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Cake day: February 12th, 2026
  • thethrilloftime69@feddit.onlinetoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•The corporate party vs everyday peopleEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    I think the difference between us is that I think the Democrats can at best accomplish half measures that don’t fix the fundamental structure of the system. The ACA hands more power and money to insurance companies, it doesn’t fix the fundamental problem. The Democrats support of Israel is “waning” but that hasn’t really altered anything on the ground or even stopped the money from flowing.

    Republicans have pulled this back and replaced it with threats and military force.

    You’re acting like Obama didn’t endorse more drone strikes than any president in history.

    Like sure they are “technically” better but not in any of the ways that matter.

  • thethrilloftime69@feddit.onlinetoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•The corporate party vs everyday peopleEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m not dismissing those things because that’s the only area of debate in the United States. But the Democrats and the Republicans don’t support universal healthcare, they don’t support workers rights, they support corporations right to pillage the environment, they support the genocide in Palestine and broadly they support American Hegemony abroad. The only thing they disagree on is the gender, skin color, and sexuality of the people who can’t get healthcare or parental leave.

  • thethrilloftime69@feddit.onlinetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•To all the men here, are y'all satisfied with the male friendships y'all have in life?English
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    5 days ago

    Yeah. I don’t expect anyone to help me with anything. I try my best to be available to people and I have a pretty active social life.

    I have dozens of cousins who I’ve known and been friends with since I was born. I have family friends that I have some vague memories of us taking baths together. I have a group of friends I’ve known since middle school (~25 years ago) that probably includes 7 people. I have some friends who I’ve known since college which could be 2 to 15 people depending on how I’m feeling that day. I am still in touch with 5 friends from med school and maybe 4 friends from residency and I’ve got a bunch of friends I’ve developed in the last few years.

    Dang, typing that all out made me feel incredibly blessed.

    It’s funny, if you ask me most days, I’ll tell you dudes are lame and women are more interesting to talk to, but tbh most of my closest and longest running friendships are with dudes. Dudes just need an activity. They don’t need to talk to each other. The vast majority of my male friendships at least originally centered on some activities like basketball, playing Warhammer 40k, playing video games, being in med school/residency.

    As far as being emotionally vulnerable with another man, I think maybe like 3-4 guys in total. I am pretty emotionally closed off. I’m more of a “bust your balls” type of friend.