They genuinely believe the US is filled with millions of evil, lazy people on welfare who don’t work and play videogames all day and collect $50,000/year in benefits…

Meanwhile you have billionaires like Elon Musk who pays people to play videogames all day for him, and they don’t bat a fucking eyelash… (I mean, by no means the worst thing musk does, but you get my point)

It’s so insanely removed from reality

My God though, can you imagine magas abiding by wartime rationing?? People lost their shit when they were asked, “Please maybe just don’t sneeze on strangers in public 5 times a week…”

Had they gotten high enough to even be able to nose down though?

“Yeah, I agree, that is horrible. I am literally just trying to keep more innocent people from suffering and dying…”

Reminder that a rubber bullet is mainly metal with a thin layer of rubber around it…

Exactly. We can’t just fucking go, “Whelp. All done.” and let trump and Putin destroy the United States.

Did you know that the oldest mummy found was actually found in the United States?

Cue Pelosi…

10,000% it’s govt contractors marking things up 50x

It’s always mobile game or sports betting ads that are the most “wtf?” levels of complex, which tells you something…

Dude, my point is there’s not even the thinnest veneer of campaign donations or inauguration funds or anything.

It’s literally JUST giving him a big fancy plane to flatter him and make him feel like a big boy.

YEAH NO SHIT: IT’S A BRIBE

Or the Just for Men-ed goatee…

Or members of his cabinet just accidentally add foreign agents to classified chats…

It’s insane, because it’s not some sassy or hyperbolic report. It’s perfectly measured and…logical. A well made report.

pharmaceutical industry pushing patented pills, powders, pricks, potions, and poisons

Look, I’m not here to defend the pharmaceutical industry, but at least they’re fucking REGULATED.

Unlike, say, the supplement industry which he so loves… That’ll tell you: take these 50 expensive potions and you’ll get better, not the thing that has been rigorously tested & proven over generations.

Well my argument is that they fall under a different analogy. Something like a car and wheelbarrow? They’re both used for transportation, sure, but they also have two distinct functions that don’t cancel each other out.

I am more trying to argue that Pinterest and Reddit/lemmy are fundamentally different enough that they aren’t really interchangeable.

I personally use both, but, again, for wildly different purposes.

Well…yes, it is a link aggregator, but have you ever used Pinterest? The uses for it vs reddit are wildly different…

I have rarely more genuinely hoped for something in my life…

It’s like the confirmation of Brett Kavenau when he threw a hissy fit about how he “likes beer”…

That in and of itself should have disqualified him. If someone isn’t capable of being even-keeled and not throwing a temper tantrum, then they shouldn’t hold the highest judicial office in the land…