Lol, you entirely misunderstand the issue.
Americans lack the skills and machining of modern manufacturing. It’s so expensive because they’d have to make buildings and teach skills that are already everywhere in China.
But sure, laugh like a fucking moron we’re taking behind the world because we don’t take care of workers or infrastructure.
There’s no way my balls aren’t hanging out.
Everything about Christianity is basically backwards from what Jesus actually fucking said.
No idolatry is the first commandment for a reason. People that worship the idol of the cross have already failed to learn what the religion was to teach.
Basically, look at Republicans. They absolutely worship the flag yet at the same time defile everything the country supposedly stands for.
My entire school life there was so much pontification over what “you” would do during segregation or the Holocaust or slavery?
Turns out my entire family would grow a toothbrush moustaches and start painting vegan landscapes while I kept working because the cost of living rises more than wages and I long for the reprieve of death.
Bro, I’ve been high basically every fucking day for the last 5 years for sure but we’re getting on a decade here.
There isn’t much shit I haven’t tried on weed because raw dawgging this timeline is a guaranteed shotgun slurpee.
Cowards?
Pelosi was pretty brave defending insider trading after someone used her husband to stress test their hammer.
They aren’t cowards. They’re morons or traitors.
They aren’t -afraid- to do the right thing.
They’re afraid of losing money and power. Or worse, they actually think they’re doing a good thing.
That bit makes more sense when you factor in Scotus making corporations people.
Step one: fund raise on trans rights.
Step two: not support trans rights or any meaningful reform for the people.
Step three: keep losing support while leaning ever right
Step four: fail to do fuck all about RvW for 4 decades
Step five: blame trans people for losing by bringing the party “too far left” while continuing to cut corporate taxes and increase police funding as a percentage of municipal budgets
And my boss still says I’m one of the best on the team… 🤷🏼♂️
Yes, they are part of the system. You’re so eager to disagree you don’t understand you’re making my point.
You all won’t be able to fix anything if you’re more focused on what feels good to yell about you can’t focus on the root cause.
I agree. The bad taste is not that while not wrong per-se, it’s just reduces a complex issue into “red bad” while wholly failing to acknowledge that Democrats have been complicit in facilitating the Overton Window this far.
“Progressives” are really hard on the “REPUBLICANS DID THIS!” and never really pick up on the “and Democrats met them half way.”
This blue no matter who reduction hopes to hide liberalism is the slow road to fascism.
The problem isn’t meany racist MAGAts. It’s the entire system spending decades working overtly toward fascism with a bunch of clueless fucking rubes staring complacently.
This is why felon mush bought shitter.
Yeah, there’s a body of research about social media both used to foster animosity as well as complacency.
The entire stock market is basically a ponzi scheme.
Push pensions, 401k, 529, HSA money into one spot and then rug the whole market every few years.
But you get to pick what color your collar is!
How many people hated the ACA for undermining their freedom to use solely who their employer allowed them to?
How many big, strong men get their feelings hurt when ANYONE tells them not to do things (that are dangerous to themselves and/or illegal) but at the same time, is absolutely devastated when they can’t dictate how others act?
“Your right to swing your fist ends where my face begins” used to be a thing. Now, stopping a conservative from genocide is violating their freedoms.
It’s a circus of absurdity fueled by decades of rewarding blind selfishness and cuts to education.
There’s an ever growing chance shit like this just functions as pressure release psyops because it makes people feel accomplished while doing fuck all as everyone buys more the day before or the day after.
What people -don’t want to- understand is that for it to hurt the corporations, it’s got to hurt all of us. Either we give up things entirely like streaming and luxury goods or we do a general strike that costs millions of people their jobs or prompts a fascist crackdown.
The only good ways out of this spot were decades ago. Every path forward is miles of broken glass because of how propagandized a majority of this country is. Everyone wants to blame Trump or Republicans, but Democrats have spent at least 30 years with Clinton’s 3rd way dems (gay tolerant Reaganites) pushing the Overton window right.
http://politicalcompass.org/uselection2016
Hilary’s policy was assessed as farther right than Trump’s. Obama basically handed the Heritage Foundation everything they wanted.
These bullshit one day strikes aren’t going to save us and neither are the Democrats simply because if they were interested in preserving democracy, they wouldn’t have been slow walking us right for decades.
MIT lecture from 2014 about oligarchy controlling everything already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzS068SL-rQ
Several points.
One, look over my post history and you’ll see I’m not a fan of the Democrats because they’re marginally less bad conservatives.
Two, like I give a fuck if reality hurts their feelings, but I’m not being elitist favoring my side. Anyone falling for the false dichotomy doesn’t understand reality to the point they could form opinions that matter. Like anyone that favors term limits is automatically a gullible rube that hasn’t looked into it at all. The majority of people rely on received opinions and specious reasoning for almost everything because actual consistent coherent thought is a learned still.
Three, I’m being objective and not judgemental, hence the links. There’s hard data everyone is just fucking dumber largely due to Republican efforts to sabotage education being met half way by Democrats.
And four, look at the link about gerrymandering. They spent decades literally cheating. Capping the house at 435 in 191X also massively empowered conservatives. Then you have to look into the end of times accelerationists and evangelical dominionists… Lots of cheating, sabotaging education, and obvious racism in law enforcement ignored.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
Five, the term right wing comes from the French parliament that wanted to keep the monarchy in power. The founding fathers were college educated aristocracy that wouldn’t have wanted white trash voting or owning guns (federalist paper… 27… Or 29?) and yet conservatives worship them.
The entire ecosystem is full of gullible assholes in authoritarian power structures where independent thought is punished.
They’ve always been garbage people.
Are we supposed to feel bad for fascist apologists? Republicans have always been unrepentant bastards or gullible fucking morons. Usually both because they’re objectively impaired for both empathy and intelligence.
Empathy- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9400002/#%3A~%3Atext=While+we+are+regularly+inundated%2Cothers)%20relative%20to%20their%20more
But not just conservatives, all Americans are dumber: https://www.the74million.org/article/across-all-ages-demographics-test-results-show-americans-are-getting-dumber/
Decades of obvious racism:
https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/
https://www.brut.media/us/videos/us/politics/gop-strategists-daughter-leaks-secret-files
Crazy, computers use power?