once again, i am at odds with lemmy’s definition of “liberal”.

it’s easier if there’s plausible deniability.

well, i think you’re doing pretty good

are you the same guy that used to post awesome eclipse photos on reddit?

there’s only a couple of companies that run every drug store in the us. both cvs and walgreens each own over a dozen other names that they operate as depending on where in the country you are.

same thing with grocery stores. Kroger and Safeway also both own over a dozen names that they operate under.

I believe rite aid is owned by walgreens.

A long time ago, i woked at a savers (thrift store), which also operated as a dozen other names depending on region. Makes me think that maybe someone could make a bot that could identify a person’s geographic location based on the brands mentioned in their comments.

and it’s funny, so I choose to keep it as part of the canon.

well that’s easy, I haven’t shopped there in years. They’re inconvenient, overpriced, low quality, rarely have what I’m looking for. Why would I shop there?

I’m glad there’s pronunciations provided, because to me it looks like it should sound like a slur.

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so, are we only allowed to say ‘genocide’ when criticizing democrats? but when republicans do it “it’s not a genocide, it’s ethnic cleansing”.

Fiction has utterly failed to predict how stupid reality has become.

How many stories have we seen where a billionaire ceo becomes president? In fiction, they were always handsome, charming, highly intelligent, so on and so forth. Reality though, oooof.

I remember when you could buy a 2x4 for a buck. It wasn’t that many years ago.

reddit sucks but lemmy barely exists. I run out of things to scroll here really fast.

conservative ideology is built around hate, and thus attracts hateful people, or indoctrinates people susceptible to to such ideology. There must always be some outside group to blame every problem on, and to feel superior to without having to actually be better. Conservatives have enough hate to go around that they’re not focused exclusively on trans people, but this flavor of hate is the new hotness for them.

And notice how all the screeching about genocide has gone silent? Proves that they never actually cared.

no, “didn’t vote” won the popular vote.

rules don’t matter if no one enforces them. republicans have been consolidating power for decades, partly by never holding their own accountable. dems are always held accountable, but usually for things that either don’t matter or are entirely false.

Trump isn’t held accountable because his supporters control every institution that can, and they want him to be king of america.

a third of us chose this, while half of us couldn’t be bothered to give a shit.

sanity is an oppressed minority in the us, and it’s worse than I ever could have thought.

bill gates being less shitty than most does not make him good.

Which I’d respect if he was honest about it. I don’t think he’s capable of being honest with himself, much less anyone else.