Sway_Chameleon

joined 9 months ago
[–] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I knew I was missing at least one other instance. What a jackass.

[–] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

DeSantis does love to fuck around. He never learns anything from the finding out he later recieves, but oh my he does love him some fuckery.

[–] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What's keeping him in the race is the delusional nature of his supporters. Think about all those points you wrote about what a horrible person he is. How many other candidates could survive even one of those controversies? He lives in an imaginary world of his own creation where whatever he says he believes to be true, and his cult like followers are so brainwashed that their perfectly smooth grey matter just soaks it up like a sponge. There's precious little he could do or say at this point that would have his base leave him.

[–] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This isn't even the first time he's done this, remember what happened with Covid and Asian Americans? Just look at the hate groups that support him, he never really distances himself from them, and he riles them up or gives them a target whenever it behooves him to do so.

[–] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

For once, an article reporting an "overweight Ford" causing a mess isn't referring to a politician in Ontario.

[–] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Ricardo Montalban approves.

[–] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

"Rich Corinthian leather"

[–] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

So, if his divestment of such a large amount shares in either company would have a negative impact on stock price, wouldn't the other share holders have a say in the matter? They typically frown upon someone acting in a manner that will devalue their share prices. I'm honestly asking bc I don't know the ins and outs, but I would assume that if Elon were to just try and sell shares to pay off his problem the pitch forks are going to come out from other share holders.

Also, wouldn't the banks potentially be in a conflict of interest? Presumably those institutions who gave him the loans have invested clients money into those stocks potentially? Again, just asking the question, bc this seems like a major boondoggle that could really fuck over a lot of people in a variety of ways.

[–] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Elon's statements are the verbal equivalent of getting drunk and vomitting on a wall. Stuff comes up that you never expected to see, it creates a huge mess, and whatever sticks, sticks.

[–] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That's overly simplified. Provinces don't all recieve the same amount of Federal funding for healthcare. Alberta recieved about 6 billion in Federal funding for healthcare, while PEI recieved about 223 million in 2023. Alberta can afford to pay Healthcare professionals more and have been poaching those professionals from Atlantic Canada creating crises in places like Nova Scotia where the population has greatly increased through the pandemic. So, yes of course if you pay those professionals more you'll solve problems in some places and cause more problems elsewhere.

Now, provinces can up their own taxes to make up for short falls, but guess how popular that will make the ruling parties that chose that.

The solution needs to be a lot more nuanced than just pay them more.

Edit: clarification

[–] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, just got dig down through the plurality of negatives you just laid down there.

[–] Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I mean the Tin-Man didn't have a heart and he wasn't a total ass. The literature is inconsistent in that area. We have to work with the metaphors we have at our disposal.

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