What happened was automation destroyed the blue collar working class and a lot of those guys moved to the right wing out of desperation. Meanwhile the Republican party was coming out them with bigotry and racism and they were primed to accept that because America is frankly a pretty racist country.

The Democrats then went after professionals in the suburbs in order to win national elections but they don't have the money and resources to do that on their own with their working class base broke because they've lost their jobs at the factory to automation.

Basically racism and automation all the real problems. We could sell both but it takes time to fix racism and as for automation that requires wealth redistribution of some kind and the Americans of the '70s through the 90s came out of the Cold war being told that that's the worst thing possible way worse than a genocide or Hitler or whatever other bad things you can think of.

Is the world is more complex than your childish understanding of it. Also Trump fucks kids.

In general democrat-run states have better schools. There is however several factors that make it tough for them to be perfect. For one thing there is still a little bit of the old nastiness involved in funding schools through property taxes. And is a little bit of the old white flight and other bits of nastiness.

Now the Democrats could fix a lot of that but they don't generally get supermajorities they get small majorities and here in america, and I get it wherever country you're from you don't understand this, but we set up our system to make it very very hard for regular working people to improve their lives by requiring super majorities for just about everything so that the wealthy land owning elites (corporate nowadays but when the shit was set up they were landowning) could effectively exercise veto power and that the regular rank and file citizens would need a super majority in order to override The veto of the ruling elites.

This means the Republican party can and does sabotage anything the Democrats try to do even in places where the Democrats are technically in charge. Because the word technically is doing a lot of work there.

This is before we talk about the effects of automation and process improvement on middle class jobs and the tax base but I think that's probably a bit over your head.

I don't think you actually want to learn but if you ever do look up a book called The People's History of the United States. You have been lied to your whole life. Also look up newt Gingrich and the contract with America.

Or if you are you don't know our history. They started slashing the funding and all the other really nasty right wing shit after Barry Goldwater lost in the mid 1960s. That's when they figured out they could trade racism and bigotry for economic gains.

You're right we don't each get our own truth. The reality is that this is been going on for decades.

Donald Trump is the culmination of 50 years of right wing extremism and a slow descent into fascism and dictatorship.

It's like boiling a frog only the frog is actually smart enough to jump out of the fucking water.

And yeah orange man bad. He fucks kids. Generally speaking somebody who fucks kids is pretty bad to me but your mileage may vary.

Is from property taxes. Like a lot of things it goes back to classism and racism. It's a way for rich people and white people to avoid paying for the poors and/or minorities to have school.

The other 38% of your funding comes from state level and federal money. That money is there very specifically to try to correct what's wrong with using property taxes to fund schools.

As an added bonus it maintains the suburbs that do not have a large enough tax base to fund their schools.

I am guessing though that you are not in a very well-off School district because the better ones with more money have plenty of supplies paid for by the district. Better food in the cafeteria too.

It's not a scam but it is a little bit of nastiness leftover from darker times.

I think the problem is that you have state actors attacking repositories consistently. You've also got the professional malware guys floating around too.

So it's difficult for a bunch of hobbyists and college kids to push back against that. If we had a functioning federal government there would be some assistance coming but we very much don't. And it's pretty obvious that the current American head of state has some dirt that's in the hands of our enemies because he's acting like a little bitch and it's pretty much letting our enemies do whatever they want.

If you're going to reply with the troll post could you please do a little bit better than the equivalent of I know you are but what am i? I mean I'm sure Chad GTP can write something for you. Ask your mom how to log on to the internet and use it.

Because eventually the free training data available online is going to dry up and when that happens anyone who hasn't fully established themselves or who doesn't own one of the big platforms, specifically Google Microsoft and apple, just goes away.

But the potential payoff is replacing trillions of dollars of employees and salaries so it's chump change to the billionaires.

Remember we have a ruling class so past a certain level we have a group of people who can spend unlimited money without consequences. Mark Zuckerberg spent $100 million dollars on that meta bullshit which was basically a half-assed version of second life and it had no effect on his fortunes whatsoever.

If any of us took that kind of gamble with the business we'd be homeless.

Trump is there a guy. Folks don't seem to understand that our entire news media has been consolidated into basically two companies, Sinclair media and nexstar.

Trump is a senile old fool and the heritage foundation with project 2025 are who is actually in charge.

It's not that they are bending the knee, I mean I think ABC did but I can't blame them for it since the people who control literally every TV station in the country told them that they either pull Kimmel or they're going to shut them down.

If you come to me and I've got a business with thousands of people employed and I've got to make the decision I'm not sure what I would do. It's Crystal clear that Sinclair media and nexstar are more than willing to pull ABC from the air. At that point I'm thinking about everybody's livelihoods...

If ABC had some watershed ultra hit show like game of thrones was back in the day they would have some leverage but without that they're just another Network. They've got popular shows sure but not enough that Sinclair media and the like wouldn't just say fuck it who cares if we lose money we will make it back when we have a dictatorship.

Basically this isn't one king making this happen this is the culmination of over 50 years of Republican policy that started with Barry Goldwater losing.

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

Press wasn't asleep at the wheel. Anyone who spoke ill of the chosen one Lord Orange was fired. I watched a couple dozen journalists get dog walked. It was so bad we came up with a new term to describe it, sane washing

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.

And is willing to State on the record that this is wrong and they fucked up voting for him? Is there anyone who brought us here to this state and is willing to take responsibility?

I am guessing not but I got to admit I am curious. Comment below.

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.

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

Sometimes the uk. But they prefer Canada because it's in the same time zone.