The problem stopping distribution to where stuff is needed is money, the people who have it, the people who owe it, the funny patterns it makes on stock markets, in hedge funds etc.

Money was ok as a means to allow people to exchange their different trades into things they need to live. But it has moved so far beyond that it has become ridiculous.

This a thousand times. The world is throwing away resources at an astounding rate while people are sick, homeless and starving because of numbers on digital ledgers. We need to drop the whole idea of money. It’s served its purpose, run its course and has since turned into a life on this planet threatening perversion.

Could the bill be used to base measures on that help combat climate change? Sometimes idiots are actually useful.

People who saw project 2025 for what it was were not caught by surprise at all. Trump himself barely matters, it people like Peter Thiel and the heritage foundation who write policy. They need the US to fall apart and they don’t mind helping Putin a bit along the way.

Trump often reminds me of the Galactic President from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

“Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.”

So they choose someone flamboyant and zany and scandalous who will give the press nice headlines and good repeatable quotes.

Yeah it’s weird, and if there are elections popular opposition candidates will face a fate like mr Navalny, I’m afraid. Much as I would like AOC as a US president, I think at this point, she needs to run for her life rather than for president. And believe me, I truly hate that this is the case.

She is an amazing person and a fantastic leader. However she is the kind of person the fascists fear and she is also the right shade of skin to earn a one way ticket to El Salvador.

You see the people clamoring for the deportation of mr Mamdani, and he is at this point nothing more than one party’s possible candidate for mayor of one town. Imagine what would happen if ms Ocasio-Cortez were an actual presidential candidate!?

Even now I worry about her safety often. Same for that wonderful ms Crockett, mr Frost and a few others.

The Ferengi would mock him mercilessly, he is a cheap fraud and doesn’t have the lobes for business.

That mattered back when there were elections that had to have at least a semblance of being fair. They have the power now and don’t have an issue using fear instead of love to keep it. Trump only needs to live long enough to solidify that power. I’m sure the US is past that point and the people determining policy would love to see Trump martyred.

It’s not easy to take action that really works. Protests only do so much. Armed resistance is problematic and can backfire in so many ways…

I’m not American and I wish you guys the very best, but my expectations for the 2026 elections is on par with the elections in Russia. Every non republican candidate may end up in jail or out of a window.

Yes but somehow those are way less agressive at taking away your rights and even try to make the world moderately better. It’s the difference between the guys hacking holes in the boat and the ones not fixing the holes fast enough. Sure, both are letting the boat sink, but there does seem a serious difference.

They’re not “officers” they’re thugs.

The word officer carries an idea that you adhere to certain rules and regulation. I know this is already pretty flakey with normal US police, ICE however seems to have less rules and procedure and common decency than a band of hells angels.

Pure gold right there!

Indeed, conservatives are stupid degenerates but they play at politics well enough to be in power or have a stranglehold on power if they don’t hold it.

It’s a similar narrative, but the difference is that the one about the right is reality based. The conservative base is extremely stupid as are some of their politicians, but the ones planning things are ruthless psycho’s who are tactically smart.

Best outcome would be if Iran and the US took out each other’s government, but they always seem weirdly unwilling to go after the leadership if they have an option to kill soldiers and civilians instead, even when it’s clearly the leaders who pose a problem.

It goes for the players among each other too. It’s not just the one character in OP that dislikes or distrusts the party. It’s up to the rest of the party to also accomodate them. If you have a moral character in the group you might refrain from murdering, raping and pillaging for shits and giggles.

As they say “the only way to have a friend is to be one”.

Would have been better with a red wine. That is better at room temperature and we can include drinks of color!

I would not trust US troops in Ukraine not to suddenly switch sides and shoot the Ukrainians in the back.

I’d say that you are spot on and people in the West who want to believe in strange middle east cults can do so quietly at home and not bother anyone with their hokey faith. That goes for Muslims, Jews, Christians and the rest of them.

Musk risks nothing because TACO.

Lol, that is pretty ironic coming from a known commy traitor who’s activities as part of a forbidden secret society are well documented.