They don’t have consistent values at all. We keep interacting with them in terms of pointing out their hypocrisy or inconsistent messages, but they literally do not care about what they said yesterday. They are simple, linear minds who only work in terms of what they’re feeling right now and I think if we did better to treat them that way and remember we’re not winning intellectual arguments with them, we would make actual progress in changing them.

They scream about “free speech” when they feel their words are unpopular and being booed. They care about life and abortions when it’s not their daughter. They cheer on cops who shoot innocent black kids, but would go firebomb the local station if a cop came into their house and shot their dog.

We seriously, absolutely HAVE to digest this so we can collectively start forming new tactics to manipulate them into making better outcomes for all of us.

Because whatever else happens, even if we win back everything tomorrow, we will continue to share a world with them as our neighbors and the people who… who… okay I guess contractors and plumbers? Probably a few truck mechanics too, but point remains, they exist all around us, and if we’re really going to be better than them, we have to be like parents who subtle change the way a toddler feels without yelling at them and making them feel mad or put out.

even the RX9070 is running around $900 USD, I cannot fathom affording even state-of-the-art gaming from years ago at this point. I am still using a GTX1660 and playing games from years ago I never got around to and having a grand time. Most adults I know are in the same boat and either not even considering upgrading their PC or they’re playing their kid’s console games.

Every year we say “Gonna look into upgrading” but every year prices go up and wages stay the same (or disappear entirely as private-equity ravages the business world, digesting every company that isn’t also a private equity predator) and the prices of just living and eating are insane, so at this rate, a lot of us might start reading again.

I’ll deliver this reply in Choose Your Own Adventure Format:

If you want to make a reference to Donald Trump being at his birthday parade and thus exposed, vulnerable and in the open and presently not looking up, turn to page 89.

If you rather make a reference to how we should leave the Devil be because the Devil himself is more respectable and honorable than any of these monstrous despots who murder out of spite and wrap themselves in scripture, turn to page 322.

Ah yes, the Chuck Schumer School of Resistance Fighting.

Capitalists always thinking “I better leave a back door open here in case this turns into an opportunity…”

Who’s doing anything about it? Nobody is marching on their representative’s homes and offices. No letter-campaigns, we can’t even be bothered to vote as a country without it turning into the apathy-olympics.

A few pundits have claimed that it’s so they can both cancel a bill neither of them want to pass after all, but that’s almost as delusional as the thing you described.

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Most likely they’re going to patch it up, roll-back their rhetoric and continue milking the federal piggy-bank for as long as they can, and their supporters won’t give a shit because they’re not supporting either of these clowns because they want sound fiscal leadership, these guys gained a following because they “hurt the right people” and that’s all anyone cares about now.

I’m sorry to be the bucket of cold water, but we gotta remember we’re not in a functional democracy anymore. This is more like some “last days of Rome” acts.

I seriously don’t know anyone didn’t see this coming or how anyone is remotely surprised. I’m just surprised it took this long, I thought they would keep it together for at least half the term to meet their own goals.

They hated each other from the beginning, they always were about to shred out the throat of the other one. Smarter people in roles of power are good at keeping their shit under their hat, but neither of these men are smart.

If we’re dreaming of fantasies that will never happen, I also want nationwide ranked-choice voting, and maybe we can overturn Citizens United Vs Federal Elections and stop allowing corporations to literally run our country.

Yah that’s the one that will do him in and crumble his empire. Surely.

You keep replying to me like it’s a campaign. If you like 60 minutes, just watch it.

I am not watching it because they are complicit and I don’t trust them. Nobody should trust media, particularly network media.

If moving to independent media or at least better sources like Ruiters, AP or even Ground or just triangulating multiple sources so you can get a better grasp of the truth before CBS helps create a situation they make money from while pretending to be “news” is considered “Defeatist” then yes, I am defeated and you should be too.

I would argue it’s what every journalist in America should have been doing 8 FUCKING YEARS AGO, but no, they helped create this monster so they could report on it. They are a human/media centipede crossed with an Ouroboros eating it’s own shit. Support independent media, not partisan sources in either direction, they’re ALL compromised by capital.

Ah, so more compromised media sources creating hype and WWE theater spectacle out of a crisis they helped create.

I am done with the “nightly news segment” Uroboros of creating massive problems then reporting on the massive problems they made.

edit: keep whinging, this is just another “cut to YOUR fighter” segment that makes everything think “whoohoo we’re winning!” and feeds this cycle of thinking someone is in control, that there’s an actual “back and forth.” There is no “back and forth.” There is nobody coming. There is nobody in charge. This is all so much worse than even the best media reporting is letting on.

I can’t believe this man exists in the public spotlight in any capacity and it wasn’t the last straw for normal Americans who don’t want to live inside a stupid HBO drama with ridiculously written villains.

edit: I’ve been informed most Americans would rather live in a fantasy world than reality anyway and that’s why we’re in this mess.

Okay, America bad, got it, very fresh take adds so much to the present conversation and context of current events. Point taken, nobody here will ever say anything again. We’re all bad and so very evil. You win.

go to a lab and get evidence

They’re here to dismantle our society, they don’t care.

They don’t believe in things they don’t understand, and they don’t understand things they can’t see with their own caveman senses.

We crawled out of 30,000 years of trying and failing to start a civilization, we almost went extinct, we lost countless billions of lives to war, murder, famine, disease and hardships of a natural world that doesn’t want us to live. Just to get to this point where a handful of coked-up, mentally handicapped rich fucks can decide all those countless sacrifices were for nothing.

It genuinely boggles me that Americans are at all accepting of this. Where the FUCK are my countrymen who see how stupid and dangerous this is? We should all be storming HHS and dragging RFK and his unqualified goon squad out to the lawn. Seriously. I am not kidding. Modern medical knowledge is too valuable to let some unelected clown who has zero knowledge or training to just decide to roll the entire thing back because his other clowns sowed distrust among our stupidest.

If we don’t rise up and do something, I strongly feel you all deserve what the consequences will be.