Hate to tell ya but the political class is curated and manufactured by the corporate plutocracy. Most of them are scabs paid to talk the talk publicly, while offering subservience behind closed doors. Anyone actually walking the walk is an anomaly; if they ever have a reasonable chance of success, they are pre-emptively neutralized by the states monopoly on violence.

They will also crush all organized movements with mass surveillance, and it’s only going to get worse. It seems like the masses only recourse is self-sacrifice through vigilante terrorism. It’s much harder to stop a motivated and autonomous, self-organizing, lone-wolf / individual (see mass shooters).

I’m a programmer. Programmers are the way the are because of biases inherent to pre-existing wealth and historically in-demand skills / high pay. It’s only a matter of time till they learn the boot of capitalism will crush them the same as any other worker.

Bro’s legit out here thinking there’s some sort of meaningful wealth redistribution instead of winner takes all for the few, abject poverty for the rest.

It’s the system that is insane. The system that rewards the most immoral, unethical, criminal, and corrupt with wealth and power. The system that enables a psychopathic plutocracy.

Like most companies SpaceX benefitted enormously from NASA / public funding, whose greatest weakness was that it was at the whim of the US political system, which is evidently a complete failure. A multi-decade reusable rocket program was never on the cards with a continuously rotating gaggle of oligarchs changing funding and throwing spanners in projects. SpaceX was able to swoop in and hire all the top talent; thousands of engineers etc that chose the path hoping to join NASA.

It’s not that it can’t be done in Europe. It’s that America had the talent pool from the space race, plus a vulture capitalist plutocracy that guarantees higher profits and worse worker rights.

Every time of the year is the perfect time.

Can’t he just do what America is known and loved for? … Denying entire countries their basic human rights, sovereignty, and democracy?

I want this, but instead I can add all the FOSS projects I use, and make a single donation a year that is distributed proportionally to each of them and their dependencies. I prefer large single donations to minimize bank fees as much as possible.

While most work is hard, and I dunno how bespoke this gig is, there’s a massive difference between a generic fry “cook” and a restaurant line cook/chef.

Most fry cooks, like a Macdonald’s, are a finely tuned production line where most of the food is pre-prepped and premade (most of the “cooking” is done in a factory). The “cooks” in those roles usually just assemble the pre made components, and in the case of fast food, have finely tunes tools to serve their generic menu.

A restaurant cook/chef requires significantly more attention to detail, skill, flexibility, and knowledge because most of the food is made from scratch, using raw ingredients, which is why there are culinary schools. Real restaurants can’t succeed with a kitchen full of deep fryers and teenagers pushing buttons. Naturally, the expectation is that they should be paid more because it requires more skill, knowledge, effort, and dedication.

When he declared Nov would be the last election, and winning it meant they wouldn’t have to worry about elections again, he meant it!

He’s doing exactly what he said he would do.

If the choice is between school shootings or CEO shootings, the latter is preferrable. I’d take that trade even if I were a CEO, but I doubt most CEO’s would.

The entirety of MSM is literally owned by the oligarchy who wants to remove the risk that democracy represents to their power and replace it with their preferred flavor of corporate plutocratic dictatorship.

They will never be fair and balanced until they are split into a thousand tiny pieces and restructured as non-profit journalist-owned and operated co-ops.

It’s just another day in the plutocracy that has probably run things the entire lifetime of “democracy”.

The only difference is with MAGA the plutocracy no longer need to hide behind lobbyists, campaign financing, super PAC’s, nepotism/cronyism, quid pro quo, virtue signaling about national security, etc to engage in corruption, loot the public coffers, and divert trillions to their own companies or cronies in the MIC or whatever.

The conservative propaganda machine has now successfully groomed and cultivated a mentally ill cult, who will let their king insert a microchip into their brains without a second thought… Hell, they’ll probably hand over their life savings for the privilege.

Fuck bitcoin. It should be allocated to desalinisation so less water is pulled from the rivers of the driest continent on Earth. The ecology around waterways is already in the shitter, and global warming is going to 10x that clusterfuck.

The dictators claims that all of their political opponents are terrorists is not analogous or equally valid to the terrorized political opponents calling the dictator a terrorist. If you can’t comprehend how those two groups are different — the logical separation between the conman who lies about everything and terrorizes his opponents, and every group he chooses to terrorize — then you either have the mental illness, or are most at risk to the propaganda (and future mental illness).

Pro tip! Only a fascist opposes ANTI-FAscism.

Hypocrisy is clutching your pearls and virtue signalling “Christian conservative values” while worshipping a “grab-em-by-the-pussy” false-profit who is the closest thing to the antichrist in living memory.

So yeah, only one of those groups has a literal mental illness, and they are also the hypocrites.

None of us are as “free” as we believe we are. At the end of the day our politicians are all financed by our wealthiest individuals and corporations (many of which are foreign).

No matter where you are the majority of your domestic politics, your geopolitics — your “national security” — is intrinsically linked to the wealthiest individuals and corporations that engage with your economy. This can happen anywhere, and it will if we do nothing.

P.S. thanks mods!

I thought it was visible due an update or community config. I’ve never seen the mod name visible before (and considered that suspect after Lemmy was touted as a transparent alt to reddit).

Now that I’m aware this mod is actually the ml admin and creator of lemmy I suspect he wants to be visible so everyone knows how much of a big boy strongman he is.

The hope is that social pressure will encourage more and more companies to participate.

Oof. Yeah, nah… Capitalism doesn’t work that way, and if by some miracle it did, the rug would get pulled sooner than later. Most businesses don’t even pay their employees fairly, and you expect an optional expense to be sustainable?