Critical_Thinker

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[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This will do literally fucking nothing because food stamps don't cover grocery bills for anybody. You always have to subsidize it.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The money is already diverted. That's what the tax cuts were in 2017.

This is just a way to upset various government agencies that might otherwise not be ok with law being upended to accomplish the goal of eliminating services our elected government has mandated.

The entire legislative branch is broken now.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Too much money involved for that.

Pharma has an open left leaning culture but once you get to executive leadership and the board the only thing that matters is sales. The bribers (aka lobbyists) will work with anyone.

You can bet your ass there is more chance of the FDA getting disbanded than drugs having prices regulated or simply being banned from sale. I'm expecting the biden price negotiations for medicare and medicaid to go away so the pharmas can milk us even more with their exclusive monopolies for the first decade or so of sales.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't he just make stupid billions from his ponzi coin scheme?

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

allegedly influencing the 2024 election

Where are the damages again?

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's tons of alternatives out there now that are as good or better.

If he gets it then clearly it will be the Confederate States ChatGPT.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

I get weird replies when I mentioned this on reddit in the past, but it's true. He's the only one worth trusting at the place. The moment his inheritors sell out is the moment steam dies taking all our libraries with it.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Good thing I pirate all their shit already if I want it.

I stopped paying for Amazon Prime over a year ago once they announced similar bullshit with their video service.

Once Disney dropped subscription sharing.... I started downloading their shit too.

Now i'm left with Netflix and Crunchyroll. I'm this close to axing netflix. Crunchyroll is kinda shit but at least it's cheap.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We'd be better off with a website that has farms owned by the workers that are also politically aligned away from hateful views.

Race based delineation is stupid.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

This is the thing that I literally do not understand. Self-segregation is the stupidest shit.

A coalition of independent farmers or farmers with a specific agenda is much better than dividing shit by race. Race is the least meaningful way to divide people.

My wife is black, but she's not stereotypical American black. If she owned a farm she could be on this list... and she has zero roots in the historical american bullshit. She's literally an immigrant who pulls six figures in the corporate world. Most of the people of her cultural background are trump supporters for some stupid fucking reason (they think trump will only deport the "other" POCs, not their own, surely THEIR brown people are better right? Morons.)

If her trump loving copatriots registered as "black' farmers they could be included in this list... and by buying through them we'd be supporting the establishment no less than if we just went to a mega-corpo grocery store.

I'm all for supporting businesses and groups that are doing something positive for the community or at the very least are trying not to actively make things worse for people but blindly "buying black" is stupid. I'd much rather buy from a fucking worker owned co-op farm that is politically aligned as far away from hate as possible.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 36 points 2 weeks ago

Those texan gun dealers love selling to the cartels through proxy buyers. They are so easy to find if you have access to the right information - just look at whoever buys more than two guns in a 6 month period... the top 80% of that list will probably be unable to procure all the guns they bought because they distribute them over the border.

If we can smuggle people in to the US easily, it should be trivial to smuggle weapons out of the US easily. Hell, if you take out the receivers you can do it in plain sight, just move the receivers illegally.

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