If the media tells people it’s setting off alarms the the public can keep pretending that the fascism isn’t there yet. Nothing more valuable to the majority of the US than personal convenience and comfort.

Conservatives will still vote for him. They’ll do it even if they say, outloud, that they don’t like him.

Because we also know that feeding the poor and providing healthcare and transit and all these things are actually cheaper than stealing from the working class, attacking homeless people, and giving everyone severe medical debt.

Keep up, this is all really old news.

The shit is starting to be hard to ignore, you mean. I would be careful acting like this is particularly new. You don’t want to go back to any point of the US’ history.

The US can afford food for its own people, it chooses not to because it’s a horrible place with far too many horrible people in it. Exercising soft power and foreign aid is also surprisingly beneficial and helps everyone. Not to mention that the US regularly does shit to fuck over other countries and people don’t seem to have a major issue with that spending. Their failure to actually help rebuild in the middle east is, as I understand it, a huge reason why they ended up getting attacked on 9/11.

The US owes everyone else quite a lot for being a massive fucking pest. If they can ship their garbage to developing nations they can also ship some food to them, too.

Two things:

1. It’s cheaper to manipulate opinions than do the right thing. It’s a tale as old as time and part of the reason why capitalist “innovation” is almost entirely focused on overhyped PR bullshit instead of actually making a good product. Carney’s a hardcore capitalist, expecting otherwise is a fool’s errand.
2. Governments should tell their citizens what they’re doing. A lot of people don’t see things in the news but still need to know. Yes it can be misused, but that doesn’t make it inherently bad.

If he even knows where he is. There’s an incredibly high chance he’ll just space out again as his brain fails to connect to the rest of his body.

It was the only thing she really had to do in order to secure a victory and she flat-out refused. Also, she could have spent less time with Liz Cheney and tanking all the momentum she had gotten in the summer.

The only reason marriages lasted longer back in the day was because women were essentially indirectly forced to be with men. The whole bank account thing in the US is a really good example of how screwed women were. There were a lot of very long marriages that were deeply unhappy.

Nowadays, women get at least some amount of freedom to choose their partners and hundreds/thousands of years of men not having to actually be good people has meant that many of us are lonely and blame the women for having some standards. Good communication and mutual respect go a long way and those are the marriages that last these days.

They aren’t smart, not even a little bit, they’re just playing on easy mode. There is nothing clever about what they’re doing, and in fact it’s pretty easy to grasp and is often incredibly public. The reason they keep winning anyway is because the citizens are lazy and ignorant, and most of the US are dumb as rocks even if they’re “educated”. Most people in general aren’t even that bright, it’s insane what they will fall for.

A lot of people who don’t pay much tax but who really hate it don’t want to think even that hard about it. They love when a billionaire says taxing the rich won’t work.

They’re just over-done at every stage for no reason at all. Stupid torx heads, shit that needs allen keys near the brakes of all places, torx bolts in super awkward places where a normal one would be easy to access with a wrench. BMW needing you to have a 16mm wrench for no reason while most wrench kits come in packs which don’t have it. I changed the oil my dad’s 1998 BMW and that thing had a plate which I thought would have a filter on it like my Ninja but instead it still had a canister style filter except it was inside the oil pan and you needed a special, thin-walled metal socket to get to it.

There’s also my friend’s 2018 Jetta where none of the three rotors listed fit and the fourth option, from the previous year, almost did but I had to use those 1/8” thick, strong steel washers to space the caliper out(thank god it was exactly 3/8” off) or we’d have been totally screwed.

Or the dogshit clutch feel, the ultra-long shifter throws, and the awkward ergonomics. My mom’s 2001 Golf had the problem where the climate controls were blocked if you were in third gear. My sister’s 2015 Golf was hugely uncomfortable for longer than a couple hours.

I hate German vehicles so much. They make a lot of power and are cool enough on the face of it but there’s so much stuff that’s just bad. Meanwhile I’m excited to be doing the clutch on my 2015 BRZ tomorrow because it’s going to be wicked easy.

We do have easier access to information. Also, if you’ve ever worked on a German vehicle, you’ll know that they’re not all that.

If you have capitalism that is heavily supported by a non-market system then you don’t really have capitalism. Heck, the big thing about capitalism is that there’s a massive threat of being without which forces people into exploitative situations. The concept of money is not locked to capitalism, despite the beliefs of what seems to be the majority of people, it is simply hyper-prioritized in that system.

Capitalism is where those with the most money have the most power, socialism is where society at large has the most power, etc. Whatever goes in front of the -ism is what gets put first.

Basically, you can 100% have private businesses under an -ism which largely prioritizes people, not capital. A government will operate utilities, education, healthcare, etc., as well as offer basic services like grocery stores and internet, and private business can handle your fancy bakeries, clothing stores, electronics, instruments, and all that stuff.

“I’m hitting the brakes, what more do you want?!?”

“To stop before we die! We still can!”

Exactly. Conservatives are a mostly lost cause who will either figure it out on their own after being beaten by the people they elect themselves or who are so blind they will never see it. Centrists who “aren’t very political” and who “just want everyone to get along” are constantly telling progressives that they’re “too extreme” despite the fact that the entire basis of centrism is being in between two other options, no matter where that actually puts them.

They’re just a bunch of cowards who are heading for a cliff but think that applying the brakes too strongly might be a little uncomfortable so they just do it a little. They’re still going off the cliff, just a little slower.

The people in power are also all the voters who see this behaviour, who see the obvious lies(even for them in their echo chambers it’s hard to miss some of this), and who continue to support not only him, but conservatism in general. It has never worked, yet they keep saying “ok, so once again it is conservatism that has produced this loser but he’s not a real conservative so I’m gunna keep supporting the POS factory.”

We can argue about the racism, the sexism, the classism, and all that for a real long time but ultimately a few evil people won’t last against a population that actually cares and a few caring people won’t last against a population that allows themselves to be duped by obvious racism, sexism, etc.

The GOP, for all their evil and election fraud, still would not win a single election if the people of the US said “no.”

0. Didn’t even pretend to hold a primary and shoved in a lazy replacement.

Bro, the entire country is falling apart at the seams. Is there that little solidarity in the US that “go to the Whitehouse to be disrespected by the president” is seen as a life-or-death command?

Weak.

No. I mean, yes also, but holy fuck what will it take for you losers to finally start holding each other accountable? All they had to do was not go somewhere, it would have been incredibly easy, and the only reward they got from it is a terrible photo with a terrible person which only serves to further validate him and everything he does.

For fuck’s sake, I’m not asking them to shoot him in the back.