After filing a FOIA request, I can hereby reveal the unclassified rest of the above comment: “ell it out for me”

That combination of consonant and vowel sounds is just naturally pleasing in a humorous way IMO 😁

Trombone, you say?

Here’s hoping! 🤞

Unfortunately, spaceships are mostly for bad guys now. A tendency that’ll only get worse once the simultaneously richest and most cringetastic billionaire in history is about to be the de facto president 😮‍💨

Guess what? People aren’t their families and we don’t know what his relationship with them is.

He may well not be on the best of terms with the rich members of his family, being the good kind of class traitor and all…

As long as you didn’t meet anyone named Martin Swanson at age 13…

I bet Biden will try to bully Congress into making it illegal like he did with the railway workers strike…

That’s Kathy Hochul.

Here’s the official form for telling her what an obviously corrupt embarrassment she is.

That reminds me of my weirdest reaction meme:

And my axe!

we have no intelligence or observations (…) we don’t know. We have not been able to locate or identify

They have no clue by their own admission.

To claim that what amounts to a literal UFO might belong to a hostile actor just because you don’t know that it doesn’t is irresponsible at best, scaremongering jingoism at worst.

🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

Too late, not reading that wall of text just to make points you’re going to ignore or not understand.

Dunno, that’s like saying every gun owner is a sandy hook shooter

No. That’s ridiculous. He’s the 5th or so richest person in the entire world. He’s also most likely the richest person in the world whose fortune is based almost exclusively on the stock market.

To pretend that he’s only a small part of the problem is profoundly ignorant at best, and deliberate disinformation at worst.

There’s plenty of problems that need solving, you take them in order of prioritization

And HE’S one of the biggest one. Yes, him personally!

Equating them all is stupid.

As is pretending that a member of a minority of 5 people is equivalent to a plurality of perhaps a hundred million people or more.

If I’ve got enough hammer and nails to fix one thing, I’m going to fix the biggest problem I can.

You need to get more nails and get to him perhaps not first, but EARLY.

To act without prioritization

Again with the absurd insistence that there’s nothing special about his unfathomably vast dragon’s hoard and how he achieves and maintains it.

You seem to have ABSOLUTELY no clue how rich he is or how much he contributes to the financial system being deliberately skewed in favor of himself, people like him, and hedge funds like his.

You solve enough high priority problems

Such as Warren fucking Buffet!

no one will remember who was on the side of the working class come election season

To be fair, at the very most 5% of national level general elections feature a candidate who’s not an enemy of the working class.

Because probably the richest political party in the world is the least bad of two options and blatantly favor donors over grassroots in the primaries that they are somehow still allowed to be the arbiters of.

It’s like pitting 1989 Mike Tyson against 1989 Mohammed Ali, except Ali gets a head start where Tyson has to stand completely still, a loaded shotgun, and is the match referee.

They could have voted for Cynthia Nixon.

Yes, and they should have.

New York wanted these assholes.

Probably not, no.

You see, propaganda is much more effective than most people know or are willing to admit, and New York, being the largest media market in North America, is a very clear example of that.

You don’t have to be an idiot to be swayed by effective messaging, and messaging doesn’t have to make sense to be effective.

Reminds me of a great way to put it I read somewhere on Lemmy the other day:

Nobody is vilifying billionaires. It’s just not possible. You can’t vilify someone when they’re already a villain

important context is that Buffett said this was a problem

Yet he still insists on remaining a hectobillionaire, profiting obscenely off of the very system that incentivizes the war.

Until that changes, he deserves as much credit as Shell does for pretending to want to decrease emissions.