“where were the parents”
Oooh, that grinds my gears. We all know helicopter parenting is harmful for children, but people freak out whenever kids are outside without a helicopter parent. It reminds me of the mother who was arrested for letting their 10 year old be outside unsupervised (cops said it wasn’t safe for the kid to be outside on their own)
We can have regulatory institutions while still democratizing the economy. We don’t need capitalist-neo-feudalism to work together to protect public health, improve our educational and build infrastructure.
Everything starts to make more sense if you imagine what you might do as a billionaire capitalist: Imagine you are an automotive tycoon and progressives keep trying to make it harder for people to drive and own cars which in turn may reduce the demand for cars which could cost you and buddies billions in the long run! Save lives? You don’t know anything about traffic engineering and your yes men assure you that cars are perfectly safe (and when they aren’t it is clearly the victims fault)… All you know is, your wealth is under attack! So you use the lobbyists, politicians and capitalist propaganda outlets (privately owned news media) to attack the issue, to defend your wealth. In turn, by sheer volume of disinformation and propaganda, you turn the public against their own interests and protect your wealth.
Sadly, that is exactly the state of things. Working class stiffs are incredibly susceptible to propaganda and disinformation (if they weren’t then companies wouldn’t spend billions every year on advertising)
Einheitsfrontlied, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdcdZkiKRI&t=0
(Especially the 3rd verse, translated to english): “And just because he’s a worker No class can free him but his own The emancipation of the working class Is the task of the worker alonе”
The moment LLM can do your job for you is the moment that you lose your job to boost shareholder value
It’s not just that billionaires are bad, their existence is a symptom of a larger broken system.
Capitalism is the problem here. Billionaires (Capitalists) are not merely a symptom, they are deeply part of the root problem as they have the most power to fix things if they wanted to use their wealth for good rather than evil. I also want to point out that growing the wealth disparity with little to no regard for the damage done to society or the future is largely the entire point of capitalism.
He ran as someone who would bring together Blue America and Red America in the spirit of bipartisanship.
I really liked Obama in 2008, but his Presidency was unbelievably disappointing and hope crushing. He didn’t end the wars or give us universal healthcare, he didn’t tax the rich or give us the right to unionize without fearing for our jobs… also, Republicans hated Obama so much that the party elected Trump in 2016! So Obama’s “lie about being a progressive then pivot to centrist bipartisan bullshit” was absolutely a colossal failure.
I hate how charities are run by rich assholes who pay themselves or their family and friends 6 to 7 figures while doing very little to actually help people
I wouldn’t go that far. Some traditions can be a positive that help give people a sense of shared community: christmas trees, presents and gluhwein for christmas, turkey for thanksgiving, etc
Jokes on Elon. Conservatives hate electric cars and now Tesla’s core customer base hates Tesla because of Elon
Yeah, no one has ever told me that I had a beautiful smile and that I should smile more… I never get compliments and very rarely get any appreciation. I helped a friend of a friend fix electrical issues saving him thousands that he didn’t have? Just a generic “thanks.” The guy offered to feed me because his wife was getting chinese but his wife didn’t get me any and they just ate their food while I worked.
Someone told me I had an ugly smile once and I am still insecure about my smile to this day. If people told me I had a beautiful smile and that I should smile more, I think that would be amazing. I would be surprised, but really happy.
Yes, but it is also a bit scary / dystopian that a $62 billion company would go to such great lengths to have one of their own customers thrown in jail for using the product that he paid for in a way that wasn’t hurting anyone.
Tesla has faced criticism in the past for the design of its manual release levers, which are considered poorly designed and unintuitively placed
Calling it poorly designed is a massive understatement. The manual release is a wire that is hidden behind a hidden panel. A guy made a video showing how to do it and he struggled to do it despite having practiced a few times in advance. The chance of pulling it off while the car was on fire would be very, very low
The fact that Elon is going to help Trump gut all of our federal agencies makes me sick to my stomach. Trump winning the election is like a terrible nightmare that I can’t wake up from.
If only we had the technology to put cars on metal tracks, oh and we could add power lines so that electric cars wouldn’t need batteries. Hmm, next we could link the cars together so that only the first car has to overcome wind resistance
If I were a narcissist like Trump then I would love to be the President: I could set up all my family and friends with 7 figure jobs, I’d buy a hotel and then force the SS to rent out the entire building at 10x the normal rates, I could spend most of my time golfing, I could chat with my buddy Putin on the phone every day, etc.
Are there shitty parts to the job? Sure, but is it better than being a powerless wage slave to a soulless corporation? Absolutely yes.
Starting wars with allied nations (China) just because they have a semi-socialist economy seems fairly fascist to me.
Youtube is privately owned by the capital class. Why would capitalist owned media companies stop boosting capitalist, right-wing propaganda?
If nuclear helps us phase out fossil fuels quicker than I fully support it.