There are hundreds of movies about US soldiers being heroes by killing their enemies

How many movies are there about US citizens being fucked over by hospitals and insurance for more decades than I’ve been alive? I don’t know of any.

This really encapsulates the US in two paragraphs

I’m… Not really getting it

So a % of a % of a % of their profits

That will most surely teach these criminals.

CAN. WE. PLEASE. START. JAILING. CRIMINALS. THAT. BREAK. THE. LAW.

So that’ll be shutdown in a cold minute, could that perhaps maybe drive more traffic to Lemmy?

rent a tv

No

Wow, the UK is speed running after the US, only less clowny

At least in the US there are finally some protests. When is the UK going to stand up for their rights?

JFC

I am a manly guy and no, none of this is normal, none of this is “manly”, and what you went through is just insane and I wish I could give you a hug, man…

Get out

Leave

Now

The more time you stay there, the more risk you’re running. You can’t save them, you can’t save their future victims, but you can save yourself. Save yourself.

You can’t choose your family, but you can find good friends who will care for you. Build a new life with them and slowly forget the hell you were brought up in.

I don’t get it, what is the appeal?

The Confederacy were a bunch of racist assholes that wanted to be able to subjugate people for their race. They lost.

So why would anyone want to even be associated with a loser racist club, let alone be so fixated on it that you tattoo your back full with it…

Once this is over, can the US please make that first amendment a little bit more sensible? Yeah, it’s fine to talk about Hitler, it’s not fine to start neo nazi groups, or saying that Hitler was right (except about killing Hitler, he was totally right). Similarly, I believe that the confederate flag should be prohibited except for education like schools and museums.

Yes, I want freedom of expression, but I think we’ve arrived at a point in time where we can safely say that allowing people to say anything positive about fascism never ends well.

Similarly, I want a law that needs organizations should always be factual. I know, I know, facts are hard and bias, up to a certain level, will always be there but there is a HUGE difference between any US news organization from the 70s and Fox News. Fox News is a propaganda platform, period. It should be prohibited, fuck all first amendment arguments about this. You can’t allow somebody to constantly lie to millions of people, it will end badly. News organizations should also be 100% independent. Put an independent news foundation funded by the government that can play journalists to make real news and inform people, for example.

whatever twisted shit speceists consume.

Wow. You must be fun at parties!

I never understood this

Yeah, law enforcement has it’s problems, especially in the US where pretty much every police officer is corrupt, but the US is rather an exception in the western world.

There ARE actual criminals out there that, of left unchecked, basically will grow to trump type mobsters who abuse the shit out of everyone and everything around them

You’re fine with that, then?

Much worse the other way around, though

Much much worse: getting put a piece of apple in your mouth (so you are told) and its banana instead

That very thing you said at the end is usually already too much thinking for car brains

Starting to date my now wife back in the day. I had known her for 15 years before we started dating and we’ve had so many wonderful years now that I can only wish we had started sooner

I’m sure XML has its uses

I’m also sure that for 99% of the applications out there, XML is overkill and over complicated, making things slower and more error prone

Use JSON, and you’ll be fine. If you really really need XML then you probably already know why

And?

Paid for by the US taxpayers who keep giving Elmo more money to not do projects, but do this shit instead

I don’t see this as left or right wing

This is architecture that could be done better.

Yes, we need to stop homelessness, but you also want to avoid creating spaces where nobody wants to live because it’s ugly and depressing and guaranteed, the poor end up having to live there, and with that comes crime and what not and you end up with ghetto style areas where even police is uneasy

Take a little bit more space, put a little bit more thought into the designs, add spaces for children to play, add parks, make it look nice. Wr don’t need luxury villas either, but there has to be something better than this

It’s a thing people like. Everyone knows it’s staged,but it’s fun.

With the masks, this seems to be Mexican Lucha libre, which can get quite crazy (like Jesus fighting midgets or something) and quite a spectacle to beholdin person. I would completely recommend you go see a show if you’re ever in Mexico, great ambiance, greet fun

sun… LED…

Yeah your friend is an absolute idiot and should ask for his money back from his elementary school

The sun has been around for billions of years and pretty much hasn’t changed color since. Thinking you can “replace” the sun’s “LED” makes me wonder if he is experiencing mental illness, honestly

Amazon’s 1.58 million employees

No company should be able to have more than, say, 10.000 employees. After that, you’re too big to fail. Companies need hard caps on how large they can grow, both in number of employees, as well as in net worth. A y income it makes over that hard cap should go 100% to taxes.

Same for humans. We need hard caps on how much a single human being can own, be worth. No person should have a networth over 1 million dollars. Any income over that goes 100% to taxes

Two simple rules that will change the world. We can keep capitalism, all fine, just cap how much a human being can have as a net worth