Soup

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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have any idea what the song is about? It’s supposed to be broody, it’s depressing as hell. Even Paul Simon said he liked the Disturbed version.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It’s a shame that only a minority of Ontarians even fucking voted for the second time in a row. Maybe don’t let Conservatives walk into power and then complain about all the damage they do.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

They have real strong “the goverment should do something about that” energy while being the government.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago
[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It’s been documented that the fear center in conservatives’ brains gets activated a lot more than it does for progressives. They are scared and angry and aren’t spending the time to understand anything which is exactly what would calm their worries. They’re basically just running around breaking shit and making life hard for everyone because they’re stuck in monkey brain.

Also they do seem to like change when it means removing stuff that benefits others. It’s not change exactly that sets them off, but anything they perceive as giving their resources away(and they most certainly do not understand the concept of an indirect benefit).

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Precisely. It’s a good thing the left pushes UBI, free schooling, and new, positive infrastructure projects really hard, especially in rural places where private business fails to service because it’s not profitable!

Well, all except for the people willing to change but considering the right is full of people who keep saying “life’s not fair” and “that’s too bad you gotta do what you gotta do” I’m sure they can suck it up, right?

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The thing is that democrats are hardly leftist and their approach to economics is still pretty dogshit. When people say to shut down the coal mines anyone who gives a shit will also say that governments should help retrain people to do other jobs. Like, a shut down oil rig should be a great opportunity to retrain the workers there to do maitenance on a solar power farm.

The other problem I have with it all is that they’re fighting to have personal money and would rather keep something like a coal mine running and polluting than retrain. Instead of asking why they’re constantly being threatened by corporations and the lack of a safety net they’re actively defending the people who are hurting them. That takes a lot of my sympathy away.

And then there’s their fucking “towns” that are just super spread-out nightmares which they refuse to fix. They want their lives to be cheaper but they demand heavily car-centric infrastructure and attack anything that would actually make their lives easier and cheaper. And oh my god do they moan about the concept of having a neighbour within 100ft.

I’ve lived in a more rural place and I’ve lived in cities. People in cities generally want things that will legitimately make their lives better(but oh my god are there some people…), and they don’t often fight the people who are trying to help them. Rural North Americans are so fucking stupid and they get aggressive when they get scared, which is all the time because they’re huge fucking babies.

As for the tech company thing, a big reason is because the layoff are all to pad quarterly earnings. A coal mine shuts down because it’s an environmental disaster but Microsoft will layoff 10,000 people via video call from a private island Sting concert just so the executives can make more money. These things are not equivalent.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago (27 children)

There’s stupid and then there’s USA stupid. A very special breed of moron because of how obvious it is that they’re fucked, how they have the money and resources to fix it, and how they refuse to do the right thing so hard that they actively shoot themselves in the feet, legs, arms, torsos, and just about everywhere to avoid even needing to consider thinking about helping other people.

Like, at least the right-wingers in better countries are living in the good world that more leftist policies have built. They’re dumb as hell but at least they’re not steeped in the thick shit of the right to the point where it should be too bad to ignore.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ain’t that the way :(

I’m not sure I can express it properly but I’m rootin’ for ya.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Also there’s a ceetain point where the movie thing hits harder. Rent is really expensive and people are needing to get more roommates or live with their parents to afford the super high prices but a movie is once a month is cheap and shouldn’t have a big enough impact to hurt to bad, yet it does. It’s absolutely absurd that we live in a world where people need to count their pennies.

Also, good luck, I hope “homeless” doesn’t mean “on the street”. Keep safe my guy.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

This guy checks all the boxes for the anti-christ, follows the Nazi playbook so close you can just tell he’s a fan, and now is just being the bad guys from 1984.

It’s incredible how much Republicans SCREAM that they are the evil ones, at the tops of their lungs, but their base refuses to listen.

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