This is astonishing.

He’s hoarding the profits of automation for himself, while socializing the lost wages and poverty that will come from this.

But the issue is that we know full well that they’ll escape paying out their massive profits as taxes, which is what MUST happen for the model to work. Shareholder payouts need to be taxed at like 50+% rate or even more.

“So Donald Trump,” he added, “since I know you’re watching — I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.”

slow claps

It’s no fluke that he got elected… that was god tier.

That’s mighty pedantic, my dude. I had the same thought when reading the title, that “dead after being found” does carry some implication that they were alive at the time of finding.

But according to you, thinking that the title could have been written better makes us raging assholes that need to be challenged at every turn, lest we turn this internet into some place with, god forbid, proper grammar or something…?

They are built to very rigorous explosive engineering standards!

Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.

Well, the explosives exploded.

I’d just like to make the point that there are a lot of these explosives factories making explosives around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that explosives aren’t safe.

Definitely, they were blown away.

That is the American approach to legislation: get in as many laws that favour you or your sponsors, and pray the courts let at least some of them through.

That’s not how this is meant to work. The courts shutting down a law is a last measure, when everything else has failed and hell’s about to break loose.

Shutting down the US government is just below singing happy birthday in Spanish on my challenge difficulty scale, y yo hablo español.

I’m not convinced those grandpas didn’t just happen to be asleep and closed the government by accident.

That’s where you’re drawing the line? The whole nation is eating itself from the inside, and the only thing the Dems are capable of seems to be pointing at something and saying “you shouldn’t do that”.

And what are they gonna do about it? Nothing? Yeah, figures.

Wrong way of thinking, buddy boy.

If you can’t afford to go without pay for 2 weeks now, then where do you think you’ll be in 2 years time?

Act now while you’re breathing, for the sake of being able to breathe.

That’s not the correct approach, brother. Especially newer congressmen will be dependent on this income to live, and this would make them even more likely to be held hostage by the guys with fat pockets.

The problem here is that the consequences are exclusively shouldered by the people, when in fact it should be the administration who gets punished: if they’re unable to compromise on a budget, then they need to get kicked out so that the country doesn’t stop.

If there’s no way of passing the budget with a new administration, then call for new elections and see how the chips fall.

This is 100% correct. In most civilised countries, if a yearly budget cannot be approved, the whole cabinet gets disbanded.

Usually this leads to a new president (usually, a PM) getting appointed, but ultimately would lead to new elections.

Historically, the gay community endured widespread social condemnation, often framed in the language of deviance, mental illness, and a threat to societal norms.

Homosexuality was classified as a psychiatric disorder by the American Psychiatric Association until 1973. This pathologization served as a justification for discrimination in employment, housing, and public life.

You have to be purposely blind to miss the parallels with the struggles and pains that trans people face today

Now you’re cool with gay people, but remember how up until quite recently, not even medical professionals accepted it? Because you’re on the wrong side of the fence when it comes to trans people, you just haven’t caught up.

Bodycam footage has got to be one of the best measures ever implemented.

It’s a huge step towards accountable police forces, as we’ve seen in so many police abuse cases. Now we need to overturn their immunity, so that the murderers and abusive power tripping assholes don’t get to just walk away freely.

But it also works to defend the police, and there’s so much bodycam footage on YouTube of people acting like massive dickwads, and I swear to god, the restraint on many officers is godlike, I’d have bashed their faces by the 2nd time they called me something wildly abusive, let alone hear it 100 times over 30 minutes and still remain calm.

There’s no way they could do that, because then they’d actually have to board the boat and search for the drugs, and I wouldn’t put it past them to find as much of it as they did WMDs in Iraq.

I have no doubt that the Maduro regime is trafficking drugs, it’s just that any ships the US navy blows up aren’t all necessary related to that, but we’ll never know if they just nuke them.

Exactly.

But just to clarify, do we realize who actually upholds the law? News flash: its not the police. It’s the millions and millions of people who actually abide by it, and that get up and demand justice when it’s not being followed.

Except that no one is doing that, because half of America is being gaslighted and bamboozled by the media that has them trapped in a cloud of ignorance and fear, and the other half seems to be waiting for some superhero to show up and save the day.

At some point, SCOTUS has got to realize that letting trump get away with everything is just paving a highway that the opposition at some point will also take.

While for the most part, Democrats have been lame ass pussies too scared to actually fix anything when they get in power, there’s a chance that people like Newsom will get into office and take advantage of this near-godhood - just in the other way.

Yeah, I agree with all of your points.

I’m not American, but my understanding of the system is that the long term plan for the country isn’t meant to be set by the president, but by the legislature - passing laws and creating federal bodies that steer the country.

Instead, there’s absolutely no laws being agreed upon, only presidents that try to impose their view for a while until they’re replaced by whoever’s next who then breaks everything.

The courts are then thrown on to the spotlight and asked by the country to fill up a role who’s not actually theirs, and I don’t even want to go into the issues with appointment of judges.

Not that the system in China is any better, they just happen to have a guy who’s ruthless enough to hold onto power with no opposition, and seems to actually care about his country - but he isn’t gonna last for ever, and there’s zero guarantee that the power struggles after he’s gone won’t tear the country to shreds, or that the next up isn’t a fucked up moron like the orange…

The worrying part is that they kinda seem to be implementing good policies for (at least some of) their people.

There’s a lot of disturbing stuff, and probably a whole lot more that we don’t even know about, but social security, education, healthcare - my impression is that they’re going the right way, while the US looks eager to go back to the Dark ages.

Just with STEM degrees, they’re producing almost 5x more graduates than the US, and they’ve surpassed the number of doctorates a long time ago too.

The current world balance won’t hold one more generation.