How exciting, I’m getting a kick up the arse to change platforms! Seems to be the theme of 2025!

The term “public listed company” is in itself gaslighting. They want you to believe you can be a part of the investment and its success. It’s definitely not about anchoring new technologies and business with dependencies on old money!

May they all get in a Cybertruck…

And then having things that happen to Cybertrucks happen.

I mean technically speaking I’m wrong too, the real Red Bull is Krating Daeng which the Austrian right wing guy appropriated and added fizz to to cater to western tastes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krating_Daeng

I love how western culture takes stuff from the east, gives it a little bit of artificiality and marketing speak and now it’s a modern western invention!

I’m so old I see Monster in the group on the right.

Red Bull is the real OG king of energy drinks. The rest are imitations.

We have the same cycle here in Australia with our centre-right Labor and fascist-nazi Liberal parties.

You read that right - in Australia the conservative party is called “Liberal”. 1984 level lying…

Wow, intolerant much? Lots of people are Buddhists!

/s (added the /s in case anyone needs the /s)

They sure are, and the US was also the world’s guard dog until very recently. Past international relationships don’t weight as much as they used to (or should) in the new paradigm.

Things can change fast in world politics, even if they’ve been a certain way for a long time. If the benefit is there, leaders will choose to serve their nations / electoral interest first.

If China worked closely with Europe on free trade and defence, it could challenge any attempts at shenanigans from Russia and the US.

They also have the support of the world!

Now we just need to teach them the Spirit Bomb…

Poor little baby Robert O’Neill… There’s literally receipts for his tweets all over the internet, who does he think he’s trying to kid with this lawyer prepared spin?

For those not aware - this brewing company is owned by the guy who killed Bin Laden and then as reward wanted to turn a bunch of straight white Gen Z boys into his concubines for supporting Kamala Harris…

Now imagine servers on tips…

IMO some of them are just going to work for the shift meal and pinch whatever they can from the place - leftover food, toilet paper, utentils, etc.

All you can do when you’re basically a slave…

A little bit, yeah. Trump supporters are also very desperate people, many of them turned to the dark side due to grievances with the world. And not all of them are always imagined. The wrong part is the conclusions these people come to and the way they go about correcting what they think is wrong…

Conspiracy theories are rife with these people. UFO ones where aliens poke you in the butt and interview you about the planet and wipe your memory are very common in these groups.

Meanwhile as a progressive the aliens I fantasise about are like… enlightened and compassionate lol.

Just as easily applies to queerness and gender expression too. My favourite part on the these specific issues is the ignorance in the west, acting like being trans and queer is uniquely American and new.

Meanwhile South East Asia is right there…

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Man I’m not even sure we have a government anymore…

Good ol capitalism breeding innovation. And then acquiring the innovation, cloning it poorly and killing it off so the market has no access to the product and service they wanted. Innovative!

Easy solution - new defence pact without USA and invite everyone else the Trumpian USA stiffed on defence like Australia.

We (Australia) are already in Eurovision so a defence pact with Europe (and the UK lol) would make sense!

If your anus looks like this, it’s time to see your doctor.

I’m in Australia, which is supposed to have universal health care, that system has been eroded into dysfunction by decades of neglect and downsizing by subsequent conservative governments. Right wingers slash and burn budgets, and then “left leaning” centrist governments come in with the weakest possible reform agenda, never returning things to where they were but preventing others from fixing it either.

I’m not sure where Canada, NZ and other English speaking nations are at, but I assumed that their health systems are negatively affected by neo liberalism and similarly face problems that didn’t exist 10-25 years ago. Even if they have universal healthcare on paper, shenanigans by lobbyists, slashing of budgets and other institutional neglect has led to a breakdown in the care people can access.

The UK has an even worse issue with the NHS. It was already as bad as Australia before Brexit, now it’s been a prolonged period of people on public waiting lists where patients wait for over 2 years, unable to see specialists or book in surgeries. Untold amount of misery, and even death, that was preventable.

Countries like Sweden, Norway and Finland seem to have done a better job protecting the interests of the public from greed. But then there’s western countries that have huge social issues like Spain, France, etc.

My perception is that western democracies are not good at protecting their citizens because law makers, the media and other mechanisms in a western democracy allow for abuse by greed and self interest. It seems like despite strong laws and traditions existing, ongoing campaigning by those with money and allowing those people to earn a profit from essential services results in those services being eroded.