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We’ve spent decades bleeding the middle and lower classes dry.

People get all up in arms about private equity groups buying up companies, extracting any value, saddling them with debt, and then skipping out, and understandably so, but that’s exactly what’s happening with the USA. It’s just at a larger scale. The principle remains the same.

For context, there are just over 500 commercial airports in the US.

No, no companies are people. Buying and selling them is slavery.

it’s the same goddamn cycle over and over

This is the key. The people you can trust are the people who are going against that cycle.

Bringing up the Bible on Lemmy is generally a no-no, but I love Ecclesiastes. It’s a book about meaninglessness. Everything is the same as it has always been and there is nothing of true value; everything is meaningless. It’s the same goddamn cycle. While when it was written is debatable, it’s comforting and horrible to know someone thousands of years ago saw things the same way I do. Comforting, because I’m not alone in how I feel. Horrible in that people still feel this way after thousands of years.

The writer’s conclusion is to fear God and keep his commandments. The commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. Loving your neighbor as yourself means being kind and empathetic. Kindness and empathy solve nearly everything.

So, even though it may achieve nothing, be kind and empathetic. Cling to people who are kind and empathetic. Be an oasis amid the hate.

That graph is shaped like a gun.

Forget sued. It’ll be ruled a suicide for sure. Or maybe you just get deported to a war zone.

It takes a lot of bravery for someone to come forward with an accusation against some nameless cretin in their hometown.

I’d imagine it would take a lot more bravery to come forward with an accusation against the most famous cretin of all time, especially when he can deport, imprison, or kill you or anyone you love, legally, with no recourse.

My wife and I spend about 25% of our pre-tax income on childcare. Cutting that, plus another 10% other places would be fine.

Oh for sure. He’s an 80 year old man who’s barely holding it together.

I might be alone on this, but I’d love to see some research in 50 years about the role Roe v. Wade plays in this. The Republican party spent a lot of time, effort, and money turning their base into single issue voters, turning “morality” into a weapon. The party has been trying to twist socialism into the new evil I’m morally obligated to oppose for a long while now, but it lacks the same motivation as abortion. If I were making a case to grandmothers in Kansas, I’d much, much easier to make a case against abortion than ending school lunches.

Most of the people I know who are really angry about the Epstein files are Republicans. They’re so used to feeling like they and Republican politicians have the moral high ground, and when that’s proving itself false, they’re freaking out. I now know a ton of Republican single issue voters with Epstein as their issue. They’re angry, they’re disappointed, and they don’t like being told to forget about it. We’ll see if that plays out in the next election though, but living in a very red state, there have been lots of little things I’ve seen over the past 8ish year that wake up one or two people here and there. But this is a little different, at least to my eyes. So many people are outraged about it and staying outraged about it.

I would imagine that Madam Jewish Space Lasers is more concerned about being on the right side of this long term. The files will come out. They’ve been in too many hands. But, this will be a purity test for Republicans for years. It’s what the Iraq War vote became for Democrats. We’re you on the right side of history, or the wrong side? For people who aren’t implicated by Epstein, it’s easy, for people who are, it’s hard.

Trump’s getting crafty here. All these comparisons between him and Hitler, so he changes it up and plays Neville Chamberlain instead.

He wants someone to work on his old post.

I think she has cake in her van. Gotta go with her to get it though.

Wow. Good for her. Hope she doesn’t get a job in her field.

It’s always awful.

Both sides fuel the homelessness epidemic. Both sides bomb Palestinians. Both sides are in the Epstein files. It’s almost like they’re basically the same side, but one’s drunk a little more of the Koolaid.

Be sure, the cancer pulled itself up by its bootstraps and got where it is on merit alone.

Well, kids these days only care about TikCrafts and their MineToks, so it’s our fault she has to stay in power. If we cared more about governance by the people, for the people, instead of streaming Fartnight, she could learn what skibidi toilet Ohio means from her great-grandkids and know why Democrats lose there.

The web has almost always been unusable without an adblocker. Ads today are less malicious, but more insidious. Clicking the wrong ad in 2003 would brick your computer. Clicking the wrong ad today means you’ll have to cancel a credit card after your personal data is compiled and sold on the black market.

Nothing new. Ads don’t fuel a free internet. They fuel a business model. The free internet is fueled by the time and donations of kind, dedicated people.

Hey now, there could have been some temptingly pleather couches on Epstein Island.

Eh, Prince Andrew isn’t sweating it.

Grok is going to roast you mercilessly for not buying a Mercedes as it uses your Tesla to suicide bomb the nearest bagel shop.