“blowback”, right…

He’s still in office. What fucking blowback?

We need ranked choice.

So he gets a fat pension and a really comfortable luxurious retirement.

That’s just fucking great. Talk about accountability.

If “grab 'em by the pussy” had no effect, or anything else so far, this probably won’t either.

The Epstein files still have not been released.

Which. Fucking. Senators.

three Democratic senators

So nobody, nothing. The Dems have no power, let alone are mostly pussies or complacent.

Sensationalist nothingburger headlines.

more important

Idk if the Epstein files are more important than the Venezuela invasion, literally. But I think it’s more foundationally important.

What I mean by this is that the Epstein files show definitively that trump is a criminal with evidence of child rape and whatever other financial crimes. This means he is an illegitimately elected president, should never have been allowed to assume office legally and should be in prison. The evidence is in the Epstein files.

If this is true, which it is, the decisions he’s been making, including Venezuela should never have happened.

By law the Epstein files were supposed to be released, and they haven’t been. The DOJ and trump are hiding the evidence. Rule of law and our DOJ aren’t working as designed.

Personally I think the Epstein fiasco is still the most important as it means trump shouldn’t even be here doing all this stuff right now.

If you automatically and by default call it slop, I’m going to assume your art is slop.

If you use AI as a tool to create art, then of course it’s art and you thought it up.

LLMs are just tools. It ain’t that complicated.

To me, it’s like saying cgi isn’t art because it takes away from using paint brushes or colored pencils or whatever. I don’t remember when computer graphics first started coming out, were people calling it CGI slop? Probably too long ago to know.

We need more politicians talking like this often and publicly, then actually working to make it reality.

Ok fair enough, and you might be right, maybe even probably right. Idk. But I think this glosses over a point I was trying to make.

It is the extreme wealthy and powerful who essentially have little or no consequences, yet they are causing all of our problems and hardships and suffering. They have nothing to fear. They have little or no accountability.

“The history says it doesn’t work” isn’t enough for me. Are you talking about the 1400s when some peasants tortured and killed some malevolent king? I haven’t seen or heard anything like this to make enough of an impact where we can say “all the malevolent leaders are being killed by their peasants, yet they continue to treat their peasants cruelly, therefore torturing them doesn’t work”. Most historical torture was inflicted by the leaders, on the peasants, for various reasons.

The argument you are making, which I have heard before, is EXACTLY the belief I would want the poors to think and spread if I was at the top of the powerful elites.

Obviously I am not condoning torture or violence.

I disagree but it’s kind of a soft disagreement, as I don’t really know for sure. Obviously we’re all joking about the torture, and don’t condone violence…

But, we generally torture people of small crimes, or torture objectively innocent people. Think of the children in the African mines, still to this day.

The people who are causing all our problems never or rarely get tortured. And because they have all the wealth and power, they rarely get any form of punishment. They aren’t afraid of any consequences, generally.

So if we actually did start torturing them, and showing them they’re not invincible, would they change their ways?.. Idk but maybe.

Still too fast.

I propose keeping him alive for decades to work in horrid toiling conditions 16 hours per day, 7 days a week. Sleeping where he works. One meal per day, unpleasant.

Diamond mines in Africa? Some repetitive manual factory labor?

He can earn the woodchipper after 4 decades…

Too fast.

This is just capitalism, isn’t it?

Athletes and entertainers that make millions do so because people pay for it in large numbers. This is what capitalism wants and does.

I agree with your sentiment but I think you’re just critiquing capitalism. If I had my way these people would be taxed up the wazoo. No baseball player or Hollywood actor should ever be worth 10s of millions, let alone hundreds, or billions.

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Our executive branch, the FBI, CIA, supreme court, and the majority republican Congress are all actively in on this cover up.

Is this just the way it is now?

What boggles the mind is how obvious and blatant this is, yet that 42% or whatever the number is of the population of the US will either deny it, or directly support the corruption.

All this feels like we’re leading to some societal “correction”. An economic depression, societal collapse or partial collapse, civil war, something? Who knows what an actual modern civil war would look like, probably unrecognizable to the historical civil war.

I dunno what I’m talking about honestly, just feels uneasy like this can’t be normal obviously. Maybe we just get fascism and end up like Russia? Idk.

Another point that I didn’t see mentioned: some can make a lot of money, or just easier money, compared to getting a real 9-5 type job.