Hahahaha you know they won’t it’s a fucking cult

It’s not an if it’s a when.

Uh oh.

• Cosmos
• Blade Runner

Vangelis, enough said.

Wouldn’t whether they produce the vaccines themselves have little or nothing to do with how many they have ordered and stockpiled for their populace? I would think that they would have a significant stock of imported vaccines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Fallacy_effect

Exactly. The point of all the forever wars and having the CIA overthrow legitimate governments was all in service of bread and circuses.

Even ostensibly “liberal” people are still sucked way more into their personal lives and their “dreams” than they are what is actually happening. I said to my mother recently that she has been “playing house” while the country has been falling apart around her for decades and that all she “did for her kids” was for nothing because she never stepped up to make sure the country didn’t fall apart, thinking that as long as she made enough money and got her kids a good enough education it would “save them.” She spent her life making me feel like her stupid fucking six-bedroom house with a pool that she lived in alone was more important than my life, especially with how much she bitched at me to get a job, any job, any time I was struggling, including when I got fucking cancer. I pointed out that she herself could have been in a much better financial position if instead of selfishly living in it alone she could have been renting out rooms or the whole damn basement to others at reasonable prices and helping alleviate the homeless problem instead patting herself on the back for giving a homeless person ten bucks. All I got were excuses and explanations and no accepting that maybe, just maybe, she could have been more involved in politics or more compassionate in opening up her home. She even balked at the idea of me suggesting that she ought to be getting ready to Anne Frank this shit and prepare the house to house people who need to hide from Trump’s fucking goons. I said cool, so you’ll be remembered as a Nazi because you’re complicit in being too fucking selfish to share your house with people who literally might be murdered or deported. Your ass would have kicked Anne Frank and her family into the street. Needless to say, whole conversation did not go well. The boomers were so privileged and coddled that they literally got to achieve their dreams while choosing to ignore things like politics entirely. Making sacrifices of their dreams for others is literally not in their interpersonal vocabulary.

These people are out of touch and fuck-nothing is going to wake them up. It’s going to take fascists on their doorstep coming for them and by then it’s way way too fucking late.

It’s still presented in an anti-intellectual “just asking questions” format though.

Further we are all just internet jabronis. It isn’t literally our job to know this stuff. Knowing this stuff is kind of literally this guys job. Knowing the things you just described is kind of the whole “logistics” thing.

Whatever the reasons for the path are, we accept that qualified people know what they are doing. In asking this question, he is showing how unqualified he is.

I remember when I was in college in the early 2000’s, one of my close friends found work under the table writing original research papers for students at more prestigious universities. That way, the rich kids could plagiarize a paper but since it was wholly original and had never been seen anywhere else, they couldn’t get caught for plagiarism. It helped my friend out a lot when he was in a tight spot trying to get his Masters degree, but… I’ve thought about it a lot over the years and the long-term impacts.

I think this is one of the long-term impacts. People who have credentials, but credentials essentially mean nothing because a lot of the “work” they did to get those credentials was paid-for or faked. This has lead to a world where the people “running the show” as it were are deeply uneducated while the people doing the actual labor and thought who are often getting underpaid are wildly more educated than the people they have to suffer under working for.

The wealthy have become so privileged that they don’t even need to know the details of how anything actually works and now they are going to make all of us suffer because they don’t believe the evidence that would have been presented to them at some point if they had actually gotten a real education.

The state that brought us Sarah Palin and helped kick off the Trump-style candidacy?

Yeah, no. It’s been hard conservative for a long time.

Remember “the internet is a series of tubes” guy? Yeah, he was a Republican senator for Alaska and he said it in 2006. So Alaska has been full of political shit takes for at least twenty years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

Oh wait, I guess this is why trade wars can be bad:

Texas: “Hey Canada, can us Texans get a few more of them measles vaccines.”

Canada: “All y’all can go fuck yourselves.”

Isn’t it canon in some of the comic books that Gotham is legitimately cursed and it doesn’t matter how much charity and good works Wayne does, it’s just always going to be bad?

Yeah, Trump has been known to do that. Columbia got what they asked for.

Anyone who capitulates and thinks they’re saving themselves will get the same treatment.

You’re showing a prolific abuser that you are weak and willing to submit, and an abuser will take advantage of that weakness. They will never turn around and treat you better because you complied.

The abuse is the point. Trump will always find an excuse.

Now it’s “Trumpland” because they’ve officially tossed Jesus out the window.

Unironically this is how stupid people actually work.

I can insult, say, a MAGA freak all I want, all my insults are too nuanced for them to truly understand. Half the things I think of as insults they think of as points of pride.

In a way, it must be a pleasure to be like that and have insults slide off you because you’re simply too simple to understand them at all.

Micturate upon the malevolent

Lemmy users reading this:

But I really don’t want to be seen as one member of that stupid group or people.

Let me ask you, when you think of Germany in 1940, do you think deeply about all the Germans who weren’t Nazis?

Whether we like it or not, that’s how history will remember us. The only ones who are remembered outside of that tend to people who fought against Nazism at great personal risk. I am in poverty and in ill health, I will doubtfully be able to achieve that kind remembrance for myself, more likely to become a statistical death, one of the many killed in Trump’s consolidation of power.

The real boring dystopia is the friends warnings and bans we accumulated along the way

That’s a take that ignores the history of the Soviet Union, it’s collapse in 1991, and Russia’s embrace of capitalism and oligarchy after that. Putin himself didn’t even come into direct power until 1999.