Oh, I thought it was pretty obvious you were being hyperbolic there. Try harder

You have not, please go ahead though

For what it’s worth, I would have preferred Kamala be elected. You’ve misread what I was saying completely.

You literally don’t know anything about me man.

It’s not like the Democrats have just begun ignoring the working class, they have been behaving this way for decades. Why would I expect them to change now or to protect anyone from fascism now or in the future?

This is the opposite of a both sides argument you dingus

One of those things happened in the 70s and the other is indefensible.

Trump has done worse things almost daily though so what the fuck is your point

No I don’t think he is. But if Kamala was elected nothing would change.

4 more years of reaching across the aisle and pretending that the Republicans are operating in good faith until they try again to destroy democracy 4 years later

It doesn’t matter who wanted it or why or what for at this point.

Fucking do something

Do you think maybe that’s because liberals hold almost as much responsibility for this mess as conservatives?

“Living next to the Americans is like sleeping next to an elephant, no matter how quiet and even tempered the beast we feel every fit and start”

-The original Trudeau

The beast isn’t being very quiet and even tempered right now

So you’re pro-fascism?

In what ways specifically is this similar to the far left?

Classical British culture? London in the 90s?

Lol

Turns out people don’t want kids when they’re stuck in their moms basement with no future

I feel like there’s some amount of this in every hobby, which sounds like I’m downplaying this take and racing but that’s not that case I promise you.

I can imagine how this would be amplified big time in a pretty expensive hobby/semi-pro/pro? I assume there must exist some amount of pros

But yeah as a collector of a couple to many more likely expensive hobbies, it’s crazy how much shit you see designed to just separate people from their money efficiently

Ahahah totally man. I dealt with a lot of this compliance, regulatory, quasi legal, bullshit too.

At one point to become an inspector of those huge oil storage tanks I had to basically study the specific building codes for those tanks back to front and upside down.

Cost hundreds to get the standards legally, thousands to take the tests, become registered, work with a qualified inspector etc.

That was 1 single standard, there are thousands. Tens of thousands when we’re talking industry generally, probably hundreds.

Then when you add international standards, everything is duplicated now per country. We make trade agreements and such to somewhat ease the shock of moving products and services across that Gulf of understanding.

Standards are trending in a good direction, we’re slowly moving towards more and more harmonized and universal standards but, we will never reach it, because we’re human, well always just be adapting to what comes next

Who could have possibly foreseen this…

You shouldn’t… As you said, how are they going to make you?

That’s kind of exactly my point? If China came to you and said you owe us fines, why would you voluntarily do so?

Why would a local Lemmy instance ever pay a fine to China?