Not that I'm terribly fond of China what would it be a dictatorship and all but it is annoying how the Epstein class is busy trying to make me angry at them for no particularly good reason. They're all good reasons to be upset with the Chinese government what would the human rights violations and all but now this is bullshit.

If Tesla had made a more traditional truck it's mass production model and made the Cybertruck as a like a 20K limited run they'd both be considered success, The idea you could mass market that thing is just letting cocaine make decisions.

Yeah but Federal regulations override state regulations. Supremacy clause which is what they're relying on. They have control of the supreme Court thanks to decades of bribes and so here we are..

Even if you're not stupid enough to gamble because you know you have to lose because of course you do you're going to be negatively affected by this because tens of millions of young men will gamble with money they don't have to lose and that will increase crime and cause a ton of other problems.

This is a classic chesterton's fence where you don't take the fence down without understanding why the fuck it was put up. Gambling is highly addictive so it needs to be carefully regulated. Criminalizing it isn't a good idea either keeping it locked away to one state and then heavily regulating it in that state more or less seem to be working. And we just pissed that all away.

Six of nine judges are completely on the take. Google the phrase luxury motor Coach sometime.

It should be a bigger deal that the Chief Justice of the supreme Court is a corrupt sellout but well here we are. Half the country is quaking in their boots because 34 trans girls might play sports and one of the most powerful men on the planet is openly taking bribes and they shrug their shoulders.

I don't know how a species like that survives the next 50 years let alone the next millennia.

We can say that but the public seems to disagree as they don't like services being cut and Republicans don't seem to want to cut anything meaningful and they also love subsidies and Federal spending and we can't say it's wasteful spending because we've had multiple Republican admins, Congess majorities and the glorious DOGE and no huge waste has ever been uncovered so seems like we're left with one option: raise revenues.

Conservatives love comparing the US economy with a home economy so if you had the option to say, cut back your lifestyle spending 40% or you had a opportunity to increase your salary 40% which would you take?

You can take real eyeballs and put them on people's tick tock videos and you can easily monetize that because there's so many scams and social media influencers trying to make money there. Plus I bet you can show them literally anything without any age restrictions because the feeds would run with the application's account. You might even get ad revenue from it. Although there's usually very little money to be made doing that the real money on video platforms is either patreon or scams.

Nothing childish about it. Why would a psychopath waste time on something that does not directly benefit them?

Well if you are in fact non-American than that is even somehow more pathetic and cringe so you know, take your pick.

2017 lol

It was a bunch of finance Bros and tech Bros jacking up the prices on everything you buy to the point where you can't afford video gaming anymore.

Right now we're just barely able to skate by because there's a glut of old hardware floating around that could be sold for cheap. Like how Sega mega drives are available in third world countries these days.

In a few more years that's basically where we're going to be at. Video gaming will be a luxury like it was in the early '70s. And you certainly won't be able to afford it in your retirement.

They're talking about it openly if you're listening but you have to really be listening.

Basically they want to create a national sales tax because that puts the tax burden for paying for the military and the police and everything onto people who spend most of their income buying things. That's you.

So this is just a way to make you the working Man pay the taxes for the people who own things for a living instead of working for a living.

The idea that we have people who own things for a living in our economy and aren't just retired because they're not able to work anymore is one of the fundamental problems with our economy and our civilization. You can't have a capitalist society built on labor value and work and then have the wealthiest and most successful people not actually doing any work because they just own stuff for a living.

I mean you can but it pretty quickly devolves into some form of feudalism or fascism take your pick.

But then that's not capitalism anymore. So I guess that dovetails back to you can't have a capitalist system and what the wealthiest people skate by without actually doing any work.

On the other hand Elon Musk works 100 hours a week and is history's greatest inventor so... Lisa Simpson said so herself and would she lie?

See, you give your American-ness away immediately.

Free professional troll tip you nutsack, if you're gonna larp as a non-American don't act so weirdly specific about US culture wall bullshit.

Meanwhile in reality the vast majority of immigrants to the US are fucking Christians you absolute goddamn nutsacks.

Quick quick, go ask Grok to back you up and when that fails go search some of those white nationalist accounts you are so fond of for some more bullshit.

Ironically for Republicans the only economic tool they seems to capable of using these days is taxes, taxes and more taxes.

And yet since 2000 it turns out that the Bush and Trump tax cuts are going to end up responsible for nearly 50% of US debt and Trump himself may end up responsible for 25% of all US debt. Let that sink in and accept the fact that when Republicans tell you they want balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility they are lying to your face.

For sure keep it up, this admin is definitely pushing the issue:

New Survey Finds Strong Majorities of Americans – Including Nearly All Major Religious Groups – Support Nondiscrimination Protections for LGBTQ People

Turns out American's don't like the government targetting minorities with the jackboots of government power.

"Don't tread on me, tread on them!" isn't very American after all.