BlemboTheThird

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[–] BlemboTheThird 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

The aid we send to Ukraine is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of wealth we allow the ultra rich to hoard. Our wealth tax rates are already criminally low, and even on those the underfunded IRS fails to collect somewhere between $500 billion to a trillion every year.

Our lack of a public safety net has nothing to do with foreign aid, and everything to do with our corrupt government doing everything it can to entrench the oligarchy.

Edit, didn't think to source it until after I commented, looks like I sort of misremembered an old politico article, which is kind of a shitty source anyway--but everything other than the exact numbers I mentioned is still true

Also, lumping Israel and Ukraine together as equally bad is ludicrous

[–] BlemboTheThird 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Best I can do is one half of two eggs

[–] BlemboTheThird 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, they could disconnect it for you, but there's still no way to know if it's been transmitting data you don't want it to in the meantime

[–] BlemboTheThird 18 points 1 month ago (6 children)

There's no way to know though...

[–] BlemboTheThird 100 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Let's all take a moment to appreciate calling a screenshot of Twitter a Reddit repost

[–] BlemboTheThird 46 points 2 months ago

A steadily growing portion of American education is about rote memorization instead of critical thinking because we tied testing to funding and true/false is easier to grade

[–] BlemboTheThird 31 points 2 months ago

Working would be a lot easier if the society I was contributing to didn't hate me and everything I care about

[–] BlemboTheThird 4 points 2 months ago

I use flax meal in much the same way. Chia seeds have a knack for getting stuck in my teeth!

[–] BlemboTheThird 28 points 2 months ago

That's be nice but the propaganda is such that they get to blame everyone else even when they're in power. My bet is the worse they crash the country, the harder they'll double down, and the more tolerance their base will have for them to do truly heinous shit to the groups they vilify (ie trans people and immigrants)

[–] BlemboTheThird 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's not just economic globalization, but the global ecosystem's food chains are already starting to collapse thanks to climate change, and our factory farming systems are becoming increasingly prone to virulent diseases wiping out huge crops of both plants and animals. I wonder what happens when food prices skyrocket because half our food supply has been contaminated, and at the same time inflation explodes thanks to plain ol' financial mismanagement

[–] BlemboTheThird 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, I just saw she links to cs.rin.ru last night while looking for solutions.

Also, wasn't being serious anyway

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