How is this not upvoted to the moon??? Who can’t relate to this comic, with or without context?

This isn’t The Onion’s fault, but the world has gotten so stupid, I don’t even know what this headline is suggesting anymore, or how things like “DOGE” and “LiteCoin” are actual words, spoken by real humans, who understand their meaning.

I’m waiting for the 2029 headlines that say:

“President Dollywap engages the fruitasmo thrusters to engage the roryxorp.”

And other people will nod their heads, and say “Uh-huh, uh-huh, sure sure sure. I fully understand the severity of the situation.”

But then The Onion will write a headline:

“President Dollywap removes the motortino thrashers to disengage the roryxorpilly.”

And people will be like “Ha ha ha! Another quality zinger from The Onion! I mean, can you imagine? Disengaging the roryxorpillies??? Hoooo boy! What a day that would be! Dollywap would have some explaining to do!”

And another person would say “Dammit! I ate the onion on this one. I was real worried for a second…”

Meanwhile I would be like "Ya know what? Screw this. I’m turning off the tv. I’m cancelling the internet. It’s been said that you can either watch the news and be misinformed, or not watch the news and be uninformed. Well I chose uninformed! The fucking lot of you have gone nuts, and I’m just going to go home and do the only sane thing I can think of…go build lego sets in my underwear.

Just a few weeks ago I made comments that I wouldn’t be interested in buying seagate’s latest 34 terabyte hard drive, or whatever it was.

My logic was that in 2008 when I bought a brand new seagate hard drive, and it was dead before I plugged it in, they refused to honor their warrenty.

Which to me, is them being an untruthful company. THEY wrote the terms of the warrenty. I fell within them. They refused to honor their warrenty.

Alright. Fine, you’re on the blacklist. And I haven’t bought a seagate product since.

And peoples response on lemmy to those comments was “it was 15+ years ago, they make better products now”

Which misses the point entirely. I’m not boycotting them to reduce risk of getting another junk product. I’m boycotting them because they don’t stand behind their word.

I feel we as people need to stand up, and police the businesses. Ok, so McDonalds is supporting trump. Mcdonalds is supporting russia. Mcdonalds is doing all this shady shit? Well then STOP BUYING BIG MACS, ASSHOLE! If we, collectively as a society held dishonest businesses to the flame for shady practices, then these shady businesses would stop being shady.

It’s a simple formula.

(Shady thing) - (lost sales from protests) + (completed purchases) = total dollars.

Now, if the lost sales from protests swallows the completed purchases, then that means that shady thing cost them money. When that happens, they will stop doing the thing that loses them money.

But if the shady thing boosts their sales more than the protests cost the sales, it becomes just a cost of doing business.

It seems like such a simple concept too. Don’t buy from shitty companies, but yet Nestle is out here just thriving.