[-] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

The USA has a bs mythology that it was founded by 'pioneers' and that a wild wild west existed. The untold history of the USA is really the story of finance. Those that financed, the joint stock companies that helped to bring immigrants over. The land speculators, and recruiters that brought over Irish and other immigrants over in the 19th century, through money provided by rail and steam companies.
These type of post-apocalyptic memes perpetuate the stereotype of a self-made country. When in reality financiers from England were offshoring labor to a country with fewer regulations and no copyright/patent laws.

[-] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

The irony of not being able to spiral downward, when spiraling downward.

[-] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

40 years of a recession will do that to a society. An entire generation fucked.

[-] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 97 points 5 months ago

It's like the 80s all over again; Neo-Nazi's, bad adult VHS movies, drug epidemic, Trump.

[-] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

Interest rates were raised to kick people in the teeth, the Federal reserve says that it needs to keep kicking people in the teeth for a few more months.

Economists are saying that people are not being kicked in the teeth.

Logicians everywhere are banging their heads on their desks, as people are both being kicked in the teeth, and not kicked in the teeth.

[-] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

This is just dumb, chat bots are the dumbest of technologies.

[-] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 79 points 7 months ago

Haha, Trump increased his shares to 1 Billion shares, from 78 million. Squeezig everyone else out.

Also, Truth Social values itself at $4Billion, LOL.

It seems nothing here smells right, from the valuation of the company to somehow Trump declaring he has 1 billions shares of the company.

[-] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

Teenage girls are psychotic, getting into fights with a trans kid and beating them to a pulp. How many psychotically violent teens are in schools?

[-] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Interesting to see what happens, if he moves his companies to Texas. Texas is very rich, he'll just be another large company in Texas and nothing special. Many companies register in Delaware because of the lacks tax laws. I bet he won't find what he is looking for in Texas; a blind cult following.

[-] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 120 points 7 months ago

Interesting to learn so much about how Fascism works, because of Trump. Making crazy statements, as a type of blind loyalty test is instinctual for fascist leaders. Alienates his followers from normal people, forces them to believe in even crazier things.

[-] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 55 points 7 months ago

If you do enough crime, it's too hard to prosecute because no one knows where to start?

[-] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

Exactly. Where will they move to? Most older people want to stay in the neighborhood that they grew up in. It's not like an 80 year old will be selling their house in suburban Long Island to find a cheap room in rural Alaska.

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Looking for someone that has a hobbyist website that posts to it guitar lessons.

I'm trying to stay away from Youtube, as it is too hard to sort through so many videos, and many of them are just ads for courses.

Love old website and blogs, from the before social media times.

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