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GoofSchmoofer

@ GoofSchmoofer @lemmy.world

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  • Donald Trump's election win could lead to porn being banned

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  • In high school we had one year of "world" history that went something like this:

    Man "appeared" in Africa

    Sometime later planted corn and stuff

    Egypt, Italy and China had big dynasties and stuff

    Now let's talk about the important history: Western Europe and more importantly America!!!

    America is awesome - we do cool stuff and we are amazing oh yea the natives ... well they were well.. uh America is awesome!

    WWII we kicked ass

    Communism is bad

    Vietnam war happened

    Have a great summer kids!

  • Harris Tried to Win Over Republicans. Democratic Support Collapsed Instead.

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  • My feeling is that once the DNC starts to acknowledge the progressive ideas then they open the flood gates to challengers to their (limited) power.

  • Harris Tried to Win Over Republicans. Democratic Support Collapsed Instead.

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  • One of the frustrations I had was her solution to the housing problem was to just build more houses and give out some money. Sure great, but what I wanted to hear, and I think many other also wanted to hear, was her talking about corporate hording of housing and what she would do about that situation. But she just ignored it completely and so did Biden.

    I think instead if she came out swinging against corporate greed, even if she actually did nothing about it, would have given her more votes.

    My one hope out of this is that the massive swing to the right will be countered with more vocal progressives.

  • Harris Tried to Win Over Republicans. Democratic Support Collapsed Instead.

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  • My take on this is that the DNC has never understood that to win the presidency in the last 20 years you need to be a fire brand.

    I think this stared in 2008 with Obama who won I believe because he fired up the base with great speeches about hope and change. It didn't really happen, BUT the man knew how to give a speech. That got people inspired to do something and they voted.

    Bernie was another fire brand - told it like it was and it appealed to a large population.

    trump won using the same idea, but just the opposite of hope and change yet it worked. It tapped into a visceral and deep frustration that this country has left them behind.

    The modern view of the American president to the population is less of a wonky politician and more of a cheerleader for big ideas, even if those ideas are abhorrent and exceedingly horrifying.

    Harris just wasn't the person to pull this off, she was too wonky and it felt like the entire campaign was playing the old card of "we are not trump" Instead if they really wanted to win they would have found ( 2 years ago) a feisty out spoken progressive leaning firebrand that would have inspired people to vote for something better.

    The only reason that (bland) Biden won was because of how badly trump fucked up the Covid response.

  • This is how much sugar you are [possibly] eating.

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  • There isnt anything inately bad about sugar

    Well in moderation sugar isn't too bad. The problem comes when food manufacturers start adding sugar to foods so it will taste better and if you are not paying attention to the content you can consume a significant amount in a day.

    In conclusion, very little scientific evidence exists that indicates a benefit of added dietary sugars; however, an overwhelming and growing body of evidence highlights the negative effects of excessive or prolonged sugar intake

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  • I mean Cuban has some redeeming qualities but he is still a gold hording billionaire. Linda Khan is a threat to his and all his billionaire buddies' status to being a billionaire, so it's not really too surprising he wants her gone.

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    And this is what frustrates me about billionaires, this pathological fear that they have about losing anything, especially money. These people are addicts to money and power. And when someone or some institution gets in the way of them getting their next money fix they will do whatever they can to tear them down. And there are many many people in this world that enable this addiction they have, they praise it and encourage them to do more. People like Khan are seen as 'narcs' out to ruin their fun. Fuck that.

    I would love to see a nationwide intervention and help these poor souls break this dangerous and deadly addiction they have.

    </rant>

  • What's a really great audio book you are listening to at the moment?

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  • I think everyone that wishes for the fall of civilization should have to read The Road - That was a bleak story.

  • What's the grimmest job you ever had?

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  • That would suck to have to have done that, sounds like he was at least a empathetic human.

    It's horrific to witness that kind of death, or it was for me.

  • What's the grimmest job you ever had?

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  • Yeah, it took a while to get over that shit, but I guess it worked because I sure as shit changed my ways.

  • What's the grimmest job you ever had?

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  • As a result of being a dumb ass teenager the state gave me 50 community service hours. I got assigned to an animal shelter that was being managed by some very deranged people. I witnessed some horrific things that mentally unstable people will do to animals when no one cares.

    My job was to pile up the euthanized animals in a pickup and off load them at the landfill. Fucking grim.

  • If anyone knows about evolving, it's Jeffrey Combs.

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  • I have some friends that got married and decided to merge their two last names and create a brand new last name. I thought it was a cool idea

  • Musk says Americans will have to face 'hardship' if Trump wins

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  • Fuck You, Elon

  • Kamala Harris Asks Americans: Are You Really Going to Elect a Guy Who Has Good Things to Say About Hitler?

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  • It also reinforces who he is to less hard core supporters which may have a positive effect over time.

  • What is something you encounter everyday that is completely divorced from reality?

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  • That we are emotional animals that sometimes have logical thoughts. But we live in a society (at least in the west) where we have to pretend that we are logical animals that sometimes have emotions.

  • The Historical Puzzle of US Economic Performance under Democrats vs. Republicans

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  • The way I see people like this is that they have too many other things tied up in their decision. It's not just about facts they have friends, co-workers, family that all believe a certain way. If they were to make a big change to this way of thinking it puts them on the outside of their social group.

    But what you may have done with your line of questioning is set a seed for change in their thinking. It may take a while to grow into an obvious change but it can happen. Of course this means that they have to put the work in to grow those ideas, which may not happen but it was good to do.

  • Kroger's Plan to Use Facial Recognition Raises Concerns About Surge Pricing

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  • Kroger is the largest grocery store chain in the U.S. by revenue and owns a number of different brands, including Ralphs, Fred Meyer, Pick’n Save, Food 4 Less, and Dillions, among a host of others

    Kroger told Gizmodo... “customers are shopping more with Kroger now than ever because we are fighting inflation and providing great value.”

    ... or maybe customers don't have much of a choice ?

  • Trump Scraps Town Hall Q+A, Plays Music for Crowd Instead | The former president said, "Let's just listen to music," and abruptly stopped answering questions [for 30 minutes]

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  • This is just one of thousands of rage bait and 'trump bad', 'trump stupid' articles. There is nothing of real substance other than to get anti-trumpers to click on the link.

    If you went to a more pro-trump site you would see very similar articles about Kamala and Biden

  • Armed Militia "hunting FEMA" causes hurricane responders to evacuate—report

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  • While there have been successful prosecutions of the J6 terrorist, there is still an ongoing campaign to try to whitewash J6 as peaceful tourists that have been unfairly singled out due to their political affiliation. So while I agree, we do need to go after these people we there also needs to be a push to stop the gaslighting that happens

  • Am i the only one who feels like it's the same handful of users posting and commenting on lemmy?

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  • If I notice that I am spending too much time trying to cover all the bases so someone can't nitpick or acktually my reply I just give up and hit cancel. I appreciate an entertaining comment thread, what bug the shit out of me are people that reply to a comment with an obscure edge case or who are just pedantic for the sake of being pedantic.

  • What scares you?

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  • And its because of this real lack of quality care for the elderly (outside of the wealthy elderly) that I workout and eat right as much as I can. I probably won't be able to afford a good retirement home so I need to stay as health and fit as I can for as long as I can.