Allonzee

joined 6 months ago
[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Congratulations, you bucked the overwhelming norm. People who make it to Congress, with the exception of spoilers, have proven to their respective parties through state elections that they love money, don't get bored of getting moar money, and know how to get it. That's how you get promoted in the parties. It's all they care about.

Because our values are so far beyond fucked it's almost funny in an absurdist humor kind of way.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Are you American?

I only ask because Americans are trained from birth to know (through for profit media and oligarch captured public education) that money is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end, and the very meaning of existence and life itself as its own end.

It's why we're a bunch of rugged individuals competing against one another for oligarch scraps and not a society. It's the wedge that informs all others to keep their exploited capital batteries at war with each other instead of looking up at the greedy bastards running up their ego scores by burning us.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

I don't know why anyone likes neoliberals.

She's a model one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/16/nancy-pelosi-federal-lawmakers-should-be-able-to-trade-stock.html

I vote blue with my nose held as always for harm reduction, but neoliberals like Pelosi are why so many actual leftwing people that want a society walked away, they have no party that isnt enthusiastically part of the root problem of maintaining crony market capitalism at society's catastrophic expense.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Why would you include both caps lock AND shift but omit A and Z?!

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Do it. You've earned a drink my friend.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

We'll cling to life like cockroaches despite being so fragile.

Our wealth class has littered and is littering this Earth with climate controlled luxury bunkers to escape the consequences of their own fine work, which will buy some sad bastards the honor of sipping expensive whiskeys in concrete tombs below the scorched surface for a few decades before we finally, mercifully end.

It might be the family of the perpetrators we know like the Bezoses and Musks, but I can only dream it will be their service/security staff that will have murdered them the moment the security doors closed and took their shit.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Imagine explaining this headline to the very last somebody reading it in an old internet archive in a bunker in 2090!

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

But just think of the PROFIT to be made selling the AI before the world burns from it!

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Let's be honest, our "free market" is a regular casino for the plebs that own about 10% of shares in their 401ks and Robinhood accounts, and an intentionally rigged casino for the oligarchs that own the rest, with marked insider information cards, and loaded market manipulation dice.

Gotta love when the bootlickers defend this economy, and market investment, as somehow inclusive, when 93% of stocks are owned by 10% of Americans.

(Saved Fortune article) https://archive.ph/DW0A8

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Oh come on now.

Almost all people declaring or otherwise promoting their supposed genius are completely full of shit, Elon comes to top of mind, but there in fact are some savants for which quickly understanding and mastering highly technical domains just comes naturally.

These people are almost always far more interested in exercising their gift/curse and solving problems than in self promotion or feeding a greed disease. People like Elon unfortunately receive most of the fruits and accolades of the efforts of people like this. It makes me sick how selfish, self-important capitalist baffoon types literally rule the world by paying people that do solve mankind's great problems a salary, then perverting their work to maximize profit and walking out on stage with it in a fucking turtleneck all but declaring "I made dis thing. Don't ask me how it fucking works, but I made dis. Pay me. I'm God."

It's sad that humans largely tend to swoon over, and would much rather be led by charismatic narcissistic bullshit artists, usually dopes who never think before they open their gaping mouth holes, who have no problem declaring they know everything about everything than almost exclusively non-charismatic, high functioning geniuses that are almost always too neurotic to want to lead, which makes them even more desirable candidates to be drafted into it.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Allonzee@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 

Sometimes, you just need to wipe the drawing board clean and start over. 🤷👋 🔥

 

Would I hurt other people in some strange hypothetical to literally save my family's life from certain death? Maybe, and I'd be guilt ridden about it for the rest of my life.

Would I hurt people to make more money? Of course not, and that's not a defensible reason to hurt others... at all, and it makes you deeply broken at your core, especially as habit.

Really the only thing I can think of as a more horrifying reason to be cruel to others than "for money herp derp" would be "because its fun!"

Hurting others for profit in the name of business shouldn't be a defense, it should be considered an admission of guilt and come with consequences.

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