That seems like far too little rain to do much farming without totally draining local aquifers.

Rewild it with native flora, do yurts and whatever to attract people to live in a sustainable way with community gardening. Activities can initially revolve around returning the land to a more natural state. As things mature people will invest in the community themselves, creating their own activities etc.

Yeah… The spectrum of options arrayed before us appear to be heavily weighted towards enforcing arbitrary hierarchies which is… Not ideal.

I think whether we like it or not economic systems have forced their way into our political systems.

And anyone with any existing power is strongly incentivized to kill any “new ideas” in the womb. As they would most likely represent a departure from the current system that they benefit from.

Any dramatic restructuring is going to be a very “significant” event. We may currently be on the precipice of one such event in the United States, this remains to be seen. The existing power structures have been significantly destabilized and pre-existing norms and rules are being outright ignored.

Power will shift, it remains to be seen how much and to where.

In any case, we may have the opportunity for you to see some new interesting governmental concepts, or perhaps a return to some classics, or a mix of the two (a little overtly capitalist fuedalism perhaps?).

We sure do live in interesting times.

One important thing for people to think about right now is “what happens when other countries don’t accept deportees?”

They start to stack up. Housing, feeding, and guarding “dangerous undesirables” is expensive.

Surely, it would be patriotic to save your country money…

It might be too late. It might not, who’s to say. Videos from this weekend have a very familiar ring to them though.

Democrats hated “the gays” too until like 15 years ago.

It’s the same as rainbow corporatism. It’s all a facade used for political expediency. It’s never actually about human rights. Both parties deserve the fates they get. Unfortunately they’ll do everything they can to take us down with them.

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Take that, voters.

NYT is and always has been a pro-violence mouthpiece for capital.

They’ve accidentally done some good journalism here and there but I’m hard pressed to find it right now.

Liberals and fascists must both defend capital even when doing so is in direct conflict with their stated aims.

They are on the same team.

As long as the donations keep rolling in…

Like actual brown shirts?

It’s almost like brain damage makes people more reactionary. I wonder if there’s a lesson there.

If you believe the Supreme Court is going to do anything positive, I have an incredible opportunity for you.

I have been tasked with selling a large amount of scrap iron. It is currently located in France, and you’ll need to arrange for the removal, but I’m authorized to offer it for pennies on the dollar!

They’re pissy cause it being open source and more efficient means that it’s gonna be more cost effective for people to use. Which is real bad if your company overcommitted to the slop and needs to recover losses.

In addition, be prepared for them to criminalize any actions that actually move the needle. If you aren’t already a criminal, they will make you one.

Large American media outlets have been failing the people for the entirety of their existence.

They have been successfully serving the interests of the wealthy and powerful.

• Behind the Bastards
• The Dollop
• Live Like The World is Dying
• Some More News
• It Could Happen Here
• Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
• Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
• The Film Reroll
• How Did This Get Made?
• Twenty Thousand Hertz
• The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

These are some of my favorites, I’m sure I’m missing some though.

Cancer grows continuously. Obviously we should model everything on that.

It is as foretold by Richard Pryor.

Yeah… That’s really weird.