I’m cool with this. Let’s devalue the trades by having an over-abundance of blue collar workers while simultaneously increasing demand for white collar jobs by reducing the supply of educated workers.

I get my toilet unclogged for even cheaper, and I get more money ten years from now when demand has risen.

I’d prefer to just have educated workers instead of glorifying back-breaking manual labor that the employees hate, but ill take a win where I can lol

Shouldn’t that be the whole point? Get people to slow down and behave? Or is punishment the entire purpose?

This was literally my first thought. You’d basically have to go through every one of the millions of components across every square inch to verify there was nothing sketchy going on. Not to mention, you’d have to review all of the software and firmware to make sure it wasn’t modified or sabotaged in some way. It would take an excruciating amount of effort to make it “safe”.

Yeah, and I think everyone has forgotten that even the cheap, easily broken stuff helps us save money. I’ll happily buy the cheap 100 dollar Chinese tool to fumble with for an extra couple hours on a one-time car repair that saves me 500 dollars compared to the only American option, or 900 dollars going to a shop instead.

Things are just going to end up broken and unfixable in the non-industrial world too.

You have two roads that need to get built and nobody wants to wait. Who gets their road first? There is no escaping the necessity of having a decision maker.

People have short memories. The reason the “government” exists in the first place was because everyone agreed that it was better with it, and it turns out people are shitty and they’re going to abuse you to the maximum extent of their physical ability if nothing is there to stop them.

This “organization” you talk about is literally just government. Sorry you don’t understand the system that was painstakingly set up for you over the last couple thousand years through bloody trial and error.

Agreed. All this shit is just a hop and a skip away from literally every other nation out there that’s not already devolved into such bullshit.

This will be hilarious, because Teslas don’t even really work for the demographic that goes through vehicles the fastest: heavy duty company trucks, rental vehicle companies, and country-folk who commute 40 miles to work and 50 miles to the city for weekend leisure.

Is RFK Jr. sharing his alien mind control brain worms with all these other political candidates, or have they always been this garbage?

Appreciate you for all of that. Thank you

Yeah. I hope they cut even more as a giant “get fucked”. They’ll all vote red again next time anyways, so might as well go hard I guess.

This is directed toward the vets that voted red. If you didn’t, please disregard lol

Not me. I’m going to be bitching and moaning about it for the next 4 years. As well as enjoying a healthy dose of schadenfreude.

Also as their Lord and Savior Elon Musk imports cheap H1B labor in from all over to undercut American employees, lol

Mmhmm, do you know what’s not lost on me? All the Trump supporters that stormed the capital, in much the same way that people around here seem to be hinting at. I don’t think they really accomplished much behind bars for the last four years. But let’s ignore all that and throw some more jabs in my direction. I’ll be here voting and figuring out what else I can do while the people here criticizing me either do nothing, or lose their right to vote after a prison sentence.

Sir, we are posting on a Lemmy thread. There is no front line here.

Sick of all the complaining. Why don’t you share some actionable advice instead venting about how I’m not doing enough to make yourself feel superior?

I’m seeing a lot of criticism and no actionable advice whatsoever, from anybody who has responded to me. Maybe your contribution should be to educate people instead of telling them their actions aren’t good enough? Either do that or shut up, because you’re not contributing to the conversation.

Yeah, because voting and refusing to support republican business is “apathy”. Good luck convincing anyone other than your own echo chamber to do more than that.

Shit, I did more than a third of Americans that didn’t even vote. Suck it. Better yet, I didn’t vote to actively destroy my nation like the Republicans did.

Good luck convincing any of those two-thirds to join your side by pedaling life-destroying rhetoric.

Please do whatever you want. I’ll continue to work my own methods.

Stop trying to be so edgy, asshole. I didn’t ask for this, and basically nobody else on Lemmy did either simply based on user demographics. Even younger-middle-aged people have only been eligible to vote in a handful of presidential elections, and we’re fighting decades of gerrymandering, bribery, greed, and billions of dollars in corporate money propaganda campaigns. Basically all there is for me to do is vote at the polls and put my money where my mouth is, which I’m already doing. I’m not going to go out and riot and be sent to jail so I can lose everything because Walmart thought Trump would yield another half a percent to their stock prices.

When something comes up that I can do, I’ll join in, but I’m not going to have randos berate me for BS I never asked for.