There’s also the possibility that Trump’s secret service detail may also be more inept over all. Like if you had to be around that dipshit 24/7 you’d need an all overriding sense of duty or have to be a sycophant to put up with him since I can’t imagine he treats any of them with respect and sycophants aren’t known for competency. Like all the competent guys are probably on other people’s detail, are on perimeter, or are doing currency shit.

Write a book make the guns M16s and call it Firearms of the North, just to create a mirrored theme to Harry Turtledoves Guns of the South book.

Ya forgot about Yugoslavias mixed system which also worked pretty well.

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I feel like an argument could be made that at least Kavenaugh should be impeached due to McConnell’s fuckery.

The Allfather provides and my madness grants a certain clarity. Regardless it was an escape from the mindset and shackles therein, not literal escape which is admittedly a good thing. Economy is fucked in my region and getting even a shit job at the warehouses is basically impossible due to artificial agents, luckily I can call back on my grandmother and we have a certain truce on these things. I don’t talk about economic structures and my hatred for the stock market and she keeps the political bullshit down, if either breaks the truce it’s free game and we both end up pissy.

The ability to parse information and disinformation is a skill like any other which requires the wisdom and humility to fully apply. A lot of folks grew up in near complete information bubbles and are incapable of even knowing that there may be a different path, there are legitimately people who think all Democrats are possessed by the literal capital D Devil, how the fuck do you even begin to unravel and parse that without just killing propagandists and preachers?

I grew up on the edge of that environment and was lucky enough to break free from it all around 2015/2016 since Trump reminded me of those false smiling CPS workers who fucked me over repeatedly trying to put me with my rapist father. But most folks don’t have that type of automatic response to things, hell some suppress it to better fit in for sake of sanity.

Come at it like you would a cultist be it Scientology, Mormonism, or Seventh day Advenentists. Because that’s effectively what it is since half this shit was being built up as far back as the 60s and most of these poor bastards weren’t even alive at the time.

In my experience it’s down to a horrid mix of tribalism, lack of education, and propaganda which further enflames the former two. How can folks better themselves if they can’t even fathom that their so called leaders are the ones fucking them over. This is why gas price is so notable because it increases the price of everything and propaganda doesn’t fill an empty stomach.

I feel like the closest I can think of is something like the tradeife shit. But that’s more an extension of christo-fascism and patriarchy than anything else.

It’s in weird limbo and had been for awhile so Jones was probably allowed to keep using the branding for income reasons or something. Though I also wouldn’t put it past him to just ignore courts.

I wouldn’t be so sure on Kegsbreath. Remember he is in prime position to be thrown under the bus as things get worse with Iran, he is openly a lunatic and an idiot which makes him prime meat to get rid of.

Thanks for the suggestion I may look into it. Though I personally think one of the main problems is near instant and universal information transfer, bit it does probably have a good bit of overlap.

Technology is morally inert, but I thinks it’s moreso that people on average can’t responsibly interact with technology both due to a lack of understanding and it’s secondary effects due to said lack of understanding. While our current issues are due to the is definitely being exasperated by the current economic system and those who largely own it I think a lot of it is inherently an issue with widespread technological integration.

For example the job market it entirely fucked in part due to online applications and companies who feed on that problem. But the core issue with online applications is that there’s basically no easy way to the flow of applications resulting in a practically unsortable mess in sheer quantity. Meanwhile for in person application submission the control is built in from needing the person to physically show up with a print out.

IDK this is just something that’s been bouncing around in my head for a bit. That over computerized infrastructure and interconnectivity is actively detrimental at least insofar as ease of use in concerned.

Ya know the more and longer this shit goes for the more I start thinking those whackjobs back in the 70s to the 90s who thought technology was the devil may have been on to something. Still think they’re wrong but I do think the world would improve if you had to install your own OS on computers and laptops, perhaps that would collapse the underlying social infrastructure these shitstains require to exist.

Gen Z here. I haven’t seen an ad that wasn’t a billboard or of my own volition for over a year. VHS ads don’t really count though so take that as you will.

Yeah at this point he is basically a fetish or an idol. Not so much an entity in his own right but a focus and mouth piece for the powers that actually be, and much like any fetish, idol, or symbol he is still a power in his own right and if he breaks they lose power.

It’s honestly a very interesting twist on how cults of personality tend to function.

He is a goblin who wants to steal my cheese and scream in my walls when the revolver mouse trap goes off.

These people aren’t serious human beings, not to say they aren’t threats but well look at him. I’m pretty sure me at my most unserious is still for more serious than them at their base, mind you I look perpetually feral.

Hence why I loathe my kinfolk so much. Bunch of fucken disgraces to our forefathers.

So was Caligula didn’t save him.