I keep saying this cause it's a take a lot of people gloss over. I haven't dated in a while because I'm too broke to add anything else to my budget, dive bars included. Dating takes time and money, and if I get more of either, I'm using it to better my situation before thinking about dating.

In a time where real wealth is dwindling for most young men, I can imagine I'm not alone on this.

Ahh yes, the freedom loving state. Texas. That's right.

Retailers should know that selling this is a poison pill. If no disc launches become the norm, then retailers will no longer serve a purpose in the industry.

They've been trying to kill the second hand market for decades and this release is the biggest threat to it yet.

Well if we had reform oriented prisons we would run out of slave labor, duh. That's why it's in the constitution 🦅🦅

(https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/)[The bottom 90% of income earners have a statistically zero level of influence on policy.]

It's not you who isn't American, it's the current governing body.

I identify as an incel. I don't visit the incel web spaces though and I don't blame women for it.

I'm an incel because I can't afford to date. Like every week I'm barely able to get by living in poverty. Dating takes time and at least some money. If I got a little more of either, I'd have to use it to better my situation before dating.

I bring this point up because, as toxic as incel culture is, I rarely see it tied back to the shitty economy. Just people pointing fingers at each other as though the Male Loneliness phenomenon were entirely the result of people's personalities.

Just off camera

This is the important part. Corporate propaganda outlets will not report on burgeoning political movements that threaten the status quo, unless they are absolutely forced to, and only then to deride and ridicule them in order to discourage their growth.

You can also argue that silicon valley has that particular business model of purposely making a product look great and cheap until enough people sign up.

It's distinct from how most companies run in the red at their inception in that those traditional businesses would gladly be in the black but are waiting for economies of scale or building a reputation among consumers.

I gotta stop using chrome on my phone 😔

It's cool that we get to see Idiocracy worldwide, not just the US version. Every dystopia gets its own cultural flare. So cute.

It'll be right before the false flag attack used to justify repression of dissent

The best thing for the system to protect itself is to frame this as a health insurance issue and not a unregulated capitalism issue.

That way it doesn't have to address the rampant corruption that allowed this particular industry to get to this point. Nor will it be forced to address the myriad of other industries that are just as predatory.

The government in general is crumbling and it's corrupt "leaders" will need to ramp up authoritarianism as the constituents begin to question it's legitimacy.

They'll make use of dissenters by putting them in work camps, easing the need for cheap labor, and allowing the remaining population a chance at hiding from their duty to protect constitutional rights by continuing to provide material comforts.

Bottom image is from Generation Kill. That show was fucking amazing. Lauded as one of the most realistic depictions of Marines in the Iraq war and filled with digs at military leadership (like the one in the caption). Won a bunch of awards including Emmys.

In the same vein,

• Obama "drone strike king" did way worse than wear a tan suit. He assassinated gadafi, and holds (held?) the record for most deportations with reports of immigrant children in cages.
• Biden had that whole rio grande fiasco where people were drowning everyday as he opened the asylum loophole which set T boy up for a win ( almost suspiciously efficiently, wouldn't you say?)

Make no mistake, folks, the Two Party Mafia is corrupt all around.

These garbage ratio posts that continue to blame the working class for a failing duopoly political system that has been taken hostage by a plutocracy, and has clearly divorced itself from the needs and desires of the governed populace do nothing more than confirm that Lemmy is now rife with bots and state actors.

Punk rock would never.

Papers. Show me your papers.

If only there were some way to change the ancient text. Some sort of amend-sion. Surely our benevolent leaders would have figured something like that out by now. I guess we'll just have to keep voting and hoping every four years

It's like a reverse leopard, where it tries to gaslight you about how it told you it was going to eat your face