... and the tech was used ONLY for the most serious crimes, I would be a supporter. Sadly, neither condition is true.

While it's true that the cameras can be used to solve serious crime, they are also widely abused. If they must exist, their use should require a warrant and be supervised by an officer of the court, with every use logged into the public record.

I am not arguing for no sweet stuff at all. I am arguing for no sweetened stuff and making "sweet" the exception not the rule. For example, fresh fruit with a lot of sugar because it is very ripe is fine, bit only if consumed in moderation. And having ice-cream once or twice a month is not a problem either. But sweet stuff every day, every meal is not fine. And making that "sweet" effect artificial does not solve the problem at all, even though many people apparently think it does. A bit of self-discipline goes a long way here.

Of course, as society is so pervaded with "sweet", some things get more difficult. For example, if I want cake, I have to bake myself because what you can buy has so much sugar I find it utterly disgusting.

Sad as that is, I agree. I am not calling for violent suppression or anything like that, but they were intellectually tolerated and their deranged views and denial of reality and Science were seen as valid stances and they were not called out on it. And now a very high price for that failure of the rest of the population has come due.

And when you look a bit closer, your mindless comment mostly goes out the window. Because the human body neither produces nor craves this crap to any significant degree.

Indeed. A bit more insight required. For those that need a clearer argument, I recommend looking at the effects of some entirely natural cyanides.

In a more general sense, this mental failure comes from people that only can do correlation but fail at causation most times. Which, unfortunately, is most of the human race.

It takes a bit of getting used to it, but all forms of sugar and sweeteners are problematic. And they are often used to cover product defects like low-quality ingredients on top of that, making things even worse.

Enough people just have enough of this crap. The Chinese can stand back, watch and enjoy the show.

Nope. Everything, literally everything Trump does is a bad idea and badly executed. There is nothing he does well these days. He used to be at least a good scam artists, and he got away with raping children for a long time, but even those skills seem to be not working so well anymore.

Sure, the cultists think he will herald a golden age, but one look at what is actually going on reveals that he cannot even get basic things right. Kakistocracy at its best.

Well, lets be fair. Trump is an excellent example how you can utterly ruin a prosperous nation in just a few years and how stupid and disconnected the MAGAs are. So he and his incapable and repulsive followers can at least serve as a good story for the history books how it can all go wrong.

That is the "Trump Deficit", not the US one. I think filling his coffers is about the only thing he does that seems to actually work to a degree. Kakistocracy at work.

I am not sure this will even work as get-rich-quick. It will certainly do nothing else for the foreseeable future.

Graduation test will be the ability to pass the basic cognitive function test twice! Perfect qualification for colonizing Mars togetehr with the space-NAZI.

Indeed. Some tasks are too large unless almost everybody is aboard. Obviously, the cultist defectives do not want to collaborate with anybody.

I thought they were in the last stages of perfecting the hot-air drive? That way, the orange felon could drive all of space exploration by himself! Just supply some teenagers to be raped by him now and then.

Indeed. Funny how that goes.

Yes, in the real world that is a hard fact. But the MAGAs and evangelicals (which are apparently mostly the same people) are not living in the real world. They think they can be the best at everything and at the same time ignore Science where it is inconvenient such as telling them they are dead wrong on things. I mean, they even things utterly dumb things like that tariffs are paid by the exporter, a thing were a 30 second web-search and the ability to read clears things up completely.

Hence they will continue to try the impossible, because they lack the mental skills to see it is impossible. Think of the COVID deniers that kept denying right up to the moment it killed them. That is pretty mich the model these defectives are using to deal with reality.

Now, the challenge for the rest of the country is to keep these about 33% utterly deranged people under control. That means the rest has to be united in what they want. Some small things are happening like farmers finding out that voting to have their harvest helpers deported and have their primary source of fertilizer attacked in a trade war are maybe a bit of a problem and that maybe they actually need to think before they vote. But these effects may not be enough. The alternative to keeping the cult out of power is total decline into irrelevancy and poverty.

On the plus side, Europe, Canada, Australia and some others welcome well-educated, smart and capable immigrants from the US disaster area. Others need not apply, sorry.