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Allonzee

@ Allonzee @lemmy.world

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  • AT&T “complies” with law requiring cheap Internet by ending a service in NY

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  • This is a good example of the "If you regulate/tax business, they'll just leave and you'll be sorry!" Ayn Rand fallacy.

    All this means is that their business model was to gouge consumers, and being barred from gouging cheap internet for their poorest customers revealed that they were (and still are everywhere else) bad faith, dishonest, antisocial actors that have no interest in providing products and services for a reasonable margin.

    Just as with any business that would exit a market, or billionaire that would leave the country to prevent taxation back into the commons that facilitated their wealth accumulation to begin with (a preliterate workforce, roads and utilities they disproportionately degrade with heavy use, etc) you demonstrate that you work against your own customers and your own people, so by all means, gtfo.

  • Money is for saving

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  • US finalizes rule to effectively ban Chinese vehicles, which could include Polestar

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  • Our oligarchs want us to compete to the death for their ever dwindling relative to inflation and productivity scraps, but they've grown too powerful to tolerate competition themselves.

    Not when they've gone to all the trouble of normalizing monopolies and duopolies at home.

  • Money is for saving

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  • To that I would say it's just inhuman that we largely insist suffering people continue until the body they're trapped in literally gives out. It's a sad, pathetic, demeaning way to go, regardless of whether you can also afford groceries and meds.

    I think any adult should be able to have a painless opt out option with a 30 day waiting period. We treat people's lives as if they don't own them to do with what they will. I don't think it's right to encourage or insist people who are breaking down to cling to their misery when there are painless options we refuse to implement.

    It's a bit of a bad joke really, we don't care enough about one another to support one another materially tragically, but we also don't want those people to offend the rules of our imaginary sky daddies. It's perverse. We literally have more compassion for our pets living in pain.

  • one last banger stolen from rednote

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  • That is just sad.

    Our capitalist's Greed, avarice, the desire to treat their countrymen as livestock so they can live as modern pharoahs on our back and the willingness to bribe their own regulators and capture the government with their capital (power) they're only supposed to have a single vote in is why the government treats us as livestock.

    It's ridiculous you think China made our owner class act as murderous sociopaths in order to amass their ridiculous hoards.

    The CCP had nothing to do with our for profit healthcare insurance sector murdering their own customers, our citizens with the approval of both parties, when they become inconvenient to private profit as just one of countless examples. China has their own sins, that isn't one of them.

    We are the primary vector destabilizing governments and waging wars to expand our greed disease around the world to keep resources and markets open to our capitalist's exploitation because it's never fucking enough. No one forced us into that. Our owners just demanded moar.

    If you want Americans to be loyal, establish social and economic equity. Until then, don't expect the tortured masses to thank or appreciate their torturers, let alone have loyalty to them. That's just Stockholm syndrome.

  • Money is for saving

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  • Exit, which is still preferable to what we do with most elderly in the states. I used to deliver to nursing homes for 10 years all day every day, educating patients on medical devices. I have seen and been informed first hand by too many to count, death is better. The happiest people in them have lost too many faculties to hold a conversation.

    You don't want to live in even a "nice" home with any marbles still rolling around. The garbage to nice ratio is 10 to 1, and even most of the studious savers who didn't actually live don't get the nice ones with tapestries and French chefs, those are for the elder exploiters.

    There are almost no happy people in those places, the best you see are some quivering brave faces that break 5 minutes into someone from the outside engaging with them. I came to think of them as living mausoleums as I went through their halls.

  • one last banger stolen from rednote

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  • I consider the domestic powers that be to be hostile to people of low net worth, aka most of the people they govern, so there's that.

    When your own society treats you like a disposable capital battery that will gladly kill you when it finally breaks you, like by denying your necessary healthcare in a vast insurance confidence scheme, it's strange to expect allegiance.

    The United States is very clear that we're on our own, "free" to die in the streets. I find it strange that some Americans take offense to other Americans taking their business elsewhere.

  • Money is for saving

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  • American capitalists would tell you if you don't spend your life eating cat food in a van to save for retirement on a peasant's wage then you're "irresponsible."

    You know, the whole "you had a latte?! You ate avacado toast?! Of course you deserve to burn in the fires of elder poverty!"blame their own victims thing, as they spend 6k on a bottle of wine.

  • Money is for saving

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  • Life past 60 seems has always been a very strange priority to sacrifice for to me, at least if you can only afford to either live today or subsist today and save for life past 60, which has basically become the choice for most here in the US as most wages don't allow for both, and many for either.

    Let's assume you make it there having not gotten hit by a bus or killed by cancer or your healthcare insurance confidence scheme provider.

    You've literally saved up so you could enjoy life when your senses are failing you, your mind is growing dull and confused, your own frail body is betraying you in new ways constantly, and your time is largely spent managing the ever growing list of symptoms building up to your impending death.

    Sure there are exceptions, people who remain verile and sharp into their seventies, but they are not the rule. That's like planning your life around a future lottery win.

    Live for today, especially if you're into your 30s or beyond. Better to have memories of living when you could in the shitty home with bad food then having memories of working and saving in the good home with the decent food your failing taste buds can't really even appreciate anymore.

    Oh gee I hope I get to live long enough to piss myself involuntarily again! Maybe I'll finally take that cruise so I can soil myself in style and stay in my cabin because my body can't regulate it's own heat efficiently anymore!

  • Meta Risks Mass Exodus: Is #HelloQuitMeta the Next Viral Movement?

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  • I hear what you're saying, and yeah all communities have a narrative, I've been reprimanded on L/climate for the exact opposite, questioning where all the unearned optimism was coming from.

    But the format is topics, and you do need to fit the topics, so I get it based on the community. That said, what I cannot stand is someone's opinion being elevated on the basis of them being a celebrity, or an influencer. I prefer not to consume content through the prism of knowing of the person who said it. If Kim Kardashian has something she thinks is clever to say, let her say it without her name behind it to see if it sinks or swims on whether people read the comment and found it clever/relevant/worth propagating with an upvote or not.

  • Meta Risks Mass Exodus: Is #HelloQuitMeta the Next Viral Movement?

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  • I explained it to my friends about why I only used Reddit and now Lemmy:

    I think social media attached directly to Ego is toxic and harmful. On more anonymous social media, ideas(content) at least tends to rise or fall on their own merits, rather than on the prior popularity of the individual saying them.

    I'm here for cool ideas, concepts, and discussions, not popularity contests which most social media platforms are.

  • Spectators

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  • You forgot the fact that the 1% keep us poorly educated and propagandized against our own interests on purpose.

    We're so fucking stupid as a result, that Americans believe the following unironically:

  • With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’

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  • Agreed on all counts my friend, and best of luck to you as well.

  • With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’

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  • From my perspective, being disloyal to my country's attempts to monopolize the information I imbibe, and being counted as part of that mass movement directly is again more important than also rejecting receiving the social media of another evil empire that, again, would simply be seen as patriotism/nationalism/nothing at all. It doesn't actually meaningfully benefit China, but it does very publicly, as a movement of people not just me, work as a demonstration of undermining the authority of the evil empire I do have some tiny insignificant influence in.

    They'll ban it of course, and there will be another one. And that continuous "We don't respect you or your authority because you arent on our side" does over time diminish the misplaced faith some still have in our captured institutions. Unfortunately signing up for Lemmy over reddit's greed or some scandanavian social media doesn't send the same message.

    It has to be an enemy evil empire for the powerful of our evil empire to take notice and be concerned at all. Otherwise, it's akin to "protesting" with a permit at a designated protest zone out of the eyeline and profit operations of those you're protesting, aka masturbation.

  • With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’

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  • China is and has committed genocide.

    The US is and has committed genocide.

    That's not a point in either's favor. That's a moral wash.

    I'd rather both nations failed, so something more humane can potentially take its place (and revolution over and over until that happens) but as an American, rejecting China means nothing, just as a Chinese citizen rejecting America means nothing.

    Rejecting evil empires begins with undermining the one that you're expected to support and be a loyal cog of. A Russian openly hating America or a Chinese person openly hating Russia is indistinguishable from patriotism/nationalism.

    I can only hurt one empire materially, the one I materially live within. The Chinese have to reign in China, and the Russians Russia. The best I can do is my part not to strengthen or support the evil empire I was born under to the best of my ability.

  • With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’

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  • Not with a ten meter cattle prod for me, anyone willing to indulge Zuck's midlife Nazi crisis deserves him.

  • With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’

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  • Why should I care about who the US sees as the enemy? I was born here and I'm seen as nothing more than livestock for our capitalists, when they aren't funding and supplying a genocide against poors halfway around the world.

    No way I'm going to rejoin Metabook after 10 years now that they've gone full Nazi.

    Downloaded Rednote. Cool app. Fuck the hometeam that chose to be the opposite of a society. It's only the home team if it's a team, it's been made clear to most Americans that we're just a bunch of rugged individuals at each other's throats for oligarch scraps and we can get fucked and die to profit healthcare scammers.

    I'd rather have my clicks profit our supposed enemy than us at this point with "friends" like my country.

  • Keep going America, you're doing great!

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  • As an American trapped inside with these proudly ignorant fuckwits, can confirm.

    Good luck when climate change makes us desperate though. There's literally only one thing we are genuinely very, very good at, to my shame; mass production of the means of mass murder. It's pathetic how many of my fellow Americans take a perverse pride in this.

    I genuinely fear for the rest of the world when the water wars start. We're idiocracy with a cartoonishly big stick we're absolutely dumb and petty enough to use.

  • Keep going America, you're doing great!

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