MystikIncarnate

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

.... You think that living in China, under the CCP, somehow provides a better quality of life than living in North America?

You lost me chief.

Their infrastructure might put ours to shame, and I'm not going to say that everyone lives in poverty there, there's billions of people in China; but when it comes to general happiness and quality of life? Nah. I don't believe you, and I don't agree with that assessment/opinion.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There will always be a market for relatively short term living spaces; a gap currently filled by rentals.

Any person who is not living in a place temporarily, eg, for school or a temporary job posting or something, should have the ability to buy a home at an affordable price, without fail.

The housing market is saturated with house flippers and people with more money than sense looking to become a landlord so they can have an "income property".

IMO, all rentals should be either run, controlled, or at least strictly overseen by a specific branch of government dedicated to the task. Anyone who wants to become a renter has to get their rental property approved for renting, and approvals only happen if more rentals are strictly required.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Jes, estas dekoj da ni.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

For me, it's enough for anyone to turn their back on fascism and vow to never vote for the party that endorsed fascism again.

Yeah, they're shit heads. But they're people too. Anyone committing to be better, has a chance.

Punishing them for doing, what they thought was the right thing to do at the time, won't endear them to critically thinking, nor voting for the opposing party. Right now, we need them to vote these fucks out and keep them out.

Trump may be grand pubah now, but there's a huge line of people behind him that are just as bad, or worse.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'd say this is silver lining on a very dark shitstorm cloud.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can we though? We've never seen a sitting US president get thrown out of the job forcibly. Some were under investigation, or indicted, but stepped down voluntarily. The courts didn't kick them out of the job.

I do not believe, for a second, that Trump would ever be sensible enough to voluntarily step down. By the time they dragged him through the legal process of ending his term, his term would have ended anyways.

Even if we started today, the time that he would still be in office, actively harming America and Americans, would not change. We are unable to stop him because there's simply too much red tape involved; not that you could find someone to charge, and/or prosecute him.... Which is a whole other problem.

The damage is actively being done and getting worse. It will continue to get worse. And the only thing that could bring this insanity to a rapid conclusion is a radical and illegal act against the man himself. Honestly, I don't expect anyone to be able to "Luigi" Trump.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm with you. Too many opinions all up in here.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

Working with office and business types all day long in a highly technical field, I will say this: people don't even bother reading when it's literally their job to read, understand and act upon something.

I'm not even going to touch the minimum of reasoning thing.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

My number one reason for avoiding self checkout is that I want people to have jobs.

If fewer and fewer people use the manned cashier lines, there will be fewer manned cashier lines.

If it's busy, and I'm just grabbing a few things, sure, I'll divert to the self checkout, but if there's nobody in line, or just a few people in line, I'll avoid self checkout. I'm not going to be the reason someone lost shifts.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What? I'm not OP, but I'm pretty sure they're just stating why they don't use it.

Why are you assigning their logic to what they think of others?

So to your question, I say: they never said it was their business.

Enjoy your down votes. I'll give you and upvote just to try to equal the scales slightly. Good luck.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

🎶 the land of the freeeeeeeee 🎶

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