toadjones79 @ toadjones79 @lemm.ee

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Fair enough. But at the same time, Andrew Jackson is dead. So we aren't really bound to logistics here.

I just find that story funny in a I'm glad that is far in the past kind of way. That and the cheese wheel. And the Gatsby style parties in the White House.

Yeah, I completely agree. Except I feel like posting the automod screenshots should be the expected norm, not something that pokes the bear. That just seems like accountability to me.

I am no fan of American conservatives. But that doesn't mean I can't take criticism about all aspects of politics and consider the different viewpoints. Like you said, unacceptable for a news community to do this.

Uh, you do know about the guy who tried to shoot him, right?

I recognize this as English.

I'll have to look into everything you said here. I may be old, but I'm always game to learn new tricks. Thanks.

Repeated days without enough sleep is the real problem. It catches up on you. Sleep debt is cumulative over a week or more.

Yeah. That's why I still give it an upvote. Mods shouldn't be deciding what information we get to process in a news community. News and data is new and data. This optional truth is getting out of hand in every political direction.

Doing the good work here. Balanced and fair reporting in a see if dishonesty. (No, this isn't sarcasm)

Thanks!

So you want to get beaten almost to death by him with his cane? (Had to double check I was on Lemmy before using that string of words. I don't need another misunderstood reddit ban)

I honestly think he would be most disappointed that the White House doesn't still stink of cheese. And he would probably try to fist fight Trump.

In a way, I think I would like seeing him get dumped on the GOP for a year or two. Of course I am only guessing that he would align himself with that party. Purely for political opportunity, not because his ideology would match theirs per se.

How do you patch to remove ads?

This!

Just yesterday I had my locomotive catch on fire (I drive trains). After hours of dealing with the fire department, and then getting new engines brought out and set up to replace it so the train could get moving again, we got in the van to go home. And what did I see on a huge big screen TV inside the house next to where we were dealing with all of this? Mario64.

But old people like me quote cliches with wreckless abandoned. And don't feel guilty about at all.

We can dream, friend. We can dream.

It's going to be fun watching all of these traitors stand trials for their crimes.

It's me, I'm the problem... (Sorry I'm old and couldn't help it)

Alpha male is the easiest way a person can say they either had shitty parents or they ignored everything they were taught to be shitty all by themselves.

No. The definition of capitalism has been utterly confused by politicians who couldn't steal and corrupt under its basic principles. Which makes it really freaking hard to explain the best practices for economics (as in what has been proven over and over again to work best overall) when every word is overlayed with a false definition. In reality democratic socialism is just a marketable name for what capitalism really is.

Capitalism is the idea that if the government doesn't own everyone, and everyone is free to work for their own living, and (here is the key part) there are laws and regulations to prevent anyone from taking advantage of anyone else (that's the free market part) then everyone will work together to create the best economy possible. One where there is no central planning (as opposed to a king appointing a Lord over an area), just everyone free to do whatever they do best.

Our current economy isn't capitalism. It is too far to the right into oligarchy (which gives corrupt control to a few and everyone else is unable to participate in the market freely) to be a free market economy. We absolutely must move to the left, introducing regulations and investing in public infrastructure and education to return to real capitalism. But I doubt there is any chance of that in our lifetimes. Not without some terrible revolution and all the failures that will bring before we return to sanity.

To be clear, I am not arguing for anything you probably associate with capitalism as being good or best. I am arguing that no one ever should have associated those things with capitalism, and that the misdirection was created decades ago so the wealthy could subjugate us under a manufactured income gap and economic oppression.

From what I've gathered you get banned if you use a VPN. If not immediately, eventually.

Yep. That's pretty much exactly how I feel. American economics ispl pretty far from capitalism, having too few balanced regulations and allowing extremely one sided (wealthy) dominance of the market. Which is the exact opposite of a free market (one where every party in a transaction has equal and fair power in the negotiation. Free market has absolutely nothing to do with that nonsense about being free from regulations or government interference).

I think it is worth considering that every single b-rated movie has a huge pile of things they had to cut that probably made them cried for days and will regret cutting for the rest of their lives. Movies cost a fortune to make, and every single element costs more than you can imagine. At a certain point it is the choice between shitty sound or abandoning big enough plot points to kill the whole project.