This shit is just spam at this point

When are we going to start banning flavored alcohol like White Claw and Mike's while we're at it

Ok, so we've just never followed where the first amendment says there will be no national religion

Apparently plenty of people on lemmy?

I keep seeing more and more comments defending corporations, police, "moderate" politics etc, and arguing against social welfare, living wages, unions, etc. There's been a pretty sudden influx of comments that overtly discourage voting for Biden, pushing third parties, and/or discouraging voting. I can't help but question their authenticity.

It's not that it's implausible for people to be disillusioned with US elections, or to want independent candidates. But they still aren't exactly prevailing opinions. So when a bunch of similar comments show up suddenly in every post about US politics....sorry I'm not buying it, and no one else should either. We all know by now how social media has been used to influence elections.

But the anti-union shit is part of it. It's always like "I believe in workers' rights, but..." And who tf are the anti-shoplifting people? Defending huge corporations for forcing workers to wear cameras and add the additional job of "security guard" to their min wage workload, while constantly having to justify their own innocence? I can't even comprehend defending that. But apparently people enjoy standing up for all the poor wittle multinational conglomerates so thoughtlessly abused by workers and customers. Think of the poor, poor corporations!

When I couldn't just purchase a season of a tv show (Drag Race). You should just be able to buy a show or movie if you want to watch it.

The most recent season was exclusively on Paramount +. I guess they had exclusive right because it wasn't available anywhere else. It was 3.99/month with a discount so I figured I'd keep it as long as the season aired. I was fucking amazed that there could be twenty fucking commercials in an hour show. If I wanted to skip backward or forward I had to watch three more ads first. Two weeks before the season finale they raised the price to 5.99 so I cancelled it. I didn't need to watch it that badly. Their other content was shit, all nineties MTV and made for tv movies. When I signed up they advertised Yellowjackets so I was going to watch that. But no, that's another subscription to Showtime.

It was the cheapest subscription I've had but the most aggravating experience, because it's not about the money. It's about feeling like I'm getting fucked over with every goddamn thing I buy lately.

I'm buying a dvd player, fuck these greedy pieces of shit

So republicans are somehow against a program that provides HIV/AIDS medication to people in poor countries because it checks notes promotes abortion??

Republicans will say anything and do anything to make sure they hurt as many vulnerable people as possible.

Nobody is calling to exterminate anybody, because the other problem with that statement is that transgender people is not a real ontological category — it’s not a legitimate category of being,” Knowles continued. “There are people who think that they are the wrong sex, but they are mistaken. They’re laboring under a delusion. And so we need to correct that delusion.”

It looks like it was some doucher from the Daily Wire during a speech at CPAC, but it was in response to Aldean's comment of literally "eradicating transgenderism."

Idk, close enough. If it walks like a nazi and talks like a nazi, then it's probably a nazi.

Idk if there's any connection, but it is weird that the last writer's strike was in late 2007.

You know, I saw the story about the actors strike the day after it started on the NBC national news. It was about two minutes of the resporter telling the audience which shows they were going to be missing out on, like the next season of The Handmaid's Tale. It was so fucking blatantly one sided, to the point of just lying by omission. I'm not even sure they mentioned the AI issue. Of course no rational person should trust a TV network to give them unbiased, rational reporting about a fucking actors strike, but that's exactly where the average person is going to learn about it. And that's all that will come to mind - "oh no, my shows might take longer to come out."

If he could prove he was graduating in a matter of weeks then that's fucking ridiculous. I was accepted to grad schools before I even passed my final undergrad classes. It's just on a conditional basis, but nothing changed when I actually got the degree. Besides, there's time between the last classes ending and commencement, then months between commencement and getting the actual degree in the mail and your transcripts being updated.

I'm hope he feels like he dodged a bullet.

"Post-birth abortion"

This shit is like an SNL parody of America