FakeGreekGirl

FakeGreekGirl OP , 16 hours ago

For people who ask stupid questions about their gender.

FakeGreekGirl , 1 day ago

You ought to see what we do to pizza in the Midwestern US

FakeGreekGirl , 16 hours ago

Oh, it is.

FakeGreekGirl OP , 3 days ago

I'm not going to say that the rich are just as unhappy as the rest of us, because they'll never know what it is to truly struggle. But take a look at Elon Musk; does he look happy to you? Dude bought and destroyed Twitter because people there wouldn't stop making fun of him, and he still can't stop them. He's driven his daughter out of his life because he can't accept she's trans, which has only made him go even more full on transphobe and bleed over into every other bigoted thought under the sun. He just fucking gutted Tesla, his big pride and joy, because he couldn't stand his "inferiors" talking back to him and trying to stop him from making terrible mistakes. All his victims are undoubtedly struggling more than he is, thanks largely to his capriciousness and evil, but he certainly doesn't look happy to me.

And the funny thing is, he could be absolutely happy if he could let shit go. If I had his money, I wouldn't even bother with all this petty shit; I'd hire people to manage the money, put as much of it into charity work as I could, find some tropical island somewhere, and spend the rest of my life sipping on margaritas and watching sunsets. But he can't help himself. He's incapable of letting go, which stops him from ever being happy.

FakeGreekGirl OP , 3 days ago

Sure, but that just goes back to the original point - he's super weirdly obsessed with greed and hate and being a control freak, and will never be happy no matter how much money he has.

Money can't make you happy, but the lack of money can certainly make you unhappy.

FakeGreekGirl , 6 days ago

It's a big ball of wibbly wobbly queery weery... stuff.

FakeGreekGirl , 5 days ago

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/a94e05c6-462f-498f-9fc8-60471a2b626b.webm

FakeGreekGirl , 6 days ago

Biblically accurate weeping angel

FakeGreekGirl OP , 7 days ago

Well, I fucking love you.

FakeGreekGirl , 8 days ago

Run DNC

FakeGreekGirl , 12 days ago

Yeah, except in this case it's the megacorp sticking the stick in the spokes and the workers at the studio getting thrown off.

FakeGreekGirl , 12 days ago

Gotta tell you, coming to the Midwest and being exposed to the gas stations here like Quiktrip and Casey's was a revelation. All we had on the west coast was AM/PM, and those guys are hot garbage.

FakeGreekGirl , 13 days ago

I think most people are fine with it as long as you're genuinely trying to make the effort to be better.

It's when your age becomes an excuse to not bother that it becomes a problem.

FakeGreekGirl , 18 days ago

OK, but what the hell was it actually?

FakeGreekGirl , 18 days ago

They spent six figures on a truck that looks like ass, drives like ass, can't actually do truck things, falls apart in the rain and is the brainchild of the world's biggest douchebag.

FakeGreekGirl , 17 days ago

It's the latter that really seals it, IMHO. The Cybertruck is the most purely Elon vehicle to come out of Tesla, and the first since Elon went full mask-off. Buying it, at great personal expense, and driving it around is basically saying you approve of everything he's doing.

FakeGreekGirl , 18 days ago

Yeah, Mythbusters is fun and interesting, but don't mistake it for a scientific study. IIRC, Adam Savage himself has said they couldn't really apply the level of scientific rigor it would take to actually prove things due to the format of the show.

Still, it is food for thought.

FakeGreekGirl , 21 days ago

Are we talking just contemporary people? Because John Brown, as a historical figure, is a great inspiration for me.

FakeGreekGirl OP , 29 days ago

I mean, for me, it means both. I'm a big believer in FDR's concept of four freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

FakeGreekGirl OP , 29 days ago

Personally, I kinda roll Freedom of Expression into Freedom of Speech. Because any form of expression is essentially speech, even if it doesn't use words to speak.

FakeGreekGirl OP , 29 days ago

I would disagree. How you dress, how you present, how you act, these are all things that speak without words. I would call those speech.

Truthfully, though, if I were coining the phrase, I would have said "freedom of expression" and "freedom of thought" instead of "freedom of speech" and "freedom of worship". Both of those are broader categories that encapsulate the concepts FDR articulated. After all, what is worship but conceptualizing the deep thoughts about where the universe came from, and finding a community of like minded folks?

FakeGreekGirl OP , 29 days ago

Unfortunately, you are far too right about far too many people.

FakeGreekGirl OP , 28 days ago

Yeah, most people in history say amazing things and then turn out to be fucking monsters. Especially in American history.

But just because they're awful fucking hypocrites doesn't mean what they said has no value.

FakeGreekGirl OP , 16 days ago

Who's trying to take that right away?

FakeGreekGirl OP , 16 days ago

Who's doing that?

FakeGreekGirl OP , 16 days ago

So all of the groups in the comic have actual legislators passing laws against their ability to express themselves and control their own bodies and relationships, and you're mad some moderator of some online community somewhere told you to go be an asshole somewhere else.

Touch grass.

FakeGreekGirl OP , 16 days ago

No, you're not against bigots and fascist assholes. You're just trying to coopt that language and try to draw a parallel between community moderators moderating their community and bigoted, fascist assholes literally oppressing people. I wasn't born yesterday.

FakeGreekGirl , 29 days ago

That. It's funny, but I get in a lot of disagreements online, and very rarely does someone call me Hitler or a Nazi or what not.

As the saying goes, if five people call you an ass, buy a saddle.

FakeGreekGirl , 1 month ago

That. Your vote is a powerful weapon, and you can tell it is by how hard they work to take it away. And we need to bring all our weapons to bear if we're going to make it through this. That means vote, but it also means don't stop at voting.

FakeGreekGirl , 1 month ago

Who said anything about equal splits?

There are a number of worker owned co-ops out there, and precisely none of them are run like you describe.

FakeGreekGirl , 1 month ago

The post office has problems largely because of a decades-long campaign by one of our two major political parties to neuter it completely for the benefit of private shipping companies. And the funny part is, for all their efforts, it's still pretty damn good at its core mission.

What's the issue with fire departments? They're pretty great.

FakeGreekGirl , 1 month ago

Ah, OK. Sorry for reading sarcasm in where none was intended.

Seems like every time people bring up the postal service, it's to shit on them, and I'm just here like, they're pretty fucking rad all things considered.

FakeGreekGirl , 1 month ago

I don't really have a favorite Sailor Moon character or pony. But my favorite X-Men character is Rogue. Does that help?

FakeGreekGirl , 1 month ago

Instructions unclear

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/8bbb055d-d8c0-46e9-892d-74db34347c74.png

FakeGreekGirl , 1 month ago

You forgot someone

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/eb638f34-9e93-4263-9762-1f32ab7cf5cd.jpeg

FakeGreekGirl , 1 month ago

Deal

FakeGreekGirl , 1 month ago

Most of them, you can remove the bars with an Allen wrench.

Not that I would know anything about that.