Clearly, Putin should just be allowed to take whatever he wants. Thanks for clearing that up for us.

The number of times people have told me, “well SpaceX engineers have been quoted as saying he’s very competent!” Yeah, how big was their bonus after that?

I used to work for a local TV station as a videographer. We always had to go out and get “highlights” of high school and college sports games in the area. Football was by far the worst, because it could literally take you an hour to get any 10-15 seconds of footage that was usable.

I hated football before that. Now I really hate football.

Exactly what that they are doing is not a distraction? Because every single time they say or do anything, someone on Lemmy says it’s a distraction.

Now even announcing they will invade Gaza is a distraction?

Literally what is not a distraction?

A musician needs to write a catchy tune to put the name to so people will remember the numbers.

Trump has everything to do with the fact that there is not going to be any chance to do any sort of progressive reforms in America again in the foreseeable future. Just like there are not going to be any elections again in the foreseeable future.

You still think things are fixable in the U.S.

You are in for a rude awakening.

Sorry, do you think time began in 2020?

There was time to fix it from within the system. That was before the fascist dictator was elected. There is no fix at this point. The good news is it will almost certainly come all crashing down due to incompetence and you only have a few years before global warming because a much bigger problem than healthcare anyway.

What do I want? A socialist utopia. I’m just not under any illusions about it happening in America.

Also batman didn’t change the systemic issues with Gotham.

This is exactly what I have been saying since the assassination. You cannot fix systemic problems with vigilantism.

Did anyone’s coverage go down? No. Did UHC just deny the claim of a woman in a coma? Yes.

https://www.newsweek.com/united-healtchare-claim-deny-brian-thompson-luigi-mangione-insurance-2008307

You cannot fix systemic problems with vigilantism.

The “a vote for Kamala is a vote for genocide” people were literally saying before the election that Palestinian genocide cannot get worse because genocide is genocide.

So I guess this isn’t worse?

Was it non nuclear or do none of their nukes work?

I’ve wanted to get Leviticus 19:18 tattooed on me somewhere prominently for years, but too many people would not get the joke and think I was religious.

Yes, again, I get that you think one genocide is more important than another.

To me, genocide is genocide.

And, again, we’re talking about a hypothetical scenario.

Was the Libertarian Party in charge in 2020? No.

Are homeless people the only sort of poor people who need assistance? No.

So what the hell does this have to do with the Libertarian genocide of the poor that would happen if they were in power?

I wasn’t talking about you, I was talking about the members of the Libertarian party. Because that’s what they stand for. Elimination of almost all social services and taxes. Which would literally kill countless poor people. It would absolutely be genocidal. It’s just not the genocide that concerns you apparently.

“As long as they don’t support the genocide I care about, the genocide they would allow to happen because capitalism is fine.” Gotcha. You do realize that their idea of capitalism where that happens is only what they want, hence my point.

Very few other people are saying there should be absolutely zero social services and near zero taxation. Just them. That is just death to the poor.

They support a genocide of the poor. One that involves letting them starve to death due to the total lack of social services.

I was explaining what the Libertarian Party wanted to my daughter and she said she didn’t understand why anyone would want a country like that. I told her that virtually no one else does either, which is why Libertarians almost never get elected.

You are correct, they don’t appear to be. This one seems more accurate there, but the difference is still stark:

There are doomsday prepper magazines, which seems like it would be a poor business model if they were right, what with it relying on future issues coming out to sell advertising.