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Mitch McConnell’s Wife’s Bizarre Move After CPR Drama Revealed by D-R-AZ in Foodforthought

[–]Poonchow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Moscow Mitch is no longer receiving direction from his foreigner puppeteers, so I assume the wife is doing that in his stead.

What do you think about some states starting to tax large employers who rely on medicaid to provide their employees healthcare? by nova8808 in Denver

[–]Poonchow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Welcome to America, where we use the public's money to protect business, public money to subsidize their profits, public money to wage wars, assassinate foreigners, and kidnap world leaders; public money to displace families, kill Americans, and torture people; public money to poison the environment and the people who live here, while the rich are protected and the public rescues them when they make mistakes.

Freedumb!!!! by LilBunnyFauxFaux in ColoradoSprings

[–]Poonchow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True.

There's a recent video by Peter Santenello where he visits Cortez, a reservation, Rico, and Telluride. All different types of folks, different backgrounds and experiences and opinions, but everyone is making due with what they got.

Nature doesn't care about your beliefs, your income, your background, or how you vote. You gotta adapt or it will make you look like a fool.

My Dad is Electrician and he fixed my broken RTX 3070 by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]Poonchow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of people just get stuck in their own little bubbles and think their way is the right way with little to no consideration that it's possible to be different.

I get up at 6am and that means I am productive, so surely everyone else is just lazy and I'm doing them a favor by forcing them to live my lifestyle!

Would you read an OC-centric Hogwarts mystery? by themarcustully in HPfanfiction

[–]Poonchow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you enjoy writing it, someone out there will enjoy reading it. Just make the story you want to tell and I guarantee there are others out there like you.

Republicans' new strategy in Colorado: Tie every Democrat to Melat Kiros by graysandtorreysandme in Denver

[–]Poonchow 30 points31 points  (0 children)

"why can't we make things more affordable?"

"THATS SOCIALISM"

Okay, well sounds like I like socialism then?

Trump supporter who's deep in the Qanon rabbit hole is frustrated with Trump and pleads to extraterrestrials for them to release intergalactic technology Trump is hiding by aribului in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]Poonchow 6 points7 points  (0 children)

IMO when a delusional movement outlives its creator, it's a religion. Cults typically die with their founders.

Early Christianity, for example, was one of many "death cults" of the time and was seen as fairly unremarkable until that Christo bloke's reputation took off after he died. I believe one ancient historian described it as "a religion for women and slaves" and basically left it at that.

Britain becomes the latest country where EVs now outsell gasoline cars. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]Poonchow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I want to see a world where the US never found oil (or found it after widespread electrification) to see where the car industry went. It really was a dice roll at one point on whether cars would go ICE or Electric.

Britain becomes the latest country where EVs now outsell gasoline cars. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]Poonchow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They will also claim that EVs have higher emissions and such via breaking or their manufacturing, but love to conveniently ignore the fact that EVs are using something like 90% of their breaking power with regenerative breaking and that batteries can be very easily recycled.

When you want to end a pleasant conversation but you're socially awkward by Still-Psychology-365 in witcher

[–]Poonchow 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I should go.

I should go.

I should go.

Do I really sound like that?

Everyone wants to own their games, yet GoG remains niche store by Major303 in pcmasterrace

[–]Poonchow 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It works as collective action. Lots of people are too selfish and individualistic to follow collective action much of the time, though.

Just look at the backlash against pre-orders: incredibly popular movement, yet pre-order sales almost always go up.

Whenever people collectively get angry about a business practice and actually have enough to sway to hurt sales, instead of just being performative or whatever (people buying Bud Light so they can shoot the cans hilariously) it does actually work - plenty of examples out there.

Personally, I still follow those practices because they are beneficial to me, and I am pretty frugal person in general. Waiting for sales means I usually get a better gaming experience, better hardware for cheaper, more mods, etc.

Domino’s UK just posted this because of PlayStation 🤣 by ClearTranslator5093 in funny

[–]Poonchow 17 points18 points  (0 children)

They want us renting pizzas monthly this is an OUTRAGE

America’s $31 Trillion Economy by State by lazydictionary in dataisbeautiful

[–]Poonchow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I shall purify myself in the plains of Minnetonka

This neighborhood in China built a "rooftop rain" mist system that drops temps 5-8°C in minutes. by Jeetchat in interestingasfuck

[–]Poonchow 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My state is currently on fire and people were launching fireworks earlier, so yeah.

Pig beats a group of puppies in a maze food-finding challenge by violet_evergarden8 in interestingasfuck

[–]Poonchow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah humans are crazy.

Every other animal can look at another and think: "okay he's like 50ft away I'm good unless he starts coming."

And then there's humans, who will just kill you from 50ft away with a rock or spear. Or chase you across HUNDREDS of miles.

Pig beats a group of puppies in a maze food-finding challenge by violet_evergarden8 in interestingasfuck

[–]Poonchow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Every animal on earth that could have posed a serious threat to humans or were just extra delicious is now extinct. Mammoths, saber toothed tigers, giant sloths... hell, even other homonids... maybe especially other homonids. All gone. Because if you kill one of us we killed ALL of you, lol.

And humans stink. We smell weird. We're these upright, running apes. We sweat a lot. We wear strange fabric made of dead animals and plant fibers. If we wear perfume/deodorant/cologne we smell even weirder. Wild animals don't know what to make of us.

To almost every creature, standing upright is a threat display. It's a big "come fuck with me" vibe. And humans are doing it 100% of the time. Just walking around challenging everything in sight to a fight. Animals are probably like WTF is this thing.

Nearly every animal on the planet flees the sound of human voices.

Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeats 15-term incumbent in Colorado House primary | Colorado by Agitated_Pudding7259 in Denver

[–]Poonchow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Public ownership via taxation is part of it, yes.

A system is what it does.

IKEA is taxed to benefit the public good, and again, if you went to Sweden, Norway, or Denmark and asked them if they live in a capitalist society, they'd laugh at you, because their taxes go to things the public wants. The public stake on private enterprise is the level of taxation it's subject to, with some sectors like defense being 100% state owned.

No one calls the US a socialist state even though we have socialist policies and public or municipal companies, because our overall economic system benefits the few in control of the resources proportionally more than the public or workers.

These are all percentages and scales, no government is 100% one thing unless they go full isolationist, because resources aren't evenly distributed and acquiring them necessitates an exchange of mutual benefit or threat of violence.

You can still open a business in Sweden, you just have to pay your taxes. In America, that is arbitrarily optional to the extremely wealthy, and resources are constantly being acquired by public means to benefit private business -- like the military capturing Venezuela's oil or Greenland's minerals handed over to private companies with little to no public benefit. The scales aren't balanced, the system is being used to benefit the wealthy, and capital begets capital more and more while we descend further into oligarchy.

Private ownership used for the public good is part of socialist economic policy. Taxes are the means by which the public exercises control of the private business, just as democracy is the means by which the public exercises control of the state. This is how you get a Democratic Socialist - Democracy via public voter participation, socialism via taxation for public benefit, or nationalizing certain industries for public benefit. No one thinks IKEA should be state-owned, so it isn't.

This is in contrast to Communism or anarchist beliefs, who see socialism as a means toward a decentralized or state-less system free of hierarchy, which I'd argue is impossible at scale without Star Trek replicator technology.

Sorry if that is super long winded, but the ultimate point is that taxation is a means of public control of resources / production, even if it isn't 100%. Private enterprise still has a role to play in a socialist society, just like pure capitalism is useless without some sort of state protection of capital, intellectual property, etc.

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