“I should be allowed to mock you, but you shouldn’t be allowed to do anything about it” < your words

Isn’t not giving Dave Chappelle money or time or attention the grand sum of things that you can do about his stance without violence?

I think you and I have had interactions elsewhere on Lemmy, and typically they’re very antagonistic and I don’t know why that is.

I earnestly try to be a reasonable person and to express my views without judgment of other people.

I do this in hopes that debate produces something positive, but from what I remember, typically, no matter what I say to you, your response is to exacerbate the argument rather than resolve it.

Sometimes other people have views that do not mesh with yours, yet they are not your enemy.

I know trans people. I have trans friends. I live in a very progressive area by choice. I have gone to protests to protect women and trans people alike.

I am an ally, and if you think that me believing or having a reason to believe that Dave Chappelle is also an ally makes me not an ally, then that’s pretty much the end of the conversation, right?

Are you suggesting violence as an appropriate response to his commentary?

Have you encountered anyone who has been emboldened to commit either emotional or physical crimes against another person because of something Dave Chappelle has said or done?

If so, then I’m more than willing to change the way I view his schtick, but I cannot find any correlation between an increase in any sort of hurt or violence towards trans people, and anything Dave Chappelle has said or done.

I think he’s serving as a pressure release valve for the people who have never encountered a trans person (who was not masking their transness) or who have suddenly been thrust into the realization that the world contains trans people and don’t know how to cope with it.

Therefore I feel like the things that he says have an overall net positive effect on the way trans people are treated, even though he himself looks and sounds like a piece of shit saying it and that he offends trans people when he says it.

None of his kids are genetically his as far as I know.

I’ve heard rumors that he was either physically or chemically castrated to keep his beautiful, pure singing voice.

If that is the case, then it would kind of explain how fucked up he is, or how fucked up he was.

I honestly think that he is a subversive ally.

Like, the things that he says, the way that he says them pisses off trans people and gets the anti-trans people on his side.

But then he also preaches a philosophy of live and let live, do whatever the fuck you want to do, just leave me alone and let me live my life, which also goes to his enemies.

So there are probably people who have transphobia, who like Dave Chappelle, who leave trans people alone, or quickly identify themselves to trans people by making a Dave Chappelle joke or reference, and therefore, incidentally, protect trans people from interacting with people that might otherwise do bad things to them.

I could be wrong. He might just be an asshole. He probably is an asshole either way. I’m not a stan for him, but that’s the vibe that I get from his whole act.

And when he acts shitty towards somebody, he does it publicly, where he himself can also receive the backlash from what he is doing.

He’s not attempting to build a reputation as being a nice guy or a thought leader or anything. He is getting shit done, and anyone that’s got a problem with it or him can either go do it better than him or stfu

was immediately arrested by ICE and deported to Guatemala.

In theory, it’s because both competitors were armed and prepared for the outcome.

You having a “moment of passion” on the sidewalk at 3 a.m. with a random passerby who didn’t even see the baseball bat being swung doesn’t really match up.

Don’t fuck with the Bonneville power administration. Don’t even breathe their name.

Cross them and you’ll be buried under the tarmac of the local airport faster than you can die from the heat of the hot asphalt solidifying over your screaming soon to be corpse

Rather than following you around, they should go to where the entertainment is and advertise there.

I have no problem seeing an advertisement for something I’m interested in when I’m looking at something I’m interested in that is also directly connected to that thing.

For the most part, I only marginally skip past sponsored stuff on YouTube, for instance.

Or when a tech reviewer is reviewing a piece of tech that I might be interested in buying, that’s excellent marketing.

But if I’m talking to my friends and they tell me about a cool widget that they like and then I go home and I turn on my computer and in a completely different environment, an advertisement for that widget pops up while I’m looking for something completely different, then I get really, really upset and it guarantees that I will never purchase that widget.

1: Put a set amount of your paycheck by percentage into a savings account before you ever see it.

Aim for at least 10%, but if that’s too much because our economy is fucked, do 1% of your take home pay. You make $500 a month, you put $5 a fucking month into a savings account.

If you can’t do that out of your paycheck, find a way to take on an odd job to make up that difference.

It’s stupid. It’s tiny. It feels pointless.

It’s incredibly important.

2: Learn how to live below your means. I don’t care if you’re a crypto millionaire or a homeless person living on the street, you have to find a way to live off of less than what you have and take the excess that you generate and put it into savings or investments of some type, something that can support you when shit gets bad bad.

3: When you find yourself with extra time, don’t just sit around and binge watch TV or doom scroll.

Definitely get your binge watching and doom scrolling in at appropriate times, but if you find yourself with two or three hours with nothing to do, call up a friend and go try to hang out with them.

In your 20s, friends are popping out of the woodwork for you.

But only the ones that you cultivate and continuously put just a tiny little drop of effort into will still be there when you are 50 or 60.

And it’s a lot of fun to hang out with your friends. It’s far more rewarding than any doom-scrolling you will ever do.

If you find yourself without friends, for whatever reason, try to find something new to do that takes place in a specific location on a regular schedule.

Nothing makes friends faster than repeated interaction over a period of time.

I hate to be the person to throw a brick into a spinning washing machine, but chill out.

You’re probably talking to somebody who would agree with you, someone who would be a friend.

You have a lot of absolutely righteous and justified anger about a situation that they’re attempting to make light of. I can see how you would take that personally. I also would take it personally if I were in your shoes.

Even though this situation is what it is, it’s still a good idea to attempt to drizzle a little honey on the words that you use to communicate it with them so that you can pull them to your side and explain your reasoning without pushing them out of the social group, right?

Greed.

I wasn’t selling KDE Connect to you, I was selling Linux to the other people that might overhear, lol.

Seems to work much better on Linux than it does on Windows, in my experience.

Bad news, it’s not going to destroy us

Yep, those “cuts” only serve to funnel more money into the hands of the already rich.

America has so much money in the form of financial goods and services at its beck and call that everybody could be “moderately” wealthy and it wouldn’t even be a big issue.

People with armchair economics degrees will tell you that if everybody had $10,000 in their back pocket at all times, that a hamburger would cost $100. But that’s just not the case.

Any company that tried to make $100 hamburgers the default (more accurately, anybody that tried to make hamburgers that cost 13.5 hours of minimum wage labor the default) would find themselves unable to sell hamburgers.

Not to mention that it is very possible through regulatory means to cap the price of goods and services with a reasonable method. We have computers. We have programs. We have some limited form of neural networks and artificial intelligence that could be used to dynamically price things so that they are affordable for everybody.

Every single obstacle that people love to throw at the average person to explain to them why they have to continue living in Squalor has a very simple solution that merely requires compassionate and capable leaders to implement them.

And we don’t do these things because the way we are doing things is the way we’ve always done things and people resist change.

It is nothing like a home equity loan.

It’s more like a business loan. Actually, that’s exactly what it is, is a business loan.

The influx of money has allowed more things to happen that will generate profit through economic activity to pay off the business loan.

The big number bad thing is pushed to make everyone think that America is in financial trouble and therefore makes it easier for them to swallow that they are living in some form of poverty.

That $30 trillion is the value of the economic powerhouse that is America.

It’s made to look bad when it is actually good, as long as it is moderately reasonably managed.

The thing is, is we will never pay off the debt.

Paying off this debt would be bad for America.

Even if we did pay it off for some reason, we would immediately begin to accrue more debt because that debt is the cash value of the money influx that we are using to do amazing things, the same way a landlord would not just pay off their rental properties, but would instead, if they found themselves with a paid off rental property, remorgage it, and use the cash value of that remorgaging to purchase another rental property.

And it is also useful as a lie to control the population and to make them think that America has financial problems and therefore to tolerate a little bit more misery in their own lives when it’s completely unnecessary for people to be financially miserable.

That misery only serves to increase the happiness of the people who are aware of the fact that it is a lie and have used the lie to benefit themselves.

The national debt is a lie.

But it’s a very fancy one that has a healthy sprinkle of truth in it.

We are $30 trillion in debt.

But we have assets far in excess of $30 trillion that are working to generate profit.

On this massive financial tree we have hundreds of thousands of people siphoning the profit away for their own desires.

The big number is used to make the average person honestly believe that America has an inescapable debt that can never be paid off, and therefore it justifies any shitty financial decision that we make regarding our own citizens.

However, because we have those assets, if we wanted to, we could simply stop paying the national debt and exchange those assets for the outstanding balance and have money left over.

If we did that, it would likely cause a global financial collapse because so many other countries are in on the GRIFT that if the GRIFT were taken away, it would destabilize the economy of the entire planet.

The news glosses over that because it’s far better to have a terrified and spiritually impoverished country rather than a bunch of sensible money-savers who focus more on long-term, sustainable, non-disruptible wealth accumulation.

But the national debt is kind of like the outstanding mortgage on a rental property where your tenants are paying off the mortgage for you.

On paper, it may look like you are millions of dollars in debt, but you run that out over 30 years, and not only will that debt pay for itself, but you will also have the original assets that paid for those debts in the first place.

However, except in probably exceedingly rare cases, there are no microbes that can subsist off of silicone.