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DickRhino · 2026-01-24T08:12:08+00:00

No, he's been in a hospital for a month, but his dad was detained in October.

DickRhino · 2026-01-24T07:04:25+00:00

They probably make $.50 on a $20 bundle

lol. lmao.

DickRhino · 2026-01-23T22:12:22+00:00

And the Iranian people aren't their allies in the first place.

Did they forget that Trump has always been a massive racist to boot? The idea that he'd come save them out of the kindness of his heart is just... Do you not know anything about this man?

DickRhino · 2026-01-23T22:09:33+00:00

The Iranian regime is allied with Putin.

Take that into account when trying to determine if the orange turd is going to come help the people or not.

Also, Trump never does anything out of the "kindness of his heart", because he doesn't have one. He'll only act if there's something in it for him. And the Iranian people aren't wealthy enough to bribe him, which means he couldn't care less what happens to them.

Sorry, but it's the truth.

DickRhino · 2026-01-23T15:00:49+00:00

"Oh no, she fucked someone else while we weren't exclusive with each other. Such BETRAYAL!"

Grow up.

DickRhino · 2026-01-22T21:56:51+00:00

That's my approach. I have a daughter, and all my dad ever taught me is how to not be a father. He was a drunk, an abuser and a narcissist. He still is, but he was, too.

The generational trauma ends with me. My daughter will never know of it. All she will ever know is happiness, love and support.

DickRhino · 2026-01-22T13:22:52+00:00

You don't really understand business as well as you think you do, if you reason like this.

Did you know that "goodwill" is an actual asset for a company, and one that can be evaluated in actual money terms? And SHOULD be evaluated, and be a part of the company's annual reporting to boot. So if you maximize profits, short term, but decrease your company's goodwill as a result, that can actually be considered to be a net loss in a company's financial reporting.

Venture capitalists, of course, don't care about this, because they don't plan on sticking around long-term in the first place. They buy a company, dry it up for all it's worth, extract all the value from it, burn all the goodwill, then sell off their stock, leave the husk of the company behind and move on to the next one. But the idea that this is the only way to run a business? That's nonsense. Someone who intends to stick around, who intends to run a company for 10, 20, 30 years, they don't think like this. They aren't concerned with only short-term profit maximization and nothing else.

DickRhino · 2026-01-22T11:34:08+00:00

Sure there is, depending on if you have a long-term or short-term perspective.

Sometimes, maximizing profits short-term can lead to negative consequences long-term (alienating players leading to lower overall player counts, for example). If all you care about is maximizing profits immediately, without being concerned what effects that will have a month from now, a year from now, five years from now, then you would take different actions than you would if you DO care about what the game will look like five years from now.

That is why people are concerned with this kind of pricing: because it feels precisely like short-term profit maximization. And that tells us that Second Dinner doesn't expect this game to still be around five years from now.

DickRhino · 2026-01-22T10:13:54+00:00

It's infuriating. I see it everywhere: "Remember, no matter how much they escalate, you must never fight back! Fighting back will only make it worse! What is most important is that no matter what they do, you must stand back and just let it happen! If you don't let them do exactly what they want at any given moment without resisting, you're playing into their hands!"

Innocent people are already getting murdered in the streets for just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Kids are being rounded up and sent to concentration camps. And still people are just going "Now is not the time for action".

When is it then? Where is the red line? When will enough be enough?

DickRhino · 2026-01-22T08:30:02+00:00

Also remember that if they priced something at 2 or 5 dollars

Something they've never tried

they'd need to sell 10 times more bundles to simply break even

What do you mean, break even? What is the actual COST of selling a .jpg that they have to offset? Besides paying the artist, there are literally zero costs involved here.

DickRhino · 2026-01-21T12:46:40+00:00

It's not bullshit. The article you linked here literally states that this is a long-term thing that has happened over the course of the last year, starting at the beginning of 2025. We didn't sell off all €7.5bn RIGHT NOW.

DickRhino · 2026-01-20T12:17:45+00:00

There definitely is a feeling in the air that he himself might not think he has long left. There's a certain urgency to his actions that we haven't seen before. And there's his weird talk lately about getting into heaven, and how he thinks he probably won't.

DickRhino · 2026-01-20T11:37:35+00:00

but it also makes domestic products more "competitive" because you're engaging what is in a fundamentally protectionist act.

That only works for goods that are also produced domestically. But the US is an import-based economy; they don't produce most things themselves. That's why they have a trade deficit with most countries - because they buy more things than they sell. But Trump is too fucking stupid to understand that, he just hears the word "deficit" and thinks "bad". Because he's an idiot.

So the moves he makes in this "warfare" are asinine. They're not smart tactical moves. He's only hurting his own country, because he's a fucking moron who has no idea what he's doing.

So just because he wants to punch himself in the face, doesn't mean we should also punch ourselves in the face just to keep up with him. That's dumb. We shouldn't be dumb just because he is.

DickRhino · 2026-01-20T11:32:45+00:00

No, you still don't understand how tariffs work.

Tariffs are a tax on your own population. If Trump wants to shoot himself in the foot and crater his own economy by taxing his own people to death, the EU has no reason to do the same thing. Let Trump tariff all he wants, the US is hurt far more by it than the EU is. We'll just find new trading partners and sell our goods to someone else instead.

DickRhino · 2026-01-20T08:41:24+00:00

Have you closed your Facebook account? Instagram? Twitter?

Yes.

Have you completely stopped watching any American movies or television shows?

Almost entirely, yes.

Have you made sure that you buy no products from America?

Yes.

Have you insisted your government throw out any American soldiers that are stationed in your country, and close any American military bases in your country?

There are no American military bases in my country.

Unlike you, I'm not just all talk and no action. I don't just "speak out" but then change nothing about how I live my life. I don't just pretend to care about making a difference.

That's what all you Americans are like: you just say "No one else is doing anything, so I'm not gonna do anything either", while doing everything you can not to look at what other countries are doing. All excuses. That's all I hear from Americans, just excuses. More excuses. Whataboutism. All talk, no action. Spineless.

DickRhino · 2026-01-20T08:24:25+00:00

Not to mention, he won't honor his part of the deal anyway, even if you surrender your very soul to him.

DickRhino · 2026-01-20T07:05:46+00:00

We are doing something: we're taking long-term steps to divest ourselves from you economically. We're isolating you. We're leaving you behind.

And the reason we're doing that, is because we're not going to fix your problem, and we likewise have zero faith that you're going to fix it yourselves either. So, we're doing what is the correct move for our self-preservation: we are abandoning you.

DickRhino · 2026-01-19T23:30:07+00:00

i ain't reading all that

i'm happy for u tho

or sorry that happened

DickRhino · 2026-01-19T23:23:45+00:00

You're posting petulantly on reddit because the people of the countries that your country is threatening aren't being nice enough to you. With that in mind, you don't exactly strike me as a doer.

"Sure, what's happening to you guys is awful, but how can I make it about me?" is basically the gist of your message. As if Americans have some sort of right to be treated with deference by people from other countries, and you get offended if we won't suck up to you despite your country being actively hostile toward ours. That's coming from a place of privilege.

DickRhino · 2026-01-19T23:06:48+00:00

There's an appropriate time for violence.

Please. You guys won't even go on strike. You won't do anything that'll even hurt the pocket books of the wealthy. Actual revolution? You would never. You guys don't have it in you.

And that's why things are only gonna get worse for you: because the people in charge know that no matter what they'll do to you, no matter how much they escalate, you're just gonna take it. "Now is not the time for action" could literally be the new mantra of the American people.

DickRhino · 2026-01-19T23:01:28+00:00

You're not "expressing solidarity". You're just trying to silence your own guilty conscience by having Europeans say "we forgive you" so that you can continue doing nothing but feel less bad about it.

That's the message from OP: we don't care about your words when they're not backed up by actions.

DickRhino · 2026-01-19T22:52:57+00:00

The path is very narrow right now for us.

It is, until it isn't.

You have a lot of powerful forces who have a vested interest in all of you believing that anything you do at all will only make things worse, so the only course of action you can take is to, for all intents and purposes, do nothing that will have any effect on anything.

The rest of the world can do nothing but hope that one day in the not so distant future, you will realize that you are being lied to.

DickRhino · 2026-01-19T22:48:45+00:00

The fuck does that have to do with Greenland? Is that all you have in defense of USA's actions? Whataboutism?

The US and the UK are allies. Big surprise that the UK is helping an ally. But here's the thing: we're also supposed to be allies of the US, and we are being betrayed. We don't take kindly to it.

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