Givesomefucks

joined 1 year ago
[–] Givesomefucks@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Republicans have spent a literal lifetime sabotaging the government at any opportunity so stuff can be privatized...

That's already the alternative, we don't need to find one. We just need to go back to taxing the wealthy, and using that money for public services.

Internet should be a public utility, and all the money we give to SpaceX should have went to NASA where the government would have gotten a return on investment from parents.

People laugh at how crazy the predictions of the future from 1960 was, but if we kept funding NASA we might all have hoverboards and flying cars by now. We got a lot of really cool shit from just a decade of NASA in their hey day.

[–] Givesomefucks@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, continuing a task while trying to process something like this is something the vast majority of humans would do.

I remember a common repost on reddit. A female reporter in the 60s asked businessmen on the street about sexual harassment and if it was ok to touch their secretaries. The ones that would say it was ok shed start sexually harassing them and they had no fucking clue what to do.

They reacted the same way, trying to continue the interview but obviously uncomfortable (even tho they had just been flirting with the attractive reporter).

I'm a guy (a pretty big guy at that) and I've had women grope me out of nowhere during my bar days. It's a mindfuck, and you just kind of go on autopilot while you try to rationalize what's happening.

The woman's reaction in this video is completely normal.

[–] Givesomefucks@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Not to mention they forgot the leaders of those African countries who make deals that give them personal wealth at the expense of their people.

In some cases 1st world countries have installed those leaders, but that's not really that common.

And the citizens can't overthrow them their selves, and the other countries who are benefitting have no incentive to "spread democracy" even if they actually mean it this time.

[–] Givesomefucks@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

No, I'm saying it's stupid to blame the people of a country for what their monarchies were doing...

It's not the fault of "the English" it's the fault of the guy who was King at the time.

Be pissed all you want, we all should be.

Just be pissed at the people who are actually the problem.

But that's probably too much to ask of someone unironically using a fucking clown emoji

[–] Givesomefucks@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should read that

If you actually think England would have honored those treaties to stop expanding tho...

Surprise! They'd have broken them just like America made and broke them.

[–] Givesomefucks@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Which would have been great...

If your comment made anymore sense.

OPs is just a stupid meme tho, they were making a joke. You tried to correct them but you don't even know what you're talking about.

[–] Givesomefucks@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you think the country got together to workshop this meme?

Or do you think a teenager who's still in highschool and might even know less than you made it?

[–] Givesomefucks@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No, America got their independence because the wealthiest didn't want to pay tax to England.

And I seriously doubt the Crown wanted them to stop expanding or treat the natives better before that.

[–] Givesomefucks@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Pretty much everywhere was founded on colonial genocide...

It's just how recent it happened.

Like, you're giving America shit for what the English, Spanish, and other countries did before America even existed. But it's hard to really blame even the English. It was the English people doing it, it was their royalty who were French.

For the vast amount of human history, some random group you may never have even heard about could just roll up and conquer you and take all your shit.

[–] Givesomefucks@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In general, any multimillionaire that gets off of a serious charge doesn't mean they're innocent.

It just another example of having ridiculous amounts of money in our legal system means it's really hard to be hel accountable.

Hell, trump got off of beating and raping his wife, because of an old ass New York law that said a husband can't rape his wife under any circumstance.

[–] Givesomefucks@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (12 children)

People can be upset at wealth inequality and the raise of fascism...

It's not even that unique of a combo, pretty much everyone I know is pissed at both situations.

Why do you think someone can only care about one?

view more: next ›