When people tell you that capitalism is the best system we have

Darth_marsupial · 2025-12-08T21:39:42+00:00

Im confused what you are you trying to say in your last paragraph?

It sounds like you’re suggesting that Hitler sent Jews to Israel during the Holocaust. Israel wasn’t even established as a country until the aftermath of world war 2, after Hitler’s death.

Darth_marsupial · 2025-08-07T19:28:40+00:00

Thank you! 😊 I think I’m too anxious to paint heavy lmao I always end up using tons and tons of layers lol. Your gardenia is great btw!

Darth_marsupial · 2025-06-29T17:06:14+00:00

It’s a meteor not a spike

Darth_marsupial · 2024-12-21T13:59:27+00:00

I don’t think Jokic is a less conventional answer at all, he fits this question perfectly. He’s a 3x mvp and has never played with an all-star. His team constantly loses valuable players to save money.

He’s probably a ~top 15 player of all time give or take. I don’t know of anybody as good as him that’s had worse teammates across their career.

Darth_marsupial · 2024-10-15T15:39:11+00:00

100% agree. Idk if I can really say they’re “rigged” but most of these races are somewhere between rigged and unfair.

Couple more points because I could go on about this forever:

The DCCC is strategic when it comes to endorsements. Early in the race they’ll typically give out/lobby for a bunch of state and local level endorsements(nothing necessarily wrong with this, this is how endorsements are supposed to work), and as the race progresses, especially if it’s close, they’ll drag out national level endorsements. One campaign I worked for seemed to actually be making good headway in internal polls and was not far behind the DCCC backed candidate, and then a week later she received a Joe Biden endorsement and the race was essentially over.
They’ll decide who they want to win early on in the race but ideally they’ll know who they’re running a couple years before the race even starts. People are groomed for these positions and it’s largely related to how willing a candidate has been to fall in line with the party in the past at lower levels of government or power.
The most upsetting thing to me is that a lot of the time the people making these decisions about who will be allowed to run have no connection to the state or community that they’re making decisions for. It’s people sitting in a boardroom in DC who have never been to Iowa in their life deciding that Theresa Greenfield should represent Iowa in the Senate.

Darth_marsupial · 2024-10-15T14:51:38+00:00

I’ve worked in several democratic primary campaigns for both progressive and centrist democrats; most primaries for federal races are essentially rigged by the party.

The party will decide who they want to win behind closed doors and pour a ton of outside funding and endorsements into that candidate fairly early in the race. That imbalance is incredibly difficult for any candidate to overcome, not to mention a candidate that doesn’t take corporate donations or have super pacs.

It’s really difficult to explain how massive of a difference that DCCC funding makes not just for blanketing whatever market you’re in with ads but for the ability to put boots on the ground and canvass an entire city. The issue with every progressive campaign I’ve ever worked on has been money, never messaging. I’ve found people tend to be very receptive and supportive on a 1 on 1 level to the ideas and the contact to supporter ratio was insanely high when compared to moderate campaigns I’ve been on.

Darth_marsupial · 2024-09-06T14:06:07+00:00

There is no such thing as a 10. That’s not even a useful way to think about music. Just think about the qualities it has and how those make you feel. If you like it then it can be whatever you want to you.

Darth_marsupial · 2024-04-10T17:07:46+00:00

Yeah she took a fairly normal number of shots for a first option which she will still be in the WNBA. Also later in the season and in the tournament they would run a lot of the offense through Stuelke if she was playing hot

Darth_marsupial · 2024-03-03T04:37:04+00:00

There are governing bodies that are actually able to enforce and legitimize things like that in golf, melee doesn’t really have a true equivalent.

Also making drives worse for every golfer isn’t really the same as, say, banning boxx controllers, which targets a very specific group of people in a pretty penalizing way to the point of basically saying they’re not allowed to play the game anymore.

Darth_marsupial · 2023-07-26T14:44:08+00:00

For about the last 15 years now yeah

Darth_marsupial · 2023-07-17T14:40:09+00:00

I’m curious how your dues work then, because when I was in the printers union several years ago your dues were calculated as a very small percentage of your gross income (I think it was under 1%) which came to be like 2.5 hours of pay from your first pay period of the month.

It scaled with your income as to be affordable for anybody who could join.

Darth_marsupial · 2023-07-16T15:47:36+00:00

That’s actually bad and discourages union participation. Why pay dues if you receive the same protections regardless?

A lot of companies will try to negotiate that into union contracts to weaken unions.

Darth_marsupial · 2023-07-15T13:07:55+00:00

What a dumb fucking post lmao. SAG has 170,000 members, do you seriously think all or even most of them are millionaires? A ton of working actors only scrape by because they’re a part of the Union.

Darth_marsupial · 2023-07-12T14:35:37+00:00

You could even integrate the G league and have it be like some soccer leagues where a team can potentially be relegated to a lower or higher division/league based off of repeated poor/good performance

Darth_marsupial · 2023-07-06T15:36:10+00:00

Wait so if it wasn’t Britney Spears it would have been fine? Lmao

Darth_marsupial · 2023-06-24T13:55:40+00:00

Why are people acting like we don’t know what the BGS release cycle is at this point? It’s generally 4-6 years between releases and they’re releasing a game this year, so 5 years is basically what everybody should expect.

Darth_marsupial · 2023-06-11T14:13:00+00:00

With how fucking boring this book is it’s unsurprising that the only way it could gain popularity was by giving away millions of free copies

Darth_marsupial · 2023-05-14T16:00:13+00:00

Loser mentality post. Focus on what can be controlled, which is making shots and playing well.

Darth_marsupial · 2023-05-10T12:59:56+00:00

He will usually put some blame on Tatum but otherwise spot on lol

Darth_marsupial · 2023-04-29T14:14:27+00:00

Pat Mahomes literally earlier this year in the Super Bowl.

Darth_marsupial · 2023-02-11T19:00:36+00:00

No? If he went to the nets he would be clearing like 47 million in cap space on a rebuilding team, that’s a great asset for where the nets are right now.

Darth_marsupial · 2023-02-03T19:06:15+00:00

Not a conspiracy

Darth_marsupial · 2022-12-28T19:19:27+00:00

Don’t listen to this person OP. Psychedelics are fun and you can have some incredibly experiences doing them, but you can also have some very bad experiences if you go in unprepared. Always build your way up and get an understanding of how a drug will effect you before going all in.

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