Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 5hAll humans should have access to food. Imagine SNAP but without the inefficiencies of pointless means testing. Nobody should have to go hungry. 010
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Man, all I want is a place for my mom to live that's nearby and where she can keep her 3 dogs. I don't even live in a high-demand city. Why does this have to be so difficult? 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Breaking the window is a purely destructive act, simple as that. The true paradox lies in the way we organize our economy. 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Actually now that I think about it more, replacing the window is a net negative since physical resources had to be consumed to create the new window. They could have been used to create a new window where there wasn't one before! 260
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It would have the same economic impact as if someone paid someone else to dig a hole then fill it back up. The only change is that the person being paid gains access resources they were previously gatekept from. It's an illusion of economic benefit. A temporary removal of punishment in a way 270
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 08/10/2026To get on the ballot for statewide office in Illinois, you need 5,000 signatures if running as a Democrat or Republican. If you're running as an independent or 3rd party, you need 25,000 signatures. Why is the bar 5x higher for 3rd parties? This "democracy" is a joke. 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not sure where this is going, just putting thoughts down. There's work that needs done that can benefit us all and there are plenty of people willing to work. There simply has to be a better way to organize this outside of the convoluted tangled web that we use right now. 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 04/10/2026All over, now and throughout history, there are and have been human beings getting together and building things just because they can, no transactions involved. 100
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The physical components needed already exist here on earth: natural resources, human beings willing to work and create and come up with ideas. Money is the element that exists solely in the abstract. None of its activity occurs by the laws of physics. 110
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Finding a solution inevitably follows the path of solving the issue of how to fund such things. I often wonder if the solution is somehow in reframing the entire premise, which accepts "funding" as necessary and innate and true. 100
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"But who's going to pay for it?" This question rattles around my brain all the time, and I always find the question itself to be a paradox. All humans deserve a roof over their head, but who's going to pay for it? All humans deserve food, water, healthcare, but who's going to pay for it? 100
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My copy is on the way, looking forward to reading it! 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 04/10/2026When the goal of art is solely the final product, AI is a means to an end. When the goal of art is human expression, the means *are* the end. 020
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I could usually expect a nice little extra $200 to $300 a month for hitting quality goals (not too bad 20 years ago). New owners said fuck that noise. 110
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I worked in a cable factory many years ago that got bought out by a large corporation. Managers said oh, it's actually good, this will give us more opportunity! One of the first things new ownership did was gut the monthly worker quality incentive bonus. 110
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 04/10/2026King of the Hill night-time exterior shots are such a vibe 011
Reposted by Dave DComrade Jingle Pants ☭🔻Organize Against Oligarchs! @cptjinglepants.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Socialism is about removing those leeches. It's about workers getting paid FAIRLY (not the capitalist slave wage version of "fair"), and those who only leech off workers getting zilch. Nobody should get a piece of your labor simply because they "exist" and "own" things. 131
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The thing about "job creation" is that we don't need owners to create them. The need for shit to get done enough to create jobs. 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't accept that premise as true. Billionaires already *took* that money from those who really earned it. 030
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I have family members who would fervently disagree with the last point, by the logic that it is wrong for the government to take money people have earned. I can at least wrap my head around that logic. However this logic begs the question. Its premise is that billionaires earned that money. 270
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I can't think of a reason to ever set my TV's sleep timer for 5 minutes, but it's nice to know I can. 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We must protect them because... they're good for the economy? Brother, we need clean water to live! 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Corporations don't need to rig the system, the problem is the system itself. Private owners and workers will always have an antagonist relationship under capitalism. Workers barely making enough to get by is a symptom, capitalism is the disease. 110
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Nancy! That's a load bearing can of condensed milk! 030
Reposted by Dave DAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 24/09/2026We are setting the planet on fire and continuing to work long weeks to make garbage for landfills and to produce marketing materials for the stuff in landfills 452189
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This 2026 is almost over, I'll probably just wait for the next one 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 21/09/2026How can a person hate private equity but not also hate capitalism? I don't get it. 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Political candidate debates are kind of visually weird productions. Why do they all stand in a row behind lecterns? Seat them all around a big table or a large sectional sofa. And have snacks there, too. 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Defining "self-sufficient" as being able to buy everything one needs feels like such an ass-backwards definition of self-sufficient 000
Reposted by Dave DJames A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"When we reinforce the right wing’s racist, sexist, classist frames in an attempt to expose hypocrisy, we lose. If, instead, we root our politics in what is good and bad, just and unjust, moral and immoral, we can win." www.jezebel.com/the-dangerou...jezebel.comThe Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money'Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. 021
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 05/09/2026You'll vote for the second-worst candidate and you'll like it 210
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It's no masterpiece, but it's harsh to suggest Dumb & Dumber has no story 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Were checks and balances disregarded? Or do they just not work as well as we've convinced ourselves they do? 010
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 03/09/2026When they call you a communist, start taking it as a compliment 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Best case scenario would be collective ownership instead of private ownership, salary floor/cap with revenue sharing. It isn't that there are bad owners, it's that owners are bad. 000
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration." —Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed 000
Reposted by Dave DComrade Jingle Pants ☭🔻Organize Against Oligarchs! @cptjinglepants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026No matter how badly liberals and conservatives try to convince me that Socialism is "bad" and that "human nature" means we can't be humanists, I'll never agree that there's a good reason to exploit people. If you're AGAINST socialism, you're FOR exploiting others. That's it. Debate me if you want. 052
Reposted by Dave DProgressive Witch @progressive-witch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026🟦 Nordic Model 🧵THREAD 284416
Dave D @damnvegetables.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The Savannah Bananas have the courage to ask: what if baseball were an assault on the senses? 000
