MerryJaneDoe

Seems like a bit of a “pickme” post. You do you, don’t worry about your 2 million updoots on reddit.

Yeah…you’re going to have to remind me again what point you’re trying to make?

That democracy and democratic socialism are outliers and fated to be a footnote in the history books.

The unfortunate truth is that hate and violence almost always prevails over peace and love.

Too many people asked “can we do sell this thing?” when they should have been asking “should we do sell this thing?”

Right now in 2026: Russia. The Middle East. Most of Africa.

Geographically speaking, half of the world is currently at war in one form or another.

Personally, I prescribe to Carlin’s philosophy. The problem will take care of itself.

https://youtu.be/UTPlKwkryEk?t=461

Deadpan sarcasm doesn’t translate well from a verbal medium to a written medium.

Unless you’re in an echo chamber…

It’s not though?

1,000,000,000/50,000,000 = 1:20 ratio

It’s like $20 vs. $1

Except it’s still not that. Because whether you’ve got $1 or $20, it’s still a negligible amount of money.

$50 million is enough money to easily collect $1,000,000 in interest every year. Use that as income, keep the rest invested and it would still grow.

Generational wealth. The kind of wealth that creates people like Donald Trump. More money than any single person needs.

It cracks me up that people are like “Hoarding a billion dollars is just morally wrong, so I’ll hoard $50 million instead and be a good person.”

Pick a lane, people. Hoard the wealth or don’t hoard the wealth, but stop feeling guilty about an imaginary scenario.

I would invest it. Every year, I would withdraw the profits, so that my net worth stayed approximately the same.

I would throw an event in a different city each year.

I would get that money (“earned” from doing nothing more than investing it) IN CASH.

All the cash would be loaded up in a plane and dropped in a public place. It would be a spectacle. No advertising needed, word of mouth and social media would be more than enough.

At each event, I would remind people that the money dropping from the sky is merely the crumbs from a single billionaire. Money that I did not earn. Money that was taken from the fruits of their labor and added to my stock portfolio.

I would ask them to imagine how much more money billionaires are hoarding. I would then bid them a fond farewell until next year.

Oh, and also, maybe a nice condo in southeast Asia. Thailand, maybe. Somewhere chill and fairly inexpensive. Not because I deserve a nicer place, but because fuckyouallI’mrichbitchstillnotatotaldickheadthough.

Or you could just move to Sweden and save yourself some money?

With a billion dollars?! I’m crying sad tears and laughing at the same time.

2 billion dollars of PAC money was spent in the 2024 presidential election.

That’s a single year. One election cycle.

In order to overturn Citizen’s United, you would need at least a couple of Supreme Court justices, too. So you need enough money to elect uncorrupted politicians to Congress, so that they can approve judges who are also not corrupt.

I think people HUGELY underestimate how much money flows into politics now that PACs are legal. Why the fuck else would Trump suddenly get interested in politics at his late stage in life?

not only are large enterprises also inefficient in ways, but they must seek profit.

This deserves repeating.

A government job often requires highly skilled union workers, thus higher pay for the workers. A corporation can find the cheapest labor, but it’s not always the best. The savings are then pocketed as profit, essentially giving shareholders a free government check while labor is poorly compensated.

Government contracts out everything to the lowest builder.

This is not always the case. In reality, the bid often goes to the company with political connections.

They might also look at things like timeframe and job creation. So, supposing that all other things are equal: One company plans to use robotic labor, one is using human labor. There’s going to be a lot of pressure from unions to hire the human labor. Or one company is using imported materials and the other is using local materials.

That’s not to say that the system isn’t biased and flawed. It most definitely is. But this idea that the “lowest bidder” always gets the job is just not true.

Men’s clothes sizes are just as likely to be ill-fitted, it’s just that men aren’t held to the same standard of fashion. A lot of men don’t mind wearing something a size too big or cinching their pants up with a belt. Nobody bats an eye.

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode, where they design the “perfect” family vehicle - and it costs too much for a middle class family to afford.

Meanwhile, it’s impossible to find and affordable car with manual transmission, locks and windows.

Equity

In a country where military service is mandatory for everyone over 18, are there really any “civilians”?

JFC. Pedophiles are people who rape children.

These are two consenting adults. ADULTS. What fucking use is adulthood if your every action is judged as if you are still a child?

So, let’s keep things in perspective. Yes, there is a power imbalance when the age gap is almost 50%. No, this is not even close to pedophilia. Yes, she should reconsider dating an older man or take things very slow. No, he is not a rapist. No, she is not a child.