I agree that such large-scale action is effective.

Masturbating, I’m masturbating. And so are you when you think that voting with your wallet does anything.

Indeed, you are thoroughly pacified. Your objections and moral outage quelled and your sense of significance sustained by the illusion that simply buying from a different conglomerate will have any impact.

Any suggestion that your impotent protest is inadequate must surely come from a childish fool.

I think the point is that we’re deluded to think that voting with our wallets does anything. You still work. You still buy. You still support the system. The one step you’re taking only gets you partway from the couch to the refrigerator. It doesn’t get you out the door and into a protest that would actually make a difference.

Wow, that’s expensive. I’m a cheap ass. I’ve always had cheap, old Toyotas.

I can see how it’s nice to have a more modern car but I just can’t justify all the expenses. I’d rather retire sooner.

Oh, I just checked and I was wrong. I pay $61/month to Progressive for liability on a >20 year old small pickup truck in California. $100k per person, $300k per accident, in case I crash into a pile of Ferraris or something.

The liability is $50/month but uninsured motorist insurance is most of that additional $11.

I’m paying for insurance in case I get hit by someone who doesn’t have insurance? Ridiculous.

That’s wild. I pay less than $500 a year for like $100k in liability insurance. Maybe I’m just old and have a good record.

Do you have tickets?

Even about 25 years ago, $1000 would get you a car without major cosmetic damage but it’d have a couple hundred thousand miles on it. You can still get that for around $3k today. I see them on craigslist right now. Where I live, minimum wage has increased 2.5x since then.

There’s your beater for roughly the same number of minimum wage hours worked.

I can currently find a bunch of used, decent Toyota corollas in the 7-10k price range. Liability insurance should be like $50/month.

Your estimates seem quite high to me.

Newsweek said that O’Reilly said that Chat GPT said that you’re a cunt.

But seriously, put those pedophiles in jail. We can elect new representatives. This wouldn’t destabilize society.

I agree that the Democrats should have done more and should be doing more. However, I think it’s not good to frame what the Republicans do as being the fault of the Democrats for having not stopped them.

Why has Joe Biden done this!?

Its my understanding that KYC is not inherent to crypto but only to exchanges such as kraken or coinbase. Tax regulations necessitate KYC, not the technical requirements of the underlying asset.