Those are symptoms not the problem.

The problem is we’re densely packed and scarce on resources. Humans adapted for that, because we populate insanely fast and would constantly hit the limit that land could support.

The downside is that adaptation was us killing each other in the absence of natural predators.

It’s all wired up inside of us, like the same neurochemical that causes group/family bonding making people (especially men) have very strong negative feelings about anyone they weren’t exposed to when young, because those groups didn’t make the cut for “in-group”.

None of this is new and it shouldn’t be shocking.

The oligarchs have been exploiting it for centuries. Everytime there’s one dude with everyone else’s money, he’s always pointing to an out-group member and blaming them.

We don’t have time to treat symptoms anymore, we need to fix the actual problem: oligarchs.

We really really need to address the critical thinking skills in this country…

Including zero context

The context appears to be it’s a Jewish person in the picture…

And despite OP being a two day old account, the modlog already has some examples of how OP feels about Jewish people in general.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=22250933

Where do you think you’ll run into them that recognizing their face matters?

We don’t need to know what they look like to tax them bro, there’s no more tax collectors going door to door.

They’re a name and SSN, that’s all we need to know

I understand that…

My point was if you think 4-5 sentences is overly verbose then it means you only have a surface level understanding of things. Together with you implying you made the meme in the first place, explains why it doesn’t make any sense.

Like I said, you answered all my questions, I just didn’t ask them

Its definitely not intentionally divisive, and I don’t even use any social media except lemmy. In the first 2 days of using It i already think about going back

I legitimately don’t know what you’re saying there…

But it sounds like you’re saying you made this yourself, which kind of answers all my questions if you thought my first comments was “wordswordswords”…

One actor is like okay, I’m reverend-coded, I can do the preacher voice

He’s a rapper…

Like, that bit in Kimmy Schmidt where he raps is a joke on another level because he’s actually insanely talented.

You need an actor with a powerful voice, you get a talented actor that’s an amazing rapper…

It was perfect casting and he killed it.

Edit:

Changed recommended song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm65PCbUMZI

What?

If it was labeled by name then yeah, you’d have a point.

But expecting people to know specific oligarchs by their face is fucking stupid, it’s not something you’d just learn, you’d have to out actual effort into it because they’re faces aren’t everywhere. Effort that would be better spent doing almost anything else.

This just reeks of intentionally divise content, what mainline corpo social media did you repost this from?

providing $4 billion from the state to help close the city’s budget gap, the media was quick to frame it as if Mamdani and the city were spending irresponsibly. “Hochul forks over another $4B to bail out Mamdani’s NYC budget woes,” the New York Post complained. The right-wing Center Square agreed, also calling it a “bailout,” a word that also seems to have become a talking point of Hochul’s Republican opponent, the far-right Bruce Blakeman of Long Island.

Lol…

It’s hard to make it thru a Jacobin article these days, but I don’t know why they didn’t just point this out:

New York City contributed 54.5%, or $68.8 billion, of state revenues whereas the rest of the state contributed 45%, or $57.5 billion. When place of residence is used, New York City contributed 46.7% of total revenue

And:

New York City received 40.5%, or $47.6 billion, of State Operating Expenditures, whereas the rest of the state received $69.7 billion, or 59.5%

https://islg.cuny.edu/blog/fiscal-flow-nyc-albany-press-release

NYC paid 21.2 billion into state coffers than it got out…

A 4 billion “bailout” doesn’t even cancel it out for the current year.

That’s all that needs to be said when people claim this is a “bailout”. It’s NYCs fucking money, cities all over subsidize rural areas, which would be fine if people understood what was happening and were grateful, but every rural area wants to kill the cities keeping them alive, because cities vote D.

He won’t get elected, it’s a moot point.

A republican with a D by their name will never beat a Republican with an R by their name.

He’s running in the dem primary because a progressive with a D by their name could beat a Republican in the general. Not saying they will, just that they’d have a chance.

And this asshole would rather have a foaming at the mouth maga win then a progressive. So he’s running in the d primary to stop progress.

It’s textbook neoliberalism. He’s not trying to win the general, he’s trying to break the only other option for it.

Buddy…

What the actual fuck do you think happens if Republicans just run under (both of) the only two parties?

And why are you acting like the primary is over and we have to accept this bullshit?

The primary is in June, if we can’t talk about primary candidates before a primary…

Just…

Do you know anything about this at all?

It feels like you have no idea what’s happening here, just kneejerk defending actual Republicans openly attempting to inflitrate the only other option because he said “trump bad” which, fucking newsflash buddy, everyone else running in Dem primaries agree with.

That’s not the only bar for being a Dem, and the last decade should show you it’s not enough to win a general.

Right…

And if OP had linked that, it would have made sense.

Instead they linked a pay walled summary of something that people could actually read. Which was pointless.

Edit:

Likely due to OP “headline shopping”…

The one people can actual read would have had to be titled:

Systematic partisan content skews in TikTok during the 2024 US elections

OP wanted something that looked like an academic study but had a editorialized headline…

And if you want that, you can’t link real studies, the best you can do is summaries, which are published like a study but isn’t abstudy

Why would you post a pay walled study?

It doesn’t even show the abstract, this post is pointless except to people who only read headlines and never understand anything…

For fucks sake…

When Republicans get “too extreme” the moderate ones need to stay over there and drag them back to the left some.

If they “become Dems” by slapping a D at the end of their name, they drag the Dem to the right.

Fuck this piece of shit and every other coward that’s doing this.

All it does is move the Overton window right, we don’t need another round of neoliberalism

Luckily the DNC knows that a shite platform and won’t try to force it on a larger stage.

Dem voters need to vote for something. Republicans want something to vote against.

Conway is a Republican, and with that comes with shit empathy and the inability to understand people think differently.

That’s why even tho he has a D by his name, he’s running this kind of campaign. And if elected he won’t do anything to help his voters, he’ll copy MTG and just want to yell and get headlines.

Fuck this guy, Dem voters deserve better.

Hold up…

Are you saying that instead of letting anyone build anything, and then the government has to find everything and investigate to make sure it’s safe…

That instead we should set regulations for safe building and require people to get permits notifying the city of the build so it could be approved before it was built?!?!

You might be on to something here…

/s

Really disappointing so many people didn’t understand that incredibly basic system and downvoted you.

Yeah, it’s not even a “stethoscope”…

The device, manufactured by California company Eko Health, is about the size of a playing card. It is placed on a patient’s chest to take an ECG recording of the electrical signals from their heart, while its microphone records the sound of blood flowing through the heart.

The people selling it know hospitals want “ai” so they don’t have to pay doctors.

So slap “ai” on it, pretend it’s a new version of old tech, and then journalists write shit headlines and people post it when they’d never talk about a legit medical breakthrough.

This is boring, but actually pretty useful. That’s just not how you sell products in a capitalist dystopia…

So we kind of come full circle. Hell, just the fact that we have to advertise medical advancements is pretty cyberpunk if you think about it. We’re just used to it, which is why our dystopia is boring

If you want to waste time having a discussion about this monkey go right ahead

Even this…

Valid point that this is a waste of time, but if you hadn’t typed that it would already be over.

If you think a 4 foot gorilla statue is bad, wait till you see what it’s scaring away…

They’re definitely using it like “bullying”.

As in it’s upfront and in people’s faces?

I’ve never heard it used that way but in context it makes sense. I just immediately pictured the Workaholics episode where they had “Christian Strongmen”.

https://youtu.be/VqvbDUBC_FM?t=82