Boomers: Had a functioning government that raised minimum wage 11 times over 20 years. (Because popular policies could be enacted in their functioning government).

Millenials: Had a corporate controlled government that couldn’t raise minimum wage once in 20 years. (Because popular policies are never enacted by corporate backed politicians).

You: Study everything you can that isn’t about how capitalism strangled every American child’s collective futures, and will grow to do the same across the world.

No offense, but how about we study what’s removing our opportunities so we still have them in 20 years instead of chasing whatever’s next to be cast off the oligarchs table.

Reddit had an AMA with a Bank Robber ten years ago that they’ve since deleted for corpo purity reasons 😂

Here’s the big points from it:

• Banks don’t care about losing amounts under 5k.
• Security won’t stop you if you don’t have a visible weapon.
• Worst they do is lock the door, so bring a hammer.
• the goal is to get in, and get the teller to give you a couple grand asap, then leave under 10 minutes.
• Guy did this to at least 5 different banks (all different companies) in one day, once a month, for several months.

He eventually got caught because of the money he had, not because his face was on every security camera.

He recommends not doing this, as do I, as it’s just not worth it.

But just in case you wanted to know how it was done a decade ago, fuck Reddit, here’s the details they recently deleted.

These experts sound like they rolled high for their intelligence stat, but low for wisdom.

As an expert, they should know how well hiding has historically worked against fascists. Eventually, the only place that ends up being available to hide in is the mass grave the fascists dug for you.

How about fighting before it gets worse? How about you make the thin skinned idiots scared to be so openly fascist? How about showing them there is a resistance against their behaviour instead of immediate capitulation at the earliest necessity of protest.

Because from where I’m sitting, running away encourages fascists to think they’re scary enough to avoid the consequences of their actions via intimidation. Yet, they’re a bunch of old geriatric idiots that take offense for calling their hands small.

Fucking calling them names works better than running away.

Running away makes it seem like sticks and stones are necessary when words will always hurt them.

All thats needed to beat these idiots is a stream of childish insults being lobbed at them publically at a near constant rate. Trump would literally quit being president if he had to hear about having a small dick, hands, and brain everyday. But heaven forbid such a stupid solution ever be pursued by academics. (Despite it being incredibly effective when Trump did the same to Biden).

In a two party system, if the choices are between cancer and fascism, then cancer is the only party that’s going to mention the other is fascist.

So it’s up to cancer to make it clear who the fascist is. Because the fascist is going to lie about it, as that’s what fascists do.

Yet they failed to convince 90 million people that the fascist was indeed going to be fascist.

You blame the 90 million.

I blame the only political party we have that’s actually responsible for making that clear.

Because it’s not the GOP. Or our media. They do the opposite.

So when it comes to what is and isn’t fascism in this country, the ONLY party that CAN be making it clear is the Democrats.

And they failed.

There was and still is a firehose of disinformation, and Dems just assumed that the majority of Americans would be smart enough to not fall for the fascists lies coming from it.

So they did little to counter act it. Because they assumed America wouldn’t fall for it.

Just like they did little to counter the effects and damage from Trumps first term. Biden just assumed Trump wouldn’t win again, so did little to nothing effective in those 4 years that would protect us against round 2.

Just like Hillary assumed Trump just wouldn’t win the first time, so did little to counter his messaging.

Ignoring Trump, and assuming America knows better, is literally how the Democrats got Trump elected both times.

America clearly doesn’t know better. America is NOT as smart as Democrats have continually assumed the last decade.

All Democrats have to do is talk at a 5th grade level to America, but that would require treating Trump like an actual threat instead of a joke.

They failed in everyway to treat Trump like the fascist threat he was, so those 90 million fell for the fascists bullshit instead.

So Democrats definitley get the blame for not being able to convince 90 million that a fascist lying conman was indeed a fascist lying conman. It wasn’t hard, they just didn’t care to try the way they should, (talking simply) as the assumed they didn’t need to (for the 3rd time).

Would they have been better than the fascists? Absolutely. But they clearly care more about their BS perceived norms than beating fascism. Otherwise we wouldn’t have a fascist in office again.

They learned nothing from the first time, then sat on their hands for the second, and just assumed people knew not to vote Trump. It’s honestly embarrassing that they failed such an easy task by simply being too arrogant to counter any of Trumps campaigns with equally simple messaging TWICE.

All Dems had to do was talk like Trump, and some of those 90 million would have listened.

I mean. Not many. At least in the entertainment industry. This fuck gets 250 mil a year, and pulls movies from distribution to save 40 mil instead of take a pay cut. He’s single handedly fucked Hollywood into the ground so hard, that large American studios are likely never going to recover.

Warner Brothers has already been fed into the wood chipper for parts, and not much is left. They literally sold the rights to their own theme music (As time goes by 1962) in an accidental bulk sale of their own properties. This idiot sold so much of what made Warner Bros, he now has the company paying someone else to use their own jingle.

That GQ article didn’t go hard enough, and was pulled because billionaires have thin skin from the complete lack of skills their money has insulated them from developing.

It did.

Do you feel those 90 million were supposed to vote Dem?

If so, by what mechanism?

Certainly not magic. Certainly not out of some obligation to the DNC or Democrat leaders those 90 million clearly don’t have.

The responsibility to move those 90 million towards a vote for a Democrat were the Democrats themselves.

Yet in their failure to do so, they now blame those 90 million voters for not listening to them. Instead of the very clear fact those 90 million are just too poorly educated to understand what Democrats are even saying.

Those 90 million choosing not to vote quite literally proves my point that Democrats blame others for their mistakes, instead of learning from them.

Dems want to believe this country is in a condition where they don’t need to talk at a 5th grade level to get through to the majority of people. But the sad truth is that Trump talking like that won him two elections.

Don’t blame those 90 million just because they voted for an idiot. Blame the Dems for not being able to dumb their policies down enough for the majority of this country to understand that they have a better option.

They will continue to lose elections until they do.

Democracy just died a death by 1000 cuts. Dems just have yet to realize it, let alone the fact they were the ones that stood by while it happened.

It was a godawful campaign for one single reason:

It was outdated.

Even worse.

It was outdated the first time they ran it for Hillary on 2016.

By outdated, I simply mean they marketed Kamala to themselves. Just like the marketed Hillary to themselves.

They took the platform and policy messages of each of those candidates, and made them appear “smart, effective, and knowledgeable.”

Since 2016, there are simply not enough educated Americans in this country who can understand that messaging.

The one thing Kamala and Clinton failed to do?

Dumb their message down. Way way down. To the lowest of the lowest denominator.

Both their campaigns refused to even TRY to do that. So they came off to the majority of Americans as arrogant, and unwilling to explain their positions in simple terms, so everyone picked the conman. (As that’s what poorly educated people do).

The one critical flaw in every Democratic campaign is that they assume the majority of Americans are educated enough to understand their policy plans.

They aren’t.

55% of this country literally can’t understand what Kamala or Clinton are saying.

They don’t know how policies work. They don’t know how compromise works. And worst of all, they don’t know how their own government works.

Dems assume the majority of Americans know these things by default. They don’t, so all their campaign messages based on these assumptions get completely lost on anyone but themselves.

Until Democrats understand just how little of this country knows how it functions, they will not be able to communicate their policies effectively. They need to be willing to speak simply, and reduce their policies to 5 word talking points they can blast at every event until it’s burned into the minds of everyone listening.

They see themselves better than that though, so will never act the way they need to if they actually want to gain voters instead of lose them.

Dems simply got so used to being smart, they forgot that’s not always a good thing. Especially in situations where they’re trying to convince a room full of idiots that the room is on fire. Those idiots will die trying to figure out what the smart people mean by “inflammable” as they unknowingly stand in front of and block all the exits.

(inflammable can actually mean “ready to burst into flame” but has a different meaning now because of the effects of stupid people using language over time. I used it to make a point about stupid people driving the future. Dems should take note.)

If Democrats can be counted on for something: It’s that they always make the worst decisions at the worst time, then learn nothing from it.

2000: Florida recount? Nah. It’s cool Supreme Court. Let’s have Bush around for 9-11 instead.

2001: Fuck yeah endless wars. Approved. It’s cool to lie about weapons of mass destruction too.

2002: Shame about that Patriot Act. Would be awful if that allowed all your meta data to be collected so you can be targeted for propaganda on every platform in the future.

2004: Shame about No Child Left Behind. Hope your kids don’t grow up stupid enough to think Trump would make a good president.

2008: Fuck yeah Obama! Get that HOPE ready! For Dems to have full control of every branch of the government! Only to use it to compromise with Republicans to remove the public option from national Healthcare. Hope that doesn’t create a spiral of misery for Americans culminating in them assassinating an insurance CEO!

I’m stopping here. But only because I don’t want to keep typing about Citizens United, minimum wage, and literally the slow death of everything Democrats claim to have been protecting.

Well said! Dems are an embarrassment mostly because they have a long history of fucking up at the worst possible time and then learning absolutley nothing from it.

Everyone had the same 4 years David Plouff. If you feel you needed more time, you’re admitting to being worse than everyone else who didn’t. And considering one of those people is a reality TV felon who can’t read, you must really suck at your job.

I find it absolutley bizarre that crypto is viewed this way on Lemmy. Because if anyone wants to know the problem crypto is trying to solve, you can read the original anonymous white paper written for Bitcoin where it was clearly stated its creation was for an alternative to fiat currency.

So if you hate the way capitalism has fucked the world by making everything’s value tied to the US Dollar, Crypto is the solution to that.

No need for: banks, the fed, or any government or private institution to regulate currency and manipulate its flow towards corruption if all those institutions are decentralized and accounted for digitally.

That’s what Crypto does.

You have a wallet instead of a bank account (modern ones even have savings and loan features). You have a block chain regulating the currency through diminishing returns instead of the Fed. And you have an uncorruptable fully transparent leger with where transactions are going instead of random bank fees going towards bloated executive salaries.

Is some Crypto a scam? Sure. But there’s scams in literally every new technology where there’s a gap between ignorance and experience.

So don’t let yourself become ignorant about crypto simply because the counter propaganda is strong and made you scared to try using it yourself. I’m not talking about daytrading, or making a quick buck. I’m talking about using it as intended to buy goods and services.

Because not only is it easier to use than money, it’s more lucrative and rewarding, and the sooner you start using it, the more likely the value of your assets will increase. It doesn’t take long using crypto before you’ll see the problems with existing paper currency and the bullshit system it’s designed to perpetuate.

By that I mean - for example:

Take whatevers in your bank account, and look at what was in it 10 years ago. Let’s say $10. Chances are you still have about $10 in your account now, so for arguments sake, let’s say theres been $10 sitting in your account doing nothing for 10 years.

In US currency, due to inflation, the $10 in your account after 10 years is now worth $7.

If you had a Bitcoin wallet, that $10 would now be worth $1000.

If you want to know why the 1% have so much power, it’s because they control the fiat capital in a capitalist system.

Crypto is an alternative to that fiat, and one that endangers the existing system. If people used it more than $Dollars, capitalists literally would no longer have power as the system they use to maintain their control (banks, corrupts government, money laundering) is no longer being used.

Crypto provides a solution to the corruptable fiat in a capitalist system through removing the existing mechanisms of corruption that have been created and replacing them with a decentralized fully transparent digital alternative.

The people who created Bitcoin did so to fight the same people and systems everyone here seems to hate.

So I find it fascinating that the firehose of propaganda about crypto is still readily seen here.

Is Crypto bad? Sure. Nothings perfect. But at this very moment - it’s a much better store of value than the dollar, especially in uncertain times, yet people are convinced it’s a scam.

When unquestionably the best thing for people to do right now is to get away from the tanking dollar. Inflation is guaranteed simply because Trumps policies have dramatically reduced the amount of Treasury Bills the world is now buying from the US. Those TBills are the US debt, and as a deficit spending country, the US economy only works if that debt is purchased.

It ain’t being purchased.

So if you want to know why there’s a firehose of propaganda about crypto right now - it’s because those with $Dollars want you to also have Dollars, so when they diversify into scam coins, they profit and you’re left holding their losses.

Crypto is unquestionably the best currently available solution to fixing the damage capitalism has caused, and those already using it know and feel this. They just have an impossible time convincing anyone else otherwise.

Thank you so much! 😁

We lucked out and got some love from some great streamers like Stumpt, Atlas Anarchy, Blazekin, and some others. All organically through promoting the game at places like PAX and LA Comicon.

But since a good amount of that attention was before we launched, it mostly translated to wishlists. (Which certainly still helps).

Regardless, BOTH wishlists and reviews do amazing for us - so if you enjoy the “First Page” demo, let us know! 🙂

And thanks again!

Thank you so much! Very proud of what we’ve made, as we made it exactly for people like you! 🙂 Hope you enjoy and thanks for sharing the link!

Awesome! Thank you so much! We love the support! And I’m sure you’ll both get a kick out of it 😁

I literally made an indie game to fill in this gap. It’s local coop and was designed for kids and parents to play together.

It’s called:

INK INSIDE (PC now, all consoles soon)

Brain David Gilbert voices the lead: Stick the stick figure. The whole cast are children’s drawings come to life living in a kids notebook that’s getting corrupted by a slow leak dripping water into their world and warping them into “sog” monsters.

It’s a game based on a lost pilot to a Nickelodeon show, and as such is both a cartoon and action RPG with a narrative that follows the first season of what you used to see on Saturday Morning.

It’s pretty much what you’re looking for imo, but since we’re indie, marketing has not been treating us well 😅

Reception from our intended younger audience has been glowing. Just harder to sell to kids as they don’t have money 😑

Worse than that - they’re trying to tell us what we can spend our money on.

Which according to the horse shit Citizens United ruling is free speech for corporations. But not the people in em I guess.

2013-02-27 is also unambiguous.

Hey what’s today’s date?

It’s 2025 -

No like the DAY?

Yeah, it’s 2025, 02 -

Not the month, the day - What’s today’s actual date?

Like I was saying, if you’d let me finish, “2025 - 02 - 27”

I’m mostly joking, but when it comes to info about dates, I think the most evctive format it one that organizes the information within a heirachy that provides follow up answers.

Formatting dates as day / month / year does just that. Provides the day it is, followed by the month and year as that is the order that information is usually needed in.

I find providing the year first (or month) is much more ambiguous as neither are the day the actual date falls on.

Nothing says MAGA like taking the highground over a kid dying of terminal cancer. Your prioties are just as fucking awful as the people you vote for.

The level of short sightedness in this pursuit is laughable, even if it’s coming from corporate.

You pirated a song?

Well then, we’re going to cut off your internet so that we can never effectively market anything we make to you ever again.

We’ll gladly lose out on all the revenue you normally spend on corporate movies, tech, and content because we’d rather hyper fixate on the pennies of lost revenue that mp3 cost us, than ever worry about the macro economic conditions of the real people it comes from.

Fucking LOL.