The point is not to turn a profit. The point is to look like a winner who’s making big boy moves and thus justify your insane big boy salary. Investors losing money is someone else’s problem (especially since the ones of them who matter have taken trouble to insulate themselves from the worst of the damage when the bubble pops and everyone loses their jobs).

What a wonderful little creature

why isn’t the media talking about the murders of the fisherman for drug trafficking being tied to trump pardoning a drug trafficker in the same fucking week

Because they, too, are some bitches.

Hey you know, that’s a really good point. I’m sure that all the Lemmy posters that were super concerned about the plight of the struggling American family trying to put food on the table and that’s why they were concerned about rising prices and inflation before the election and why Biden was responsible for them would have had the maturity to refrained from saying WAAAAAAHHHHH THERE’S INFLATION WAAAAAHHH THERE’S INFLATION and not been bothered by the rail strike’s impact on the American economy and given him credit for sticking to his guns and Kamala Harris would have lost the election less hard because paralyzed rail shipping didn’t become an issue and they didn’t blame her for it. I’m sure that’s how it would have played out.

My own personal politics, I actually in all seriousness do agree with I think the average Lemmy POV that Biden should have let the rail strike happen, and if it hurts the American economy then oh fucking well you should have treated better the people who run the American economy. What he did was the break the strike, then had his refurbished NLRB keep working the issue after no one was paying attention and get the rail workers a lot of what they were asking for anyway, just in a way that didn’t paralyze American shipping. I get why he went at it that way. After all, people blamed the fuck out of him for inflation that wasn’t his fault, so presumably they would have been happy to blame him also for inflation that actually was his fault.

But IDK how you look at that, and all this sudden burst of union activity the last three years and the legal and logistical support that his suddenly functional NLRB was lending to it which the OP article talks about in such glowing terms without examining where any of it came from, and decide that of course Biden hates workers. Why do you think he hates workers? This is some creation science shit.

I seriously was looking for what was the catch, before I saw that it wasn’t him that posted this one lol

Why on earth do people keep writing about KOSA and friends as if they were kids’ safety bills

They are surveillance bills. The kids’ safety stuff (to the extent they even had them) has been disabled from the start or amended out of them at this point. It’s genuinely weird to me that “journalists” are taking seriously the idea that they are kids’ safety bills and putting that in their stories, this isn’t the first one I’ve seen that does that.

Here’s a reminder of how that happened (under Biden, too).

Biden arguably broke the law with how quick he got rid of Trump’s horrendous NLRB pick and replaced him with someone actually good for labor (your link touches on that, search for “in the last 3 years, union petitions have doubled because” and then do the math about what happened a little over 3 years ago that might have led to different leadership at the NLRB). The Republicans fought it tooth and nail, and they kind of had a point, but anyway he made it stick and the NLRB has actually been doing good work for a while.

Anyway, after that happened a whole bunch of leftist voters looked at the choices on offer in the last presidential election and said WAAAAAAHHHHH NOT LEFT ENOUGH NOT LEFT ENOUGH and stayed home, and so a lot of Biden’s improvement-finally on these issues is now being undone and then some. Bernie Sanders is 100% correct as far as the uselessness of most of congress on all of this and the Democrats’ absolute unforced fuck-up / unforced gift to corporate America (either is possible to me, they’re both 100% on brand).

The part that is confused to me is that you guys actually had someone in office who did care about fixing this actual exact specific issue, and did, and you responded by fucking hating him and complaining about him constantly and also blaming his successor for everything he did wrong and now all of a sudden you’re aware of the NLRB and that it is important and upset that the Democrats are dogshit about supporting it. Which… I mean, yes, the NLRB is fucked now, and also the center-right Democrats in congress have their way paved to not have to get any better in order to win elections because everyone hates the Republicans now. Good job. Well done. On that as well as many other things which are ten times worse now. Excellent.

No! Stay and talk with them and make them ban you for saying reasonable things! And then whine about it!

(I am joking, anyone can do what they want, I’m just saying my preferred solution.)

Bro who the FUCK on Lemmy was upset about pulling out of Afghanistan lmao

These people live in bizarro world

(For what it’s worth, I think pulling out of Afghanistan was a clusterfuck, because it was always going to be a clusterfuck because that’s what happens when you pull out in the middle of a war. Maybe Biden made it worse in certain ways, maybe Trump tied his hands with certain elements of the deal he made with the Taliban, I honestly don’t really know. But regardless, the fact that it was a clusterfuck and did a bunch of damage in the way it was handled and made everyone involved look like morons should always have been an expected part of the proposition of pulling out, which is why no one up until Biden was willing to take the hit to pull the trigger on it and preferred just to keep killing Afghans indefinitely.)

My guy you haven’t been ready for war with Ukraine

Yeah. The other thing that I think is going on is that every time OP weighs in on domestic US politics, it’s always to criticize the most left person or the person speaking up about left issues in US politics. He hates Mamdani, Bernie, and AOC, and constantly talks about how they’re traitors to the Palestinians and anyone who supports anything good in the world should never support them and they are liars.

I suspect that introducing “anyone who wants to criticize this boat strike” thing into that category of people who are hypocrites, liars, enemies, the worst thing in the world, and we 100% shouldn’t support them and fuck you if you do want to talk about it being a war crime, is being done for reasons that are somewhat different than deep and profound concern for Venezuelan fishermen. Because it makes just about as little sense as does protecting the Palestinians by attacking Bernie Sanders.

Guy… nobody outside Trump’s immediate circle was cheering the boat strikes in the first place. People are just talking now about this new more egregious and obvious war crime aspect instead of the war crime aspect they were talking about previously.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/06/politics/venezuela-boat-strike-trump-legality

Why is it always this wild cartoonish bullshit with you guys lol

Honestly, Librewolf is pretty functional. It used to break all kinds of stuff, but now it’s just a couple of sites with fingerprint protection issues, and there’s a couple-of-clicks way to disable the strict fingerprint protection on any site you care about where it’s causing problems.

/r/thanksihateit

The article’s not saying it was a false flag. The article’s saying that our government including counterterrorism is being taken over by idiots.

It’s worse now. There are a lot of apartment building facilities management systems on the public internet now with poor security.

Want to make yourself a fob to get into the building, or into someone’s apartment? Want to get a listing of when those people enter and exit the building and when they’re generally not home? Well, now you can. It’s not a real high percentage of buildings that have their management systems exposed that way, but in raw numbers, there are a whole fucking bunch of them.

Done.

“The Nazis ate vegetables with their meals.”

“If you sit down at the dinner table, and you eat vegetables – then there is much less separating you from the Nazis than you think.”

Even beyond the bullshitness of the idea that the Nazis were earnestly trying to give social services to people in their in-group, the problem with the Nazis was not that they did want certain services to be provided to certain people. The problem was those other things that they did, that were different from providing services.

“And so then Lemmy said ‘Hey you know what would be a good idea is if we copied that model exactly’” :-(

I absolutely have observed mods on Lemmy engaging in the same shitty behaviors (I am sitting on a post about a little cabal of !progressivepolitics@lemmy.world people who seem to be trying to rig the discourse in a particular direction to meet their electoral goals). But the simple fact of it being less centralized and more transparent (and with more of a culture of effective pushback against the mods) makes it a lot harder. They can’t just say “lol get fucked” like the mod from this post did and have that be the end of the story.