EightBitBlood @ EightBitBlood @lemmy.world

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Yep. But the point is Donald doesn't realize his dick is getting sucked by someone trying to get a favor out of him rather than just because he's such a swell guy.

He's a narcissist. All he sees is compliments, not the clear manipulation behind them.

Give Trump praise, he'll do exactly what you say. Which is why he thinks Putin is his best friend. Putin is just using Trump as a convenient idiot that'll do anything asked as long as Trump feels he'll be complimented by it.

All he has to say is something like:

"Oh Donny, at this time your big hands and strong will are our only hope. Won't you please bomb Iran to protect the world and become it's hero?"

And that's all it takes to start WW3. And Trump would post the message thinking it's a compliment.

"we aren't kings"

Cries when parade isn't dictator-y enough.

I'm aware of your opinion. I just don't agree that now is a bad time to talk about kids dying. Because it's never been a good time. I've been told to wait for a better time to have this conversation for two decades, and in that time there's now hundreds more dead kids making it an even better reason to have this discussion.

We're adults. We can talk about all the bad things that need fixed, and we can do it all at once while other bad things are happening. Thinking otherwise is how we let this problem grow this big. Becuase it's been easier to be distracted by bigger priorities (9/11, 2008, Covid, etc) rather than actually work on a solution.

I'm not even advocating for banning guns at all. Just that we should have a conversation - one where we discuss what policy options could fix the accessibility problem of guns while still making your gun owning friends happy.

Yet, I can't even seem to get close to having that conversation with you without you somehow feeling insulted. Followed by you threatening me with violence you assume will occur to me despite me already saying I own guns and know how to use them.

Why is it that the biggest 2A supporters are the ones who run the fastest away from the adult conversation we need to have about guns in this country? Because at least Hogg isn't running away from the topic like you are just because it's a "bad time"

So of course you don't agree with him. The point I'm making is that if you don't, it should be you talking about it instead of postponing the conversation further. That's how kids die. And from my position, at least Hogg is trying to stop it instead of burying his head in the sand as you have advocated for.

So let me make this very clear: Fuck Democrats who want to ban guns, I just want them to be at least as hard to obtain as a car.

And that unfortunately makes me more closer aligned to Hogg. But at least I'm talking about it.

I'm a liberal gun owner. Also go to ranges. Also see that the majority of people there are right leaning.

That doesn't mean they support fascism. That doesn't mean they will use their weapons to kill those that oppose fascism.

No one on the right actually wants a civil war, but the people they keep electing say they do becuase they're stupid enough to think it would be profitable.

In reality, the dumbest people imaginable are in control of our government. And the people that eat Fox News corpo-governemnt propaganda on the daily are likewise just as stupid, but only in that their ability to reason has been compromised - so they posture about killing liberals for clout just like previous generations postured about joining the military despite never serving.

In the end, the people that are actually stupid enough to use their guns against other Americans are in the vast minority. But also, they are stupid enough not to use or operate their weapons correctly.

The people I see at ranges that regularly threaten their lives with poor trigger discipline are usually the ones that support Trump, so I'm more afraid of them killing their friends from incompetence than a left leaning American.

My dude.

Literally the rest of the world doesn't have this problem. So let's start in that reality, unless you have a bunch of school shooting data to prove me wrong.

Australia is a great example of gun control policies and how they can be used to stop public shootings like they did in the 90's. It worked there, and literally everywhere else it's been adopted, including here in the US with the Brady Bill. (That lapsed long ago).

I own guns and use them. I also work in a field where they are used often.

So I know what I'm saying when I say that there absolutely should be compromises on what types of weapons are regulated, how they function, and we should without questions require a license to get one like a car. But a conversation about these things needs to actually happen for better options to be brought to the table.

Without Hogg and others, we're left with a bunch of idiots that think doing nothing as our children get executed in schools is a necessity if we want to have fun with guns.

So I find it hard to agree with anything you just said as it's mostly a made up terror fantasy you're substituting as factual to skip over the actual conversation about gun regulations that need to be had.

The difference between your opinion and Hoggs is that his will effectively save children, and yours will let them die.

There's absolutely a middle ground. And if you don't like his policies, you should be the one finding that middle as you weren't the one who was shot in school as a child for the crime of being American like Hogg was.

Maybe consider why he has that position on Firearms? Considering he was the victim of a school shooting as a child during one of the dozens that have happened since Columbine. Funny how school shootings are now old enough for their survivors to run for office. So maybe their stance is respectable, even if you don't agree with it.

I love the complete lack of self awareness in what you're saying - as if it doesn't also apply to you and how you talk to others.

It's actually:

4. To ensure the corporate real estate market doesn't collapse like the the consumer real estate market did in 2008 despite the same problem with massive loan fraud inflating the value of business real-estate for toxic bank loans that are rated AAA, but are actually worth shit as no one needs corporate real estate post - Covid.

It's the 2008 housing crisis, but with corporate real estate. COVID forced work from home, which caught banks with their pants down, having no way to actually drive the demand back up for these buildings that will continually house less and less people from less and less businesses (Work from home + businesses not surviving Covid, now Tariffs.)

Our entire banking system is backed up by debt packaged with corporate real estate that's rated as AAA, but is just more toxic cat shit no one wants wrapped in dogshit that banks need. It's a bomb that's been growing as giant corporate buildings become ghost towns, and city centers become more horizontal than verticle.

Big companies with big loans from banks know they're fucked if the corporate real estate market collapses. So they force work from home as a band aid that gives their corporate property some value, or at least justifies it on paper. In reality, the cost to force workers into the office always offsets the billions in losses if their corporate office real estate ever followed real market forces and depreciated in value.

No offense, but have you considered that Democrats aren't left?

Because compared to the rest of the world and political spectrum, they are not "left."

So you are absolutley correct that:

we're exactly the same. Both sides believe they are critical thinkers.

Both the GOP and DEMS have the same corporate blindspots. Both think they're critical thinkers, but will defend their party as the "correct" one rather than admit that the system has completely failed to keep money away from influencing every outcome.

We have a congress and senate stacked with millionaires doing the bidding of the billionaires that pay for their campaigns instead of the people that vote for them.

The only difference between the GOP and the DNC, is that the DNC wants a slow decent into a corporate dystopia instead of a fast one that kills people unnecessarily.

Actual "left" policies requires the following discourse that is impossible for the DNC to have honestly:

• reducing the military budget
• reducing corporate welfare
• workers rights & Union rights
• increasing taxes on the wealthy

All of these things have become "too socialist" for a DEM to even bring up, and you'll justify that as them "aiming for moderates" instead of thinking critically about how every facet of our society is now corporate controlled and the reason actual "left" socialist policy isn't talked about is simply because Facebook, Google, and X own the spaces those conversations happen. Instead of actual discourse, and cooperating on collective measures, corporations make sure the algorithms they control make America too afraid and angry of overexagerated BS to not think critically about the failure of their society to move forward in two decades despite the massive wealth concentrating at the top of it.

DEMS love having a bad guy to point to. So do the GOP. Yet that finger is always pointed at the other party instead of the Billionaires that have used their unspent "Trickle Down" Reagonomic tax breaks to make society worse instead of better, because problems like unaffordable Healthcare are incredibly more profitable than a publically funded one.

Yet I'll bet you want to blame the GOP for that too. Not Senator Lieberman, an Independent, who got rid of the public option in Obamacare by simply threatening a filibuster that the Dems immediately capitulated to despite already having enough votes without him.

If you want to think critically, you're going to have to start by not pointing fingers at the GOP when the DEMS consistently capitulate on our most beneficial legislation to favor their coporate donors.

Actual critical thinking is almost impossible in America, as it requires accepting that the system we live in doesn't work, and insisting on using it the way we're "supposed to" has lead to massive wealth disparity and the loss of freedoms to corporate interests.

It's certainly not hard to see when the greatest threat to United Health and costly health insurance in the last 15 years has come from an assassin instead of our elected officials. Show me a DEM explaining Luigi Mangionis actions instead of chastising him for it.

The left uses critical thinking. They need to actually engage with information and verify it before choosing to adopt it. This takes time.

The right are scared children and adopt whatever their TV parent or religious politician tells them out of fear. This takes zero time.

I'm not saying anything.

I'm pointing out the painfully obvious fact that of the 15 or so countries that have the technology, information, and resources needed to conduct this kind of attack, only one also has a motive and enough budget to spend on the needless destruction of supplies and aid.

Which other country would pay the bill for this kind of attack? Unless you can name someone else, there's only one answer I can think of.

Wikipedia also has a bunch of articles about how OJ Simpson was found innocent of murdering his wife. And thats enough to convince you it wasn't him?

No offense. But literally no one else but Israel has the motive and means to know exactly where an Palestinian aid ship is to attack it with drones.

Its like watching a ship filled with Burger King hamburgers get assaulted with Big Macs, and you want to say there's no evidence the attack was a product of McDonald's.

Who else hates Burger King and has Big Macs? Who else hates Palestine and has drones?

It's certainly not an individual like the hamburglar as the attack was too sophisticated, so that doesn't leave a lot of other plausible explanations does it?

“We actually demand answers and real transparency. It’s not that hard to deliver.”

The only way it's hard to deliver if it's completely made the fuck up. Would be great if they at least had this level of self awareness. At this point, my dog that thinks his reflection is another dog has more.

My dude. You are not grasping the point I'm making.

Both ACA and Dodd-Frank will unquestionably be gone in the next 3 years. Likely before the end of this one.

Sure. They aren't yet. But you might as well be telling me the strengths and accomplishments of Dems for their work on Roe v Wade. Because likewise, ACA and Dodd Frank won't matter once they're gone.

Because neither went far enough when it was critical for our society that they did.

Dodd Frank's few wins like the Madatory Reporting system (Cat) took 15 years, and a billion of our tax dollars to implement, and Trump 5 months to propose getting rid of.

ACA was already cut down last Trump admin with Trump adding denials for pre-existing conditions back into the mix.

And all because when the Dems controlled the house, senate, and presidency - and had a clear shot at an actual solution to the growing problem of Healthcare costs - they capitulated the idea of a public option to Lieberman for no reason at all:

The public option was initially proposed for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but was removed after the independent US senator for Connecticut Joe Lieberman threatened a filibuster.

The public option was later supported by... President Joe Biden. However, Joe Biden made no attempt to implement a public option in his four years as President.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health_insurance_option

Is the ACA great? Sure. Love it.

But it's done absolutley nothing to curb the rising costs of Healthcare.

Instead, it has enflamed them by making medical insurance mandatory. This padded the bottom line of our predatory health insurance industry, and allowed them to slowly cook us for the decades to come. All so Trump could then make one change in the 2017 budget bill so insurance could then deny us coverage for existing conditions while pushing mandatory payments onto companies that could afford their needlessly rising costs.

Now Healthcare insurance CEO's are getting shot, as the money the ACA forces companies to pay towards insurance isn't actually going to our Healthcare - it goes towards funding AI to deny us coverage.

That's what I mean by bandaid.

The ACA was a paper hat on problem that made it look a whole lot better, but actually just let it get worse. That hat can also be easily removed, turned upside down, and then used by the GOP to funnel salt into our countries wounds once they feel like it.

Because just you don't determine policy.

Working together with everyone else in Arizona to elect Democrat Kristen Synema didn't determine policy either.

That's my point.

Our "representatives" do not, in fact, have to represent the will of the people that elected them. There is zero mechanisms forcing a Democrat to act like one, and millions of dollars in corporate fundraising incentives to act otherwise.

But instead of acknowledging this reality and pushing for their accountability, I should run for their office instead?

I'm ALL for a new political party. And I 💯% agree that me and others would make a hell of a difference in office as Democrats or otherwise. I completely agree with you there.

What I don't agree with, is that fixing the Democratic party is my responsibility.

My responsibly is to fix America. Not the political party that always fails to stop the GOP from breaking it.

I've been voting Dem for decades, and all I've heard from them is that my fears about the future were unwarranted, despite us now all living in them.

Just as you are telling me now not to worry about the ACA and Dodd Frank. They will disappear, just like everything else the Dems have accomplished in my adult lifetime. Not because the GOP undid it, but because DEMS didn't work hard enough to make sure it couldn't be undone.

If you want me and others to help the Democratic party, you should acknowledge why that help is needed.

I'm aware of everything you mentioned. Here's the point I'm making:

• Dodd-Frank had it's teeth removed in 2018 with Trump's Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act.
• Here's the most recent Bill introduced to Congress for Repealing the ACA.

Both of those are now torn off bandaids too. Despite the decades of Democratic effort to put them in place.

With them gone, the problems of overpriced Healthcare and a corporate captured banking system are immediately a problem again. All because neither were designed to fix these issues to begin with. Just bandaid them up until the GOP could enevitably tear them off.

There's quite a lot of policies the Dems have passed that make it look like they made progress. But all of it is temporary, non systemic changes that are simple to undo. So over decades, all their efforts are easily and eventually undone.

Their polices, at best, work on the small scale because Democratic leadership on the large scale doesn't reflect their voting base. They reflect their corporate donors.

7 didn't want to raise Federal minimum wage for the first time in 2 decades? Kinda sounds like 7 Dems just voted like Republicans for no good reason to me. Which happens a lot. (Fetterman).

You're okay with that for some reason. I'm not. I'd be pretty pissed that my only option for raising the federal minimum wage is to vote for a political party that turns around and votes in line with their opposition. The GOP having the majority does not absolve them of this behavior. If my vote matters, why didn't it here? I voted for Sinema, so what should I have done differently to raise the federal minimum wage?

Kinda fucked there's literally no path forward to do that because my vote isn't as important as having enough Dems on the team. An amount that I can't control with my single vote, and doesn't even work well when it's reached.

ACA could have had a universal Healthcare option. You know, an actual systemic fix to the massive problem with Healthcare costs? But It didn't because once we had enough Dems to do that, they just chose to compromise with the GOP instead.

Because even with enough Dems, the policies they pass have to be bandaids. Their donors push them to build a solution out of paper, they sell it to you as brick, all so you'll blame the GOP once they easily blow it down instead of ask why in the fuck was it so easy to blow down to begin with.

How about the Dems stop making paper policies? How about they treat the wound instead of applying another bandaid, and spending millions convincing you it won't be torn off.

Show me a single policy of theirs from the last 20 years that hasn't been made of tissue the GOP has now sneezed in.

Can you explain Krysten Sinema voting against raising the federal minimum wage? She's a Democrat that campaigned on the promise of raising it, then didn't when it came time to vote.

Which is very much my experience voting Dem for the last 20 years.

Not that the GOP is a better option. Far from. It. But Dems still clearly cast their votes in favor of whoever's paying them, not their base. They'll promise a better Healthcare option, better job security, better wages, even hold both the house and senate and still want to compromise with themselves.

All I've seen them do is put a bandaid on whatever the GOP broke, and promise for years to kiss it until it gets better.

Then act shocked that just adding more bandaids has lead to the wound underneath festering.

Healthcare reform? Bandaid. Minimum wage? Bandaid Public education? Bandaid. Cost of higher education? Bandaid. Job security? Bandaid. Retirement? Bandaid. 2008 Banking Crisis? Bandaid. (Took them 16 years to implement the CAT fraud detection system, just in time for Trump to yeet it) Housing costs? Bandaid. 36 trillion being added to the national debt in 25 years? Bandaid. Dozens of dead kids at Columbine? No bandaid at all! Now hundreds and hundreds of kids have been killed by guns in school over the DECADES that followed.

By all means name a single facet of American life that Democrats have managed to actually improve in the last 20 years, and I'll point to our current president who just tore off all those bandaids and poured salt on the wound.

Dems have the same boss as the GOP, they've just convinced themselves they're the good guys when they collect their corporate blood money.

Real answer: insurance salesman in the 90's.

This was a slightly exagerated, but rather typical upper-upper-middle class house.

A friend of a friend's dad had the same job, and a similar sized house. Guy had his own pinball room.

He also had a daughter that was in a secret relationship with my girlfriend (that they thought I didn't know about.)

Scissor-box it out with your "friend" all you want, free pinball is free pinball.

check out:

Ink Inside On steam.

It's a couch co-op action RPG with ranged combat meets beat em up fights. Aesthetic is 2014 cartoon network, with a story based on a lost Nickelodeon pilot. Voice cast is solid with Brian David Gilbert too.

If it sounds interesting, could definitley be up your alley!

"King Arthur and the Knights of Justice" is what you're looking for - and more specifically the absolute facemelter of an opening song they had for the show:

https://youtu.be/gjbWDjzTM0A

The whole series is on YouTube for free BTW! Not a bad watch either. Still pretty fun, but certainly dated for the time.

That opening guitar still gets me decades later.

Reddit had an AMA with a Bank Robber ten years ago that they've since deleted for corpo purity reasons 😂

Here's the big points from it:

• Banks don't care about losing amounts under 5k.
• Security won't stop you if you don't have a visible weapon.
• Worst they do is lock the door, so bring a hammer.
• the goal is to get in, and get the teller to give you a couple grand asap, then leave under 10 minutes.
• Guy did this to at least 5 different banks (all different companies) in one day, once a month, for several months.

He eventually got caught because of the money he had, not because his face was on every security camera.

He recommends not doing this, as do I, as it's just not worth it.

But just in case you wanted to know how it was done a decade ago, fuck Reddit, here's the details they recently deleted.