How does this whole haunting thing work? Cuz I got a few heart attacks to dish out.

I thought that only worked in the Midwest?

Guess the next step is to deep fry him.

And those comments sum it up nicely:

TL;DR: Share your wealth or get fucked, parasite

The message here being that it’s not inherently the wealth that’s the problem, but how that wealth is being used. If you land in that situation and immediately become some kind of Scrooge McDuck character: to the guillotine with you!

…but again, lottery winners are not the focus of the whole eat the rich mindset: if that’s an issue you think needs to be tackled, I’d direct your focus instead to lottery systems, not just the lottery winners. Focusing on things like lottery winners is a distraction from the insanely long list of higher priorities like the Musk and Bezos figures of the world. So why even bring it up unless that distraction is your goal?

Lol, go ahead and point me to a single example of a lottery winner being cited as one of the oppressive ‘elite’. And if you are able to actually fine one, my answer will be “yes, in fact, that would should have their head in a basket”. Having a mountain of cash dropped on you, vs exploiting a mountain of people to obtain mountains of cash are not the same thing. How this is hard to understand is beyond me.

I’m about done with lemmy and this type of thinking.

Yeah if you’re gonna come here and play damage control for evil people, you’re not gonna have a good time on Lemmy.

What they need isn’t to be caricaturized, it’s to be put on a guillotine.

Human or not doesn’t mean shit: evil is evil.

Plot twist: the shooter was a third guardsman, a disgruntled private who was homicidally angry with his supervisor.

Huh. TIL. I always just assumed it was a taste/texture/difficult-livestock-to-manage kind of situation. I wonder if we could offset its potential to carry pathogens by like letting it cure up in a brine or something before cooking it.

Never had cat, but it can’t be that bad, can it? Guessing it’s tougher meat than we’re accustomed to, but I’d guess it’d still make passable stew meat. Or play up the toughness and make it into jerky.

Might as well get some usage out of them.

I’m not actually sure what the normal etiquette is there. The only time I ever get take out is from a mom-and-pop Thai restaurant that’s one of those hole in the wall places, and I tip the fuck out of them cuz I want to support them.

If you’re talking like a fast food burger joint, then yeah fuck that.

Millennial here. I cook most of my own food. Have never and will never use services like door dash, cuz I don’t want to pay extra to give some stranger unmonitored access to my food. I will tip when I eat out, even though I hate it - for fuck’s sake just factor the tip into the price of the food… my whim as a customer shouldn’t determine if someone else’s employee gets a fair wage.

Anywho, I don’t think that’s horribly uncommon for my generation - most of us can’t afford to eat out more than once or twice a month, if that.

Vets voted 61% Trump to 37% Harris - not unsurprising given the number of absolute morons in the military, and yes overwhelming… but I’m gonna guess a veteran who actually gives a shit about politicizing the military almost certainly fell into the 37% that voted against him, considering he told us ahead of time that shit like this would happen.

Some internet digging points to an instagram page for Humaid Abdulla Albuqaish, who appears to be a rich and Middle Eastern version of Tiger King.

…I’m not super confident on that, as the pics on the linked page don’t look quite like the dude in the gif; but maybe a 10-years-younger version of the dude just looked that different?

Anywho, if that is the dude, the footage is most likely of a pet, and the situation staged to produce the short.

That’s not the point I’m making - the people who chose not to vote over Harris’s comments are fucking morons. They share responsibility for Trump’s victory and everything he’s done since.

But the time to look past Harris’s comments, shut our mouths, and vote strategically for her was during the general. The election is over, and there is no longer reason to defend her, or contrast her against Trump. She isn’t a lesser evil anymore.

And there’s the core of my point: looking at her objectively, she is evil. She stands right alongside the voters who opted out in culpability for Trump’s victory and enabling the current dismal state of our country.

That’s why I think the whole “America isn’t ready for a women” spiel is BS. Both of the women we’ve run recently were fucking horrible candidates: but even so they lost by a narrow enough margin that blaming the outcome on the contents of their pants is a failure to consider the other variables at play.

If we ran a woman who was actually likeable, doesn’t have a history full of scandals, and doesn’t come out in the 11th hour of the general to say something detrimental like support for genocide… then that woman will win.

Yeah no shit - for half of our voters, those things are all selling points. If we run a man who’s an absolute piece of shit against a woman who’s less so, but still very much a piece of shit, the man will win every time. As I said, sexism is definitely a factor.

If we run a man who’s an absolute piece of shit against a woman who isn’t a piece of shit… who fuckin knows: we haven’t tried that. But Harris’s odds seemed pretty solid until she started publicly supporting Israel’s genocide on Gaza: so she lost a hefty chunk of support from the half of voters who are turned off by evil behavior; meanwhile the bigot’s popularity with bigoted voters remained unsurprisingly steady.

Well, so far the women we’ve run are 1) one of the most hated politicians of all time, and 2) a cop who repeatedly stated her support for genocide.

So… idk if ‘women’ is the issue here. Maybe we should try running one that doesn’t come with decades of baggage / isn’t an overtly horrible person?

I mean, sexism is definitely a factor, but one that has thus far only become insurmountable in combination with a mountain other barriers.

You guys overthrew us British for far less.

That was back when the US had a spine. Nowadays we’re the dried up old man who won’t shut up about how good at football he was when he was in his 20s.

The tariffs are just a tax on -us- in the first place, easily exceeding $2k; so this isn’t some gift, it’s a partial return on a tax that shouldn’t exist in the first place.

Like, this is the school bully stealing your lunch money, then throwing the metal change back at you.

Orange shit stain owes us a LOT more than $2k.