SaltSong

joined 1 year ago
[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Yea, this guy tap-dances well, but if he wasn't lying to Congress right there, ill eat my hat.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Why the duck are they making a MTG movie instead of Transformers One 2?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

As I understand it, these sweatshop jobs do resist the standard of living in the areas they are in. The people there don't have the option to work a job that we would consider good. They work the job we consider terrible, and they get paid more than they would doing other jobs.

To make a moral judgement, we must balance between "terrible working conditions, no protections, maximum wealth extraction," on the one hand, and "no infrastructure, no job, no money" on the other. Sadly, there is no profit in making the world better for everyone.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

No, unacceptable.

Undo, undo!

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago

Are you using the US or China as your "here?" Because I don't think it's quite that bad in the US, but I don't think anyone blames the voters in China.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

He'll be on a plane to el Salvador before the end of today. Depend upon it.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Narrator: he did not, in fact, know what the hell he was doing.

I mean, I'm not 100% opposed to some of the things he claims he's trying to accomplish. But I'm not what you'd call an expert on the topic, and I might have some bad ideas about how the economy works. But even if I'm not barking up the wrong tree, the things he's doing are not how you accomplish the things he says he wants to accomplish.

Why do we keep electing stupid old men to office?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I just got a bunch of stickers from that guy. (Or lady, as the case may be) good quality stuff, and if I ever find that damn tesla truck parked, I'm gonna give it a little bit of flair.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Right. They are just gonna let anyone sell anything.

My wife is artsy, and I'm sciency. Maybe we can go into snake oil.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 41 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Ah, you forget the alternative. Instead of quicker review, we could just reduce oversight, and remove safety regulations.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And you somehow think the Republicans political party members do not?

No, I don't. I think they mostly lie, or say whatever they think will get them what they want.

Many Americans do not desire these jobs.

Of course they don't. But they think they do, in the way I think I want to be a sailor in 1805. And weather they want them or not, they think that it would be good for other people.

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