I mean I can read news articles. And you can find the news articles the talk about the corporate commission overriding the locals.

I think the governor is a Democrat so there's some hope but usually you can steam roll locals especially smaller ones. Arizona has a lot of small towns and small cities that won't have the strength to push back against a combination of large corporations and corrupt state governments. It's a reddish state, I think without cheating and gerrymandering it would be a blue state because the statewide races keep going blue but the local races keep going red and that's usually a sign of voter suppression and gerrymandering...

Whatever the case though it's very difficult for Democrats and un corrupt politicians to win small races like the corporate commissioner because people do not realize just how much power those kind of local races have but you can bet your ass corporations and billionaires do

Well, I'll have to admit, I didn't have "learning that someone on Slashdot believes that the Cold War was a myth" on my bingo card for today.

Of severe RAM and storage shortages. That's because openai has already bought 40% of ram capacity for the next 4 years.

It's possible that the whole thing will collapse before then but I don't think so because AI has the possibility to replace trillions and wages. Remember the problem AI is designed to solve is paying wages.

That's going to keep the 1% pumping all of their money into it and they have about 60 to 70% of the money in the country all to themselves.

While we were getting upset that we couldn't say Merry Christmas or that our kids might be gay they were busy consolidating power and taking all the money.

So she seems to have pretended to be a progressive long enough to get that senate seat and sell her constituency out. Because it's a senate seat it takes 6 years to get rid of her. The people of Arizona did so immediately afterwards. I think she was going to try to run as a independent in the hopes of spoiling the election for the Democrats and giving the seat to the Republican party but she was so intensely hated by democrats at that point she was only drawing Republican votes so she dropped out entirely and became a lobbyist.

Is planning on overriding it. They are all Republicans so they are bought and paid for.

Conservatives and the right wing are all about local government until it gets in their way.

The same model of using the state resources to override local government will be spread across the rest of the country out from Arizona.

Remember it's not small government, it's government small enough to drown in a bathtub. Small enough that you can control with violence...

Right wing politics doesn't work. It's a combination of trickle down and the divine right of Kings and if you have literally any knowledge you know those don't work.

So the only solution is total media control. Like they do in Russia or China. Otherwise we all see the emperor has no cloths and do away with our ruling class.

So right now in America 90% of media is owned by billionaires, but that's not enough. There's still truth and reality available. And that has to stop.

I was a CWA member throughout grad school. It may be that they just put a lot more effort into the larger companies where their members were employed (think Verizon as one great example) but we didn't see much help from them as grad students. I remember one meeting my first year where we were reminded we could always ask for a union rep anytime we were talking with our PI, and that was about it.

What are the odds that the daughter of Bill Gates could secure funding for a start up. Didn't have that on my bingo card for 2025.

Somebody once asked, "If Jeff Bezos can start Amazon in his garage what's stopping you?"

Answer: I don't have a garage.

Ah! A GB News regular, I see!

Are they still following the old trick of taking one single isolated event, and talking about that one single isolated event non-stop for ten years straight to give the gullible the impression that one single isolated event happened twenty thousand times?

Billionaires and ruling elites are dismantling capitalism. They have never liked capitalism they have just taken advantage of it when it was available. But they spend every waking moment trying to undermine the mechanics of capitalism.

On the other hand voters simply will not tolerate socialism. If you've ever had a co-worker that won't pull their own weight and felt resentment that's why. The idea of somebody who isn't working being allowed to have anything is really upsetting to a lot of people.

We need some sort of third way and I have no idea what it is. I know Joe Biden was trying to buy time with some antitrust law enforcement and with unions but that wasn't a solution that would it Best buy some time before the total collapse of capitalism.

And that is way too complex for voters to understand so we get another term of trump and capitalism is getting dismantled faster now...

We definitely have to come up with a third option but I have no idea what it could be

I know you probably want to go back to Gold but our economy is too big for that and it would be silly. You need a money supply and you need a currency that isn't pegged to any physical asset. Otherwise you artificially constrain your economy to that asset .

The problem is we keep printing money and then giving it all to about 3,000 billionaires and then they use it to buy up competitors and jack up prices on you and me.

The issue is that we have a ruling class and a lot of us seem to want it that way because they want to believe that there is order and structure to the universe instead of the frightening chaos that we actually live in. So they turn right wing and support a hierarchical structure that makes them feel like that order exists even if in reality it doesn't.

For the older ones a lot of them will drop dead before reality comes calling but if you're under 50 you can't pretend the real world isn't real anymore. The protections from the New deal and the Great society or your local equivalent have completely broken down.

Nope, see Alexandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics.

You're wrong, Russia wants normalization. Putin has ALWAYS wanted normalization. Instead it has always been the West's intention since the USSR dissolved in 1991 to undermine and break up Russia.

Here's the dirty little secret: there are more natural resources frozen under Siberia right now than the rest of the world combined. Whoever controls that when it thaws will control the planet. Once you understand that then everything else that the bankrupt West has been doing on Russia's borders the past 35 years will make more sense..

They don't want to, but they want to cause the impression they want to. The more afraid individual NATO countries are they're going to be invaded, the more the invest in their own military strength, and refuse to share their stockpile of weapons and ammunitions with Ukraine, after all, what if they need those stockpiles? Better to hard them in fear a future hypothetical war, than to spend it on the current real war that, if won, would stop the future potential aggressor cold.

Hence, threatening NATO countries is an extremely effective psy-op for Russia. And European leaders are quite the idiots for not perceiving that's what's going on.

Ah! Another American whose history lessons were limited to learning that, I dunno, George Washington once cut a tree and that the US saved the world all alone twice! Nice!

Me, I'm quite amused when I see the US doing such things for roughly the same reason I'm amused when I see its pseudo-conservatives destroying its welfare system. The result will be, respectively, what happened to the British Empire and to China after WW2. As the old saying goes, never interrupt your adversary when he's doing something stupid! ;-)

They should've been steered there in the first place. They'll make more money too.