You should hate the billionaires who own your politicians instead or as well, as they’re the root of the problem.

Literally demonstrating the racism of most countries by making assumptions about their background and at the same time reinforcing the toxic psychology that it’s never systemic failures but moral and character failures of certain individuals.

“It’s the parents fault…” excuses the systemic issues every place in the world faces and ensure no progress can ever be made on fixing those problems because you can’t drain a boat of water one bucket at a time if it’s full of holes. You must address the systemic problems to lessen the individual failures within that system.

“… probably didn’t bother to integrate and learn the language…” Is a plainly racist assumption. As a white, straight, male American living in Germany I have faced nearly zero hardships despite speaking little German. Integration is not hard, even if you don’t speak the language and integration is not one person’s choice. If people were less patient with me, racist to me, even violent towards me I couldn’t integrate if I wanted to.

You ignore the problems that plague your society because you think it is personal failings, and in doing so make your society worse while blaming the impoverished and the downtrodden.

I’ll post what I said to the other guy who thought it necessary to explain stocks to me.

The comment chain was:

• I can’t believe Elon musk is a trillionaire, that doesn’t sit right with me.
• he’s not a trillionaire, his stock went down, most of his wealth is in stocks
• i downvoted because that statement sounded like a defense of the wealthy, not the TH letter (which I actually like, sorry to the people on Lemmy who seem to have a hate boner for it).

No, I do not think saying “actshully his numbers went down this month and he’s not a trillionaire” is value added or demonstrating a grasp on how wealth works. Elon will be a trillionaire again this year or next, and more importantly he will not be the only trillionaire we see by the end of this decade unless something is done about it. He will not always have his money heavily tied up stocks, and he’ll begin diversifying it. The difference between someone having 900 billion and 1.1 trillion is not significantly important, they’re both unbelievably bad.

Maybe I’m responding too much to this chain, he obviously wasn’t heavily defending him, but it is what people tend to say before they defend him elsewhere in the chain. I’m just interested in keeping these societal issue topics more focused and clean.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist. That’s the important part of this that I want to echo and protect. I’m sorry if it sounds like I’m “tilting at windmills” or making the cause seem bad, that’s not my intention.

I understand and appreciate what you’re getting at but the comment chain was:

• I can’t believe Elon musk is a trillionaire, that doesn’t sit right with me.
• he’s not a trillionaire, his stock went down, most of his wealth is in stocks
• i downvoted because that statement sounded like a defense of the wealthy, not the TH letter (which I actually like, sorry to the people on Lemmy who seem to have a hate boner for it).

I understand how his wealth is tied up and how volatile stocks are. The reality is Elon will be a trillionaire again this year or next, and more importantly he will not be the only trillionaire we see by the end of this decade unless something is done about it.

So I appreciate your comment. My point was only “no one should have a trillion dollars” is a far more important conversation to be having than “actshully his numbers went down this month and he’s not a trillionaire”.

Yes, we can with 100% certainty say gas stoves are worse for people than electric stoves just like any small gaa engine is worse than a comparable electric engine.

This is not a hard concept and if you’d like it explained in more detail I’d happily do so. It is important to me that more people understand the benefits of electrification not just for my benefit but for theirs.

I downloaded for defending a rich person. “His networth is tied up in stocks” is the kinda shit someone says who doesn’t understand that that doesn’t make them any less rich. A trillionaire means a trillion dollars of your shit is owned by him, houses and farmlands and workers and production capacity and art. No one should be allowed to have more than 10-20 million, at that amount they can pick someone to never have to work again in their life every year for the rest of their life. That’s too much money.

3 years is absolutely plenty of time to get the ball rolling and potentially even complete the task. If we prematurely say to only the things that would improve our lives “they’re too unrealistic” then those things will face friction worse ideas don’t have to.

Be the change you want to see in the world and stop assuming good things are too hard to complete.

“… (Has) To come from cuts” is not how I would put it. Britain could tax the ultra-wealthy out of existence and remove housing as an investment vehicle and they’d be able to leave welfare intact. Every dollar taken out of the quality of living of the average citizen is a choice to give that dollar to the rich. Conservative governments shouldn’t be allowed to do this and people need to be educated on what wealth inequality means for the average Joe.

#TaxWealthNotWork

Ya, that’s the sort of underhand cruelty that I expect from a centralist party. I can understand the desire for countries to put most of their money to local projects, but I have no doubt this was a small portion. These sorts of projects have high returns on several important metrics, not even accounting for the impact the western world has had on the southern countries we pillaged.

Thank you so much! I’d like to know more of the details on what reprioritizing means in this context, I’m not certain a dollar off of fares is equivalent to some meaningful green energy projects but at least according to this article they’re simply moving from grants to loans which on its surface isn’t the worst thing. I think grants make more projects possible regardless of their economic feasibility, while loans are potentially more self-sufficient and reoccurring.

I’d also have liked to see a push for more trains, trams, and street cars. Buses seem to me to be the worst of public transit options. But I’m happy they’re getting more long term funding. Roads are a plight but if it helps the UK people value public transit more that’s a good thing in my book.

Do you have a link? Because that turns this minor win into a distraction tactic. I knew this guy was gonna be more centralist than we need but I thought he’d at least fake it for a couple of quarters.

Sounds like it won’t be long before he’s booted too if this is true.

I agree that the feeling should be addressed but I don’t think immigration should be treated at all like the watering down of the political identity. Immigrants come to other countries, in part, to seek a better life. They become just as nationalist as anyone if given a country who cares for them and is worthy of being prideful about.

In Germany, the CDU and Merz work to strip Germans of their culture when they attack public healthcare or enforce working on Sundays. They would and will reduce vacation time, make trains worse, and deregulate the things that make Germany Germany the longer they’re in power. Culture is something that is generated when the common person is wealthy and influential to their community, not just the millionaires. Especially not the millionaires like Merz who are selling our home and our quality of life nickle by nickel.

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This is what happens with conservative governments. They make things worse for everyone under the guise of making things better, while stripping away cultural touchstones.

When Germans worry about their culture being washed away, I don’t want them to think about immigrants I want them to think about this and the CDU. Germany is like top 10 places to live in the world, it’s doing well in all human centric metrics. But the only thing the news and conservative media focus on is GDP and how rich the rich can get inside our country by pillaging it’s people. Don’t fall for it!

Conservatives want you to work longer, have less protections as a worker, a harder time going to the doctor, a shorter retirement, and a bigger military so we can make life worse for everyone else in the world while paying fat contracts to the ultra wealthy.

Stop letting them Germany, please I beg you. Vote the CDU out and never let them back in. They will only benefit an even worse party like the AfD and then we will repeat history.

They absolutely did not fix the root of this issue which means it is only a matter of time before it happens again.

It’s a pretty popular cult classic. Very few are like it and none tell as good a story. I wish the Clover Paradox had done something more similar to Event Horizon, or… I guess anything cohesive and good.

But ya, Event Horizon rocks.

Just want to say, I bought a framework 13 and it’s fantastic. Been running arch off of it for two years and it’s been a workhorse.

It was expensive comparable to a similar specced PC at the time but I make enough to vote with my wallet so that’s what I did. I think anyone who has the money but doesn’t, simply because there’s a better deal that’s worse for the environment and the makers of the item, while holding a right to repair or anti-corporate mindset are hypocritical at best.

The world gets better if we make it that way, and I see buying a framework (if you have the extra money) as a small step in a better direction.

Love this. It encourages increasing costs instead of paying shareholders, which means higher wages for people.

Also, tax the ultra wealthy out of existence and break up any company over X billion in revenue or Y% of the market share. We need to forcibly distribute power to as many people as possible to ensure a high quality of living for as many people as possible for as long as possible.

I’d be curious why it’s impossible to set up a mini-split in your bedroom. That seems… Illogical. They are surface mounted pretty much anywhere externally, require a small hole to be drilled for the fluid exchange, and the mini split can fit inside any room on the wall or ceiling. Power shouldn’t be a problem either as that’s easy to wire through the same hole as the fluid exchange if need be.

Idk, I’m not an installer but the tech seems like you could make it work on a barn in the country or in the non-sensical backrooms - it’s not very demanding.

Speaking as someone who lives in Germany, this is a common sentiment from old timey Germans that hasn’t been true for awhile. It’s far more than a week every year and it’ll only get worse.

It’s like the memory of the past is so strong it overwrites the present day experience. I think the truth of the matter is home ownership is so low that installing AC is never even considered by the owning class. Germans definitely have a culture of not needing AC and like superstitiously not liking them, but honestly California had similar beliefs when I lived there but they had just started to cave to the present reality. I think Germany is a decade behind on this matter and in 10 years 80% of the population will have AC and the last 20% will be the people whose landlords refuse to invest in their properties and blame it on the infrastructure not being built for AC.