It’s one of the most hilarious things to me, just a masked face with Arnold’s lips making Arnold groans. That scene was gold, fuck that whole movie was gold

Those are probably the ones ending up in viral clips either threatening to kill someone or actually doing it (or in one case failing because they didn't know their safety was on).

Simply mentioning ICE doesn’t make it political

It's internal US political news, why do you think anyone outside of your country cares about your immigration officers and how they're dealing with immigrants within America?

By that logic, any mentioning of anything related to any country, any type of police, any type of military would be ‘political’

Yes?

and I’ve never seen anyone complain about that

Because nobody else posts about their police force in a shitpost community and gets 1k+ upvotes for it

Is this also not political?

https://lemmy.world/post/39212792

Doesn't seem like it's trying to sell me on Trump or Obama or Putin or Israel or anything. Just because a shitpost mentions current news doesn't mean it's automatically bad political. Seems to me like if you just don't want to see anything about other countries, you should just find some communities specific to your own

Exactly it's a retention bonus that gets paid out in stages, but DHS can also recoup all of it if the agent/goon leaves before the period expires. I wouldn't be surprised if they dangle a "reenlistment" bonus near the end of the term which locks them in longer.

ya killing me

what about this

https://lemmy.world/post/42879654

The only other things I can find are that, allegedly, Linkin Park sampled a Biggie song (Until it Breaks, allegedly sampled "Who Shot Ya", but when I listen to them I don't hear it. Maybe it's actually just a lyrical reference not a true sample?)

Also Chester's son Jaime Bennington has gone off on a lot of rants against Shinoda and other LP members and seems real salty about the band continuing now. He accused Shinoda and other members of Machine. shop records of attending two Diddy parties in 2004 and 2010. And one time Diddy tweeted out that he liked LP and they re-tweeted it. So... Everything seems pretty innocuous to me.

If you run out of money you run out of justice

This is one thing I never understood... how does he keep getting away with it? Repeatedly screwing people over and over and over and over again and somehow no one doing shit about it?

He doesn't just screw over workers, he does it for his business partners, too. Wealthy and powerful people... people who can hire hitmen and also pay to make the evidence disappear. If they can kill Epstein why wouldn't they have gotten rid of him in the 80s and 90s when he didn't have as much power as he does now?

What if in our world of infinite universal timeline probabilities, this is the timeline where Trump always gets what he wants?

To think there's a potentiality where he always loses and we missed it by this much.

Its the old bait and switch. Did you know that Federal Deposit Insurance can be paid out in a period of decades? They can make you ''whole'' over a period of time that can stretch over years. Technically you will not lose any money but practically you can die before you get your money.

Or paying the buses to his rally in winter but not back, abandoning a ton of his followers to freeze the night or find other ways home.

The Russian agents keeping tabs on their useful idiot must have protected him.

Also because science is woke and/ or gay. I believe it says so in the executive order.

except the words are not allowed so they are also reducted from the executive order

Except for that weird strip scene with Jamie Lee Curtis. That did not age well.

I watched True Lies again a few years back, and that scene made me cringe hard.

My understanding is the not paying people is “legit” in that the remedy is the courts but his lawyers are good at making it too costly to pursue. If they believe they weren’t paid, they should sue: notice there are few judgements against him like that.

It’s just like all his shell companies. During the first reign of terror, there were articles that they found over 500 companies with payments going back and forth so the web was impossible to decipher and there were always Trump owned companies with huge losses/writeoffs. I don’t remember them actually finding anything illegal but it sure smells like it. He even bragged it was so complex that the irs didn’t have enough auditors to dig through that for tax fraud. It was almost a dare. What happened to that?

Signup bonus is different from retention/quota bonus. Signup bonus is all him

But the big one, the retention bonus can probably be pushed off long enough to blame democrats and/or not paid because they’re not making their quotas

Same way I stuck with my wife for 20 years despite her being a rotten person - I kept hoping it would get better, and she'd string me along with promises... Then she cheated on me with our son's best friend's dad, that finally made it easy to leave, and once I left, hindsight made all the previous mistreatment so much more obvious...

Yo dawg pardon my language but fuck that bitch. Stay strong and sorry someone played with your heart like that. Your example speaks volumes for your son.

It was way more than that- like 50-70k...

*Edit* never mind me, apparently that was a retention bonus, different thing

How exactly are you imagining that? Did they stand in the way every time someone tried to wipe Trump out?

Good god. Makes me thankful that I leave people behind easily. You're overdue for treating yourself to some unrestrained enjoyment of life.

Considering how rare assassination attempts are now despite him being objectively the most hated person the world has ever seen (by sheer numbers - there weren't nearly as many people alive when Hitler lived), it's admittedly unlikely, but still plausible.

The american legal system is catered to one principal:

if you owe your bank $10 that's your problem, if you owe your bank $10 billion dollars, that is your banks' problem.

This is why salespeople and scammers flourish in america: get enough loans and debt and you can uno reverse any monetary problem here but often rich people and bullshit artists are the only ones who have enough collateral to get that kind of debt.

The courts are designed to take a lifetime to figure that kind of stuff out - it keeps going as long as you have money. This is why republicans are obsessed with the estate tax: if you pass it on to your kids before the scam gets sorted out, all the ill gotten gains are laundered. Your kids are set for life and all the people you conned foot the bill.

It also shows how much a high estate tax would cripple these incentives.

This may help in regard to the 'sampling'.

So my view of him from my vantage point is that he's unoriginal, and needs other peoples work to survive.

I’m a huge rap fan and this is 100% correct.

Although, not for the reasons you listed. Having a huge hit that leans heavily on an obvious sample of an older hit song isn’t necessarily awful. But the guy writes corny shit, is a terrible rapper and is just not very talented. He built an empire off of surrounding himself with amazingly talented people and exploiting them in the worst possible ways.

He doesn't screw over the Epstein class, and that's all that really matters

Have to agree there.

How does the financial system work

This is one thing I never understood… how does he keep getting away with it? Repeatedly screwing people over and over and over and over again and somehow no one doing shit about it?

All his fans and supporters believe that he only screws over their common enemies. In fact, they love that he does that. They falsely believe that he would never screw over them. He will never eat their faces. They think they're the in group with Trump.

And that's because Trump is a Russian shill and Russia promised to bring down America in this exact way, a half a century ago. Edit dmn I'm getting old that's closer to 3/4ths of a century

I don't get it either. My cousins lived in Southern New Jersey, near Atlantic City, where all of his casinos went bankrupt. He was notorious for not paying local contractors and some went into horrible debt due to his refusal to pay. Yet that whole region is crazy about him. I suppose they just don't have very good memories around there.

Almost like we should have listened to this guy.

https://youtu.be/Z1EA2ohrt5Q

Those lead pipes are really paying off.

Unscrupulous people use other unscrupulous people as patsies... They're all so up their own ass that they don't think they'll be the one that has one over on them. They are all narcissistic.

Parents are probably more connected than we know, or he got in by providing their proclivities.

Wait, are they really not getting paid? Dont get me wrong id rather see them just lose the job and or get deported (to the bottom of the ocean), but if they arent getting paid that a lil karma at least. And funny.

Also please dont lump A'nold in with those scumbags.

Way to big of a violin. Great image tho.

I don't think this meme is accurate. ICE agents aren't in it for the money.

This is why republicans are obsessed with the estate tax: if you pass it on to your kids before the scam gets sorted out

Same thing with the AI bubble. Sure it will burst, companies will go bankrupt, millions of peoples retirement savings will disappear, and many will suffer /die from the economic aftershock...

BUT

The rich will have already realized their dividends / capital gains

The rich will have already purchased the land / property

The rich will already have the data centers / ram / AI

They rich will have their assets and eat ours to

...

The whole system is a kleptocracy and the AI bubble bursting will make late stage capitalism worse not better.

They're probably getting their monthly salary but that 50k bonus requires 5 years "service" so they'll all be out of a job before then

The government legit removed student loan repayment programs from a lot of agencies and gave them to ICE like those dipshits will ever use them.

???

I mean a large portion are in it for the money. The power trip is a bonus for many. Let's be objective here

Objectively, the meme is wrong because they know they're not getting paid :)

The laying off of massive amounts of civil servants made a desperate class of people that needed to pay their mortgages and support their families. Now you've got ice, an agency beholden to following through their contracts or forced to pay back money they already spent.

Is that an electrophoresis gel?

Apparently scientists found a way to draw a violin that's 13 microns wide. Fuckin crazy, idk how they did it, but I love that they did.