We really should be organizing to fight the right wing, because they’re pretty unified.

It does feel like unrest is coming. I don’t want to live in a world with car bombs in the US, but I do want all the republicans dead, so.

I’m pretty confident that most people moving around NYC are not taking a taxi on the daily. I’m guessing you don’t live here.

Monogamy? Suck it up. Focus on the good things in your life.

Non monogamy? See if they’re also open, and ask them out.

New York is more than like midtown manhattan. I would not describe it as “clogged with taxis”.

Also there’s like 3.5 million subway riders per day in NYC.

So I don’t know what point you’re trying to make.

There is truth here.

I think rich people will have assets, like stock, and they’ll get a loan out with the stock as collateral. They pay like 2% on the loan, but they get like a million dollars cash. If that was treated like income, they’d pay a lot more taxes.

Not sure the best way to address this, but it should be addressed.

I feel like if we had spent the money lost to tax cuts on enforcing existing laws, like really throw the book at tax cheats, like put them in orange jumpsuits and make them rot in a cell, we’d have had better outcomes.

The ultra rich should be afraid.

Maybe something that reflects on all the loss. Dead from COVID, chaos from government programs shutting down, allies betrayed, and a mirror in the center that says something like “you did this”.

Oh good. I thought about making stickers to slap on badly parked cars, because they’re really irritating and dangerous. But my lawyer friend at the time advised against it.

Not a fan. It admittedly can be an amusing toy - type something in and wow look what it did! But the costs are high, and our society isn’t a utopia where people don’t need to labor for survival.

Maybe if we were post scarcity it wouldn’t matter that much. But we’re not, and this AI stuff is going to hurt labor, benefit the ownership class, and probably be mildly bad for end users too.

That makes sense to me.

But they don’t want to make businesses do anything, even if it means choking the oceans with trash and filling our bodies with plastic. Frankly, they’re bad people that we shouldn’t put up with.

Yeah but like if they find it was fraud are they going to do anything about it? More than a slap on the wrist? Like, jail time? A public hanging? Probably nothing, as usual. but I can hope.

“This violation, if proven, only warrants a symbolic fine,” Spiro argued

Reminded of the narcissist’s prayer

“”"
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
“”"

I hope when the revolution comes, all the people like this lawyer that enabled Musk also go up against the wall.

It might come to that. People should organize and arm now. Even though that’s kind of hard and scary and I don’t know where to begin.

Feel like we should not make disposable plastic anymore.

Any plan that depends on “and then the common person develops discerning taste” is doomed to fail. Especially considering that even people who are usually picky might enjoy something basic from time to time

Eradicating infectious diseases (that don’t respect borders) is a net positive for everyone.

I was going to say something similar to that too. Specifically, the consolidation of power means there’s less smaller companies taking risks. You’d think a big company with Disney money could afford to be weird and experimental, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

I say this despite enjoying superhero movies

Others have touched on this but this also feels downstream from the capitalist hellscape. Most people don’t have a lot of spending money. Movies are pricey and a bad money:time ratio.

I bet if wages were up, more people would go to the theater. I don’t want to spend $40 to watch a movie and eat popcorn, but I’d consider it for $3.

Also I guess gay men don’t exist. But would not be surprised someone with such a bad take also has bad ideas about queerness

I really thought this was the onion. Satire is dead. Republicans are scum.