Uh huh, you "hired trump" Anna he's doing what you told him to do.

Did you hire him to lower prices? Said he would and hasn't.

Did you hire him to "close the border"? Are you really stupid enough to think he has? I mean yes you still believe things a pathological liar tells you so you are clearly a complete idiot. But humour me, I would like you to rationalise away the net migration statistics:

https://data.worldbank.org/ind...

In the real world, not fantasy trump land, net migration cratered in 2020, due to COVID. It first sharply again in 2021 and 2022, but under Biden didn't return to the same level and started to decrease YOY. Anna in trump's first year in it dropped by the same amount as Biden's last year.

So Trump has been no more effective than Biden, but yet you love trump for things he hasn't done. Anyway please rationalize that away including excuses about how it's everyone else who's the really racists really because if you shout that hard enough you might just believe it. We won't though.

The privacy suits might be successful but:

Yeah that's gonna fail. Users definitely consented to that.

Why are you lying about what people's positions are?

The cognitive dissonance is much easier to handle if you simply lie about opposing positions to the point where they're easily dismissed. Somehow it's easier to allow yourself that outright lie than to think a reasonable position is unreasonable.

[Citation needed]

He doesn't need one: you don't support Trump and the Republicans because of facts or reasoning. Any lie is OK as long as it feels right.

I find it baffling that farmers, a not on the whole a famously rich group, have decided that the parties of the monied classes and business owners are the right fit for them. They also voted for Brexit over here and appear to have been genuinely shocked that the massive EU subsidies went away, they're somewhat cut off from the huge market next door and the new promised trade deals struck to stop us running out of food do not massively favour them.

Oh also fishermen. Those fucking morons have whinged and bitched and moaned forever about the EU for preventing them from causing a fishery collapse. Then they all got massively surprised when the EU wouldn't let them take as many fish as they wanted from EU state waters.

Many people will vote against their own interests because they, frankly, can't think things through. If something right in front of them is annoying them right now, it's bad and must go. Bonus points if a known grifter who stands to benefit promises them sunny uplands if it goes...

Why are you always trying to "bothsides"

Notice how it's never "bothsides so I voted Harris". The "bothsides" people know they dis something reprehensible that need excusing, and that's why they're trying all the time to excuse what they did.

Technocracy is the subject at hand and unless we are all planning to go back to the 1900 or even the late 20th century nothing is going to stop humanity's desire to progress. If you also consider that some humans have a desire for absolute power and control then you have a starting point for why many systems of government have issues; Human beings are incredibly varied in their desires and opinions.

If you then couple the above with the wide prevalence of mental illness throughout humans then we arrive to where we are today, recognizing that there is no such thing as a perfect system just one that is designed to being perfected through good laws for the people it is to serve. Democracy does it with paper, Technocracy does it with the real time communication en masse.

Technocracy is the evolution of Democracy, regardless of if it is regulating Capitalism or any of the other isms out there. Like the Westminster system it is designed for independence and not a two party system, one could argue it is designed for interdependence however overt technocratic systems don't exist yet so we don't really know.

So that's the context, now for the scenario.

A technocracy does not serve a Left or Right side of politics, which becomes obsolete along with lobbyists and replaced with built in AI oversight, I.e. Technocracy accepts AI exists and regulates its function with law. Technocracy's purpose is to serve the people via frequent digital ballots by making the process of voting on anything extremely easy. To paraphrase Franklin about the flaws in the US constitution will lead to "a corrupted people only fit to be ruled by a despotic leader" (full quote below) is arguably where we are now. Technocracy is an attempt to fix that flaw.

Flaws in Democracy and Technocracy are education and participation, however instead of insisting that most people are rational creatures who don't have any other priorities, technocracy allows the possibility of increased rationality and government oversight for the populous. The balance between individual rights and societal order is attempted by ballot frequency, right to your phone, and also allows for other features in line with the requirements of society that is digitally and AI enabled.

Nothing is perfect, including technocracy. The question is What's better and the collapse of democracy into corporatism is certainly not as attractive as the control a populous gets with a Technocratic acceleration of Democracy. Personally I see Democracy under threat and a technocratic society as a logical evolution of democracy the most desirable outcome.

How it is shaped is something everyone can participate in to achieve an ideal more resistant to the forms of modern corruption and mental health issues (the core means to manipulate a population) Ben Franklin could only conceptualize we would face in the 21st century.

This is his full quote, which almost seem prophetic, spelling out his rational concerns;
" I agree to this Constitution with all its faults - if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."

So Franklin warned us, as in the present generation living right now, that the issues we would face IS the collapse of democratic forms of government. He warned us about despotic leaders who steer the corrupted (as in lied to, manipulated, misinformed) populous from the freedoms generations before us sought to leave us, and back into the stagnant feudalism (arguably worse than communism) from which we came.

The people who still back Trump are willing to put up with his antics because he does the substantive things we actually care about.

Yes you elected the president of peace because you were fed up with all the wars being started and

by taking the fight to Iran.

Oh right, never mind, you love war now.

and is cleaning up entitlement corruption

Somehow in Trumpland, the president massively enriching himself and his family isn't corruption.

his predecessor who gave 100B+ to a corrupt Ukrainian regime,

Ignoring your made up bit about corruption (see above: either you're lying about there being corruption or lying about thinking it's a bad thing), that's called "keeping your word". Remember the Budapest memorandum?

President Autopen,

Trump has admitted to using the autopen, numbnuts. Just admit it's not about any of the things you say, you love Trump and that's it.

and told doctors to mutilate childrens genitals.

Oh right you're one of those people obsessed with children' genitals (you sick fuck). No wonder you don't ant Trump to release the Epstein files!

There's nothing wrong with doing it that way. That's just making the data more available. As long as it's making things better and/or cheaper for the customer, it's positive. Nothing is preventing anyone else doing the same.

Paying for priority access to the pipe is the problem.

Microsoft was always trying to take over. At that point they were pushing .NET as the official way to make new applications. Unlike Windows Mobile they weren't stupid enough to deprecate all other methods, so they didn't destroy themselves completely... alas.

Short answer is No, they don't. That said, I agree with everything you said about coal and it is a problem. I'd add that the brine from fracking for gas also contains radioactive particles and is used to damp down dirt roads for dust control. Both are a huge problem.

You're 100% right about that. These are naturally occurring isotopes which are supposed to be in the ground where nature put them. I agree that the coal industry should also receive the same scrutiny that the Nuclear industry does for controlling these materials.

Ah my sig-stalker is alive and well! Hello good sir, how are you I have not seen you in a while! I am still curious as to who I'm supposedly thinking about, other than a name that doesn't sound wildly uncommon.

There are a few idiots here who still seem to like trump. I note that they all stay away from stories about him doing the more randomly stupid things, because those they can't defend whereas everything else can be blamed on Obama, burden or Hillary or some sort of 1D connect 4 or whatever game they think he's playing.

I'm other words they do actually know, but they just hope the right people will get hurt anyway.

Did you forget how to read halfway through my comment?

Wow, a whole game engine?

A lot more than that uses C#, but C# didn't take over, which of course is what Microsoft wanted. But it was never going to happen for many many reasons. That's why Microsoft has to use the EEE strategy, which at least is somewhat successful for them. Their ability to use it is waning as they become less relevant, but they remain hugely influential due to their massive installed base so they can still fuck things up pretty good and will likely be able to for decades yet.