I mean. Not many. At least in the entertainment industry. This fuck gets 250 mil a year, and pulls movies from distribution to save 40 mil instead of take a pay cut. He’s single handedly fucked Hollywood into the ground so hard, that large American studios are likely never going to recover.

Warner Brothers has already been fed into the wood chipper for parts, and not much is left. They literally sold the rights to their own theme music (As time goes by 1962) in an accidental bulk sale of their own properties. This idiot sold so much of what made Warner Bros, he now has the company paying someone else to use their own jingle.

That GQ article didn’t go hard enough, and was pulled because billionaires have thin skin from the complete lack of skills their money has insulated them from developing.

It did.

Do you feel those 90 million were supposed to vote Dem?

If so, by what mechanism?

Certainly not magic. Certainly not out of some obligation to the DNC or Democrat leaders those 90 million clearly don’t have.

The responsibility to move those 90 million towards a vote for a Democrat were the Democrats themselves.

Yet in their failure to do so, they now blame those 90 million voters for not listening to them. Instead of the very clear fact those 90 million are just too poorly educated to understand what Democrats are even saying.

Those 90 million choosing not to vote quite literally proves my point that Democrats blame others for their mistakes, instead of learning from them.

Dems want to believe this country is in a condition where they don’t need to talk at a 5th grade level to get through to the majority of people. But the sad truth is that Trump talking like that won him two elections.

Don’t blame those 90 million just because they voted for an idiot. Blame the Dems for not being able to dumb their policies down enough for the majority of this country to understand that they have a better option.

They will continue to lose elections until they do.

Democracy just died a death by 1000 cuts. Dems just have yet to realize it, let alone the fact they were the ones that stood by while it happened.

It was a godawful campaign for one single reason:

It was outdated.

Even worse.

It was outdated the first time they ran it for Hillary on 2016.

By outdated, I simply mean they marketed Kamala to themselves. Just like the marketed Hillary to themselves.

They took the platform and policy messages of each of those candidates, and made them appear “smart, effective, and knowledgeable.”

Since 2016, there are simply not enough educated Americans in this country who can understand that messaging.

The one thing Kamala and Clinton failed to do?

Dumb their message down. Way way down. To the lowest of the lowest denominator.

Both their campaigns refused to even TRY to do that. So they came off to the majority of Americans as arrogant, and unwilling to explain their positions in simple terms, so everyone picked the conman. (As that’s what poorly educated people do).

The one critical flaw in every Democratic campaign is that they assume the majority of Americans are educated enough to understand their policy plans.

They aren’t.

55% of this country literally can’t understand what Kamala or Clinton are saying.

They don’t know how policies work. They don’t know how compromise works. And worst of all, they don’t know how their own government works.

Dems assume the majority of Americans know these things by default. They don’t, so all their campaign messages based on these assumptions get completely lost on anyone but themselves.

Until Democrats understand just how little of this country knows how it functions, they will not be able to communicate their policies effectively. They need to be willing to speak simply, and reduce their policies to 5 word talking points they can blast at every event until it’s burned into the minds of everyone listening.

They see themselves better than that though, so will never act the way they need to if they actually want to gain voters instead of lose them.

Dems simply got so used to being smart, they forgot that’s not always a good thing. Especially in situations where they’re trying to convince a room full of idiots that the room is on fire. Those idiots will die trying to figure out what the smart people mean by “inflammable” as they unknowingly stand in front of and block all the exits.

(inflammable can actually mean “ready to burst into flame” but has a different meaning now because of the effects of stupid people using language over time. I used it to make a point about stupid people driving the future. Dems should take note.)

If Democrats can be counted on for something: It’s that they always make the worst decisions at the worst time, then learn nothing from it.

2000: Florida recount? Nah. It’s cool Supreme Court. Let’s have Bush around for 9-11 instead.

2001: Fuck yeah endless wars. Approved. It’s cool to lie about weapons of mass destruction too.

2002: Shame about that Patriot Act. Would be awful if that allowed all your meta data to be collected so you can be targeted for propaganda on every platform in the future.

2004: Shame about No Child Left Behind. Hope your kids don’t grow up stupid enough to think Trump would make a good president.

2008: Fuck yeah Obama! Get that HOPE ready! For Dems to have full control of every branch of the government! Only to use it to compromise with Republicans to remove the public option from national Healthcare. Hope that doesn’t create a spiral of misery for Americans culminating in them assassinating an insurance CEO!

I’m stopping here. But only because I don’t want to keep typing about Citizens United, minimum wage, and literally the slow death of everything Democrats claim to have been protecting.

Well said! Dems are an embarrassment mostly because they have a long history of fucking up at the worst possible time and then learning absolutley nothing from it.

Everyone had the same 4 years David Plouff. If you feel you needed more time, you’re admitting to being worse than everyone else who didn’t. And considering one of those people is a reality TV felon who can’t read, you must really suck at your job.

I find it absolutley bizarre that crypto is viewed this way on Lemmy. Because if anyone wants to know the problem crypto is trying to solve, you can read the original anonymous white paper written for Bitcoin where it was clearly stated its creation was for an alternative to fiat currency.

So if you hate the way capitalism has fucked the world by making everything’s value tied to the US Dollar, Crypto is the solution to that.

No need for: banks, the fed, or any government or private institution to regulate currency and manipulate its flow towards corruption if all those institutions are decentralized and accounted for digitally.

That’s what Crypto does.

You have a wallet instead of a bank account (modern ones even have savings and loan features). You have a block chain regulating the currency through diminishing returns instead of the Fed. And you have an uncorruptable fully transparent leger with where transactions are going instead of random bank fees going towards bloated executive salaries.

Is some Crypto a scam? Sure. But there’s scams in literally every new technology where there’s a gap between ignorance and experience.

So don’t let yourself become ignorant about crypto simply because the counter propaganda is strong and made you scared to try using it yourself. I’m not talking about daytrading, or making a quick buck. I’m talking about using it as intended to buy goods and services.

Because not only is it easier to use than money, it’s more lucrative and rewarding, and the sooner you start using it, the more likely the value of your assets will increase. It doesn’t take long using crypto before you’ll see the problems with existing paper currency and the bullshit system it’s designed to perpetuate.

By that I mean - for example:

Take whatevers in your bank account, and look at what was in it 10 years ago. Let’s say $10. Chances are you still have about $10 in your account now, so for arguments sake, let’s say theres been $10 sitting in your account doing nothing for 10 years.

In US currency, due to inflation, the $10 in your account after 10 years is now worth $7.

If you had a Bitcoin wallet, that $10 would now be worth $1000.

If you want to know why the 1% have so much power, it’s because they control the fiat capital in a capitalist system.

Crypto is an alternative to that fiat, and one that endangers the existing system. If people used it more than $Dollars, capitalists literally would no longer have power as the system they use to maintain their control (banks, corrupts government, money laundering) is no longer being used.

Crypto provides a solution to the corruptable fiat in a capitalist system through removing the existing mechanisms of corruption that have been created and replacing them with a decentralized fully transparent digital alternative.

The people who created Bitcoin did so to fight the same people and systems everyone here seems to hate.

So I find it fascinating that the firehose of propaganda about crypto is still readily seen here.

Is Crypto bad? Sure. Nothings perfect. But at this very moment - it’s a much better store of value than the dollar, especially in uncertain times, yet people are convinced it’s a scam.

When unquestionably the best thing for people to do right now is to get away from the tanking dollar. Inflation is guaranteed simply because Trumps policies have dramatically reduced the amount of Treasury Bills the world is now buying from the US. Those TBills are the US debt, and as a deficit spending country, the US economy only works if that debt is purchased.

It ain’t being purchased.

So if you want to know why there’s a firehose of propaganda about crypto right now - it’s because those with $Dollars want you to also have Dollars, so when they diversify into scam coins, they profit and you’re left holding their losses.

Crypto is unquestionably the best currently available solution to fixing the damage capitalism has caused, and those already using it know and feel this. They just have an impossible time convincing anyone else otherwise.