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So I just got a steam deck… A little birthday present to myself.

My local microcenter sells nothing for it… Neither does best buy. And if best buy did I wouldn’t over pay anyway at that failing store.

So… Amazon it is. 40 bucks and two days later I have a silicone case, anti glare screen protector and a cheapo dock.

I didn’t want to get all that shit off amazon… It was just the most convenient place and in my case the only place.

If anything amazon needs to crack down on these bs Chinese sellers.

I upvoted this. But I’m not happy about it.

The only useful outcome is acquittal. These rich board room types need to know they’re not safe.

I pray to God and the baby Jesus that I don’t believe in that he will be stripped of power and removed for any office that allows him to make decisions on policy.

Or any decisions. At all… Even outside the office. Him mom should lay out his clothing for the day so he doesn’t have to decide anything.

Oof. This is harsh 🤣

Had sex had sex one more time.

This is why you never get a tattoo of a band or tv show or any kind of IP.

Stadium Arcadian, I believe, is one of the best albums of all time and this just tainted all their music.

Why would he write about this so nonchalantly… Christ.

No you’re delusional. Seek help.

/J

The union should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual states, so that governments can better represent their people. - Elon

Exactly - some random in the comments section in support of socialism.

Honestly, the chain-reaction idea just doesn’t hold up. A healthcare agency, even a universal one, isn’t a command hub for the rest of the economy. Its authority ends at healthcare. Funding something doesn’t mean owning it, and there’s no mechanism that lets a medical bureaucracy suddenly branch out into housing, farming, manufacturing, or anything else.

If the state wanted to own those sectors, it would have to pass explicit nationalization laws. That requires political will, not some automatic drift caused by covering everyone’s doctor visits. We’ve had universal care in plenty of countries for decades, and none of them spontaneously rolled into full state socialism because the health service existed.

And the “unlimited funding” premise doesn’t map to how governments work. Budgets are capped, audited, and fought over. You can’t build a whole-economic takeover on a resource stream that doesn’t actually exist.

So the short version: universal healthcare doesn’t function as a nucleus for socialism. It’s a public service. To move beyond that, you need intentional, large scale political action not administrative gravity.

I don’t know how to put this to you guys but the one on the right is significantly more plausible than the one on the left.

Also I don’t like turmeric.

Actually, the math you’re quoting is a bit misleading. Cratchit did earn 15 shillings a week, but converting that to modern U.S. dollars isn’t straightforward. Simple inflation calculations like “$530/week → $13.50/hr” ignore things like typical work hours in Victorian England (often far longer than 40/week) and changes in living standards. Some estimates put his pay closer to $21/hr if you assume a 40‑hour week, but realistically, accounting for actual hours worked, his effective hourly rate might be much lower. So comparing it directly to modern minimum wage isn’t really accurate.

🤣 it is basically just desert.

While I agree that ads are often necessary, I disagree with the predatory way they are presented. Google, and by extension YouTube, are the most egregious examples.

But there is no moral obligation to either engage with ads or avoid them. That notion is nonsensical

If there’s someone out there that gets off on watching me poop let them. (I’m a 310 pounds 40 year old.)

I will intentionally avoid asking for 5 star reviews.

I hate those things!

YouTube music revanced. Best music outlet there is.

You can buy 40 acres in Wyoming for like 30k…

I get this and I also don’t engage with ads but at the end of the day they are what pays for the stuff you want to watch.

It’s a shitty system and it’s become amazingly predatory. Needless to say I used revanced on my phone.

That was in response to your statement.

You claimed there was no private business involved, and I already addressed that. You’ve now quoted the very text I used in rebuttal.

Once again: what you’re describing is social democracy, not socialism. Universal healthcare does not require socialism to exist.

Take countries like Canada, France, or even Cuba, which is a socialist country. Their universal healthcare systems rely on taxing businesses to fund them.

The private sector supplies the healthcare infrastructure, and the government subsidizes that care for the population.

I encourage you to look up what a subsidy is, how taxation works, and how economies function across different forms of government. You lack the fundamental understanding needed to have a meaningful discussion about these topics, let alone form an informed opinion.

So far, you have not acknowledged anything I’ve stated. You still do not understand what socialism is, you do not grasp its definition, and you do not understand what you are advocating for.

The begining of this whole conversation was me explaining how universal healthcare has nothing to do with socialism and I have explained to you multiple times how what you’re describing is social democracy which is not socialism.

Can you tell me that you are acknowledging what I’m saying instead of asking nonsensical questions and avoiding my core statements like you’re some kind fundamentalist evolution denier talking to an atheist calling show on YouTube?