Russia can’t even fully exploit their neighbor. What the fuck are they going to do to the whole world?

You’re not wrong but everyone seems to think that’s someone else’s job. We’re not going to see actual change until people like you and I start fixing pipes ourselves.

The logic is “I hate my job so you have to hate whatever you spend most of your time doing too”. It makes sense if you think life is supposed to be hard but it seems like the obvious solution is to make life easier for everyone rather than harder for those who have trouble participating in our dumb economic system.

Oh, well in that case it’s a totally reasonable and very much not insane rule. /s

Don’t be a bitch

The comfortable will never rebel. No one is going to give you those things and we can’t build them without dismantling the current system. You’re going to have to get supremely uncomfortable in order to give others the possibility of having those things at some indeterminate time in the future or face a dystopian future so bleak that it will make The Hunger Games seem like a fun vacation. Either way, comfort is rapidly fading from the picture.

How is a school going to regulate what kids do outside of school property? They could ban cell phones on campus but that’s not going to change what happens after hours.

Don’t hide from this. That’s only going to help them. If they’re coming for you then give them a middle finger, not a whimper.

That’s the same kinds of things they said about Obama. All you’re basing this on is your feelings. Call me when AOC or another progressive woman loses a general election.

He acted like one once he got elected but that’s not what got him elected. His campaign was very different from his Presidency.

Clinton / Harris did not lose because they were women. They lost because they either were a neoliberal shitbag (Clinton) or could not convince people that they were not a neoliberal shitbag (Harris).

We elected a black man after years of people saying America was too racist to ever do that. There are a lot more women in America than there are black people, and it turns out that running as a progressive is pretty popular.

We don’t need to play this stupid guessing game about what genitals or skin colors will win elections. We already know the policy positions that win elections we just categorically refuse to run on them.

Tbf, market indicators don’t mean shit to people with stagnant wages who have seen 20% inflation over 5 years. Of course, that doesn’t mean that Trump is going to fix anything but it’s hard to blame stupid people for not noticing those indicators when they are specifically designed to exclude the average person’s financial situation.

Musk also said he loves Trump as much as a straight man can love another man so he seems willing to say whatever bullshit he feels like he needs to say to accomplish his goal in any given moment.

I understand that things are happening. I’ve been to some of those protests and seen the people making a stand firsthand. It’s certainly not nothing. I’m just saying that the response we’ve seen so far is what I would have predicted for his first term. We should be making a bunch of fascists a foot shorter by now.

I’ll join you happily. I’m just pretty confident that we will be easy to arrest since it will probably be us and a handful of other people.

I doubt it. We’ve already tolerated a near complete collapse of the rule of law and masked goon squads kidnapping people in the streets. Disappearing one more brown guy probably isn’t going to move that needle much.

All the SC justices since that is what the article you’re commenting on is about. Not sure why you think anyone who can’t read your mind is weird. That idea is the only weird thing I see going on in this conversation.

How is that weird? Getting rid of these justices ends exactly how I described. Unless you get rid of Trump first then removing SC justices will just put you in an even worse spot.

Yeah let’s get rid of them, especially the liberal justices, so they can be replaced by… Donald Trump?

Say what you want about Kavanaugh but I’d be willing to bet he’d look like a Boy Scout compared to whoever Trump would nominate today.

It’s certainly possible that I have missed some news on the subject but last I heard they had not matched the aid that was being provided under the Biden administration. I hope you are right and that has changed.