Hey what do you know, we agree on this one! :D

Expecting Bryce to know about that, optimistic 😅

By the way mods, whoever removed SailorFuzz’s comment above, why did you do that? Now I look like an idiot making personal attacks for no reason. I’m not offended by the comment, please reinstate it so that people know who this guy is. It wasn’t even a slur, all they said was I was insufferable, come on. Thicker skin guys!

All that money, the pain, the effort and nobody cares huh? It’s not your fault, it’s just everybody’s got them these days so nobody cares anymore…

Educate me on military [lack of] culture and tattoo subculture, is it let’s enroll anywhere they’ll give us a gun so we can shoot little brown people and let’s ink anything anywhere until society pays attention?

So I don’t give a fuck what people do, you want to join Blackwater and do whatever shit they do, go ahead. Want to tattoo stupid nazi symbols you know nothing about? Suuuure. Just don’t expect a vote from educated people with actual culture. But then again it just occurred to me that there’s not so many of the latter, given the current level of US politics… This guy is probably at the right place at the right time. Carry on.

Hahaha I hit a nerve apparently 😂 I don’t expect everyone to know what this symbol is, but before you tattoo something, come on! As for myself, I’m from a country that suffered under the Germans and I’m well aware of what they did, their atrocities etc and their various insignia. Also I’m a fan of Mark Felton on YouTube so yeah, I knew, sorry.

Btw the overwhelming majority of people don’t have nazi tattoos and don’t run for public office so I don’t give a fuck if they know or not. He should fucking know.

Not to criticize or anything, you do you. But defense companies would be a definite no from a moral perspective, and advertising is the driving force of consumerism which is destroying the planet so yeah kinda no to that too.

My point being, it’s already hard enough to land any job, adding morality to the mix makes it nigh impossible to survive for most people. If someone has a choice, good for them. But I’m not gonna blame the average salary man trying to get by. Only the rich have choices.

Fair point all these are helping the community, positive overall.

Bro if he’s not a nazi - that is, if he didn’t know what kind of skull he was permanently inking on his chest - then he is uneducated enough not to be suitable for public office.

But even if you do enough mental gymnastics and forget about the nazi tattoo, the fact that he was a Blackwater merc should be enough to dissuade anyone from voting for him.

If this man somehow made a 180° in his 40s and went from a nazi merc to some sort of leftie, that’s awesome for him. That’s nothing short of a miracle right there, divine intervention kind of stuff. Big clap. Still shouldn’t be voting for him and he should be humble enough not to be running in the first place. Let someone who had it right all along give it a go.

I like food and my basic needs covered.

But generally speaking, let’s see what we’ve got: Military is obviously out. Working for governments? Mostly out except for education related posts and some other niche stuff here and there. Banking out. Energy companies: mostly out except niche ones into renewables. Big tech like Amazon Microsoft Apple Google etc is out of the question. Car companies out. Anything owned by billionaires, out. Any sector that contributes to global pollution like meat industry, fishing industry, logging, Monsanto, 3M, DuPont etc etc out! Any company that employs people under minimum wage, out. Surely I’m forgetting a lot of stuff, but even with this small list, what the fuck is left?

Going from - presumably inadvertently - tattooing oneself with a nazi symbol to becoming a senator who will benefit the community they aspire to serve is a huge leap.

Even if the guy just started eating all his veggies and sleeping at 20:00, I don’t know… I see a lot of mental gymnastics going into this one, surely there’s a better candidate out there right?

Fair enough. Although this is objectively a pretty well known nazi symbol, I would not expect anyone to necessarily know what it is. But if you were going to get it tattooed, I would expect - of a person with a little bit of a brain who is asking for people’s vote no less - to do some basic research. Also let’s not forget that it being a nazi symbol means that most tattoo artists will not do this, so being in the company of someone who did also speaks volumes.

I’ve never heard of this dude before but I can tell you, that’s one big fucking change you’re expecting there… If he tattooed himself a nazi symbol without knowing what it is, his IQ is low enough that change means going from one dumb thing to another. You definitely don’t want him in a position of power, and if he’s such a good person as you say, then he’s not smart enough to understand he’s unqualified.

Yes but they simply don’t know how to park. My apartment used to oversee a parking lot and a relatively narrow two-way road with cars parked either side and I’ve seen everything 😂

Even professional drivers with trucks etc that you’d think would know the dimensions of their vehicle… It was so fun to watch them struggle when a car would come from the other direction and when there was heaps of space for both to pass, or watching them trying to maneuver into an amply spaced parking spot lol

I can tell you these people wouldn’t last a day in southern Europe or south east Asia where you need to be precise 😂😂

Exactly, it’s not just lemmy, and it’s not just the US either.

Essentially it’s late stage capitalism, the root of all our recent discontent in the past 30ish years. Enshittification of everything…

Fair enough, for sure a tourbillon watch will be more expensive, but 100k? I’m not into watches that much, how much is a good tourbillon these days? Not that this could ever be good, in fact I bet it doesn’t even exist irl.

There’s a Trump tourbillon version going for 100k. Sold out btw

I think the ability or willingness to have a decent conversation with people who have a different opinion is important for the advancement of ideas and a cornerstone of what we call civilization. I find it so weird to see how people “debate” these days instead of conversing, it’s somehow more about winning than finding the truth of a matter. Watch for example how political discourse has changed over the last few decades, compare discussions from the 70s like Chomsky vs Foucault to the circus of today. People are already largely separated in different platforms, blocking only exacerbates the bubble effect. That being said, to each their own and I hope your life is better for it.

Shut the fuck up Donny

I like to keep the boxes of everything I ever bought and I hope that triggers him.