Anyone under 25 needs to be using their hands, eyes, and brain to build themselves up into people capable of handling the reality of working. Rather than vegging out on a flashing stimulate making device, and disengaging their brain and their humanity.

It doesn't matter if we're talking about the 21st century where you likely will find jobs that need some or a lot of computer skills. Or if we're talking about 20,000 BCE where you'd be running along the Savannah gathering food and avoiding lions. People need years of constant practice in order to build up the skills they need to thrive. And your little brain evolved in developing those skills in meatspace, not cyberspace. We literally have no idea what would happen if people disconnected from reality and lived virtually. They'd probably not thrive, and would unlikely be an asset to society in the long run.

We are not.

He's a man with a great deal of experience and works with many kinds of people. By "work" I mean he's ripped of so many kinds of people. Construction workers, lawyers, bankers, ... pretty much anyone that tries to deal fairly with Trump will get stung in the end.

The greatest threat to Trump himself is that fascism is like a drug to people with a narcissistic personality. Can we even blame him for falling into it, it's in his nature to be this way. It was cruel of us to have elected a man that can't handle a position of power. Feeding and support his delusions in order for him to feed us our delusions is the codependent relationship that apparently 48% of us crave.

So now we're running America like a business. But one-third of businesses fail in their first 2 years, so that seems like bad odds compared to what we had for 250 years before. And what happens when a business fails? The government takes over and divides up the assets, generally through a civil process. When a country fails there is another process that starts with the word civil and ends with the word war.

The flip side is the data was double reported.

Realistically most home owners are pushing the risk off onto a mixture of private insurance (in terms of loss coverage) and federal/state/local in terms mitigation and flood insurance, doing things upgrading the city sewer to handle more storm water or enhance flood walls.

The cost of getting someone else to take on these risks shows up in the price of insurance and local taxes / levies.

These are published, or mostly otherwise discover-able. As a buy/investor those are numbers worth looking at, they are the ones that matter (or if you cant get insurance - tells you something too). You won't be getting mortgage either in that instance. There is zero value in some big scary climate risk number also being disclosed, because A that risk accounted for if you are studying the details anyway and does not help you make a rational decision, because it literally does not affect you beyond the places where it is already baked into the numbers.

State ownership is also a feature of fascism. It's coupled to the feature that fascist protect businesses that give them power.

A generation that has been coasting on the mobilization of industry during WW2. Then we spent four (six?) decades destroying our industrial capacity for short term profit taking.

Good job, living the life while leaving your grandchildren worse off.

And worse, the government will screw any competitors to its *favored* companies. Just watch el Bunko, he has no morals or ethics, so naturally the Christian Right feels he is one of them.

This is not socialism but fascism. Look it up. And what happens when one of these companies that idiot put U.S. taxpayer money into? The taxpayers will bail it out. And if anyone of these companies cannot compete, it won't matter because the U.S. Government won't let it fail.

Reagan wasn't really a Republican either. Lincoln was probably turning in his grave when the GOP made Reagan their party mascot.

You get to choose fascist-flavored imperialism or slightly embarrassed imperialism.

la Presidenta is entirely Republican. You must recall that Reagan campaigned on Gov. is the Problem and more or less promised to tear it down. He didn't of course and taxes actually went up under Reagan. He also let the feral Christian Right into politics under the guise of Jerry Falwell and his ilk. They proceeded to destroy any freedoms that they could lay hand on since they were not contained in his Bible. After that, Gingrich proceeded to further destroy a functioning government and then campaigned on government does not work. Nice shot, Gringrich, and he's still promoting the same stupid shit.

Reagan also campaigned for the rich people. His tax cuts were aimed, if not entirely on them, they were huge beneficiaries. Bush 1 and 2 were similarly dumb. Bush 2 claimed there were gov. surpluses as far as they eye could see, so they could then proceed to cut taxes thus screwing government one more time. Deficits continue to rise because of those. Obama stupidly continued those damn things, and then we got The Whiner in Chief who thought that rewarding rich people for being rich meant that they'd reward him with some of their riches; he wasn't wrong.

Biden was caretaker and the U.S reeled under Covid, a disease ignored by la Presidenta until if couldn't be, mainly due to the stiffs piling up. The Republicans thought this was just potty because they were not Their stiffs, those were little people stiffs. la Presidenta funded the vaccines only because he wanted to be re-elected, other than that he didn't give a flying fuck. It was so bad that when Biden got in and asked for the NiH plan to combat the pandemic, they handed him a binder of crap that was no plan at all. The Biden Administration had to start at square one.

Now el Bunko is selling off the Federal Government one piece at a time to his rich friends who reward him by feeding his grifts. Just look at who contributed to his alleged companies or his dumb-ass ballroom or his festooning the White House with tasteless gold gewgaws. Meanwhile the Republicans are whacking Medicaid and intend to whack the ACA under reasoning that those are helping the little people. In their eyes, the little people are not rich because they choose to be poor.

"Just"

It's super hard to redo our constitution. There's only two ways, one is with fire and the other requires consensus.

The vast majority of people in the US don't know shit.

Let's not forget how many nuns were/presumably still are

A) lesbians kicked out of society
B) young women with no prospects who found themselves working in a Vatican-owned brothel euphemistically called a convent
C) both of the above

This is of course nonsense.

You will never be free from oversight so long as you are using money. Nor should you be.

You seem to be illiterate.