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  • Doug@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldoutsmarted
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    4 days ago

    I had a roommate once ask me to come with him to buy a $40 table he found off Craigslist.

    We show up, they show him the table.
    “k I’m all ready to take this home, the thing is… I only have $20.”

    Motherfucker brought me in just to help pressure them into his haggling.
    I mean yes it worked, but I was so goddamn uncomfortable. I have no idea what happened to him/we haven’t kept in touch, but it sadly wouldn’t surprise me if he was some god awful CEO.


  • Doug@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldsad clown noises
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    4 days ago

    Me: You want my help in haunting this conservative suburbia? Take my hand! Let me down there!
    It: Well it’s more nuanced than that, for one thing you die,
    Me: Bud I’m dead already.
    It: Very violently….
    Me: thanks for priming me!
    It: …fuck off. If you want it, it’s not as tasty. You gotta be afraid of me for this thing to work.
    Me: YOU FINICKY CHICKENSHIT!










  • Doug@piefed.socialtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldFact Check: **TRUE**
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    9 days ago

    Woof that’s a take, you think we can food bank our way out of this?

    While I would agree these stickers are not giant forms of activism and can only hope it’s not the only thing whoever has this sentiment is doing, I wouldn’t say it’s useless.

    It’s cathartic for one, and helps broadcast and share to like-minded people there are allies in the area, while also helping cultivate a sense of shame onto any of Trump’s enablers, which is what they need to have done to them.

    Note the distinction between making them feel shame (which is impossible) and shaming them.; these enablers have shown they lack empathy, which means they distill interpersonal relationships down to transactions; what can someone else do for them? If another party can’t do anything for them, then that party is useless and in the negatives, “subhuman,” pretty much.

    Shaming these Trump enablers offsets their interpersonal transactions, putting them in the negative, leaving them in a defensive position instead of offensive.

    Granted one little sticker is not going to do that alone, but you can’t make waves without drops.

    I don’t judge anyone for buying or using these stickers. To each their own.


  • And then I’ll remind you that it’s well within most governments’ capabilities to do their citizens taxes for them. Also any for-profit service you use to do your taxes uses the money you give them to lobby the government to keep the tax system this way. Also your taxes are getting used for unfathomable crimes, and there’s no paper trail or audit done to them to prove your tax dollars are going where you’d like them to.