AllonzeeLV @ AllonzeeLV @lemmy.world

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Death by hipsterism.

Second hand, "vintage" carbon fiber.

Good news, one died quite awhile ago. There's a comedy show called Upload made by the office creator that parodies his death to hilarious effect with some supporting characters.

I always forget if it was Charles or David who died, but honestly who fucking cares. They're just knockoff Palpatine A and B to me.

That's deeper than the Titanic! 12,500 vs 16,000 feet.

Can we send Jeffrey Bezos or Elon Musk down in a submarine to confirm the find?

Humanity chose... poorly.

This could be an international treaty against punching kittens, and they would still vote no.

Plus McConnell would never ratify a treaty that outlaws his favorite pastime.

I'm just surprised they want to ruin their Superbowl parties learning the same lesson as their loser Confederate idols.

Why did you photoshop Charlie Kirk's face to look bigger on his head, OP?

It's more than that, because Republican governors have been actively trying and succeeding in rolling back hard won child labor protection laws.

It's not just about not having the foreigns telling them what to do, it's because Republicans want children providing cheap labor to boost their stock portfolio. Here. Now.

And emulate.

Yeah 😔

Honestly anyone who would ask "where were they born" when considering whether to care about children getting hurt or killed is an unredeemable monster.

We don't have to coerce others directly, we appeal to the greed and powerlust of leaders of other markets, let their powerful do the coercion of their people and change their protections, and the global markets have a new workforce and resource market to exploit and extract value from. Everybody* wins.

Everybody that already holds power and/or meaningful capital anyway, and that's all that matters. Fuck the livestock.

One way or another, the global capital market must continue to grow/metastasize... on a finite world, with finite resources, and a sole, shared, COMMUNal environment we all rely on from one breath to the next. Yeah...

Our brand of rigged market capitalism truly found it's stride under Reagan's deregulation giveaway. We've been exporting/advocating/bullying other developed nations to do the same ever since. There are tightly, tightly controlled, adequately taxed capitalist economies that focus on how REASONABLE capital incentive can benefit society (the point of any economy, that we've abandoned) that can work, like the Nordic model, but now we're coming for that too, and we'll do to them what we did to the UK and are doing to France.

It's an easy sell. A faustian bargain. You just need a few people in the right positions of power. "Hey, YOU can live larger. You can live like a modern pharoah. Just sell out your countrymen. Do you like yachts? How about yachts the size of cruise ships?"

Don't forget, our capitalists have been hard at work infecting the rest of the world with OUR greed disease. We're the ones advocating other nations stop seeing their people as valued citizens and instead as capital livestock to be exploited mercilessly.

Child labor exists elsewhere out of desperate, struggling developing economies. We're worse imho, because we're doing it amid record profits, because its never enough, and our gluttonous pig oligarch owners ever demanding mooooaaaaaar, exploiting these kids whose schools they've already destroyed and stole the funding of through tax evasion and legislative tax policy capture.

We aren't human to them, we're capital livestock, which just makes our non-wealthy children capital veal.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/20/republican-child-labor-law-death

Oh, our owners rebranded greed decades ago. It's no longer considered the character deficit and personal failing that it is.

We call it "rational self-interest" now. Doesn't that sound nice?

Certainly not Orwellian at all...

It's been a long road...

He could die any second, of natural causes to be clear. I like to think of it as voting for a corpse placeholder that will likely be replaced with Harris, who isn't great herself but isn't mostly dead like Biden or Trump.

Reagan would be so fucking proud.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_October_Surprise_theory#:~:text=The%201980%20October%20Surprise%20theory,President%20Jimmy%20Carter%2C%20the%20incumbent (This is how any hope for the United States as a society and not an exploitation farm died)