Notices by Tofu Golem (tofugolem@mastodon.social), page 3

@inthehands
The press will always hold Republicans to a different standard because at the end of the day, the only real difference between the NY Times and FOX News is the average syllables per word.

@br00t4c
We live in a police state. The Stasi would be proud.

America is a shithole country that loves its guns more than its children.

Modern Americans have a greater tolerance for abuse by the wealthy than the French did just before the French Revolution.

All American media are Fox News now. All of them.

Yup, that's exactly how this works.

It's almost as if America is incredibly racist or something.

I am old enough to have used all of these.

Note: I have held an 8-inch floppy disk in my hand, but never used a computer with an 8-inch floppy drive.

Paper fountains were waaaaay before my time, but I've heard first-hand stories of those.

In 1973, Nixon made for-profit healthcare legal.

This is in a nation where those with lots of money can legally bribe those who make and enforce the laws.

The results should surprise no one. America is a nation by, of, and for the corporations. The only useful thing we can do is to serve as a warning to others of what happens if you give too much power to wealthy people and corporations.

That wouldn't take much.

Republicans hate the troops because they hate America.

Accurate. Americans are among the most brainwashed in the world.

@Radical_EgoCom
Without competition, capitalism isn't capitalism anymore. A lot of those equations economists use break down and stop accurately describing anything. Without antitrust enforcement, capitalism becomes feudalism, and we already know that doesn't work.

I want every person in those Epstein files behind bars.

And I'm disgusted with the American media over their silence here.

If we don't fix this, and the economy collapses, the value of your home is going to collapse precipitously.

5/5

America has a growing number of homeless people with full-time jobs. There's a whole section of YouTube devoted to explaining to people how to live out of their cars.

I shouldn't have to point this out, but jobless homeless people don't generally have cars. Those videos are for homeless people with jobs.

But the second you propose doing something about the housing crisis, hordes of angry home-owners will fight you tooth and nail.

Do people not grasp the consequences of this?

4/5

I don't know how much those speculators raise prices, but if it is a non-zero number, they should not be allowed to speculate on places other people need to live.

Enter the NIMBY voter. These idiots cause a lot of the stupid you see in American politics.

If we propose getting those speculators out of the home market in order to bring home prices down, the NIMBY crowd will fight you, because their own homes will be worth less money if you do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY

2/5

It used to be that oil futures could only be purchased by people who actually planned on using the oil that they bought. Deregulation allowed speculators to get in on the action. Now over half of what Americans pay at the pump goes straight into the pockets of Wall Street speculators that add nothing of value to the whole thing.

Neither party is talking about getting speculators out of the oil futures market.

Similarly, speculators are driving up the cost of homes.

1/5

If you propose building new apartment buildings in order to bring rent prices down, the NIMBY crowd will fight you tooth and nail on the premise that those apartment buildings will lower the value of their homes if you build them anywhere near their homes.

In fact, just about anything you do to bring housing prices or rent back down to something the average American can actually afford, chances are good the NIMBY crowd will fight you.

3/5

The Electoral College was created to keep slavery legal despite popular opposition, even in the time of the founding fathers. The whole point of it is to prevent the will of the people for the benefit of a few racist rural assholes.