There’s C.H.U.D.s down there… https://youtu.be/BJckCjZ8Tdw

It wouldn’t be the first time the CIA has dealt with an american president.

No. As the populace wouldn’t support it otherwise.

It’s not a good system known for its merits or efficiency or anything else. It’s weaponizing hate and fear and ignorance by bad actors in the pursuit of power. Base avarice. Self serving. Power seeking. Nothing more complicated than that.

Zoning laws in a lot of places.

Race was invented by Europeans to divide the working class against itself.

That worked so well that every capitalist country has gone out of their way to reinforce it ever since.

I like to think i was a pretty sharp kid. I had it figured out at the ripe old age of 11 that if you could freely swap blood and organs between different races of people then there wasn’t enough difference between them to bother mentioning.

Trump only ran to stay out of prison. Now he’s ripping the copper out of the walls to get as much money as he can before it all collapses under his ineptitude.

Elon thinks he’s gonna be a trillionaire at the top of a technofeudal oligarchy. (He wants to be Arasaka from Cyberpunk but he’s gonna have a hard time doing that while all his businesses fail.)

I think he’s accelerating the decline of the US empire. And I think a new multipolar world with China taking on a leading role will emerge shortly. Within a few years at latest.

And I think that will be a massive benefit for the world at large. An advanced modern nation with a progressive forward leaning intent. It can only improve on the currently disintegrating unipolar US led world order.

It’s gonna suck here for us in the imperial core. Just ask the older brits who lived thru the deconstruction of the British empire. But our decline will take place in months-years. Not years-decades. This was always going to happen. Never doubt it. But it would have taken decades and been a carefully managed decline as opposed to the swan dive off the cliffs edge we’re seeing.

They might. But I wouldn’t want that.

Been screwed.

Chump and Elon just accelerated shit.

This was always gonna happen.

The point is there is no point. No higher order. We’re an accident of physics.

Domestic insurgency at home. Guerilla warfare in Canada.

America loses another war. We haven’t won one in 70+ years. Should be used to it.

Aliens visiting Earth.

I know it’s a statistical impossibility that we’re the only life out there. I just don’t believe they’ve ever been here. Since we haven’t been either conquered or uplifted yet.

Yep. Sure is. Hopefully that makes my blonde moment quota for a few days.

I don’t mind paying for the convenience. I tip well. I do wish we lived in a country where living wages were a thing. But we don’t. We’re a giant slave colony owned by like 5 megacorps.

My question here is, how much was the bill? 5 or $600?

It will actually.

In its current form the dems are a center-right republican-lite party. They serve the same oligarchs the Rs do.

You see that in the policies they push and support. Or rather, the lack of policies. They don’t do anything constructive that would actually help people unless it’s a PR stunt when they need a little boost. And even then they lash it down with narrow scope and means testing.

They are supposed to be the opposition. As in oppose. But they don’t. They refuse to. And they actively work to keep people who want to work for the good of the people out of positions of influence. If the dems wanted to, they would never lose an election again. But they don’t want to.

Do you know why we have term limits? It’s because the populist policy and social programs instituted by FDR made him so popular he was elected to 3 terms as president. Minimum wage, labor laws, social security, etc.