some_designer_dude

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[–] some_designer_dude 5 points 13 hours ago

^ Ska band name

[–] some_designer_dude 12 points 2 days ago

Why? Nothing sticks to Trump. Nothing bad that happens is going to be his fault, ever, in the glazed eyes of his moronic followers. He’s firing a bunch of educated weenies? Nice! Got ‘em. That’ll teach them to think they’re smarter than everyone else. Who’s a rocket scientist now?!

[–] some_designer_dude 1 points 2 days ago

They can buy a new environment for themselves, their friends, and their loved ones. So it’s all good. If we didn’t want to die drowning in our homes, we shouldn’t have all bought cars and drank from plastic straws. Nobody forced us to do those things.

[–] some_designer_dude 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The other option is to channel that hate into action. Even it’s just helping others get angry too. Once the right people (or the right amount of people) get angry enough, this can all be stopped.

[–] some_designer_dude 14 points 6 days ago

The guy who did his fireworks on the campaign trail will be heading NORAD.

[–] some_designer_dude 2 points 6 days ago

This is how the violence starts…

[–] some_designer_dude 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The world is watching too. It’s easy for me to shout towards the US “do something!” but the rich have got people so economically fucked they’d have to choose between fighting this good fight, or feeding their families.

When they can’t even feed their families, the choice will be much easier to make.

[–] some_designer_dude 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They’re gonna be illegal to wear in public anyway, though.

[–] some_designer_dude 11 points 1 week ago

Society is always about three missed meals away from blood in the streets.

[–] some_designer_dude 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Boycotts, from the perspective of the organizations you’d want to hurt the most, look like a few ants throwing fists at an elephant. It probably doesn’t even know it’s happening, let alone suffering some kind of consequence.

Refusing to buy something from an evil corp is in its own way cowardly. It won’t accomplish anything meaningful but it feels good enough that it stops any actual useful action.

I don’t think us “normies” can be blamed either way though. Even for those who can afford alternatives, they may not be able to afford the loss in quality or convenience or whatever value they’re giving up. I’d love to not buy or use Apple, but I’d also like to keep my job.

Also consider who you’d even be hurting if everyone somehow did participate in a boycott. Apple’s sales plummet but they’ll never disappear, and so long as there’s any money coming in at all, the last to go would be at the top. So we’ve all just put hundreds of thousands of people out of jobs, and the rich, evil pieces of shit at the top haven’t really felt anything.

It is cowardice to convince yourself that a flawed idea would work and then to just dig in and try to convert as many as you can. These people won’t change until they’re forced to empathize.

What’re they missing that keeps them so disconnected from us? The one thing we can give the people who truly otherwise have it all? The thing that really separates us: fear. Fear of repercussions. They keep dancing away from lawsuits and convictions, mocking us with their unlimited freedom. All while imprisoning us for crimes dwarfed by their own.

All that’s left is violence. They dodge everything else ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] some_designer_dude 15 points 1 week ago

It’s LotusNotes all the way down

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Wally (i.imgur.com)
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Doing our part to populate Lemmy. I don’t know why he bites his arms like this, but it’s adorable.

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