His early comedy was funny in the 1990s bro sort of way. His podcast was hysterical when it was just him smoking weed with redban. The joey diaz fleshlight commercials are still funny to me “they put a little clean shaven monkey in there”

This was before the big money showed up to the podcast.

Ouch!? You have very curious reading comprehension skills, it appears. I’m not shitting on Americans, i’m shitting on the relatively weak and ineffective governments at the local state of federal level, which tend to only serve the interests of folks with large amounts of money. I have a relatively sensitive stomach and I have been sick from all kinds of restaurants across the US.

You see, when you pay people minimum wage or less so in the case of tipped workers, their motivation to clean up and provide a great sanitary environment for everything is arguably lessened, don’t you think? Further, our education system, being largely designed by large corporate interests aims to produce ignorant workers, people addicted to fast food, sugar and its derivatives. People who think food should be as cheap and fast as possible, as convenient as possible, and not worthy of sitting down and spending time, contemplating cooking it, growing it, eating with family, et cetera.

I remember walking around in Zwolle, Netherlands. I remember being embarrassed because I was the only one walking around while eating something. Everyone else sits down to eat. I never saw anyone eating in their car. Or eating while driving. I’m just saying this is illustrative of the difference between the US’s fucked up food culture and the rest of the world’s more mature and established food culture.

Have you ever been to Japan? Have you ever been to Europe? Have you ever been to South America? I have and I can tell you, on average, they truly respect food. Just walk through the center aisles of any American supermarket and tell me if those products suggest a culture which honors and values food? It’s my humble opinion that no, not really.

If I’m full of shit and I’m doing something wrong, I am all ears and willing to do better, I promise you. You’re gonna have to be real and not just throw daggers like that.

Si lo sé, soy uno de esos. Pero igual, si el gobierno no inspecciona las operaciones de los restaurantes, igual te da diarrea. Las veces que he ido a Europa he regresado en mejor condición de estómago.

I assume it’s because the life in Europe is better so people don’t need to escape their reality as much. You can go out and see a cool castle or ride a train or go check out a new country. And then you can get really, really, really good food that won’t give you diarrhea like the food here in the US.

I think you make a sensible point. It was also valid to dislike the greedy billionaire that heads Spotify. But, fuck putintrump for sure.

I’m an immigrant in this shit ass country. And I immigrated from another shithouse country. And I don’t have any ownership of either. Political boundaries are nonsense. My children are perfectly safe, and if I feel they’re not, I am out of here. This is not my country.

My father stayed and I got to go to college and I make enough money that I can pay and bribe my way out of nearly any situation. He’s still alive and enjoys playing with his grandchildren.

Your arguments have shifted to figurative crap. You may be older than me, but your emotional development appears to be stuck at 16. I guess that’s why you’re a grown man and going around telling people they need to risk their lives just like your father did to feel better about yourself.

Your life sucks, and other people’s lives do not need to be as shitty as yours. My children’s will definitely not be. I’m sure you’re way too macho to seek mental health counseling but holy shit do you need it. Your head is not on straight and you’re a big ball of cope and rationalization. sucks for you. ✌️

Im sorry you lost your father.

My brother’s ex-wife was a Bosnian refugee. I’ve seen the pictures of her house covered in bullet holes. And i’ve heard the horror stories.

Unfortunately, you’re making my point for me. The situation in Bosnia was so bad that it did ruin the lives of the majority of people. People had no other option than to revolt and fight or run.

Remember that your father was a grown man, and he chose to fight. I don’t know your age, but one day you may realize he could have chosen to stay with you and run. You would have been better off with your father alive and caring for you and teaching you things and providing for you.

I understand that you see your father as a hero. I don’t know you and I didn’t know your father and I don’t know your situation. But from what you wrote, I could easily ascribe the psychological term of “rationalization.” He left you. He risked his life and lost it and abandoned his family. You were severely traumatized by this. We all come up with explanations to make ourselves feel better. It’s called coping. I think you are telling yourself that he was a hero and that he’s so strong-willed and did the right thing. I’m sorry.

I guess my story has triggered you and that’s why you called me a coward. I can tell you one thing: My children will never be able to tell your story. My boys will have their father. And there is no political reason in the world that’s more important than my family. I will never abandon my kids.

I don’t care what your opinion of me is. I care what their opinion of me is. And I don’t see why they would think of me as a coward for choosing to do my job which is to raise and take care of them and give them the safest best environment for them to grow and thrive. I can’t do that if I’m dead or in jail or disappeared. Therefore, I will not be risking my life for some stupid fucking political reason.

Number six, actually in reality translates to food security safety for your family and children. Only like a teenager would think that it’s just a shitty job.

Further, you seem to think that people who have revolted just decided based on a technical argument that they should just revolt and that they were just simply smarter more responsible and motivated than us? The hard, true reality is that things are just simply still too good for us. Once they take away enough people’s true livelihood, once every family is personally affected, either by having members shot or tortured or taken away or deported, etc., etc. Once people feel like they have nothing to lose by letting their monkey rage start making decisions for them, it will happen. You’ll get your revolution. Things need to get much worse though. If I turn off the news, my life is fine. Single family house, wife and kids, etc. I make plenty of money and there’s plenty liesure ly activities to do and plenty of money going into my retirement accounts, shit’s fucking fine. I am not picking up a gun and giving that up. I’m so sorry for your imagination, but this is real. I’m not gonna do it until I absolutely have to. And if it actually starts even getting really close to that point, I will move out of the country. I’m not your hero. I am my family’s hero.

You have to read history like an adult with experience, not like a child with an imagination. Those revolts that you admire so much were fucking horror. Nobody felt like they were doing such a great and wonderful thing for everyone. The people that revolted were fucking furious angry because they experienced real losses pain, suffering, and hopelessness.

I’m very, very sorry for your personal narrative, but we are not there yet. The vast majority of people are fine. The revolt won’t come. The puppet masters of this dump of a country and world know that they can’t push the majority that hard. Only dumbass dictators in smaller countries that are easier to control were dumb enough to have crossed that line.

Have you ever heard how much a successful data scientists makes? You know, those assholes, I’m sure of which many are on Lemmy. The ones that write all the code to collect and catalog all of the data that’s collected from everywhere? All the surveillance data, all the facial recognition, all the tools that the evil will use to strangle us?

I saw one such guy that makes over 600k a year plus giant bonuses. There’s a lot of those guys out there. They’re helping the evil powers. I’m sure some of them are hypocritical enough to go and protest online that we should all be revolting as well. I’m just saying, in the real world, things are still too good and the revolution doesn’t come because people simply just choose to do so as a potent and prudent strategy. When shit’s really bad enough, it will happen all on its own. No thanks to fools online whining about their little imaginary scenarios. And it won’t be pretty. And it won’t get you what you want.

This dude is a raging narcissist of the covert or vulnerable type I’m not sure.

I’m sorry you had to go through that. I am glad you were able to survive that and land in a stable career in fartography. Truly inspiring 🥲