfer right now

Well, of course we could – the fact we haven’t is why it’s come to this. 🫠

While i think it sounds risky, it’s awesome news for anyone that can’t afford proper healthcare. I’m also thinking that given 5-10 years we may see this evolve into something a lot more viable.

"I mean, I’m just^askingquestions^🥴