whoooboyy

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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Parent poster said to stop voting for bad candidates. I said you would be mocked/judged/told off for doing so. And here we are.
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Seattle has largely increased police funding, dramatically? For a dept under a consent decree until recently. The mayor also capped non police crisis response teams to 24 people. Total. For the city. 24. Seattle has done everything except d
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Sounds like the government should step in and fix that then.
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Why does queer liberation means defund the police sounds dumb to you? You know that for generations the police have been beating, arresting, and accosting queer people just because they are queer, right? A practice that continues to this da
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
That's what people are saying when they say defund. Reduce funding for. Consistently this is what anyone who says defund the police has always meant. You gotta take off the tin foil hat, my guy. "We'll find out" haha, yo
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Worse for who? Better for who? I guarantee you the people who live in the rent control apartments aren't thinking they are worse off from it.
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
We'll never know because RBG chose not to retire when Dems could have done anything, and every Dem after that just politely waited for GOP to take advantage of them. It's still happening with folks like Jeffries today being utterl
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
It wasn't hard to see at the time. People just thought the West Wing was how politics should work. That somehow all the players come to play good, fair ball. Many of us were out here caucusing against Obama and Gore and Biden because t
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
I'm sorry, I refuse to just simply not acknowledge the role liberalism has in the rise of fascism. Whether it's in the past or today, fascism don't just materialize because one guy talks good. It's neither incorrect nor
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Try telling people you voted third party because of a deeply held conviction about not electing corrupt politicians. You will be told you are evil, that you've got an unreasonable/impossible purity bar, that you don't really
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Did you read my post, where I clearly said the GOP is worse? Better is not the same as good. The Dems are better. They are still bad. Stop pretending "not the worst" is an acceptable bar.
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
FWIW, I've believed we've had an authoritarian in power for quite a while now. Obama, Trump, Biden, and Bush have all tried and succeeded in expanding executive power. They've all engaged in extrajudicial killings overseas. N
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Did a Ferengi write this post?
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
That's not incompatible with what I said, and indeed is largely what I attempted to convey.
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Shit you don't need like what? Rent is over 40% of pre tax income for most Americans. Health care is 30% of income for lower income Americans. That's not leaving a lot of space for food, clothing, heating, transportation, educatio
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
So people's work shouldn't result in private housing? That's an acceptable outcome? I'm not clear what your insinuation is here. People should live in communal bunks but also be saving for retirement?
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Note the parent said "voters" not people. Of the people who voted, yes, nearly half voted for this. You are correct it's a small minority of the populace, but not of voters.
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
FWIW, as a left of democrat voter, the Dems have been a corporate captured neoliberal party for 40 years. They spent a lot of time building the infrastructure for a Trump-like. Biden and Harris were uniquely poor opponents to run. That does
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
I think you are right, but not thinking deeply enough. You point at the government, and the voting that led to it. 100% that's a step in the root cause chain. But we cannot stop there, and needs ask why. There are structural forces tha
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
I think about rust, I program in rust. Now you mm know someone who does those things.
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Median rent value in Seattle is $2300/month if you are looking for a one bedroom, a little cheaper if you are looking at a studio. Minimum wage here is $21/hr. The first quartile for rent is $1600. Assuming you work full time, you
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Free software is an anarchist mindset -- wellbeing for all, take what you need, contribute back where you can. It's scary for folks who are used to transactional relationships to encounter these different mindsets.
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Oh. No. Not in most jobs. Many jobs do provide some health care. If you are working many jobs in the US you get no health care. You have to pay for it yourself. Even jobs that provide it you still need to pay for it. The employer basically
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
I.... they are dealing with systemic poverty. Being poor is expensive. They absolutely know they need to save, but if the choice is "starve to death today but save for retirement OR don't die, but don't save for retirement&qu
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Incredible HN post. I'm hoping it's because you are from a country where people are generally well taken care of. Yes, there are people who don't invest. Where do they keep their retirement savings? 40-50% of Americans, at le
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by whoooboyy 11mo ago
Read "The Four Pillars of Investing". Basically index funds, diverse whole markets, leave it alone and watch it grow. I did this at 22, and that seed money has grown a ton.