For a corporation there is literally no other definition of success unless it’s financial. And if they are presented with a choice to make money or do the “right” thing they are legally obligated to choose money because share holder value takes priority

Yes. Netflix isn’t buying it because they believe it’s good. It’s always business and it’s good business (at least it was) to be involved in maga money. Look at Melania movie. Doesn’t make sense at all to exist.

I pay $3-4k more in taxes when I file with my wife. I get $2k per kid as a deduction. Married costs me. I get a little back for kids. But $2k is one month of daycare per child.

So… No. No special treatment. I don’t get more sick days when my kids are sick. I don’t get less work because I have children. I don’t get easier projects because I’m a father. Whatever special treatment you think we parents are getting is delusional.

Nah. There’s way too many literate people, and information is easy to access. This isn’t going to be a dark age dystopia. It’ll be closer to corporate owned life.

So a glorified tablet?

Well for starters most residential outlets are rated for 15 amps. You don’t need to run a lot of stuff on that outlet, a vacuum and a space heater is most likely enough for the outlet to overheat. Toss in an extension cord and another appliance and the outlet is going to melt. And since you’re only pulling like 25 amps once the short happens when the live parts touch each other the arc explosion would be spectacular. Since you’re on a 500 amp switch gear breaker with selective coordination set in a way that not only is the outlet done, but the wiring I’m assuming is not ran to the outlet in 600kcm copper, so all the wiring from the outlet to the breaker is also going up in vapor. By the time the breaker trips your house just went through a neat fireworks show and it’s ablaze.

I would be so happy with red alert 2 and 3.

Dude liberals can’t even comprehend that most Christians are on their side.

Wild. I can’t stand rfk but we’re just gonna try smearing him by taking out of context content?

Other than the black Panthers ain’t nobody already with guns doing anything right now.

In this economy?

I don’t mind other opinions. I don’t mind different points of view. I don’t mind culture and mentality differences. I’m Ukrainian living in America so the views I have, while leaning heavily left, differ to the point of leftists vehemently opposing even the slightest push back to some policies or views.

For this reason I never delete my comments and never block anyone. I need to see more. I need to see the different people and cultures. Otherwise we set up a community like parts of Seattle (where I live) that is in this political bubble that get shocked when anyone has views that differ. It creates this perspective that these other people don’t exist and that the world was stolen from them. And the reason they can’t comprehend other views is because they’re involved in communities where these views get erased.

Yeah I’m turned off from interacting. I got banned (I’m guessing since I can’t even reply to people) from world news when Maduro was kidnapped and I mentioned that my Venezuelan friends were hopeful. As this was scary but good news. And my god how I got flamed. Theres no room for conversation I got tagged, replied to, people made fun of me and that’s it. I wasn’t even allowed to interact anymore so it looks like I just said something and ran away.

I’m not even close to center, yet it’s all or nothing with politics here. It’s seriously become reddit 2.0. Pathetic.

Why is it so hard to believe people have friends in other countries?

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Or something like that. Trump is no one’s friend. But neither is Maduro.

It’s a little different since American democracy is supposed to be a lot more stable than Venezuela. But if the election was clearly stolen (imagine trump running for a 3rd term), and then he was removed by another country after deliberations with the opposing leadership here, then yeah kinda. It’d be terrifying. But the guy who stole our country’s leadership, the one running and ruining our lives has been removed. What comes after, what deals were made with the devil, that’s all terrifying. And the people in Venezuela are holding their breath.

You’re wrong on that. I haven’t heard any Venezuelan claim Maduro was elected. He cemented his seat in power after the last election where he clearly lost. So stop making things up for your own optics.

https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how-maduro-stole-venezuelas-vote/

Yeah I guess. It’s kids confusing what’s happening there. They’re being given so much information. Whether right or wrong.

Be careful, apparently I got banned from lemmy.ml for mentioning that the friends I have living in Venezuela see Maduro and “his goons” gone (his words) as great news. The future though is not bright and the people are still very sceptical of Trumps motives. Obviously for us here in the US the writing is on the wall for anyone who’s lived through Iraq.

This is the equivalent of letting homelander kill the mafia boss in your town. Unfortunately he’s not leaving soon and will cause a lot more damage before this is all done.