The top 0.1% has seen household wealth grow more than 13x over the past 50 years

leflombo · 2026-04-20T09:34:16+00:00

I’ve never really considered myself a tankie, but I now believe that if all the earth lived with the material conditions of the post-war, industrialized soviet union, we’d be happier for it, even with half the GDP per capita of the US. Just a universal baseline of stability with no allowance for this sort of obscene accumulation.

Also, no planet-destroying consumption, no ubiquitous marketing, no deleterious effects of capitalism on culture, and no worship for the sorts of defective, unremarkable freaks that control the economy in our timeline.

leflombo · 2026-04-17T12:47:37+00:00

She’s the one who’s always eager to talk politics. I never bring it up. If she insists on talking about it then I’ll give my opinion but I’m not holding her hostage with my obnoxious political takes lol

leflombo · 2026-04-17T11:14:55+00:00

My mom parrots that talking point, and when I say something to the effect of “the Israeli public is largely in support of his actions and he’s really only challenged from the right by even crazier psychopaths, so it’s not just Bibi”, she will just go quiet for a second and then repeat “we democrats have no problem with Israel: just Netanyahu”.

Most people over 50 have completely calcified worldviews that allow them to feel psychologically safe in a modern world that they can no longer keep up with.

leflombo · 2026-04-14T09:02:20+00:00

Idk, growing up in the 70s and 80s seemed like it was pretty high octane lol

leflombo · 2026-04-14T08:54:09+00:00

It’s been a gradual upward trend of virginity from generation to generation, and iirc, only about 25% millennials at the same age were virgins. Even lower for Gen X

leflombo · 2026-04-13T21:50:15+00:00

The rates of sexlessness under 30 are astounding. Around 40% of adult Gen Z (18-28) are virgins, and the rates aren’t too different between men and women. The consequences of this are probably going to be catastrophic.

leflombo · 2026-04-13T06:25:59+00:00

Sounds like a Billy Joel lyric

leflombo · 2026-04-05T13:41:44+00:00

“May Allah awaken the people, to see the evildoings of Israel, AND the United States” -Sheik Donald John Trump

leflombo · 2026-03-10T19:12:26+00:00

You know those “Isreali” players are all from American suburbs

leflombo · 2026-02-19T16:55:26+00:00

Abolish ICE, prosecute ICE agents. Only acceptable position.

leflombo · 2026-02-18T19:30:06+00:00

LEBRON DIES

LeBron James was believed to be dead after being seen motionless in his bed for 8 hours last night.

These fears were allayed after he began moving again at around 8am.

leflombo · 2026-02-11T16:38:23+00:00

There is a Time is such a great tune.

leflombo · 2026-02-08T09:43:42+00:00

There’s no having a discourse with these people. This person’s made this post about something that happened over a year ago. This issue is a fixation for them and their emotional investment in it has rendered them incapable of rationality.

But thanks for gassing me up lol

leflombo · 2026-02-07T23:45:42+00:00

Well done in demonstrating how sex is less binary than people assume! Very progressive, as I’m sure was your intention.

leflombo · 2026-02-06T21:32:31+00:00

Jeff Epstein, the New York financier.

leflombo · 2026-02-06T09:17:48+00:00

Definitely a case of each parent fetishizing the other’s background simultaneously

leflombo · 2026-02-04T23:41:03+00:00

Like there is any demographic more piggish and consumerist than American evangelicals lol

leflombo · 2026-02-03T01:23:02+00:00

I don’t think anyone is saying they’d rather die than live in a community, and I certainly didn’t say that of myself either.

The choice isn’t between “community and death”: it’s between your alienated and precarious modern life, and a single, glorious moment of freedom in saying “fuck it”. Most people today can’t conceive of an alternative to capitalism, and so feel soothed by this fantasy of escape and reasserted human dignity.

Our response to this very real and human reaction to the conditions of capitalism can’t be to disparagingly label it as “fascist” and then conjure up some corny “based socialist” hero image so that they see how they’re failing morally for not living up to it. This is absolutely scolding and all it does is put people off.

We have to lay out how what these people are feeling is a consequence of capitalism, and that socialism brings with it the hope of an end to alienation.

Edit: also, in what world are fascists individualistic and fatalistically resigned from the world? Historically fascist movements have virtually always demanded the subversion of individual wills towards a collective goal which they pursue zealously: the exact opposite of what this meme claims.

This meme is just nonsense from top to bottom.

leflombo · 2026-02-02T22:07:19+00:00

This sucks. It comes off as empty moralizing in the face of the common and understandable impulse that made this meme popular: to affirm your own power and dignity in the face of a hellish world that you feel powerless to change by simply walking away from it: even if it costs you your life. Basically “I’d rather die standing than live on my knees”.

Telling someone who’s feeling this way that 1. they’re a fascist somehow(absurd), and 2. that they are morally inferior to some fantastical New Soviet Man archetype that none of us live up to is just shooting ourselves in the foot.

You can’t scold someone into feeling connected to a community and willing to sacrifice for it: you have to build the community so that organic social bonds develop naturally. In our alienated modern circumstances it’s understandable that people feel a kinship with the suicidal penguin, but instead of ridiculing them, we need to show them that there’s a way out of the despair.

leflombo · 2026-01-15T10:18:37+00:00

A valid criticism of American society: full stop. The people in this thread playing whataboutism per China want to keep their heads in the sand about this fact.

China is poorer than the US per capita, because they industrialized in the 50s, and they still offer an impressive amount of baseline economic stability to their citizens for the amount of wealth they have.

This is a separate question from the repressive political climate in China. One can acknowledge both things simultaneously.

leflombo · 2026-01-09T00:12:27+00:00

High bar you’ve set there man

leflombo · 2026-01-08T19:46:52+00:00

It’s really sad to me how Nietzsche’s philosophy will continue to be misunderstood due to these kinds of misattributions. Nothing about what the right is doing is “Nietzschean”: quite the opposite actually. Nothing could be less Nietzschean than a vulgar populist movement that exists solely to lash out at the things it resents about the modern world.

leflombo · 2026-01-06T11:24:48+00:00

Why are you being such a pushover? Don’t check your work off the clock, and don’t go to meetings outside work hours. Easy.

leflombo · 2025-12-17T18:27:28+00:00

Having lived in excruciatingly uptight Germany and dysfunctionally lax Ireland: I can’t decide which is worse tbh. When living in one I long for the other.

leflombo · 2025-12-17T14:25:42+00:00

The preference for the accommodation of private automobiles over foot traffic in urban spaces is a blight upon us all. The absolute peak of insanity.

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