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Ok but this statement would refer to the 0.01% not the 10%

They don’t just want more people. They want more people born into poverty and incable of understanding it’s better to wait and pay in cash than use credit and pay interest.

So the .01% are the ones you’re saying that are planning decades ahead. I don’t think that’s true, they don’t have some sort of master plan for society.

I think we’ve entered the era of the rich running out of good exploits for the peasants, so we’re seeing them self-cannibalize each other. All of our current economy has moved beyond screwing over workers and customers and is now based on the .01% screwing over the 10% that they pretended was part of their class for awhile.

They only have the most half hearted approach to what comes after that process is complete. They might build a dumb bunker or cosplay at being a post apocalypse warlord, but their ‘plans’ aren’t much beyond a tabletop game roleplay.

This has been my experience. There was that whole aspect to reddit that you’d be in a sub and some random 20 year expert would chime in with extremely in depth advice.

Now I feel like everywhere on Reddit is nothing but 14 year olds (or people that never matured past 14). It’s not that reddit didn’t have a ton of these people before, but now it’s all that’s left.

Combined with their decision to ‘suggest’ posts from subs you aren’t subscribed to resulting in many subs getting totally uninterested people commenting and the whole magic spark of Reddit is all but gone. The community aspect is dead in favor of yet another engagement algorithm.

It’s rapidly becoming Facebook, but for millennials.

The wealthy plan decades ahead.

Sometimes. Most of them seem totally happy to kill the golden goose. They’re running both the economy and the planet into the ground for short term gains.

They’d rather have half a personal sized pizza than a regular slice of an XXL pizza, even if that’s objectively less pizza.

I think many of them would be totally down to return to medieval feudalism with lords and peasants, even if that meant giving up day to day luxuries simply because they’d feel more powerful.

It’s a mental sickness, not an understandable or rational desire for wealth.

Yeah, honestly I don’t think Trump raping kids is enough to take him down. Even if it fully came out, I think his supporters would just shrug. If that was all that was in the files then I don’t think they’d be fighting as hard.

I really think Trump was much more heavily involved. Not simply a client, but an active supplier and trafficker. That’s why they can’t release it.

The fediverse lacks basically all of my niche communities and the ones that exist have zero engagement. I’m basically only on Lemmy at this point for political stuff. Politics anything is a shitshow on Reddit, but seems decent on Lemmy. But that’s just really not enough.

Though to be fair, Reddit’s ‘suggested’ posts feature is I believe destroying niche communities on Reddit these days, so I’m not sure how much longer those will keep working for me either. Moving away from explicit subscriptions and turning your home feed into just a lesser version of /r/all is a good way to ruin most communities over time I think. I feel eventually Reddit will just become Facebook for millennials where your feed is completely divorced from anything you might actually want to see and is entirely an algorithm instead.

I think America made critical missteps between 1930-1980 in terms of updating our government. Congress especially started to break down, with corruption heavily seeping in and things becoming more and more gridlocked until we get to today, where effectively nothing at all productive really happens in Congress.

Can anyone imagine any constitutional amendment happening these days, no matter how benign? I don’t think you could get them to agree water is wet.

Congress was the first branch to fall and rather than work to fix that, we’ve allowed the corruption to spread. Now the judicial branch is lost and the executive branch has taken supreme control.

America was founded on what is effectively an alpha version of democracy. Most other countries built upon that success and addressed obvious issues to varying degrees of success. Meanwhile America, instead of respecting the idea of a ‘living document’ instead venerated their constitution as a holy document and then calcified their government into total dead lock until it’s now about to collapse.

It’s the whale-verse

I mean steam just had a bunch of games delisted because of draconian porn rules (save the children!)

UK passed an insanely invasive adult content ID law

All of this ‘save the children’ stuff starts with arguments like this. Erode nuance, make the attack on children seem bigger and more menacing. Erase the difference between teens and children, so everything is treated as if it was done to a five year old.

I personally think the loss of nuance is kind of scary. There are massive, continuous attacks on our freedoms in the name of ‘protect the children’.

It’s inaccurate language like this that’s used to justify those changes.

People are acting like this is supposedly undermining the horror of rape, but that’s like saying we only care about rape if it’s happens to a 9 year old. We should be horrified at rape period, no matter the age of the person it happens to.

Treating teenagers and young adults like they’re children isn’t helping anything and is just a cover to push these restrictive laws on us, much like how the pro-life arguments are done in bad faith and just used to further their pro-birth ideals.

Somewhere along the way we built a system that doesn’t actually require you to do or make anything. And that’s been absolutely horrible.

Several adult friendly platforms have come and gone. Many of them very profitable and self sustaining. They all eventually get screwed by inability to process payments.

And when people try to create their own payment methods not subject to arbitrary morality rules, the full weight of the existing banking system comes down hard and strangles them in the cradle.

We could absolutely have safe, profitable, self sustaining adult friendly spaces, but the powers that be don’t want that to exist and work hard to undermine that from every possible angle.

It’s really no different than all those efforts to ban local fiber ISP coops or how abortion clinics get shut down by arbitrary full hospital regulations because they couldn’t ban them legally.

Cloud everything, saas, and offshore workers are all still things that have been negatively affecting people for years and never really went away even if the hype died down.

Tired of all the hateful takes on these people. They want politicians to listen and act and thought Trump would do that. No, they weren’t paying attention the first go-round, but Trump got their emotions.

Sure, I got that the first go around. It was the second time that cemented things for me. Nobody was ignorant of who and what Trump was in 2024. Those are the people I think are hateful bigots willing to burn down the entire country if only it’ll take a few undesirables out with them.

Piracy is somewhat similar to vigilantism to me. My ability to consider it a negative is directly related to how fair I consider the legitimate methods available to be.

If similar efforts were focused on consumer protection laws as we do IP protection, I don’t think pirates would have much leg to stand on, and they’d be seen in more of a negative light.

But since consumers are regularly fucked by corporations, all I see is two sides both doing bad shit and I’m not feeling all that charitable for the faceless megacorp. I also dislike pirates who pirate from small time creators. But that’s about as far as I can care given the state of things.

We should be focusing on stronger consumer rights to truly fix the problem for all sides.

I’m not really against age verification, the problem is that I’m very, very against having a government backed database of all porn I visit. Nobodies really assured me that current implementations aren’t doing that.

Plus, at the rate we’re going I’m not really sure how much longer porn will be legal, free speech rights be damned. Both the right and the left and the younger generation seem fully invested in ‘save the kids’ mentality these days.

I mean the difference is that the old RNC deliberately invited the vampire inside, thinking they could control them. They were supposed to be useful idiots to get extra votes. They were wrong and lost control.

The DNC recognizes that if they ever actually gave the people power they’d never get it back. So they’re much more diligent about denying any possible progressive advancement, up to and including damaging their own party to do so.

I mean it’s kind of classic issues with unions. It doesn’t work if only place is doing it, but the more that do, the less market they have access to. Europe is a pretty decent sized market, so it may still hurt. And if they do leave, well China certainly has a lot of their own homegrown solutions, so that’s not an entirely unreasonable option.

The DNC and the RNC basically want the same thing, except the Democratic Party is much more subtle about it.

The old RNC. The new Republicans have taken over and actually do want all the fascist hateful stuff. The old guard courted crazies and those crazies took over.

I still think this is disingenuous. It’s not a choice between being shot or stabbed. It’s a choice between being fined and getting gassed to death.

I’m not sure what, if anything, Dems are doing that counts as actually getting hurt. They’re just very ineffective. At worst they’re the useless bystander screaming instead of doing anything productive.

I’ve never repacked a console in its original box, even when I’ve had it.