[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

It's like old people on Facebook. ORDER CORN

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Whew, the way you phrased that I thought you were one of them for a hot second.

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't mind my tax money paying for their one-way tickets. Especially if they leave their passport at the gate.

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 41 points 4 weeks ago

Woman's gotta get off those Disney movies.

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

And still I maintain that "alot" is not a word.

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

If you take a loan from me you better be prepared to compensate me for it. Or buy only what you can afford. Mind you, I consider myself a lefty but that's just common sense.

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

The process is you pay what you owe. As per the covenant you voluntarily and explicitly entered upon. It's one thing to not understand that roads do not magically appear to facilitate your traveling ("not driving"), and that the privilege of using them is concomitant with obligations you have to fulfill. But trying to weasel out of paying your bills is a move made entirely in bad faith.

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Judge: "We'll deal with it after the election" - wink, wink.

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago

That's pretty much what Lincoln tried to do with his inaugural speech after several states had seceded already. He tried to talk them down and promised that the North would not interfere with their life heavy-handedly but that insurrection was too serious for him to ignore. And then they stormed Fort Sumter and forced his hand. He didn't even commit to the cause of abolishing slavery until the third year of the war.

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

And so people say we gotta tighten our belts and work just a little harder. Like in the good old days. We don't want any handouts, do we? Do it for our country.

I literally saw someone quote JFKs "ask not what your country can do for you" yesterday, opposing a raise of social security payouts here in Germany. A raise that was necessitated by the galloping inflation which is hitting poor families the hardest. Coupled with an unwillingness of corporate management to adequately pay their workers, i.e. pay the very people who are making stock indices rise to record heights.

People are stupid. Mark my words, we will have a fascist government again soon. Because it's all the brown people's fault, so they say. And the queers and the trannies and the intellectuals, so they must all be purged.

Never again, we used to say here. Well, we're almost there.

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