but we do have "human music" lol

👉🏻my man!

Slow down! 👴🏻

Looking good

snaps fingers Yes!

Look at the assumed powerlessness inserted here.

Sounds like human music to me.

Word

We don't even have Szechuan sauce

Incredible

They don't have problems like this in Mongolia.

Food and water being poisoned is a questionable stance. Maybe in the US especially in the 20th century where there was a "put it in food first, if it has bad side-effects, outlaw it later" attitude. Especially heavily processed sugar is one of the worst offenders to health but the outrage about it is too little, and that's probably not what you meant anyways.

Money is not fake, it's arbitrary. It's also not the goods and services themselves, but a pretty good way of exchanging goods and services. Better than barter, for example, where every little thing has to be negotiated and you might have to set up chains of barters ot make it work.

Food is not being poisoned, what a crock of shit. Sounds like someone is scared of "chemicals". Drinking too much water can kill you. Eating natural things can, too - cyanide is natural. Are there concerns about our food supply? Perhaps, but "poisoning you" is a bit much.

And water? Most tap water in the US is some of the best in the world. Some places are unlucky. Where I live they put in too much chlorine from time to time which isn't unhealthy or unsafe but makes it impossible to drink, so we keep bottled water for when that happens, which sucks, but the water is safe. Going on about how it's being poisoned makes you sound anti-science or like someone trying to scare people into watching their paid content.

Wars based on lies? Yeah, can give you that one.

The country run by pedos? Yep, that one's a go as well.

Too distracted? Yeah, and that's thanks to our oligarchs who control the media and the messaging. They weigh us down with everything that can, take as much money away as they can so we struggle to survive and feel like it's all pointless. But if we could all get out on the street and shut everything the fuck down and demand change - specific change, pony up people to run for office - we could fix our problems, although it would be hard. We could extend the social safety nets that would make our lives easier. But it's hard. Fighting the momentum they have is hard.

But we have to keep trying. Keep talking about it - that leads to protests. Keep protesting - that leads to people taking action. Keep taking action - that will lead to actions that have a chance of changing where things are headed. Every part of that is important.

Do what you can, whatever that is.

What about the water in Flint?

I think the problem there is lead pipes and old infrastructure that hasn’t been replaced… half assed renovations which causes changes in pressure and acidity etc and cause the problems with the lead being released.

Yes… just looked it up… they switched sources of water which caused the old lead pipes to leach toxins and they didn’t use enough chlorine which allowed some bacteria to thrive and make people sick

Money is not fake, it’s arbitrary.

While distinction between fictitious and arbitrary is technically correct, it's just pedantry which misses the actual point of the colloquialism. It's not that it doesn’t serve an exchange function, or that the dollars in your account are somehow illusory. It's an expression of frustration with how we have chosen as a society to treat economic institutions being treated as laws of nature, rather than as social construct which we ourselves have invented and therefore can revise at any time. As in much public discourse, the statement is a rebuke to the widespread habit of treating financial constraints as absolute barriers, beyond which no serious thought need be expended, and as an excuse for avoiding responsibility to address the underlying human issues. Correcting their metaphors ignores their argument. If the rules that govern human wealth are entirely of our own making, they can also be systematically changed whenever those rules no longer serve our common good.

Food is not being poisoned, what a crock of shit.

Meanwhile in the real world, there's literally a lawsuit against companies knowingly designing, marketing, and selling food products that are harmful and addictive.

• https://www.olshanlaw.com/Advertising-Law-Blog/food-manufacturers-to-suffer-increasing-legal-pressure
• https://sfcityattorney.org/san-francisco-city-attorney-chiu-sues-largest-manufacturers-of-ultra-processed-foods/
• https://www.venable.com/insights/publications/2025/09/emerging-litigation-over-ultra-processed-foods
• https://hls.harvard.edu/today/the-new-case-against-ultraprocessed-food

Going on about how it’s being poisoned makes you sound anti-science or like someone trying to scare people into watching their paid content.

Again back in the real world, the history of US water pollution is unfortunately marked by numerous instances where industrial discharge, coupled with weak or failed regulation, has poisoned water supplies. Just a few examples which you could've trivially googled yourself

• https://environmentamerica.org/michigan/media-center/campbell-soup-admits-to-more-than-5000-days-of-clean-water-act-violations/
• https://www.hbsslaw.com/press/oregon-groundwater-contamination/oregon-lawsuit-alleging-nitrate-polluted-groundwater-filed-against-power-company-and-dairy-manufacturer
• https://www.selc.org/news/the-city-contaminating-almost-900000-north-carolinians-drinking-water/

Yeah, that's the playbook for any nation in any era. Debasement of currency until it's mostly colored iron is normal. A bunch of deviants on the throne is a given. Bonus points for generations of incest. Bread and circus, jousting and all kinds of entertainment were always there as a distraction. And latrines leaked into the groundwater. Your mistake is thinking this time would be different. Every nation has its high point and decay.

Just a few examples which you could’ve trivially googled yourself

Pardon me blocking you, but you've been shitty in every single interaction we've had, so bugger off.

Idk spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories lowkey exacerbates the problem. What else should money be but fake? That's what money is. Your food and water is not being poisoned.

What should we do, reintroduce the gold standard? Awful, impractical and counterproductive. We can hunt for a nondescript evil hooded figure pouring poison in our drinking water but we won't find them.

Our food is unhealthy because capitalism doesn't reward production of healthy nutritious foods, it rewards maximizing profits and oligarchs lobby governments and design their own regulation. Banks are allowed to create money but governments refuse to because of neoliberal ideology being pushed by powerful elites. These structures are real, known and we can fight them.

Disguising our problems as unsurmountable and untargetable evils makes us helpless. Identifying our problems specifically gives us actionable goals.

Now the pedophile thing is true tho, so hard agree there lol

I did say

Most tap water in the US is some of the best in the world. Some places are unlucky.

I had Flint in mind.

It's my understanding that the problems have been resolved.

Water problems like that are not widespread in the US.

I don't believe I ever asked you to sealion into my threads in the first place. It's some great loss that I don't have to see your drivel anymore. 🤣

Idk what misinformation and conspiracy theories you're referring to here are. Yes, food is literally being poisoned, and there's an ongoing class action about it in the US right now.

Maybe actually read the thread before commenting? I've literally addressed this here https://lemmy.ml/post/43791761/24225658

There's loads of instances of times where companies are doing shady shit with our food that I could post. For instance - think of Nestle and the baby powder scandal.

Not poison but still pretty fucking dark.

You'd probably just call me out for "whataboutism" so you don't have to answer try and justify your point

On the plus side, most of us will be dead in 100 years, so it we won't have to deal with it anymore.

but hey, you don't have to be able to recognize drone type by their engine buzz coming from afar... yet.

I'm sorry for your loss 😞

You’d probably just call me out for “whataboutism” so you don’t have to answer try and justify your point

If you're going to put words in my mouth, why should I bother? That especially seems unfair since I believe I answered your last reply in pretty damned good faith.

I was thinking OP was going for "chemicals bad". Nestle is a good example. And frankly, the sugar cartel and corn....... well maybe not corn cartel, but corporate farm certel perhaps has pushed so hard for corn subsidies that we put corn syrup (not inherently bad) in everything and push corn products and grow corn to burn in our cars.....

I still think our food supply is generally safe - generally.

But anyway. Care to put any more words in my mouth?

I like your differenciation.

I think maybe he refers to the poisoning of natural water done by various Industries and the political blindness.

++Also maybe Not everyone EPSTEIN IS a pedophile, too. Maybe thats Person is just evil, mean, stupid or unlucky.

Probably a lot sooner than that

You just gotta love the narcissism these people have.

Mmm, human music, I like it.

Are they still watering California organic produce with fracking fluid?

DW, several states restricting SNAP purchases now.

Let's not forget that our leaders are WORSE than mere pedophiles. They are literally cooking & chewing up & eating & drinking some of those children after raping them. And even worse weird things. I felt it necessary to point that out right now because some old rabbit holes I've been down have been haunting me again lately.

fr though, and I keep saying this, but we can literally end this shit show now if we all just fucking picked a day to not go to work for one lousy day when we know congress and dumbass are at DC and we just strike/protest en masse outside until they surrender. They have long abandoned doing anything meaningful for the people. Like if we can get all of DC to just stop for a day, bam.

That's precisely why organized labour has been systematically dismantled in the US. Back in the day there were strong unions, mutual support groups, and so on. These systems are key for workers to be able to take collective action like general strikes.

It's not bullshit. It's the skyrocketing rent, and the ever-increasing price of groceries, and the medical bills, and ICE murdering and kidnapping people in the street... It's all very real, very shitty things.

And this government we're dealing with has the largest military budget in the world, a larger budget than the next NINE COUNTRIES on the list.

*nine countries COMBINED

Thank god I'm not from USA. Phew.

Hahaha...Nice...

I think you forgot about global warming that will sink their islands

And the best part? They knew it would happen! All in the name of scaping a few more dollars off the taxes we pay.

You make a good point. Maybe it's the tone that put me off. I know too many people who go off on rants that sound similar, who don't bother actually understanding what's wrong with the world and as a result have no idea what capitalism even is. But that's clearly not you

That's how is always been, but now imma live to be 110 and I have gym Bros, a wife and kids.

The USA bombs Iran 12 hours after Iran agrees to irreversibly dismantle its nuclear weapons program under full international supervision. Iran retaliates against US allies in the region hosting US military bases (since their weapons can't reach the US themselves). And the leader of my country then condemns Iran for its "despotic" attacks, while pledging support for the US and emphasizing the importance of international law.

We're living in a clown world, and the west aren't the good guys.

Having just 3.5% of the population protest nonviolently would be enough. Speaking of which, the next No Kings is on March 28th!

From 2024 but still relevant

There’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. There’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. My rent went up $150. I’ll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone isn’t charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion themselves a punk rock revolutionary, but they’re not wearing a face mask, and that’s the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning the primaries for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. The CDC just announced there’s no more speed limits on highways, and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. The NYPD farmer’s market only sells bad apples, have you heard that one? Listen, it’s warm today, too warm for March. But I don’t have time to think through the implications because there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop.

nothing is going to happen, most of us will just keep fighting imaginary enemies on the internet.

For the record, I absolutely do hate living in a world where conspiracy theorists got things mostly right but for completely wrong reasons.

I feel that