[–] 32 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Infinite growth in a finite reality. Numbers go up up up but minerals and food don't exponentially grow, in fact they deplete.

Shareholder profit > sustained profit is what broke it.

There's nothing wrong with say, Mark Cubans drug store model of 15% capped profits. If it were publicly owned however it's legally liable to pump that up to infinity until the model breaks for shareholders to make quarterly gains. Short term thinking replaced long term strategy.

Even Costco knows you keep the $1.50 hot dog as a loss leader but if it were up to the ghouls in suits it would be $6.99 today and $7.99 tomorrow.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I didn't say he wouldn't get votes, he doesn't need elections anymore to keep his ass in the chair. It's done, he is in his 2nd term. Americans aren't of any concern to him as long as a line of millionaires and billionaires keep kissing his ring. Nothing he passes will be for anyone, just against stuff his donors don't agree with.

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  • [–] 96 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    If anyone hasn't noticed, his job now is to sign things and shill for whoever pays him the most at the moment. He doesn't need votes anymore because he's either unable to run again or will simply refuse to leave or have a hamburger speed things up. He doesn't care.. He just says anything to anyone for his sponsors.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Every time there is a ceasefire, Hamas fires rockets out of apartments, hospitals, or their tunnel networks under schools. Every time they are asked for hostages they are told "lol oops we killed them already". So what do you want Israel to do? Nothing? Hamas has undermined it's own citizens by constantly using them as rage bait news by putting them directly in harms way, so the only option to hurt Hamas is to also hurt civilians nearby. I dont think genocide is an answer to anything, yet there isn't an alternative to bombing terrorists who surround themselves with children and old women in public places. This has been decades of harassment to the point where even Arab nations don't want Palestinians because they keep causing uprisings every single time. They refuse to integrate and also refuse to govern, so you have this situation where they are trying to get themselves harmed every opportunity to calm down.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Because his only job now is to sign any papers handed to him by his posse of self enriching gremlins. He doesn't need anyone's vote anymore, he doesn't need anyone's money (except if it starts with a B) and doesn't care anymore because he will likely die in office. If he signs horrible shit billionaires around him want, then he gets to coast as president, no thinking involved. This is what he is doing.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Who gives a shit, this guy is done forever. Go cry on bazillionaire island or whatever people who don't have to work ever again do.

    Why is it that once you get more money than sense your brain breaks? Shit look at elon, he only started doing nazi stuff too after he was the richest man on earth and cash meant nothing anymore. It's all ego now, the only currency you can have after material objects aren't a problem. I think these guys want to have a following no matter who follows them (hint it's nazis I guess) and enter the religious stage to get there.

    Life isn't meant to be "won" like capitalism. Nobody is supposed to achieve the status of getting what you dream of every time. I don't think Kanye or anyone else like him can see the forest through the trees at this point.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Okay my next big idea is the bodega van. Instead of an ice cream truck for kids it's a convenience store for adults in the suburbs. It's 6:47pm and you're out of milk, tissues, and you forgot to buy broccoli for your dinner. Oh shit it's the bodega van music. Brb, gotta walk down the block instead of spend 20m in a car, parking lot, store, line, back. As long as the margins are less than doordash it's worth using.

    Cmon please tell me I have one original thought in this wide world.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    We either become mole people, dolphin people, or space people

    Maybe oxygen clubs will be the new thing in 50 years to get out of the smog/humidity

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