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Comment There's no point (Score 1) 134

To talking to Trump voters in the wild unless they are family or close friends. They're just getting too much propaganda and any points of reality you get them to concede will get blasted out of their eye sockets the moment they step into their car and turn on talk radio or turn on basically any mass media now. Even local news channels are basically full on Fox News insanity after all the market consolidation. The last bastion of any sanity was late night comedy TV and the right wing knows that and they are shutting it down.

The problem Democrats have is the Republicans are actively sabotaging the country and holding us all hostage.

They aren't alienating there voters you're just eyeball deep in propaganda so you aren't aware what they're up against.

It's not your fault like I said right wing completely took over the news media and the media in general. They just bought everything over the last 50 years.

The sabotage and hostage taking started with newt Gingrich with a tricky call to contract with america. Basically you block everything positive to Democrats want to do for their voters and you continuously sabotage the government and the country in general. Then you use your control of the media to blame the Democrats.

The problem is understanding that is way too nuanced. You kind of have to be paying close attention to politics to see it happening and frankly that's not good for your health

Comment Trump is basically the second coming of Christ (Score 4, Insightful) 134

So there's your rationalization.

The right wing is about hierarchy and structured order with some people at the top some people at the bottom and of course never ever ever anyone on the right wing at the bottom.

Trump can do whatever he wants for the exact same reason God can do whatever he wants. It's literally Divine command theory.

If Trump does something it is good because Trump did it and if you think it's bad it's just that your feeble mind can't comprehend the 8d chess

It's the same reason the tribal war god of Abraham can commit multiple genocides and endorsed slavery and turn women into property and it's all okay because it has to be because God did it and God is inherently good.

Comment The call is coming from within the house (Score 4, Insightful) 83

Republicans have repeatedly cut funding the schools and especially school lunch programs because the thought of hungry children excites them.

When my kid was in high school there was 45 kids to a class and the last 10 had the stand during the class. Several schools have been closed due to funding.

The Republican party actively sabotages public education to fool you into privatizing it so that they can profit from it.

They think you're stupid. Are you? Don't answer me. It's the Republican party you need to answer come to midterms.

Comment Fun fact about egg prices (Score 1) 45

The problems around bird flu were solved ages ago, it was just good old fashioned collusion among the egg producers to keep prices high.

I'm not quite sure why Joe Biden didn't act. I get that he was old but he wasn't that far gone. I suspect he underestimated how big of an issue it would be and it is remarkably hard to enforce antitrust law in america. Plus Democrats are fucking obsessed with following process and procedure and any enforcement action would probably end up involving the doj and well, biden's biggest mistake was putting a republican in charge of the doj in an effort to be bipartisan...

The point is high prices are a political issue not an economic one

Comment Honestly there's not a lot those guys can do (Score 1) 197

That Americans can't. We don't bring in a lot of super geniuses on the H1B Visa program. Hell not sure if they're still around but there were other Visa programs for the Albert Einsteins of the world.

What you got instead is some folks who were pretty good at math and ended up in routine coding jobs.

Buddy of mine who never graduated college but is intelligent but unfortunate landed a coding job for about 6 months before getting replaced by an h1b. He'd been doing the job just fine for the pay and they replaced them. On paper the H1B was more competent because they had more credentials but there was no issue with the work my buddy was doing, and he got offered a position full time instead of the contract gig he was doing until one of the higher-ups caught wind of it and decided to intervene.

It's one thing to hear about stories of Americans getting replaced but I've watched it happen to somebody I know pretty closely. Maybe they would have shipped the job overseas but I doubt it. As far as I know the job is still there held by an h1b. Although by now the guy is probably got his green card

Comment The Republican party has been sabotaging education (Score 2, Informative) 82

Since reagan. So yeah no shit be born on happy with the situation.

It's the classic right wing trick where you take a government program that's working just fine and maybe needs a few touch ups and then yank all the funding while methodically sabotaging it in devious ways and then tell everybody, see we tried to have public services but she just can't do it like the private sector can.

Then you privatize it and get the skin 10 to 20% off the top for your own profit. They have been dancing that Charleston with us for a long time and we just keep letting them do it.

Comment Fine by me (Score 0) 197

You can have the house in crisis they cause. Which you already do because your government brought in over a million of them in the country with 40 million people. Which is why Canada backed off a bit.

You already have a housing crisis and like America you can't do anything about it because your boomers won't let you.

I don't care what the GDP is. If you're a Canadian you should understand a high GDP that's not immediately create a high standard of living. Canada overall has a higher standard of living than America but a lower GDP and per capita income.

That said I predict this won't have any effect whatsoever except for Trump to get a little bit more money in his pocket by routing it to himself through tax cuts.

At least Trump is finally a billionaire thanks to the 2 billion dollars the UAE bribed him with.

Comment There isn't any land (Score 1, Insightful) 101

You can't grow crops for yourself because the wealthy claimed all the land and if you try to use it to grow crops they will just shoot you.

That was a major problem in Venezuela where the ultra wealthy claimed all the land and wouldn't let anyone use it but didn't use it themselves so they had food shortages. The thing that really pissed off America about Venezuela was when Chavez seized all the land and gave it to people to farm. Rich people are supposed to be able to monopolize resources and then refuse to use those resources in order to artificially limit supply and raise the value of their assets. That's the American way.

The wealthy are planning to set themselves up as kings. Kings do not sell products and they don't care about the economy they just make sure they keep their armies Fed so that those armies can put down peasant revolts. If you look at Russia Putin has allowed every place except the two big cities to completely collapse and he just doesn't care because he controls the central military. Every time an oligarch starts to get big enough to be a problem that oligarch just gets assassinated. Basically standard Royal Court intrigue shit like you saw in France.

We are heading into techno feudalism. We needed to stop it in America in 2024 by electing Kamala Harris but we didn't.

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