Unfortunately you don’t get things because you want them, you get things that actually exist.

No progressive/leftist party or candidate exists that can gain more than a couple of percent of the vote.

In that world, you choose the most progressive viable candidate.

to me, there are clear differences between the Republicans and the Democrats, and the choice is obvious. Both in values and action - they support labor, climate, diversity, education, access to health care, anticorruption, etc…

Weird how that account and the IndustryStandard account woke up at the same time deploying similar messaging.

Did a ban end?

Data analysts, medical researchers, astrophysicists - gone. You’ll work in a factory making plastic toys.

bump

This reply looks like some “get discouraged and angry” bullshit right here. Of course repeating the targeted message of the month about Democrats. And a wild falsehood about the homeless rate in the US.

you can’t distinguish any differences in policy or values between republicans and democrats? Nothing that furthers labor, climate, consumer, or justice/equity goals?

if the executive and agencies that are tasked with enforcing “the law” (vs the executive’s instructions) ignore judicial rulings, it’s kind of a moot point. Republicans and right-wing media have spent 30 years rotting out the conceptual foundations of “ethics”, “integrity”, and “values” to the point that the only qualification for leadership positions is fealty to Trump. The people they are hiring reject principles or integrity, to achieve power.

Regardless, The historical norm is that judges who have a stake in a case recuse themselves, but we know the game has changed. It seems unlikely an EO would target a named individual, and it can’t direct the judiciary or create new law or crimes……

At some point, we may be down to the level of the guy executing the arrest warrant or holding the keys to the jail cell or cutting the power lines to the courthouse being cognizant and responsible to their oath before their orders.

If that seems hopeless - start communicating ideas about loyalty to founding principles, the constitution, the laws, and the people. Enforce traditional and shared values rather than arguing and causing people to entrench into factions. It’s time to act, get that shit out there rather than reposting news articles or battling trolls

That’s its uninitialized position, I believe

I always wonder about the people who describe calling out Russia’s dirty tricks and non-stop toxic behavior as “Russophobia”

You haven’t really thought through this have you

Let’s remember the role givesomefucks played getting Donald Trump elected, and how much the folks like him talk shit about the New York Times because “billionaires” when it suits them.

blatant hypocrisy is a power move

He has a deficit in abstract thinking, so resource extraction (oil) and low-value commodity goods manufacturing and about as far as he goes, while he chases scientific research, knowledge industries, and long-horizon efforts out.

it doesn’t make sense to him that we should keep the beautiful parts of our country, beautiful, like Forest and national wildlife preserves, and make our money from culture, tech, finance, communication services, etc. while we buy oil and lumber from elsewhere.

The whole “China is taking advantage of us” thing is a hoot - the reason those factories are in china is because American management and corporate boards took great advantage of cheap labor and very intentfully moved production.

If this bothers you, you can short an amount equivalent to your index fund’s holding. But you’d have to track and maintain parity against the proportional allocation of the index fund as Tesla’s market cap changed and you invested more into the index.

So Eric Trump in 2028 then

They drink White Claw and $7 Kirkland Signature prosecco, not French champagne.

Source: Living among them.

He wants Democratic voters to withdraw in apathy or exhaust themselves on some “pure” but ineffective effort, and employs shame tactics to demotivate.

It’s pretty transparent.

Yes, having 100% of federal employees laid off is surely less impactful than having 20% laid off.

Gold coins have no value other than scarcity either. if they weren’t hoarded, their price as a industrial metal would probably drop 90%

This is like saying the Visa or Swift transaction clearing networks have no value. they clearly do.