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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Too autistic for this. Why would it be unsettling? Mercury is much smaller than the sun. If it was suddenly bigger in proportion to the sun, then I'd be unsettled.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Well of course I haven't read Marx. Communism's evil, duh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Цанк йоу, Доналд. Веру коол!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder if they're seeing that the bubble is about to burst and trying to mitigate the share price catering once the floor falls out on this whole thing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Voting is an important tool to help contain fascism in liberal democracies while building serious social movements. (Socialist - but hopefully this isn't actually unpopular with most socialists).

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (24 children)

Most people? No, definitely not. Most Americans get vaccinated. More people than you would hope? Yeah, absolutely.

There's so many people here who have crazy views on health and wellness generally. Juice cleanses. Chiropractic. Homeopathy. Fad diets. Faith healing. I think some of it is because people can't afford real healthcare, but most of it is anti-intellectualism and propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That Southern US usage dates back to at least the US civil war in the 1860s.

But yankee was used to refer to at least some people in what is now the US as early as the 1660s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It sure is, pal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That's really clever! Thanks for posting OP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

"BEANIS" heh heh heh

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Another point here, Amazon has really thin profit margins on their core business (not counting AWS, etc. Just the online shopping). If it weren't absolutely gargantuan, it would fail. It's only profitable because of the logistical efficiency it has achieved, exploitation (of workers, cheap goods from China, etc.), and absolutely massive economies of scale. Similar to Walmart.

Recommended reading: People's Republic of Walmart. All for nationalizing - would be better for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Oh, totally. Just like to bring up that our grandparents/great grandparents were getting nasty even before widespread use of birth control, etc. Young folks today are having a lot less sex, or so I've heard, largely due to difficulties finding partners, stress, etc.

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