Huh, yeah, must have got my demons mixed up.

They’re basically running the US like venture capital, stripping the wiring from the walls.

That’s the trick!

They believe everyone is gluttonous and slothful because they’re misanthropic.

I don’t know why they even left Reddit. Were they really that mad about app development?

Yeah it’s 100% just a Starlink scam. The internet does not make people less ignorant, I promise.

ICE is under Homeland Security. Besides, being new doesn’t really make them not the Gestapo. The Gestapo was new at one point as well after all.

It was bad in 2004 too, people just didn’t realize that ICE was the Gestapo back then.

The mask is off. That’s all.

If people voted for Gore instead of Nader, American history would be very different.

People did vote for Gore. Their votes were invalidated by the Supreme Court. The election was stolen.

Playing with historical counterfactuals is pointless anyway. Voting is over. They aren’t going to let us vote them out of power anymore. The elections will either be canceled or rigged.

It’s time to do something else.

protests (BLM, Gaza), violence (Matthew crooks, Luigi) has at best accomplished zero,

We need organized labor actions. We run this country and we can shut it down. That’s how we got the New Deal.

The one exception I’d give is boycotts - like the Tesla boycotts that have destroyed their sales numbers.

Don’t forget the vandalism and arsons. There’s more than one way to hurt a business.

Bush was forced onto us by the Supreme Court in a judicial coup that basically set us on our current trajectory. Trump has never won more than 50% of the vote, even this time around he only got 49.9%

In a democratic country this shit wouldn’t happen. Elections have always been dubiously free and fair in this shithole.

I’m in my 30s, hardly a kid. I’ve watched this shithole country get worse and worse my whole life, and I am beyond convinced that we will only stop it with political actions that go far beyond the ballot box. You’re going to have to get your hands dirty.

If we’re allowed to vote for the next president you might as well, I know I will, but stop pretending it is nearly good enough.

I think that saying is just the British patting themselves on the back. It was mostly just Soviet blood that liberated the camps.

You forgot the jury box i.e. jury nullification

“Eyy what murders? I didn’t see no murder. Brian Thompson just fell on some bullets.”

Voting won’t save you.

Voting also isn’t the only option.

Recall that there are four boxes of liberty.

If they let us vote again then we might as well do it, but at the rate things are going they might just rig the election if they don’t cancel it.

Be suspicious of anyone who tells you that voting is going to solve this problem. They aren’t going to let you vote them out of power.

By all means, vote if you can! But if the only thing you do is vote, you will lose.

Put some sweet pea pods and chopped green onions into your ramen. Doesn’t add much time or effort but adds tons of flavor.

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And yet they never catch up. Why do you think that is?

The goal is to keep them weak and dependent, not help them stand as equals with France and Germany.

Sure, but you seem to be under the impression the only bots are the people that disagree with you.

There’s nothing stopping bots from grooming you by agreeing with everything you say.

Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot, probably from Russia. You are very smart.

Do you still think you’re going to be allowed to vote for the next president?

It isn’t to help them catch up, it’s to keep them limping along without collapsing entirely, while at the same time keeping them dependent so they don’t think of trying to escape. It has the same function as the IMF/World Bank.

They’re also living longer - smog has been greatly reduced and they have access to better healthcare than ever before.