stopdropandprole

if what the president is doing now is “legal” then the new president can “legally” have the old president marched into a meat grinder.

“sorry bro, but it was an official act of the president, nothing we can do about it”

this is an insight I hadn’t considered.

makes intuitive sense but do you have any links or references so people can learn more?

I thought drought was a major factor in beef supply drop but it’s probably multiple things

fair, I was being quick to judge. it just feels like stories like this sometimes do little more than erode public faith in institutions. if his alterior motive was in fact to spread misinformation, it would have played out exactly the same. probably impossible to know his true intentions.

“It was just an experiment bro! stop being so serious! it’s just a prank bro! get a sense of humor!”

same.

sure, Americans are tired of him… some even hate him… but do they really HATE him enough to go vote? to change their personal politics?

I don’t think so. not yet. energy and food prices have to keep going up a lot before we get to Nixon or Orban levels of disgust.

or Trump would have to reinstate the draft or something similar (that personally impacts large numbers of conservatives and centrists).

fuck that’s stupid. I’m sure a centralized system to categorize and score people’s emotional states would never be misused or applied prejudicially!

if these shills get their way, a computer program written by a metaphorical ‘group of chimps with typewriters’ will now decide the direction of everyone’s professional lives. brilliant.

we’re all gonna get marked “unhirable” because we didn’t use enough emojis when replying to middle management

Consider the relatively recent societal normalization of same-sex relationships and the recreational use of marijuana. Over the decades, those ideas slowly progressed from being both immoral and illegal, to moral but still illegal, and finally to both moral and legal. But in order for any of that to happen, there had to be a counterculture that was able to experiment and eventually demonstrate to the world that morality could change over time. To the extent that AI surveillance chills this sort of experimentation in public or in private, social progress becomes impossible.

no transparency? then bulldoze the entire fucking thing down. fuck this monument to corruption.

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he deserves much much worse.

amen.

once these assholes are dead by whatever means necessary, we can solve the whole Social Security problem (and many others) by restoring top marginal rates to the levels that built a strong safety net and prevented runaway wealth accumulation in the 1%

during WWII the wealthiest paid between 80-95%. from the New Deal until Reagan destroyed the country in the 80s, top rates were well above 50 percent.

Taxing the ultra rich is how America funded higher education, built the highway system, funded social welfare, uplifted 2 generations, built a global manufacturing and technology economy, and created a prosperous middle class. we did it by keeping oligarchs in check. in a strictly enforced progressively tiered system, top marginal tax prevents the obscene accumulation of wealth

you’re right, unfortunately, we live in a time when people won’t take action until they either experience the consequences personally or they’re pushed beyond a breaking point.

perpetual gradual harm reduction and backsliding is imperceptible and slow enough to be normalized. but sudden changes cannot be ignored and often radicalizes people in response (or at least forces them to ‘take sides’ in a battle).

one of the major challenges of liberatory movements is not enough people join the cause and instead wait things out. these so-called centrists and moderates only have this option because they have socioeconomic privilege compared the most oppressed groups.

therefore we must then consider strategies to capture their support, including shocking their sensibilities with outrage, or even potentially stoking fears that they could be next. “what if they close my alma mater too or what if my kids’ college gets shutdown also?” etc etc

I have a different view. he had two bad choices available and he chose the worse one.

he and the establishment Dems (hehem, Biden) as well as turncoats like Lieberman/Sinema/Machin/Fetterman who were inexplicably allowed to caucus with the party) are precisely why we’re here today watching the rise of fascism and oligarchy. from failing to seat a supreme court justice under Obama, sabotaging Bernie (twice), fielding awful presidential candidate after candidate, allowing the military to expand endlessly, not codifying Roe (and doing nothing in response to it’s overturning), to censoring Al Motherfucking Green…

the entire “opposition party” looks weak and disorganized and incapable of fighting every time a crisis arises. the party needs more progressive leadership and they need to realize that sometimes it’s appropriate to break a few rules and take risks on big power plays. and forward popular plans that will actually energize the base.

these ‘play it safe’ supposedly harm reducing tactics are why we’re here today. they had 8 years since 2016 to come up with ways to combat trumpism and the best they could do, after flopping on the election and then peacefully handing over power to a sociopath and a nazi billionaire - was… write an op ed in the New York Times.

I’m done with this group of shit heads. there are better senators who should be in charge. we need people getting mad and breaking shit, not another patronizing speech about having patience until the next midterm.

supporting a cause in person shouldn’t be underestimated. freedom of assembly is our constitutional right, it is a powerful way to connect with others and sends a message that you won’t just hide in your house while our communities are being attacked by the ultra wealthy.

thank you for having the courage and determination to make the drive and participate by yourself. hope you’re able to convince some friends and family to come with you next time there’s a chance to stand up and exercise your rights.

instead of subsidized the rich, we should be taxing the fuck out of them. they either comply with wealth redistribution by taxation or we seize their assets.

‘Don’t worry, this will only hurt poor people, and I’m just a temporarily embarrassed billionaire!’