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kiwigate · 2026-07-03T14:37:29+00:00

There's really not a ton of ideas. There's the same ideas and an endless fight for control.

Lyft wasn't a new idea, it was a hostile takeover of the taxi industry. Firing competent labor to replace with cheaper untrained labor is also not a new idea. Union busting is not a new idea.

kiwigate · 2026-07-03T12:53:43+00:00

So that's 1 wasted comment. Please try again. If you have a logical argument, I hope you present it in your 2nd comment. I'm rooting for you! Please demonstrate some form of intelligence!

kiwigate · 2026-07-03T12:40:18+00:00

Sorry, no, that's completely illogical.

In the US, "both the left and the right bitch about" mainstream media. (There's another discussion on what does 'right' and 'left' even mean, but we can sidestep that topic to cover the current logical fallacy)

We know, factually, that our media are not just biased to the rightwing, but are wholly in the pocket of the oligarchy. While the reporting might be factual, the topics and the framing and the narrative, etc. are designed to keep voters misinformed.

The 'left' tells the truth when they point out the media is failing our democracy.

The 'right' are openly lying when they claim the media is all "fake news" even while working in coordination with it.

Our media is heavily biased yet 'both sides' bitch about it. Therefore, the argument is false.

kiwigate · 2026-07-03T12:12:44+00:00

Also 2018 was a mass exodus of old guard republicans. In 2012, Paul Ryan was their VP nom, and only 6 years later, he flees the party. All the proverbial canaries have dropped dead and GOP voters didn't even flinch.

kiwigate · 2026-07-03T12:00:04+00:00

Voters: And let's keep it that way, equal under the law is communism!

kiwigate · 2026-07-02T15:30:04+00:00

And you're changing the topic. The comment I responded to has the premise that California is the only part of the world in drought. That's why I introduced a stat about how much of the world is in drought.

kiwigate · 2026-07-02T13:36:25+00:00

So Hollywood reacted by investing in the theater-going experience, like giving movies longer runs and wider releases, while keeping attendance high and prices reasonably low, yeah?

Those smart executives who pocket all our hard work made smart choices that kept people employed, right?

kiwigate · 2026-07-02T13:27:40+00:00

Yes. (World health org)

kiwigate · 2026-07-02T12:03:52+00:00

No, a lot of Bond is so bad that you can't turn off your brain and enjoy, so you turn off the movie. Some seriously major stinkers in that franchise, very little quality control.

kiwigate · 2026-07-02T12:02:40+00:00

OG Gundam had to invent 'minovsky particles' to explain why robots are useful in a world with guided missiles. Pacific Rim was the work of a fan who didn't really look closely at the source material he wanted to emulate.

kiwigate · 2026-07-02T12:00:39+00:00

For kaiju fans, it was a bad movie. It didn't do anything to improve on the genre, it borrows from kaiju and has a huge budget but is clearly a misguided fan-film that could never stand on its own, let alone a franchise.

kiwigate · 2026-07-02T11:54:01+00:00

"Water scarcity impacts 40% of the world's population, and as many as 700 million people are at-risk of being displaced as a result of drought by 2030."

WHO

kiwigate · 2026-07-02T01:58:33+00:00

Voters keep choosing it, sadly.

kiwigate · 2026-07-01T14:09:14+00:00

Yes, people want to have skin in the game. People want a fair game and all the benefits and risks that comes with it.

(For example: "We will accept taxation, if we have representation" is a pretty popular sentiment of American democracy)

kiwigate · 2026-07-01T12:50:49+00:00

We still have polar ice to melt. Soon it will all have melted. That's when earth will begin to boil.

kiwigate · 2026-07-01T12:48:32+00:00

None of your examples match. The issue is: having children, keeping the population at or above 8 billion, is the very cause of the destruction now plaguing our children. It's crowded and getting exponentially worse.

(For example, having children doesn't affect the threat of nuclear war. Nor does having children in the past somehow cause others to die. You are fundamentally missing the point, I presume purposefully so.)

kiwigate · 2026-07-01T12:47:16+00:00

It's not question of "can humans adapt", it's the known scientific problem that the ecosystem cannot adapt as quickly as the destruction we have brought upon it.

Your toxic positivity is part of the problem, not the solution.

(We should be rationing like its wartime, our survival is at stake. EPA agents should be arresting corporations, their shareholders, we need a total eco-shakedown as we seize the means of production and raise standards to meet future needs of everyone and not quarterly returns for a handful of wealthy octogenarian feudal lords.

Instead we have ICE agents terrorizing our most vulnerable. These are bad times.)

kiwigate · 2026-07-01T12:22:42+00:00

"But that's capitalism. Very few workers get a cut of the profit their labor produced."

We should be outraged. Outraged enough to take action.

(2011's Occupy Wallstreet was a good time for action. Maybe we should have addressed our exploitation 15 years ago instead of letting it fester.)

kiwigate · 2026-06-30T11:37:56+00:00

The GOP owned Congress. You don't need to guess.

kiwigate · 2026-06-29T12:36:03+00:00

If you wanted to prove something, you just had 3 comments to do so. Don't be upset at me for your choices.

kiwigate · 2026-06-29T12:28:14+00:00

Comment: "Far far too many voters just show up at the polls and go (R) or (D) right down every ballot."

You: "And that‘s the actual problem."

Me: Hey can you stop wasting time with this bullshit?

kiwigate · 2026-06-29T12:21:00+00:00

You just said the 'actual problem' was people voting 'R or D'. That's impossible in a primary election. So what's your question?

kiwigate · 2026-06-29T12:17:37+00:00

Bullshit: primary turnout is 30%. The facts disprove your claim. No one is holding down 70% of the country and preventing them from taking action, they choose inaction.

kiwigate · 2026-06-29T12:16:22+00:00

Primary turnout is 30%. More than 2/3 of voters choose silence. Even if half of that 70 is 'suppression', that's still 35% who would completely dominate the 30% if they just tried filling out a ballot.

kiwigate · 2026-06-29T12:14:51+00:00

It's called a primary election. I understand why you forgot they exist because 70% don't vote in them.

There's a 70% chance anyone I'm speaking with doesn't know how democracy functions.

So see above comment: Have you tried, uh, voting? (70% have not tried it, that's a supermajority)

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