karashta @ karashta @piefed.social

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"National bankruptcy". We literally print the fucking money ex nihilo.

I'm not sure why you're getting down voted for stating a fact: money has to be created through direct spending or back stopping the creation of money by private banks via the reserve system before it can be taxed away.

You can't tax back something that doesn't exist yet.

Just because it's not "our tax dollars" doesn't mean is isn't OUR public money.

The last political talk I had with my 70+ year old mother ended with her screaming at me and crying while she called me a know it all for actually having thought through my convictions and having data to back it up.

I called her out for holding a brick in her hand that has access to all of human knowledge and saying all she did was look at fucking Facebook.

Then I get told I don't know what I'm talking about despite knowing very well what I'm talking about.

These people are demented

The biggest thing I feel is rage and betrayal.

There are people in my immediate family who voted for those who think my disabled pansexual leftist ass should be literally murdered by the Gestapo.

That's the betrayal.

The rage is that I've seen this collapse coming since I was a kid in the mid 90s. I was absolutely ready for this in my 20s. Now, I'm 40, disabled and can't even stand white light for long or any loud sound along with a host of other issues.

And none of them listen despite telling me how smart I am my whole life. I take one baby step to show them a flaw in what they're saying and suddenly I'm a naive idiot to them.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

There is almost no greater wedge issue that could have been used to shatter the left.

Is there an archive of this kind of data anywhere? I'd love to store this. I've already got a few wikis, including Wikipedia itself, but I'd love more

Congress has the power, they just refuse to use it. The legislative branch was given the most power in the constitution, which they've ceded by being unwilling to actually do their jobs. They could take all that power back whenever they wanted of they had spines and morals

Amazing how the party of small government, who said Obama ruled by fiat like a despot, is immediately acting how they claimed Obama did.

That's... not how tariffs work. No one externally is paying anything. The customer pays.

In case anyone doesn't know, you can download all of Wikipedia of you have 120GB of space. You can download a whole bunch of wikis straight off Kiwix.

I refuse to let the fascists control knowledge

And now that someone showed me that, I withdraw what I said. I'd never seen anyone write about it or talk about it. And just figured someone should look into it (they did)

Hadn't seen this! Thanks! No one said anything about it for days afterwards and I never saw anything come of it.

This is all I wanted unless there was more concrete proof of tampering. Just seemed like someone, somewhere with some credentials should have looked into it. And now I know they did!

I never started screaming there was a stolen election. But after having read the piece, I see a reason for concern.

According to this infosec professional, they may very well have stolen the election

https://substack.com/inbox/post/151721941

The block function is heavily used. Whole block lists get passed around quite frequently. I've never really seen much hate on there unless I'm clicking into something obviously heated politically. Other people may have other experiences, but the current culture there is to not engage the hate farmers and just block people instead

Don't forget pesticide exposure which eventually has similar effects to lead over time: decreased intelligence and increased aggression

I see them on BlueSky more than any Mastodon or Lemmy instance, sadly. But that could just be my experience.

Citizen Kane.

Yes it is circle jerked hard by film lovers... For good reason.

This is what I might consider the first movie shot in what would be recognized as a modern movie format.

It is told non sequentially, the composition of shots is absolutely incredible.

It's a movie shot in 1941 that looks nothing like the other movies of the time. Literally decades ahead of its time. It looks like it could have been shot a few months ago as a period piece.

There's good reason for it being one of the most acclaimed movies of all time.

Except your money doesn't fund the US federal government. The federal government funds everyone with its money.

You can't tax back money that hasn't been created first