How did that work out for you?

A bunch of poor people, who grew up on hunted and locally grown seasonal foods, where sugar and fat were expensive commodities, suddenly had cheap access to the (literal) fruits of imperialism and about a decade of government bolstering domestic industrial infrastructure on the cheap. Actually this is more of a 1930s-1940s thing that just culminated in a 1950s thing.

You spent your whole life eating backyard root vegetables stored in a dirt hole. Now you can go buy pineapples and bananas and coconuts, plus all the cream, cheese, sugars, and syrups you could. Nothing goes bad as quickly anymore because mass produced shelf-stable foods are new. Jello wasn't something that took hours making anymore from scratch, you can go buy a cheap box of dried gelatin with flavor added. Mayo came from jars, not making emulsions at home. You can buy a lot of things pre-made and they'll last longer than what you could make from scratch.

So from that you get mayonaise jello spam pies and banana ham suffles with syrup. People were trying everything they could. Their tastebuds were just amazed by salt and sugar.

Not only is Trump a dirty foreigner like those African people, he's also gay and a drug addict. We can't have those kinds of people in our country. We have to secure a respectful future for our civil children. - Libs every 5 mins

Inching closer to the capitalist reality where you don't voluntarily buy things, people show up at your house with guns and force you to buy their goods.

A Nietzschean vitalist is a philosophical perspective that aligns with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, emphasizing the affirmation of life, the rejection of nihilism, and the embrace of human power and self-overcoming. It involves a valuing of life's experiences, even suffering, as integral to human growth and development.

In practice this means obsessing over a children's cartoon series where your favorite cartoon character kills dozens of pre-schoolers because he's sad that he didn't get a special boy award at school.

I am a process/systems nerd due to my occupation and this just reeks of people trying to use the wrong tool for the job. I don't think the lemmy software is what we need in order to accomplish what you folks are trying to do with the site. I think you're going to have to create an increasingly complex system and implement labor-intensive processes for volunteers in order to make it work, but it will never work. You'll find another problem and try to create policy to address that on top of the other policy.

We need different software, a different system, or we need to accept the limitations of the ones we have.

Oh man 4 more years of this horseshit.

unlocking genetic memory of a having listened to a wu-tang album

Don't hype up the threat if you're in a position of power and aren't willing to do something about it. Pretty simple.

Damn he was a Lincoln Project Neocon and not a Russiagate Neolib.

The US has never been a democracy. And I don't mean that in the "constitutional republic" way. I mean it literally, there has been no time when everyone could participate in the organization of society let alone share the same status as the ruling class.

Democracy isn't ending because of Trump. It ended because a group of wealthy people in a closed room decided it was bad for business.