then why have any consumer protections? and why have a minimum wage?

They are just going to make up for it with higher prices right? Let’s make min wage $1 so we can all enjoy low prices. right?

You are playing into their hands

anyone over retirement age should be barred from running, and that should not be controversial.

If you got on a plane and the pilot was 80 you’d be a bit worried, and we let these fucks run the most powerful nation ever to exist.

Black woman: she probably deserved it

White woman: poor girl she had a future!

We just let anybody have a gun these days

I say that as a firearm owner and manufacturer. Anytime somebody asks me about my guns I explain to them how any 13-year-old could have done the same thing and how are gun laws are completely broken

You can be pro gun in pro regulation at the same time, fuck all these false dichotomies

If you truly believe this you should be training with firearms. Go far enough left and you get your guns back

you can thank State Street, Blackrock and Vanguard for buying up the American dream to rent it to you forever. Democrats are trying to limit this by stopping hedge funds from buying homes, which are for families.

When do we start to see corporate assassinations? At what point do we see people start to fight back? We are slowly slipping into full on ‘subscription’ based lives. They are stealing our children’s future away, one home at a time. Essentially turning our economy into slavery 2.0

Because of the extreme prices and demand for homes, my apartment rent went up 24% in October. They are literally taking half my income now. Half my life belongs to this one multi-billion dollar corporation now. The other half goes to my other living expenses. I make double the average American and I am basically a slave already

It’s 2030, you own nothing and you are happy

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That’s not true, people regularly get a decade in jail for growing cannabis in prohibition states

You can literally beat your wife nearly to death and get less time

The only reason it is kept illegal is to keep our prisons filled

my government gave me a loan at 6.8%. The amount I have paid into it is the same as the original principle amount, I still owe 80% of it because of the interest. I am making 2x the average American and am still on a hamster wheel of the capitalist death cult. I will never own anything at this rate

The only people not thinking about money are those who are privileged by wealth.

Some of us paid for our own school, car, etc. some had a $100k head start. Willing to bet you are in that second group.

If people care about these things why are so few people talking about it? Why are we whining about flavors and pop stars so much instead?

It’s cool that you don’t have to worry about the future, but some of us want our children to not be slaves

They have freedom to do as they please, but whining about it does about as much as whining about blueberry flavor.

We aren’t saying you can’t be pissed, we are saying it is completely stupid that you are pissed and there is nothing you can do. There are far more things to be worried about in this country. We are eating ourselves alive, life expectancy is dropping, suicide rate and overdose rate is climbing, our jobs are being given to foreign countries and robots, no one owns anything anymore.

I’m starting to believe people whine about these pointless things in order to avoid confronting the more complicated and deeply rooted issues we have.

Fuck all this representative bullshit. They never actually represent us.

That sounds like a great plan to have the money squandered.

Maybe the dividend is just applied towards your tax return, that would reduce the complexity of issuing 350k shares. I don’t want politicians getting their grubby hands on the money.

Let them keep their control of the company, but give shares of the company to the American people who paid to bail them out.

Everyone gets dividends

What if we just give every American a portion of the company that we bailed out?

Eventually the average American would own stocks in many different banks.

Eventually the American people will have majority share, at that point we vote on the actions of the bank as if we were the board.

I didn’t know Russian troll farms have made it to Lemmy…

We are both adults here, right? I think you can handle being told you didn’t think it through. I’m not going to use kid-gloves with you and lie to you to serve your ego.

you are still going on implying that COVID is the same as the flu or a cold. The flu has never altered my heartbeat rhythms for years after.

You are still ascribing to the false dichotomy I stated in my comment when you say “not everyone can lock down” absolutely, except tons of people I personally know were still going out on vacations, some knowing they had COVID before flying to their destination.

Just because a full lockdown wouldn’t have 100% wiped out COVID doesn’t mean we should have given up on stopping the spread. It’s not one or the other.

I feel like you are trying to make excuses for endangering the lives of other people so you can not be bored. My Grandfather is buried under 6ft of dirt because of this mentality in Texas. He died needlessly. He was an active man who was writing a novel and was constantly physically active. He had at least 10 years left

A lot of us are not going to forget the actions of our fellow man during the peak of COVID, especially those who lost loved ones needlessly

I feel like you haven’t thought this through. My cousin is young so he has very low risk of having serious side effects from his COVID. The thing is we had elderly grandparents at Christmas as well, one of which with stage 4 cancer.

There is a point to testing for COVID. If we don’t test for it we have no idea how much it is spreading.

I used to get the flu once every 10 years, roughly. I’ve been getting COVID nearly every single winter.

There are relatively young people who are completely bedridden from long COVID. I’ve never heard of someone having years of their lives taken from them because of the flu.

Ever since I first got COVID I have had a irregular heartbeats and periods of extremely low energy

I find it funny you’re creating a false dichotomy of either locking people in their homes for eternity or being free. We all had a chance to stop this in its tracks, nearly everyone around me was completely unable to sacrifice one summer of vacations. I know people who literally went on vacation knowing they had COVID, breaking state laws in the process.

If you didn’t lose anybody to COVID that’s great for you, but a lot of us did.

A lot of people believed our president at the time who said that it was nothing more than the flu, similar to what you are saying today.

I believe there should be legal repercussions for those who have spread that misinformation, leading to needless death

starting to wonder if my heart irregularities are from COVID. I get a ridiculously strong pulse after just a 1 mile walk with my dog.

Got COVID from my cousin during Christmas, still feeling terrible.

He went to the doctor and they didn’t even test him. they just assumed it was the flu and gave him Tamiflu.

Tested myself after I got it and came up positive for COVID. It seems that our medical professionals are complicit in the cover-up of diagnoses. Once it left the news people just assumed it was gone.

He literally started a cold civil war in the US

100% of politically motivated killings last year were from the right (aka domestic terrorism)

Go ahead and try some shit in 2024, The national guard will turn you traitors into soup in the streets.