it can be both. who wouldn’t want, at least for a while, inurement from financial consequences. And those that have it also still want to retain it. Mimetic desire or not, it is still desired by those who have or have not.

The only reason to frame not wanting to suffer as bad is if you want to inflict that suffering

yeah you elect them president instead

I had to have an operation for that

it is them

BFU deez nuts lmao gottem

I didn’t see this in the other replies: they genuinely don’t believe in government.

Yarvin, Thiel, Musk, Trump all believe the country is best run as a business. By which they mean they can fire you from the country and you have to leave if they don’t like you. It also means that if you make a bad decision and destroy the country because you want to you should be allowed to. However they also believe that because they are rich and powerful it stands to reason, ipso facto, that they got there because they are good at their jobs, therefore it follows any decisions they make are good decisions and thus are the right ones. Those who disagree or would have made different decisions are wrong and bad at their jobs because they are not the president and the president is correct because he’s the president.

they allow food dye so we should end vaccinations for children?

may God have mercy on my soul

Trump won because rich people wanted him to, not because of niche memes on statistically insignificantly known websites.

Posting on lemmy is the equivalent to when I used to post on Final Fantasy themed bulletin boards in the mid 90s

So you’re saying OP is ignorant and entitled because he didn’t choose to be gay?

I am.

hey don’t forget the apartheid part

stormy Daniels

the pink ones are 4chan I think the other two are Tumblr

a man with a hook hand had tried to gain entrance to the car but because she locked the door he couldn’t open it.

The other part of it is there’s not only one monkey who does Hamlet correct on the first attempt, there’s two, three four, guess what - an infinite amount of them.

And another infinity that get it right after 5 minutes

Another infinity that take exactly 10 years 3 months 2 days 3 hours 4 minutes and 17 seconds

And another infinity that takes one second less than the life of the universe

And another infinity that takes a googleplex of the lifetime of the universe to complete

that’s the point of the thought experiment

–Flemming Ramussen, 1988

Ah yes absolutely no Hispanic, Jewish or Middle Eastern people have the name “Mary” or a close equivalent (Maria, Mariah, Mariam, Maya, Marie, Molly, Maryam…)

I used it (some android version of it popped up) when driving to an eventthe other day and the other people were texting as I was on my way. It tried to summarize the entire 9-month conversation not just new messages, and it thought the group chat name - “Bilbo Baggins My Balls” - was just one person talking to me, so it was complete nonsense that completely distracted me while driving. AI strikes again.

you don’t have to make a living from the thing you enjoy most in life, in fact it’s sometimes better not to.

So they’re just straight up taking bits from Succession now?