“So long as my end is later than theirs…” says the capitalist.

I’m not putting my lips on that.

It’s nice to have a clinical name for Beavis and Butt-head face.

Fuck all these lying sacks of shit.

That may be the most apt analogy ever.

I’m note quite cynical enough to believe our votes are totally meaningless… yet. And if it comes to that, it’s our job to overthrow our oppressors by any means necessary. I think our discontent will spread over time until eventually reaching a critical mass. Every person living today except the (extremely elderly) has grown up in a “peaceful” world built on a foundation of death and suffering. It is our collective failure that has allowed it all to collapse, and it will be our collective responsibility to one day correct it.

It’s not really malaise; if there was a societal will in this country we would pass laws mandating green energy adoption. But we, as a society, do not. You or I may not have much individual impact, but the government and corporations are us when you get down to it. We all stand complicit because as a collective we do not want to experience the pain of giving up our luxury.

Edit: By we I refer to American citizens.

Genius does not have a beauty requirement.

The stranglehold oil has on the entire world is staggering. On one hand it brings amazing technology and possibilities, so we all lap it up. However, it really does seem to be the root of so many economic problems, which cause myriad other issues. We all, to some degree, pull a “Doesn’t look like anything to me…” when it comes to admitting our dependence on oil.

We are addicts.

TIL that capitalism didn’t exist before we started using oil. The problem is so obvious, it’s like the whole world has Stockholm syndrome toward the oil companies. We all stand complicit.

That’s the best part: We don’t know! There are so many taxes and fees and BS spread over so many things that it is very difficult to calculate the total percentage accurately. 40% seems high, but it’s probably not far off when you add everything up.

You’ve got it. I loved Final Fight and dreamed of a game like that but with Street Fighter characters and special moves. I think Streets of Rage is a bit closer to this idea, but I never got to play it as I was a SNES kid back in the day.

I always wished for a Street Fighter side scrolling beat em up.

Brother, that’s just life in the US.

Don’t get too excited; I’m sure the next move will be to make it easier for those companies to sue the pants off of users en masse. Last thing they can allow is corporate accountability.

Behold the Atlantean and their mastery of laser decoding mechanisms!

You are asking people to choose homelessness. At some point the tide may rise to the point where community support will allow for this, but it’s just not there yet. I don’t know if it will ever be until it’s too late.

The only think stopping Georgia from being blue is voter suppression.

Hey, there are probably dozens of us Lemmy users here!

It’s a good thing they have all of our voting data and will be able to target conscription on those they don’t like, which is exactly why and how they would do this.