I had never thought about how capitalism works in America, but having spent a few moments on it I now understand why the psychopaths rise to the top of their food chain.
Robert Sleep
@garphillian.bsky.social
Lover of maths, physics, d&d, Pathfinder, fallout 4, earth, animals, planet building(fantasy setting), and learning. Apprentice shitposter. Abolish the failure that is net zero and move to absolute zero. Tax wealth, not work. Scrap AUKUS.
This certainly pulled a few threads together for me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKEL...
Modern Zionism, Explained
YouTube video by Ryan Chapman
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Compulsory voting, along with independence of the AEC, are my canaries wrt authoritarian takeovers in Australia.
Weird how in America ICE uses technology against their poor to kidnap, enslave, and traffic them but has no desire to use that same technology to bring the oligarchs who raped children with Epstein to justice, let alone uncover the current fredofile rings of the powerful. They didn't just stop.
I wonder what ROI the elites have placed on a poor person that they use to decide if they live or die in the system they have created.
Finally turned my attention to the monarchies, and aristocracies, on my planet. Having trouble integrating the idea of a king with a planet that actually has gods. It seems that it really only works if the gods are hands off. Should keep me out of mischief for a few months.
My books from Paizo took 6 days of get from them in America to me in rural South Australia. I figured it would take 6 weeks...
If games go digital only and the company can take your copy on a whim, then we need to stop calling it "buying".
It seems we are rapidly approaching a time when siding with people over money will get you imprisoned.
I am not confident that this whole growing hair will last much longer, so here is proof I tried.
Obama needs to indicate his intent to run in the 2028 elections, and wait for the SCOTUS verdict. The word lawyers can then see where the holes are in their judgement against him to see how they intend to let Trump get away with it.
He would cheat if he played a group of 8 year olds at golf.
Katherine hot Springs. It appears everyone is at they ag show.
So, I take it the billionaires have bought everything they could easily acquire and now need to destroy the systems that protect ordinary people to get more.
It is interesting to watch the GOP, now, it seems, a Christian fundamentalist sect do to America what the Muslim Brotherhood tried to do to Egypt.
So, when do they confirm Blanche? Since we all know they will.
I reckon my kidneys might be getting ready to fail. My doc's gunna love that when I get him to start checking tomorrow...
It is also weird to live in a time where you know that if a politician was to drafted legislation that made life better for the poor whole teams of people would go over it with a fine tooth comb in order to twist it to benefit the wealthy.
Watching the collapse of America's democracy in real-time HD thanks to the net makes me glad I live in Australia. Still it is not far enough away to avoid the shockwaves, nowhere is. One aspect that has guard me off guard is the people sleepwalking through it, I don't get that.
One thing I am going to miss when they finally destroy the net as we now know it is that it melts national borders.
It seems there is a law of mutant ear hair that states when one is removed two shall grow in its place...
Love the scaremongering about China at the moment. It occurs to me that they aren't the ones kidnapping Presidents, stealing oil or randomly bombing other countries right now...