ExistentialKiwi

joined 2 years ago
[–] ExistentialKiwi@lemmy.world 57 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

I think it's funny that Google thinks putting an ad in when someone is most engaged with a video will be an effective advertising technique. So someone's going to be absorbed in the video, be presented with an ad while engaging with it and be happy that they were interrupted to be served an ad? Sounds like a great formula for pissing off your users.

[–] ExistentialKiwi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Can't have people agitating for change and meaningful opposition, that'd piss off the capitalists that pay all their bribes.

[–] ExistentialKiwi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Fuck this "we need to cater to moderate and swing voters" bullshit. It didn't work in 2016 and it didn't work in 2024. You could argue that it maybe worked in 2020, but I would say there were other, more important factors driving turnout then (namely the dumpster fire that was the first trump administration).

Catering to moderate and swing voters is how we ended up in this fucking mess in the first place and the sooner that Democrats focus on being an actual opposition party instead of cannibalizing disaffected Republicans they might actually get some traction. Unfortunately I doubt they will because they're as bought and paid for as the Republicans are.

Both the Democrats and Republicans need to go as greater political parties. All the capitalist ghouls need to go.

[–] ExistentialKiwi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Isn't this EXACTLY what that orange windbag was saying other countries do to the US? It's always projection with these assholes.

[–] ExistentialKiwi@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Shooting fascists could cut down the amount of fascism in the US.

[–] ExistentialKiwi@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Ok, but an apple, banana, watermelon, and kiwi sandwich actually sounds really good though.

[–] ExistentialKiwi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Fuck you, Bitch McConnell. The Russians already have a stooge in the White House and you're to blame for this whole fucking mess existing in the first place. Go rot in hell with Reagan you fucking asshole.

[–] ExistentialKiwi@lemmy.world 133 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I hope Greenlanders chase him away like Vermonters did. Let him know he can't go anywhere without people making it known how much they don't want a little sycophantic dweeb like him around.

[–] ExistentialKiwi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My favorite group, Rose City Band, put out a new record recently, Sol Y Sombra and I've been especially enjoying Lights on The Way and Wheels from that album. If you like something that's psychedelic, groovy, a little funky, and a little country, I can't recommend Rose City Band enough. Summerland and Earth Trip are also great albums.

[–] ExistentialKiwi@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Warning bells started going off in my head the moment that the Democrats announced that Harris was going to be the candidate after Biden dropped out, not because I thought she was an unqualified candidate but because there was no time taken to search for other candidates. Maybe it was too close to the election to take the time to go through the rigamarole of all that but I think even a cursory effort to do so would have gone a long way towards making it feel like people's opinions actually mattered. Biden dropping out was huge (at least to me) because it felt like an acknowledgement of the voters who had consistently felt like they were held hostage for their votes because the alternative was a fascist.

It doesn't help either that they went on to repeatedly shoot themselves in the feet while chasing moderate Republican votes, getting other prominent Democrats to chastise certain classes of voters and breeding the same voter apathy that hurt them in 2016, and their refusal to acknowledge that what's happening in Gaza is a genocide that we shouldn't help Israel perpetrate.

[–] ExistentialKiwi@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Nihilistic fruit

[–] ExistentialKiwi@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

The Democrats are spineless because a bunch of them are still capitalists and don't want to mess with the status quo and disturb the money faucet that funds them. They're just as bought and paid for as Republicans, they just try to hide it behind virtue signaling and empty words.

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