Secret Service has 8000 employees alone.

but they protect a lot more than just the president. they protect former presidents, families, and candidates for president. they are perform general security at the whitehouse.

They also do investigative work in fraud, finance crime, and cyber crime and are frequently involved in federal and state casework for police investigations.

because animals aren’t sentient. they also have far shorter life spans.

also pragmatically, we are not willing to spend as much or invest as much in animal medical care as we do human medical care.

I’m not going to spend 30K to save my dog/cat, but I sure as would my spouse or child.

Because it’s only bad when America does it, because America is bad and China is good.

Not playing football, or being interested it it at all.

whatever job they want.

Because you can’t buy old money. You can only be born into it.

It’s about pedigree of birth. It’s the American version of being nobility.

Plenty of European nobles are broke, but they are still nobles. and therefore better than you.

It’s about being superior to other people.

I went to Harvard. I have known and interact regularly with a lot of old money people. I’m middle-class, but I talk fancy due to my education, so I can pass sometimes, esp in casual settings.

But once they figure out that I’m not old money like them, they are utterly disgusted with my existence.

And a lot of old money people, look middle-class. They drive Priuses, they have jobs, they dress pretty plainly. , The difference is though they vacation in places you’ve never heard of and they own homes there, and unlike you, their salary is fun money, they don’t need it. They tend to take a lot of jobs in arts, non-profit, education, etc that most middle class people think are too low paid to have a good life on.

Until someone links them to a tiktok account that breaks down marxism into 15 sec soundbytes they can understand.

God forbid OP try and make an effort to learn about something… that’s too much bro.

your profile makes me think you are not a human being at all. nothing about you seems real. you write like child.

Are you AI? You write like it.

You have a masters, in what?

The median salary for a MA holder is 95K. More than enough to afford a nice home in most places in the USA outside of HCOL. And a good quality of life.

None of those things will end human life. It will simple be reduced. It has happened before.

Bullshit. That’s just doomer hysteria. Short of an asteroid impact there isn’t going to be some apocalypse.

Climate change is just CHANGE. Things will change. Species will adapt, or die, and new species will emerge.

Sadly, change terrifies people. This is also why they refuse to ‘make things better’ even though we have the means, because that means CHANGE. ooo scary!

Define better. Net worth or something?

My parents had a way worse life than mine was. Maybe yours had a better life than you?

The only people I know who seem to legit feel this way are the rich kids who are mad they won’t be richer than their parents. Like temper tantrum butthurt they won’t own a big house and a giant SUV car their parents drive. But they spend all their money traveling and drinking and eating at expensive restaurants anyway…

or the comment is just stupid and irrelevant.

or it puts forth a argument that’s coherent but ultimately stupid theorizing, like conspiracy nonsense does.

both which i guess fall in the ‘bullshit’ classification.

I too sometimes ask about downvotes on other people’s comments, but it feels a bit like bursting into a room and asking everyone to stop and take a survey so I try to be judicious about it. Usually it’s pretty self-explanatory but every so often I come across a real mystery.

why not turn off voting altogether?

oh right, because that would take away the incentive for people to use it…

No, you don’t see. They are all very smart geniuses who know better than you. You ignorant fool!

They are just trying to ENLIGHTEN you to the error of your ways!

ID politics infests this place. Under ID politics logic, there is the oppressor, and the oppressed. The oppressed can only do good, and you can only be good if you are on their side. Otherwise, you are evil. It’s an absolutist way of thinking, and most of the users here fall into the trap of thinking this way about everything.

They have simple extended it from politics to lifestyles, to hobbies.

I have been repeatedly harassed and insulted for being a console gamer. God forbid you own a playstation/nintendo and want to play games sitting on your comfy couch. What a ignorant immoral bigoted fool I am! How can I live without the GLORY of Linux gaming at 240fps!!!

I’ve seen in IRL so much now too. It’s not just lemmy. This type of thinking is rampant everywhere now, because it does so well on social media. It’s so pathetic and it’s totally toxic. And even if you are ‘on their side’ they turn it into a pissing contest of your purity or something. Everything is also moralized to the point of absurdity.

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no, it’s pathetic to worry about points on the internet, and to broadcast your need for social approval

Because they are expensive, stupid, and annoying and most people think they are obnoxious. I’d be embarassed to every fly a drone in public with how noisy and invasive they are, I’d feel like a total asshole.