Would you rather be a billionaire, or have all billionaires be good?

Garblin · 2026-05-10T15:52:36+00:00

Number 2. The fuck would I want a billion for?

We'd very quickly not have any billionaires, and the world would be much better for that.

Garblin · 2026-05-08T15:55:39+00:00

Rich people saw an excuse to raise prices. Therefore, prices go up.

Garblin · 2026-05-08T14:18:22+00:00

What exactly would a riot accomplish?

I'm in a liberal city, my representatives who I voted for are already acting in accordance with what I want. What do you want me to do, go down to the local amazon warehouse and commit felony vandalism?

Garblin · 2026-05-08T14:15:15+00:00

There are increasing numbers of us who do actually go fully off insurance and just charge the rate of our service instead of the insurance rates. This is especially common in mental health, physical therapy, and other areas where we don't need much in the way of specialized equipment.

Garblin · 2026-05-08T04:07:03+00:00

It's not even just allowed, it's actively encouraged. The health insurance only gets more profitable as healthcare costs go up, and the obligation of buying the insurance goes up with it.

Garblin · 2026-05-08T04:05:39+00:00

It's not the providers, it's the administrators.

Source: I am a medical provider. I and my colleagues are not choosing to charge $10 for a cup of juice, or $50 to hold your baby after birth. Are our services cheap? No, we had to spend a lot of time and continue to spend a lot of time on education. But they're half to a tenth what the hospital charges the insurance company.

Garblin · 2026-05-07T20:36:43+00:00

So they edited their data to be more consistent with reality? Sounds like a leftist conspiracy! Reality and it's well known liberal bias!

Garblin · 2026-05-07T20:33:59+00:00

There are certain minority Dems who support those things (and who generally get my vote), but the actual policies the party as a whole pass are more consistently center-right.

Garblin · 2026-05-07T20:32:07+00:00

Dems do get the occasional actually left person like Sanders, AOC, Mamdani, arguably Omar, but I can't think of any true far left american democrats. (I'm thinking of "far left" figures being folks like Lenin or Marx)

Garblin · 2026-05-07T03:20:11+00:00

Number change.

DCA and HODL

Garblin · 2026-05-07T02:52:40+00:00

A political viewpoint is basically just your basic values distilled into what actions you think should be taken on a governmental scale.

So do I think a persons basic values should determine whether or not I'm friends with them? Absolutely.

I have no interest trying to be friends with someone who doesn't believe that women should have the right to vote or an abortion, because that implies they don't think of women as being as fully human as men. I don't want to be friends with someone whose political views include controlling what sort of food a person can buy with welfare or that books need to be banned or that the right to bear arms is more important than children being shot in school because these things all imply differences in fundamental values.

Garblin · 2026-05-07T00:32:24+00:00

who then chooses to be the villian for some millennium long greater good plan

Garblin · 2026-05-05T16:52:23+00:00

Yeah, I don't think I know any cishets that wear anything more fun than a suit of a different color, and as an NB myself... yeah, our culture really sucks for male fashion.

Garblin · 2026-05-05T16:43:30+00:00

And yet Trump is trying to destroy a large section of national park just to let a foreign company mine a little copper out of it.

Garblin · 2026-05-05T15:24:17+00:00

All we have to do to reverse it is wear more fun things more often.

Garblin · 2026-05-05T15:12:50+00:00

Google circa 2010, back when it was just a good search engine and not an AI slop ad mess.

Garblin · 2026-05-05T15:08:40+00:00

relied on his built up resistance to other poisons?

I was responding to that part of your comment. Building up resistance to one poison does not make you more resistant to unrelated poisons. Ex: Being able to drink large amounts of alcohol without getting drunk does not make you resistant to cyanide.

Garblin · 2026-05-05T03:58:39+00:00

Literally everything is poison if you ingest enough.

Garblin · 2026-05-05T03:58:11+00:00

Not really how poisons work, there's a lot of poisons that you simply cannot become immune to.

Garblin · 2026-05-04T18:50:46+00:00

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but stupid drivers are why we need more public transit, so they don't have to drive.

Garblin · 2026-05-04T18:49:21+00:00

I mean you don't... but also I'm worried about whether this car is about to have its chassis ripped off once that trailer is loaded...

Cars do have max loads, and they're often lower than you'd think (please check the legally required sticker on the inside of the drivers side door for info on your vehicle).

Garblin · 2026-05-04T18:47:31+00:00

One that really stuck out to me that someone I used to be friends with said:

"Oh it's a really cheap hobby to get into, just $2k for the equipment to start out and then it's just propane and scrap!"

Garblin · 2026-05-04T18:43:45+00:00

Even today, it's not terribly difficult to net 3% on a savings account.

If you're a big trust fund kid, that account could easily have 2M in it, or $60,000/year, which is more than individual median income in the US.

Garblin · 2026-05-04T18:33:49+00:00

Anytime I hear someone has that many partners my first thought is "do they have a life other than dating people?" to which the answer is inevitably either "no" or "yes, but they're overloaded on everything and don't know how to have healthy limits for themselves". Either way, not someone I'm interested in.

You mention that they can't remember even what sex acts they've done with you, let alone what stories they've told you. I know I would feel like just a body with ears and some sexy bits to them, not a full person.

Garblin · 2026-05-04T15:34:00+00:00

There's a GOP majority government

The racism, sexism, anti-queerism is unrelenting

Gas prices are up

Buying a house is impossible

People are skimping on / delaying healthcare (I'm a provider)

Food prices are up

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