Godort

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Joined 7 months ago
Cake day: June 4th, 2025
  • Godorttonews@lemmings.world•Gen Z men are moving away from MAGA in droves, polls showEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I disagree.

    There are likely 2 factors at play here. The marketing machine for the Republicans is off right now. They don’t need to win an election, so they have no reason to curb their opinions with the high school and college crowd.

    The other is that people usually do a lot of growing up in their 20s. You get some real freedom all at once and it takes time to adjust to what “normal” is.

    The GenZ crowd that voted for Trump in 2024 looked at how Biden ran the country for the last 4 years and decided they wanted something different, which is exactly what Trump was promising.

    They were likely too young to be politically involved through the first term and definitely were not old enough to know how much of a shift 2016 was from the Bush admin.

  • GodorttoRetroGaming@lemmy.world•How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ?English
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    2 days ago

    Sure, but you also aren’t paying super close attention to the DDR cab either if you’re in line. You’re looking at things around the arcade and maybe pacing around a bit so that you aren’t just hovering over the other people playing.

    Not only that, but losing a toonie is absolutely not the same as losing $50 on a card. It’s an entirely different scale. $50 is far more attractive than $2 to a potential thief

    Also, where were you that the machine took toonies? Every arcade I’ve been in was loonies until they switched to the cards.

  • GodorttoAsk Canada•How are adults supposed to shop for tobacco products when there’s no menu and everything is hidden behind drawers?English
    132·
    4 days ago

    If you’re trying to switch to a lower nicotine or tar option, you don’t really have a way to compare or even know what’s available anymore.

    Most people that look to quit smoking typically don’t change brand, instead they cut back or switch to an alternative like vaping, patches or gum.

    As an adult, should you actually have the right to see what legal products are available before buying them?

    No, I don’t think knowing what tobacco products a store carries should be a right. If you’re not sure, you can just ask the person behind the counter. They’ll tell you.

    Most smokers I know buy the same brand every time and have never switched.

  • GodorttoComic Strips@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    5 days ago

    It’s not always convenient, but you can’t just take all the benefits of a capitalist system without having any of the responsibilities.

    There is literally no product you can buy in a capitalist system that did not feature suffering somewhere along the manufacturing pipeline.

    The absolute best situation you can hope for is that every single person in the chain from acquisition of raw materials to manufacturing a finished product is that the only suffering they experience is “I am forced to do this labor so I don’t starve”

    I should point out that this is an extrme rarity in supply chains and manufacturing goods. Typically it’s much worse.

    The reason things are like this is that it’s very easy for humans to compartmentalize things and ignore the suffering of others if it makes their own situation just a little more bearable.

    As much as I wish Nestle would shrivel and die, there are far too many people out there that will buy the baby formula or the chocolate bar without even considering the misery that went into making it. And even if they know about it, it’s easier to just buy it and feel a small pang of guilt than go without.