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New comment by shimman in "The President Made More Than $1Billon in Crypto Deals"

shimman — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:41:17 +0000

Great onion article about this if you haven't read it:

https://theonion.com/you-people-made-me-give-up-my-peanut-fa...

New comment by shimman in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

shimman — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:29:26 +0000

You need to ask a real question because I have no idea what you are trying to say by beating around the bush, this is about the SCOTUS which is a US branch for the US government.

New comment by shimman in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

shimman — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:09:41 +0000

Our entire history of a nation is the people fighting against the ruling minority of tyrants. Look at how fast SCOTUS struck down the civil rights act of 1875 (only 8 years).

Look at how quickly slavers used the federal government to uphold slavery, the fugitive slave act was one of the first things Congress signed and took zero time enforcing against the will of the people.

Look at how quickly business leaders fought against Americans trying to better their working conditions.

The US constitution was designed to impede societal progress by stripping power from the people. The "reverance" people have for the "founders" doesn't help either, acting like a document written to embolden slavers as sacrosanct is beyond pathetic.

New comment by shimman in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

shimman — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:04:56 +0000

Citizen tourism is not a real concern; good grief why do people care about fringe issues that impacts no one instead of concentration of corporate power, consolidation of wealth, and decreasing rights for citizens?

New comment by shimman in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

shimman — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:13:24 +0000

Okay so thank you for avoiding the question, once again what does a higher income in the southern US get you that people in Germany don't have?

People want healthcare, they want cheaper housing, they want high quality jobs, they want lower crime. Material outcomes absolutely matter and there is zero evidence to suggest that "high incomes" in the US translate to anything except more blood for corporations to extract.

New comment by shimman in "County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'"

shimman — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:11:36 +0000

You're confused why neoliberals want to give out more corporate welfare over helping citizens material needs?

This is literally what they believe in. This is what they have been doing for nearly 50 years. It's the entire purpose of neoliberalism: corporations are more important than citizens.

New comment by shimman in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

shimman — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:00:26 +0000

Things barely increasing after nearly 40+ years of being completely flat isn't the win that poster thinks it is, maybe if you're doped up on neoliberalism it sounds nice but everything else people need to survive are also increasing in costs massively.

New comment by shimman in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

shimman — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:52:58 +0000

Okay and what exactly do you get for that income? What are the material outcomes for having a "higher" income than Germany? Because I know very few people that would openly choose to live in Mississippi versus Germany.

New comment by shimman in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

shimman — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:04:38 +0000

There is but you have to ignore the lived reality that Americans are struggling to afford healthcare, housing, utilities, education, and food costs all while the ultra wealthy are demanding the public invests trillions into vaporware.

New comment by shimman in "Font-Family Recommendations"

shimman — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:27:37 +0000

How do you block specific fonts? Do you mean just the CDNs for like say google fonts?

New comment by shimman in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

shimman — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:43:13 +0000

What hogwash. Resistance is as American as the founding of the country, acting like there is a "right way" to protest is deeply antihuman.

New comment by shimman in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

shimman — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:51:05 +0000

Why wouldn't educated people be swept up by populism? They're human like the rest of us. Maybe you should stop thinking that having an education makes you a moral person, it just means you have an education.

New comment by shimman in "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing"

shimman — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:05:05 +0000

Yeah but if you can't attack the workers and make them hate their lives, are you even a good capitalist? Didn't Milton Friedman die for our bosses right to stomp on our faces in the pursuit of profit?

New comment by shimman in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

shimman — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:01:38 +0000

Reminds me of that clip of Travis Kalanick, sexual deviant and harasser of women, talking about "discovering new physics."

New comment by shimman in "Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers"

shimman — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:30:25 +0000

Why is the onus on workers to make sure they are working 100.00% of the time? It's not their company, they aren't management. If you want them to cosplay as managers maybe pay them as such rather than trying to pit them amongst each other.

New comment by shimman in "Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers"

shimman — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:28:54 +0000

This is a stupid rebuttal. Society is allowed to improve the life work workers while working. Just because you want people to personally suffer doesn't make it right.

This is some old school puritan classism right here.

New comment by shimman in "Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers"

shimman — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:27:31 +0000

Telling people they should get a better job implies that there is work where YOU think the workers deserve to be taken advantage of. Why IDK, guessing you hate people fighting for better quality of life through democratic norms.

People rightfully hating tech workers nowadays makes so much sense.

New comment by shimman in "Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers"

shimman — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:20:44 +0000

Notice how it's always the plight of people that always get immediately dismissed while the incoherent ramblings of tech leaders like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei are always taken at face value and immediately never questioned.

New comment by shimman in "Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other"

shimman — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:17:35 +0000

I don't like this argument because it assumes that money should rightfully dictate everything in our lives. Also disagree that there is a "choice" when it comes to consumer spending, as if there are any public options for consumer spending in a neoliberal economy.

New comment by shimman in "A Farmer Arrested for Going 5 Seconds over His Time Limit at Data Center Meeting"

shimman — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:40:33 +0000

Oh I guess that makes it okay to arrest a person exercising their human rights. Wouldn't want to upset the "public order" (whose order are we talking about here because the public seems to be on the person's side).