And surely no “leftist” is going to get incredibly mad when I say:

“Authority breeds violence. Death to all authority, states being the best example of them. Death to states, of which the US is the most powerful and most destructive.”

I’m sure no “leftist” is instead going to propose creation of a “leftist state”, employ exsoldiers of the previous capitalist state and then justify war crimes by those soldiers under the name of “liberation”.

Not a science meme. Dear American liberals of the internet,

Please stop bringing bringing your politics in places it shouldn’t be in. We know your country sucks. Can we please just be autistic and enjoy our science memes?

The presence of the minions itself. When it is known that:

• people roll their eyes at memes involving them, especially here.
• they generally add nothing to the meme
• used by boomers a lot on Facebook

For me, here’s what I was thinking when I saw this meme:

• wholesome-ish meme
• minions? Ew. What was the choice behind using them?
• the community is Lemmy shitpost?
• oh LMFAO it’s a nod at Facebook memes.
• funny.

Humor is subjective, and it’s ok if you don’t find a joke funny ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

That’s the joke. This meme is making fun of Facebook memes shared by moms. If this satire angle didn’t exist, it would probably be posted in some wholesome memes community.

We need a shitpost community INSIDE Lemmy shitpost. Half of the people here aren’t capable of handling this level of humor unfortunately (judging from the downvotes ಠ⁠ω⁠ಠ

“coice calls”

Hehe

You guys really need better hobbies

I don’t think this is it. It’s simply a question of return on investment.

If I had oil industry related investments, I would want:

• supply from my investments to go up.
• demand for my supplied goods/services to go up.

Now if I am a small investor, it would make sense for me to slowly sell off my oil assets and invest into green energy IF: – I believe that there are investment opportunities in green energy that will give me a better return on investment than my current oil investments.

Whenever I sell an investment to pivot to some other investment, I undermine the value of my current investment. How’s that? Because I’m increasing the supply of my investment asset. This lowers the price.

Basically, if my oil stock was worth x, and if I put it for sale on the market, it’s now worth x-y, where y is some positive number.

Again, if I’m a small investor, y will be tiny as I’m not really increasing the supply of the oil stock by much.

BUT. If I’m an oil oligarch… Well, y is going to be VERY HIGH. It does not make monetary sense for me to sell off my assets and move them to green energy. I don’t necessarily have confidence that my losses (y) would be recouped through the ROI from green energy.

I’m a selfish, unempathetic asshole. I want to maintain my wealth. Therefore, I take the cheaper way out -> influence the government to delay green investment, so that demand for oil doesn’t fall.

Separatism isn’t inherently treason. Conspiring with foreign actors to conduct acts that undermine the sovereignty of Canada while promote the interests of that foreign actor(s) is.

Especially when the said foreign actor has expressed intentions to ANNEX US.

The president of another country publicly saying, “we will annex you against your will”, not once but hundreds of times itself is as threating if not more than military buildup.

We’re so desentisized to Trump’s ramblings, that we often forget that he’s the PRESIDENT of the US. He wields immense power and can act on what he says (which he has done almost always).

A foreign power tells us that we’ll be annexed. Their president repeatedly refers to our elected officials by names designated to non sovereign entities inside their country.

This foreign power funds and engages in a separatist movement within our country. How is this not an “act preparatory to war”?

These assholes should be locked up for high treason.

Note: Quebecois separatism is different. It’s really stupid, but NOT TREASON. Why’s that? It would be treason to conspire with a foreign power, and take actions to undermine the sovereignty of Canada.

Had Alberta separatism not had US involvement, it would not have been treason. It would just be a bunch of really stupid people using their democratic rights to act within what they feel is their interest.

But what is happening right now is exactly what happened to Ukraine.

If the current administration is really as “elbows up” as it claims to be, it should prosecute and shut down this US backed operation in Alberta. Not doing so could make us another Ukraine.

• Natural monopolies should be nationalised. Network effects tend to be a significant characteristic of natural monopolies (my opinion).
• Payment infrastructure is critical for national security. Just the way cash is.

This is why imo, there should be a nationalised institution competing against private institutions like these.

• the nationalised institution must be owned by the state.
• its operations however must be organized as a consumer coop, where cardholders of this payment network are member owners. This would prevent the top down bureaucracy, corruption and inefficiencies that plague state owned corps.