“Let them stop eating cake!”

Yeah, there’s a reason GenXers are generally known to be cynical.

Why is this headline so fucking stupid?

Yes. It’s the same few people ruining everything else. I’ll give you a hint: it starts with “b” and ends with “illionaires”.

If you think punching Nazis is woke, what do you think that makes you?

How could someone with such an unappetizing username post such a delicious looking pizza?

Try anything. Or nothing. Both work.

Get in the back seat.

I’m not sure, I never heard anything. Though considering what happened to Epstein, I imagine they might have preferred to stay out of the spotlight.

You know whose lives I’m concerned about? The children whom these monsters raped. Does anyone care that their lives were destroyed?

If you choose to rape children, don’t complain that your life is “destroyed” just because you have to face consequences. You did this to yourself and deserve every consequence you receive.

Most people have an idyllic view of certain childhood years, usually around the ages 5 to 10 or so. It’s before you start to understand just how broken the world is, and your worldview gets more complex and nuanced.

Many people wrongly assume that the world really was simpler when they were that age. The truth is, the world was just as messed up–they were just blissfully unaware.

Next time your dad complains, remind him that we still have milkshakes and racism.

Superman punches Nazis. This isn’t new.

Here’s the thing: protesting enshittification takes expertise, time, and energy. I’ve been working on degoogling and such, and it’s honestly difficult. Installing Linux is easier now than it used to be, but it’s still a learning curve for the average person.

We function as a society by relying on each others’ expertise. For example, it’s impractical to expect everyone to understand the intricacies of medicine, law, and engineering–so we entrust others in areas we don’t fully understand.

In addition, we can create regulations that benefit and protect the average person, who likely doesn’t even understand the potential dangers and pitfalls. Ideally, regulations like this are instigated or heavily influenced by the domain experts, as they have a much better understanding of what would be beneficial for everyone.

The problem isn’t that everyone isn’t an expert in everything, the problem is that regulation part is broken. Instead of creating laws that benefit people, we create laws that benefit a select few at the expense of the working class.

Enshittification is our fault, but not for the reason you suggest. It’s our fault because we’ve fallen into personality cults and elected people to lead who don’t have our best interests at heart. As another commenter mentioned, Reagan and Thatcher are two of the most egregious examples in recent history–people who should never have even been considered for the roles they took. Trump is just another in a long line of these.

Because even though I’m not an expert in most areas, everyone has a responsibility to think critically about who runs for office and who they vote for. I don’t expect everyone to be an expert on politics (we’re all susceptible to manipulation on these things, after all), but it doesn’t take an advanced degree to identify an insincere politician. Just ask the millions of Americans who voted to relieve themselves of healthcare (the face-eating leopards have been very busy lately).

“To be fair, some of the characters started running the cables underground in those populated areas.”

“Oh, that makes sense. So they probably have those marked and don’t have to worry about them?”

“Mostly. They don’t actually mark them, and most characters don’t know where they are. If they need to dig, they have to find them each time. Sometimes they forget to find them first.”

It’s most notable when someone on the right says something like, “Well what if Biden is in the Epstein files, should he be investigated?” and I say yes, and they’re super surprised and don’t know what to do with it. The idea that someone might not have infinite loyalty to one particular politician is crazy to them.

The idea that someone might have infinite loyalty to any politician seems crazy to me, but there it is.

“An investigation against someone I like is always a witch hunt” and other dumb-as-shit lines from the POTUS

If your current device supports LineageOS, you can install that. I’ve got no traces of Gemini on my Pixel 7, even with “gapps” installed.

Look, trans folks know more about crossing over than most of us. What’s the problem here?

“and thus was the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster founded”