The race is between 2 dictators.

I dont vote for any dictators.

Nope. Again. I oppose fascism. I know the concept confuses you, but you do that by not voting for fascists.

I did.

The fascist in chief cancelled debates.

Shame you have chosen fascism.

No. I am a person who is against fascism and genocide, so when I am presented with 2 genocidal fascists, I conscientiously abstain.

You don't get to go into your fascism induced delirium and tell me I am doing the opposite of what I am doing.

When Biden loses because the party of peace and the people wont rally behind a profiteering war dog who has militarized police far more than any president in recent history all while commanding "order" in the face of criticism for his actions, it will be YOUR fault that Trump won.

Because instead of shaping the party you vote for, you lap dogged and stuck your ass up in the air.

I am not hell-bent on helping Trump get elected.

I'm hell-bent on not helping a genocidal fascist dictator get elected.

People like you are at fault for Biden being on the ticket and not someone who deserves a vote.

Why are you hell-bent on maintaining the status quo and keeping this genocide and the gradual decline of America into abject fascism going?

Cant reset the entire system right this very moment, so better just push it further down the path like a good little fascist instead of doing something that could start the change that is needed. /s

You're right, lets just keep nickle and diming ourselves deeper into fascism.

No, I don't need to run mental gymnastics with another fascist.

Good thing our country is a Democracy and there are a multitude of other options. Not just Fascist Dictator A or Fascist Dictator B.

I hate genocide... BUT...

Just so precious.

Are you to senile or stupid to know that Trump has nothing to do with Biden's platform?

Covid happened and gave me work from home.

The order to return to office happened and I said no.

In the back and forth, I defined my official schedule as 9 to 5.

Now, typically I work late a night or 2 a week so I start work a couple hours late/stop work a couple hours early a night or 2 a week.

So the campaign hasn't changed.

"Don't question my genocide or I'll have cops beat you up and arrest you while demanding order. And I'm not Trump. Biden2024."

Took the words out of my mouth.

If you wanna get all brutal and how it is in America about it, I am thinking more about giving the kids a chance to say good bye than actually getting help.

We have established that noone who could actually do something about it cares about all of the kids getting murdered in America schools.

Edit: And remember. While Uvalde cops sat outside and wet their pampers, a mother overpowered them to get children evacuated. A mother who was... notified by their child with a cell phone... and later faced criminal charges for it.

What phone doesn't have internet anymore?

Edit: Wait, I get it. So now kids have their at home phone AND their parents also pay for their "you're at school so this is how you get us your last words in the event of a shooting" phone.

Again, genius.

Parents needing to pay MORE money they don't have and kids have ANOTHER reminder of how their job is basically to obey AND very possibly be killed while obeying.

So much better of a solution instead of MOTHER FUCKING GUN CONTROL.

Take away kids ability to communicate with family and law enforcement when they get shot up.

Genius idea.

Hey, I'm not defending them. At all. I'm not sure I'm not on team bullet to the back of the head.

I'm just saying maybe focus on the problem as a whole instead of going straight to the pitchfork.

Cut off the head of a hydra in a mindless frenzy and it spawns 2 more. Gotta have the presence of mind to cauterize the neck.

Victims of abuse become perpetrators of abuse.

Do what you want with that take, but remember most of these people weren't born broken, like Dahmer. They were broken by people.

Catholic church and Boy Scouts, so sorry, now named SA, still exist. Still abuse people. Still break people.

https://kbin.social/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/1062249/Flood-water-use#entry-comment-6881433

Here's my half baked response.

They can pipeline oil over thousands of miles.

Why can't they pipeline water?

Oh shit. I think Nestlé heard me and all of our money goes to blowing up Palestinians, not giving drinkable water to Flint.

Disregard please.

11 hours ago in a post asking why America cant build infrastructure to collect flood water to be used during dry season/in regions that lack potable water...

And there is my tidbit about blowing up Palestinians instead of ensuring Americans have potable water.

Here's my half baked response.

They can pipeline oil over thousands of miles.

Why can't they pipeline water?

Oh shit. I think Nestlé heard me and all of our money goes to blowing up Palestinians, not giving drinkable water to Flint.

Disregard please.

I know I bought Elite Dangerous Horizons on steam for like 80 bucks and played it for a while, and now no matter what I do, I cant get access to the game. I get bungled in third party account sign ins.

Sounds like the genera is cursed. There is promise, but the developers just leech money and obstruct access to the game.

But dude, Star Citizen ships are the NFTs of tomorrow!

Think of the fat stacks you're gonna get when the game drops, the plebs cant buy the pre-order ships and you take them to resale!

How long before Wendy's is a lunch time stock market?

But rest assured, capitalism is the only successful model and every instance of socialism has failed in human history. /s

Precisely.

They promised complete privacy hedges when they announced the park.

They put in 7 immature trees along a half mile of fenceline.

Neighbors have been calling cops non stop about the illegal activity at night. They showed up once to harass the neighbors and ignore the people in the park.

It's all been a big ol fuck you to the homeowners.

Edit: And for the record, I'm not even a homeowner.

I can't afford a home to own.

My neighbors all own.

I rent.

So I'm cut off at the knees when it comes to actually approaching the city.

Oh believe me, my neighbors and I REALLY want to.

The guy feeding his family can feed his family with a rake.

I literally just emailed my local parks and rec because they built a park immediately behind my once peaceful house.

I begged them to stop leaf blowing every single day. There arent even any trees. They are just out there every day blowing the grass. Usually before 7am.

The response I got was basically "sit and spin. If you don't like it, call the cops, but they are city too so they won't do anything."

My memory is I checked with no intention to actually file, first job lost and all, and Arizona + part time = no unemployment.

Gotta be over 40 a week to qualify.

My first breaking point was the millionth time I was in the printer aisle before open on a Saturday with a manager laying into me for a half hour about how to "squeeze the last of the juice" out of people, and they dropped the "tell them you are an un-comissioned salesperson so you have no reason to take advantage of them, it disarms them, makes them trust you, you can load anything into their cart after you make them believe that" and I had a moment of clarity, and instead of going "Uh huh. Yes sir" I thought "No. I am an un-comissioned salesperson so I have no reason to take advantage of them. End of sentence."

Genuinely, Best Buy is one of the worst companies on planet earth.

Yup.

I was 17, I was about to graduate high school so it was part time. I was the most reliable department associate, but one of the "weaker" salesmen.

The department was spotless when I was there and the phone always got answered, and I made sure to bag 3 or 4 big sales a week, but I wasn't out to bleed every poor soul who walked into the department dry. I was more about good service and finding the right solution for each person.

So I got an average of 32 hours a week, well over all the other people in the department, but I was definitely on my way out, and that raging hemorrhoid of a waste of air reaming me out over helping an 80 year old woman who literally showed me her social security check, but assured me she had friends she could get to invite her over for dinner if the computer was too expensive pushed me out.

Its not even like if they fired me I would have gotten unemployment. It was just a petty move from a coward with a micro-peen who couldn't handle a 17 year old telling them they were a 45 year old failure at life working in a Best Buy for just over minimum wage taking advantage of nice elderly ladies.

Your mom.

Yup.

I was in the computer sales department.

We were flat out told what the lies were, and how to make them more convincing.

The service contracts were non-refundable, so it didn't matter.

When a manager caught me helping a retiree get a cheap setup to email her grandkids instead of getting them on a line of credit for a top of the line gaming pc, they didn't even fire me. They just stopped scheduling me hours and told me to keep coming in to get my schedule.

Picked up a blank schedule for 5 weeks before I stopped going in and I'm sure they filed no call no show paperwork when I didn't show up for my 1 hour 3 weeks later.

Fuck best buy.

Ya.

I worked there when they launched a membership thing, and it was points to gift cards that got printed on receipt paper in hopes the barcode on the carbon paper would fade before you tried to scan it, not any actual price reduction.

Kind of like how there was all that fine print in the 200 dollar service plan that made it sound like you got more, but it was always just the manufacturer warantee, so if your device qualified for manufacturer warentee, geek squad would give you the cheap out fix, and get the preemo replacements and put them into stock. If the manufacturer warantee didn't cover it, you were fucked.

35 percent of billionaires are not white.

492 billionaires exist.

It's 2024.

Rich vs poor is a larger issue that white vs not white.

It's not 1700 when all the rich were British, or 1850 when all the rich were white.

All this rhetoric is outdated.

If you want to talk about oppression, talk about the CEO of Infosys and how he has crippled India and a very large stake in global technology.

Nah, just irritated about an Aussie trying to stir up racial conflict in America with bullshit rhetoric.