NutWrench

Company-wide email: “We’ve had our best year ever and it’s all thanks to YOU!”

Me: “Great. Can I have a raise?”

Company: “Oh, we can’t afford THAT.”

Yup. If your company is too cheap to do pizza parties anymore then either the pizza is too expensive for them to provide (bad sign) or management can’t spare you being off the clock for an hour (another bad sign).

I still have an old, Viewsonic media player. I wish I could find a modern one that didn’t need an always-on Internet connection.

A . . . “final solution” you might say.

What’s a horchata?

“The good of the people” is a noble goal. The problem is that for the most part, people who deliberately seek power to lead these groups are vain, greedy, selfish, brutal assholes.

Collectivism, as Karl Marx wrote it, has never been practiced in any so-called “communist” country on Earth. It’s always been an oligarchy.

CNN is already sane-washing this, referring to Musk’s “odd gesture.”

Yup. CNN deserves a gold medal for mental gymnastics.

THIS is why people have a problem with “tankies.”

Budapest, 1956.

This. Also, whatever is going on in China and Russia is NOT “communism.” Those are oligarchies, where a small number of billionaires use the news media to keep the lower and middle classes fighting with each other, while the rich keep running off with all the f*cking money.

The rumors that Zuckerberg smuggled several tons of heroin out of Afghanistan are completely untrue.

It was actually meth.

Yes.

https://federation-checker.vercel.app/

This link lets you type in an Instance name and it will tell you what other Instances allow it and which ones block it.

TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which is a front for the Chinese Communist Party. It’s being used by the CCP to spread agit-prop and self-destructive crap.

Other countries use their “social media platforms” the same way, but that’s no reason to make it easy for other governments to destabilize your society.

There’s currently about 600 lemmy instances, in many different countries, and those countries each have different laws regarding the protection of speech. Some of it is also just power-tripping mods or left-wing / right-wing censorship.

If this is happening to a community you like, you can always switch to the same community in a different instance. Eventually, the “official” community will have the most subscribers and the community with the censorship problems will wither and die.

“Triggered?”

No. Because I don’t care what dumb people think.

Goober Nation has no problems with “socialism” when those government handouts benefit a billionaire.

Maybe when 80% of this nation is living in Trumpville tent cities, people will finally stop voting for, “Punch me in the dick repeatedly.”

You don’t have to rely on luck if you can afford to buy a bunch of lawmakers and a Supreme Court or two. It’s amazing how many “smart businessmen” rely on a bought and paid for justice system.

“Open sasparilla?”

“Open saddlesoap?”

“Open sesame?”

The point is that it’s a class war. It always has been. It’s about a system of government where the country’s wealth is concentrated into a small, ruling class of billionaires, who use the media they own to keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the farking money.

Oh wait. that’s capitalism. Amazing how much soviet Russians government has in common with “capitalism.”