Looking around me:

  • I started seeing people who support capitalist companies instead of non-profits.
  • People losing their freedoms everywhere at high pace.
  • No one is taking any serious steps to stop climate change.
  • A lot of non-profits had seriously down scaled their operations in the last 5 years, most probably more non-profits will get hit hard this year.
  • On a relative scale, no one is fighting to change any of this.

Do we have any hope?

  • Daggity@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    I need to get back to listening to the audiobook I was doing instead of a reread. Its so ridiculous that one of the worlds villains uses LOTR as his naming scheme.

    • nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I figure it’s gotta be the muskrat y’all are talking about. how does he use LOTR for a naming scheme?

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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        2 days ago

        Actually no, not the guy who tries to name everything (and everyone) “X”, but one of his fellow Mordor-mentality’d ilk, an entirely unoriginal and stupidly rich aristocrat spawned from the same pits, Peter Thiel .

        Most famously, founder of, I kid you not, “Palantir”, a big-data information analytics and surveillance company…with military contracts and ethics that mainly revolve around “How much line go up tho?”

        Would certainly get Saruman’s approval, but I have no freaking idea how he got the Tolkiens’!

        Here’s a quick article just listing how profoundly the guy misses the point with his LOTR inspired blatantly plagiarized naming scheme, over and over again, wrecking the good name of a fictional world we hold dear as a contrast to this ridiculously stupid timeline.

        (Don’t care much about the article, it just lists the companies and their primary functions in one spot.)

        https://qz.com/1346926/the-hidden-logic-of-peter-thiels-lord-of-the-rings-inspired-company-names

        And of course, he’s a major player for the Republican machine, because why not? (He’s apparently got a husband too, which is even more LeopardsAteMyFace.)

        Dude really, actually, got super into Lord of the Rings, made his whole life about pursuing neverending wealth and power, contributes to the military industrial complex, starts ventures about unnaturally extending life, likely contributes massively to climate change, and decided to make the world look more like the one Frodo saw in Galadriel’s mirror in Lothlórien.

        If you asked him, I’m sure he’s the Good Guy™ in his story.

        Freaking LOL. It’s all too stupid to make up.

        What artifact do we gotta throw into the fires of the NYSE to implode all this nonsense and save Middle Earth?

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

      Its so ridiculous that one of the worlds villains uses LOTR as his naming scheme.

      100%. This deliberate villain-for-lulz flaunting of his lack of self-awareness is one of the most irksome annoyances of our era.