I didn’t offer solution (complex or simple) nor did I point to one that Democrats did. I also never said anything about Democrats always doing whats best or implying everything Democrats propose should be followed blindly. Thats a GOP talking point, not mine.

Ukraine should dismantle the pipeline that leads to Russia to end this argument.

It would just seem like your restaurant is much more expensive than everyone else.

Its a forced 23% gratuity, it IS more expensive than everyone else, except the restaurant isn’t being honest about it and hiding it in fine print only to be discovered when the bill comes.

That seems to be a great way to alienate customers from ever returning because they won’t know how much they’re being charged until the bill comes.

It seems like you’re just arguing that people are too dumb to understand that Democrats always do what’s best for them

I didn’t say that. You can keep your strawman, thanks.

while here (and in your follow up reply below) state that the problems we face are essentially too complicated to fix so we shouldn’t hold it against Democrats for not having solutions.

No, I’m saying why its easy for the other side to make simply promises that have no attachment to realty and American voters eat it up.

The restaurant has had to add a 23% service charge in lieu of gratuity to bridge the wage gap between front and back-of-house staff.

Is this a 23% charge on top of tipping the front-of-house staff? Isn’t a “service charge” disingenuous? Why not raise prices by 23% instead?

For users that experience this, don’t be embarrassed. Your goal and IT’s goal is that the computer does want you need it to do. If its working now and there’s no problem, everyone’s happy.

But their entire job is signing up to be the fall guy as the face of the company. That’s why golden parachutes are a thing and an incredibly unpopular CEO resigns in “disgrace” then is immediately hired by another corporation often in a drastically different field. Because, again, their only job is to be the face of the company for when something unpopular happens.

This is inaccurate. I have knowledge in this area if you’re interested in accuracy and can explain why it looks like what you’re describing, but if you’re just interested in your rant, I don’t want to get in your way. If you’re interested let me know.

Husband wanted to move somewhere with a low cost of living, and he was able to secure an entrepreneurial visa and open a business here.

I just looked up the requirements for this visa and it is very favorable! Moldova is now on my short list if I wanted to explore expat life.

Your house is beautiful and it sounds like life is going well for you there. Well done!

Ukraine HAD a deal with Russia ensuring its peace and its borders. It was called the Budapest Memorandum. Russia was the one violating the deal Russia had agreed to.

Brexit was the UK leaving the European Union, not leaving the continent of Europe, right?

I had some theories as to why that was that way (swappable faceplate like an Engima machine ring setting?) so I went to their website. The plot thickens:

According to the company the UK isn’t part of Europe, but instead belongs alongside Africa and the Middle East.

The “light bulb” moment is when you realize that change will happen anyway irrespective of what you do or don’t do. So the best path is to plan accordingly for change and choose to do it on your own terms when you’re fully prepared for it instead of having change thrust upon you when you are unprepared.

the solutions themselves are pretty simple to understand.

…and…

Tax the wealthy invest in public services and infrastructure

Sure that sounds great, but realistically what would it take to do that? Thank you for providing a great example of why “simple” is anything but. To do this there would need to be a massive coordination of candidates that all speak at the same time during an election cycle with talking points about improving the lower and middle class while also appeasing powerful entrenched interested. The statements would have to be powerful enough attract the “simple solution” Americans but not specific enough to reveal the actual mechanism of taxing the wealthy. At the same time the other side could promise the world without any strings attaching them to accountability to deliver on those things. To move to the next step the Democrats would need to get elected in a powerful enough majority to actually vote enough and not be blocked. That right there is likely the first impossibility.

Second, the newly elected Democrats would have to mostly change their policy on taxation to do that massive tax increase on the wealthy. This starts a clock of about 1.5 years until the midterms because powerful entrenched interests will use their power and money to obliterate Democratic representation in the House. Further, with the filibuster now gone, the protection for the newly implemented wealth tax legislation can be overturned by newly elected officials from the other side, and now because the Democratic benevolent duplicity is revealed, the powerful entrenched interests will throw their weight behind weak Democratic candidates or for other side for the next 20 years.

You were maybe using AI image generation tools that works to suppress Nazi propaganda. Musk does AI right? I bet his AI would have no problem displaying any amount of Nazi symbols and propaganda. /s

The democrats have an elitism problem, their party doesn’t appeal to the average American even though their policies do. The candidates they run tend to appeal more to college educated persons but far less to those who don’t hold post-secondary degrees.

People love simple answers to problems. Unfortunately, the problems we’re facing are incredibly complex and don’t have simple realistic answers. Simply looking solutions have complicated consequences that aren’t immediately obvious. The average American (that doesn’t hold post-secondary education) typically doesn’t understand this. So when a problem is explained and a solution that addresses it is presented, it usually leaves them confused.

Their policies also often times don’t do enough to actually help the average person

…not enough help, I agree.

and lack universality which is desperately needed as the economy continues to get worse and every day life continues to get harder.

You lost on me on this one. Universality? As in a living minimum wage that would benefit not only those struggling on the poverty line, but also help billionaires?

They refuse to acknowledge this and continue to lose as a result.

This is where I more strongly disagree. This goes back to my first point.

We’re facing very complex problems that don’t have simple answers. However, the other side is providing simple to understand solutions. The problem is those simple solutions are horrendous, and aren’t actually solutions. Example:

• Americans are struggling with low wages. The other side says its because of foreigners and moves to arrest and deport them. Simple right? Except you and I both know the low wages has nothing to do with immigrants, and instead on corporate America and captured politicians keeping wages low while productivity continues to rise.

If the other side simply gives simple “common sense” solutions that a typical American understands (even if its wrong), then that will be appealing to them instead of a realistic complex solution which promises far fewer benefits. What are Democrats to do here that can counter the infinite depth of lies of the other side?

Drivers should choose the names of FIA officials that instituted this, and start using those names as swear words.

“Oh man, that was a big meal. I got to go drop a Sulayem.”

“Sainz was outside the racing line and then cut me off on the inside. That was a Sulayemy thing to do, and he knows it”.

If you can’t have everything, you’d prefer nothing? Isn’t that the same logic that got us a second trump term?

That would be good for Lemmy.

City is Cleveland Ohio

This post made me think of it as it’s a good example of this.

That particular post is a combination of poor English grammar, is deeply referential to pop culture, and also has missing/skipped/misspelled words. Don’t feel bad its hard to parse.

Here is his post corrected:

No it’s because I don’t leave my house anymore unless I’m going to work or grocery shopping . Also because I haven’t been drinking at bars, and I don’t use apps. My carapace may is not be as chitinous as a xenomorph (referencing the 1970s and 80s Ridley Scott/James Cameron movies Alien/Aliens where the aliens had exoskeletons and acid blood), and I don’t have me a heart beating with the acid blood , . but Instead my personality is books and jokes, and but at least I don’t reproduce parasitically…(wait…shit I guess we do…)

Does that make sense now?