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  • Remember that when the news article talks about the economy, it’s mostly talking about rich people’s yachts.

    Obviously there are some people nearing retirement age who need their pension plans not to lose value rapidly, they do exist. But the vast majority of the money that is being discussed here, that a bubble might make or break, is millionaires and billionaires savings accounts… So when this bubble bursts and when these companies go bankrupt, to hell with the ultra rich. If we want to help out people who are struggling to live out their retirement because of the stock market collapse that will occur, let’s do that, and let’s just tell the billionaires to go to hell.










  • Because looking to blame one single group is a fool’s mission. It conceals all of the shady shit that goes on.

    If it’s the voters’ fault, then Harris’s pro genocide stance was legit.

    If it’s the voters’ fault, then gerrymandering doesn’t exist.

    If it’s the voters’ fault, then congressional insider trading doesn’t hurt anyone.

    If it’s the voters’ fault then who cares that Obama passed the ACA instead of national healthcare?

    If it’s the voters’ fault, then monopolies don’t exist. Neither do dirty cops and courts that disenfranchise minorities.

    Look. I’m being lazy. I could have said non-voters instead. Or both voters and non-voters. Regardless, systemic problems demand systemic solutions. Your desire to blame individuals ignores that basic principle.

    Of course the people still need to be responsible for taking action. But you don’t get to blame them for things they didn’t do, that they didn’t control.

    … Or perhaps you’re suggesting more vigilante action? That’s one approach. Is that what you want? We could discuss it.



  • Uh, they are normal. You are the abnormal one, my friend. Remember that. Your post is unusual because most people figure out what I just wrote, but you didn’t. You’re abnormal.

    Second, you run away. You think they don’t see it? You think they can’t sense that you want to, even when you don’t? Of course they know that you fear and hate them. So, stop running away, conquer your fear, overcome your hate.


  • I wonder if you know what you mean when you talk about people being canceled. Looking at all of the answers, I see all of these people who have done things that raised some public pressure against them and yet many of them are still active in public life. So they didn’t get canceled?

    Seriously, can you give me a list of people who actually got canceled, where they had to abandon their entire career and never got it back? And who weren’t close to retirement age at the time? Of course, let’s exclude the people who got locked up in prison because that’s about being convicted of a crime, not about social justice.



  • fodor@lemmy.ziptoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldChatGPT fried my drive!? [Solved]
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    4 days ago

    Of course we can blame them. There’s a ton of great help available, but perhaps they’re like you, and their ego is so fragile that they can’t be troubled to scroll past a few trolls to find the perfect answers.

    But I think we’re all used to dealing with trolls. Everyone knows how to ignore the trolls. I think the bigger problem is that people are afraid to show ignorance, even if they definitely are ignorant, like OP was here. Imagine that, you don’t want to look foolish on the internet in front of people who don’t know who you are and never will, so you turn to a solution that doesn’t work and actually has the potential to ruin the hardware you bought… So yeah, that’s strange, that’s not rational, we can give psychological explanations, but none of them make the person in question appear reasonable.