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KeavesSharpi@lemmy.mlto politics @lemmy.world•A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist3·3 days agoLMAO you obviously haven’t been paying ANY attention in the last 10 years. If you don’t get why people absolutely hate Trump, you’re probably actually a Magat. Because the whole fucking world hates Trump.
KeavesSharpi@lemmy.mlto politics @lemmy.world•A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist71·3 days agoThose comments are in criminal violation of his oath of office. He should be impeached, convicted, and removed. Of course there will be nothing but crickets.
KeavesSharpi@lemmy.mlto politics @lemmy.world•Johnson says Trump took Epstein rumors seriously, served as FBI informant9·3 days agoYou just can’t make this shut up. Nobody, I mean nobody would believe it if you wrote it.
KeavesSharpi@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a sci-fi thing you feel is achievable with our current level of technology that you'd love to see become a thing?42·4 days agoThere’s a few reasons. Firstly greed is a motivator, and people work hard if they believe they’ll receive more for more effort. This gets people to go out and generate the resources that need to be distributed. Second, fungible tokens allow people to trade on the open market instead of having to find a particular person who is willing to trade say, a worm gear for a bale or two of cotton. The token is the middle man that allows someone trying to sell something sell to someone who doesn’t have what the seller plans to finally trade for. That’s why money started to exist in the first place.
Even in a communist system, there needs to be a way to transfer the results of labor into the things a person needs. Money is that way. Even if it means everyone gets the same amount of money to buy what they need. Everyone’s resource needs are different. You can’t just say everyone gets the exact same everything.
Finally, we’re not post-scarcity. Not really. Until resource manufacture is so automated that it doesn’t require people to do labor to acquire it, we either pay people to do the labor or we force them to via slavery. For that reason alone, we need money.
KeavesSharpi@lemmy.mlto News@lemmy.world•If Trump loses his tariff lawsuit, America may have to refund businesses more than $200 billion1·4 days agoIf there was a tariff fee in the invoice, there would be standing.
KeavesSharpi@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a sci-fi thing you feel is achievable with our current level of technology that you'd love to see become a thing?1505·4 days agoUBI. Not only is it viable but it works in improving everyone’s lives, not just the people receiving it.
KeavesSharpi@lemmy.mlto News@lemmy.world•If Trump loses his tariff lawsuit, America may have to refund businesses more than $200 billion3·4 days agoI doubt the importers will be refunded. Obviously if they were, 90%+ will not refund their customers because why would they? I can imagine class action lawsuits down the road, but honestly I predict the supreme court will overturn any lower court rulings and let him tariff away, saying it’s the congress’s job to reign him in since “it’s their prerogative” or some such, in a 6-3 ruling. If they wanted to stop the tariffs, the majority will argue, they could simply cancel them.
KeavesSharpi@lemmy.mlto politics @lemmy.world•DOJ plans to label trans Americans as "mentally defective" to take away their guns18·4 days agoAnd now we get to the fascists beginning to disarm their enemies phase. After that it won’t be long before they label registered Democrats as mentally defective.
KeavesSharpi@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?353·11 days agoSchool mass shootings. For some reason the rest of the world loses their minds over them.
KeavesSharpi@lemmy.mlto politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance Says He’s Ready to Be President If Trump’s Health Fails65·11 days agoJ.D. Vance isn’t ready to run a Wendy’s.
Just proof that you’re a secret magat. Trust me, my anger at the dismantling of my country is very real.