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Cake day: November 12th, 2023

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  • I like the idea of Reddit and it works much better than Lemmy. But the moderation and AI scraping make it a no-go site for me anymore which is a shame.

    I love internet forums and have been a mod at some and very high poster at other. But the snowball effect gets them. If there’s no traffic, there’s no posts, so there’s no traffic. You need to have a good community to make it work. One area reddit really shines, small communities exist on a huge platform. Great idea before the enshittification.

    I hate discord and the fact that anyone replaces customer support or fan support pages with it, is just fundamentally broken. The idea of a forum is that the question is asked and archived. 20 years later someone else googles the question and sees the answer and all the replies that lead up to it. That’s what forums are for. In discord you ask a question and 30 seconds later it’s gone forever eaten by useless drivel. Never to be searched or found again. Idiotic.


  • You missed the point entirely as expected. Americans obviously cannot think critically.

    Nobody said Elon is the engineer behind all his successes. Those that do, are easily proven wrong and if they want to throw all their money away, let them.

    The US let’s people gamble. Go $100k in debt to study Mesopotamian pottery making and then become a barista. All the normal people with pensions that lose everything in restructuring like GM or many of the airlines, etc prove the US doesn’t care most of the time. They pick and choose when to be burdens. The US government bailed out banks, car companies, and lots of other industries at a tax loss. But the people of say Enron, got nothing. The victims of Bernie Madoff, got (almost) nothing.

    If you invested with Madoff, and lost everything, why don’t you get money back too? He wasn’t crazy. He was backed by 2 independent US credit and backing and auditing agencies. The SEC was paid off to not look at things with him and many of the frauds that led to the 2008 collapse. Elon, you know is crazy. If you don’t know he’s crazy, that’s a personal problem.

    The US also doesn’t require a cognitive test of any kind to invest all your life savings into something. If you want to sell everything and buy Trump Steaks with Bible verses on them, nobody will stop you. That’s freedumb.



  • The difference is that all GOP candidates previously knew, or had a cabinet that knew, it was a terrible awful thing to do for the country. It would NEVER pass. But it could be campaigned on. Just like repealing abortion… See how that worked?

    The party of Trump is not the GOP of old. These are idiots that can and do actually get things done. Mostly because they do it all wrong and haphazardly. But it doesn’t matter because the action takes effect immediately and the remedy takes years to work through a judicial system.

    Too many American democrats don’t understand they aren’t even playing the same game. Bringing a spatula to a gun fight.




  • Please tell me again how the US is land of the free, and only China controls who’s allowed to run businesses?

    Elon isn’t my patron saint, but from a business perspective he’s batshit crazy enough to actually disrupt markets. That’s the whole point of the USA right now isn’t it?!

    Some are collasal failures and others are immense successes. Just let the dude be crazy and innovate. Nobody is forcing you to buy Tesla stock. If there was a company that had a baboon as the CFO and every time it pressed a button the company would just light $1m on fire, and you know this because it’s one of the world’s most famous baboons, and you choose to give this company your money, why am I supposed to feel bad when the baboon presses the button? But when it doesn’t light money on fire and instead creates a lot of money, that’s ok. Shareholders get to keep 100% of that fake profit. But everyone gets to subsidize when the shareholders lose money.

    Let idiots be idiots. It’s the free market.


  • So stop being so damn bad at modern politics.

    Trying to maintain the high ground doesn’t work on a stupid electorate that doesn’t even know how the system functions. Heck, most Americans couldn’t even name how many branches of government or what they were. Most cannot name how many amendments, or what they even are apart from the 2nd. They are idiots, brainwashed with propaganda.

    When the strongman takes over and does things, they will have no idea it isn’t the status quo. When the Dems play nice, they do know things don’t get done. They don’t know why because they aren’t listening to MSNBC and they aren’t listening to white house briefings.

    The Dems are losing the propaganda war completely.


  • Yes he can. But what you have now is a game of political chicken. One of the few gentleman’s handshakes that still exist is just the justices the US has. Since 1869, it’s been 9 of them. But in the past there were as few as 5 and as many as 10.

    There is no law that says you can’t have 17. Biden could literally appoint 8 more democratic life appointed judges if they got through the confirmation process.

    But then the day Trump or the next republican is elected, they can just appoint N-1, 16, republicans… Then when it flips again, 32 more democrats… It would never end. The court would be proven to be political, even though that facade is crumbling with the ignorant American masses finally.