• darthinvidious@lemmy.world
    11·
    18 hours ago

    fr though, and I keep saying this, but we can literally end this shit show now if we all just fucking picked a day to not go to work for one lousy day when we know congress and dumbass are at DC and we just strike/protest en masse outside until they surrender. They have long abandoned doing anything meaningful for the people. Like if we can get all of DC to just stop for a day, bam.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      13·
      18 hours ago

      That’s precisely why organized labour has been systematically dismantled in the US. Back in the day there were strong unions, mutual support groups, and so on. These systems are key for workers to be able to take collective action like general strikes.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
    9·
    20 hours ago

    Let’s not forget that our leaders are WORSE than mere pedophiles. They are literally cooking & chewing up & eating & drinking some of those children after raping them. And even worse weird things. I felt it necessary to point that out right now because some old rabbit holes I’ve been down have been haunting me again lately.

    • SpankyDoodle@eviltoast.org
      4·
      19 hours ago

      My gf has been needing to calm me down because I am NOT OKAY with that bullshit. It’s fucking demonic and sickening and they belong in the pits of hell feeling every bit of unimaginable pain possible for the lives they’ve ruined and destroyed. Fuck these people so god damn hard.

      • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
        3·
        16 hours ago

        I feel you. Reminds me circa 2019 I was telling my (ex-) bf about these things and he just listened to me with a blank stare and said nothing. Of course not much was ever really in his brain anyway but those 6 years with him were eye-opening for me because

        (heads up: this is not just a rant about my ex-boyfriend, it ties back into the baby-eaters topic)

        that’s when I learned about people who have undeveloped prefrontal cortexes in their brain and I’m certain that’s what his glitch was. Sociopathic, no compassion, everything they do is for their own selfish gratification and they feel no remorse for manipulating & hurting others. They don’t do it on purpose, their brains are just missing the empathy parts. They’re also incapable of feeling embarrassment, shame, remorse, self- reflection, seeking self-improvement, because that part of their brain is missing, which comes across as extreme confidence & arrogance & they’re intimidating & powerful. (President Trump has this heinous birth defect too, undeveloped pre-frontal correx.)

        It’s terrifying because those are the types of people who end up in positions of authority because business structure & capitalism exploit everything a human can produce, exploiting us with no empathy. Businesses & capitalism are run by sociopaths & psychopaths because to them, money is more important than people. As long as the people on top end up with all the money. That’s how the brains of people with undeveloped prefrontal cortexes are wired.

        And these same types of people are the ones ritualistically abusing murdering & consuming children. My (ex-)bf probably hopefully never knew about such things before, at least he never alluded anything about it to me, but I’m certain if he had the opportunity he would join such groups. Because psychopathy/sociopathy, interest in religion & people but not the healthy aspects of religion & people, the power & structure & rituals & fellowship of religion. And the bonding opportunities & exploitability of humans. Devoid of feelings & compassion. Seeking only power & personal satisfaction & gain everywhere they go, in everything they do, from everyone they encounter.

  • BilSabab@lemmy.world
    5·
    22 hours ago

    but hey, you don’t have to be able to recognize drone type by their engine buzz coming from afar… yet.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 day ago

    Money is not fake, it’s arbitrary. It’s also not the goods and services themselves, but a pretty good way of exchanging goods and services. Better than barter, for example, where every little thing has to be negotiated and you might have to set up chains of barters ot make it work.

    Food is not being poisoned, what a crock of shit. Sounds like someone is scared of “chemicals”. Drinking too much water can kill you. Eating natural things can, too - cyanide is natural. Are there concerns about our food supply? Perhaps, but “poisoning you” is a bit much.

    And water? Most tap water in the US is some of the best in the world. Some places are unlucky. Where I live they put in too much chlorine from time to time which isn’t unhealthy or unsafe but makes it impossible to drink, so we keep bottled water for when that happens, which sucks, but the water is safe. Going on about how it’s being poisoned makes you sound anti-science or like someone trying to scare people into watching their paid content.

    Wars based on lies? Yeah, can give you that one.

    The country run by pedos? Yep, that one’s a go as well.

    Too distracted? Yeah, and that’s thanks to our oligarchs who control the media and the messaging. They weigh us down with everything that can, take as much money away as they can so we struggle to survive and feel like it’s all pointless. But if we could all get out on the street and shut everything the fuck down and demand change - specific change, pony up people to run for office - we could fix our problems, although it would be hard. We could extend the social safety nets that would make our lives easier. But it’s hard. Fighting the momentum they have is hard.

    But we have to keep trying. Keep talking about it - that leads to protests. Keep protesting - that leads to people taking action. Keep taking action - that will lead to actions that have a chance of changing where things are headed. Every part of that is important.

    Do what you can, whatever that is.