They aren’t dead they are just on an extended vacation. Things will improve once the boomers move on and we fix the brains of the younger ones.

Seems pretty standard for the south. Let companies come in and wreck the land up because they’ve promised jobs and profits. Then the companies leave and the residents are confused what happened. So they do the only thing they know how to do, wait for the next corporate benefactors to come in and promise profits and jobs.

What’re you saying? You don’t think these billionaires need their money?!?

I hope they go to town on all those just following orders clowns. They are too incompetent to be trusted in any position with any power especially over another human.

We had a fellow who shot at the unmarked unidentified police roaming around Minneapolis during the civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd. He was at a gas station if I remember and they beat the shit out of him. It took a while but he won the case and some money.

How is this the first I am hearing that Belgium was just open for the taking?

And isn’t the deadlock not sposed to influence that like we’re supposed to have money for SNAP to continue.

If I am hearing what you are saying it sounds like they don’t see these immigrants, minorities, or non-whites as people. Like they think they are subhumans and don’t deserve the same rights as humans. I hope that isn’t the case.

Tetlock. He’s got a few talks on youtube that are very interesting. As someone who called all three recent presidential elections, I almost bought his book so his talks were fairly interesting.

I guess it depends on which side of the boot you find yourself on. Also probably need to account for the folks totally unaware of the system for which they work. Off the top of my head I’d guess the economic top 20% are fairly happy with the empire continuing and toss in a large chunk of Trump supporters something like 30% of our population. Obviously there is overlap between these two groups, but I’d guess somewhere between 30% to 40ish% would be opposed to the US empire declining further.

That is def one way to accelerate the decline of this American Empire.

Minority rule is not doing us fair.

Yeah real strange when a bunch of other billionaires start coming around your neck of the woods and messing with the people you have been exploiting. I guess I don’t know enough about Pritz, but his response seems as simple as the old poker saying you can shear a sheep multiple times but only skin them once. Which is my way of saying he might just take exception to the skinning of his constituents, and is not about fixing shit beyond pragmatic constituent shearing.

Something like over half the price increases are because the businesses are able to raise prices and consumers still buy. So high prices are in large part due to greed. The rest I assume are increased input costs and costs of doing business.

Wasn’t the first about a programmer getting his game back from the evil corporation?

They need to rebrand the march as a totally peaceful tour.

Are those the Texas guard that are coming from the perfect land of Texas where no one is swept away in floods or goes without electricity?

This is just my own speculation, but I think we are seeing a new group of techbros, for lack of a better term, jostle for their seat at the table. We as a nation have refused to expand our positions of power even though we’ve grown in size. For example, we have a capped number of Senators.

We’ve funneled so much new money into the hands of these tech elite they have near run out of places to spend it. So we have multiple private space companies, a booming apocalypse bunker industry, and why not buy a few representatives as well. My point is a bunch of Ayn Rand 1950s sci-fi loving man children who control resources as vast as they do present a terrible condition for democracy and human rights. We are just watching this power struggle between the old guard and the new kids play out in real time. And the women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ communities are the first to be rounded up this time.

I knew he wasn’t when he had his goons clear the protesters from the park so he could have a photo shoot in front of that church during his first term. You could see the bible was burning his hand from the way he was holding it.

Obviously Tremors. Dune is just Tremors in space and being a book it just happened to get released before the Kevin Bacon classic.

We go four years of lessons about how the rich and connected live by a totally different set of rules and laws from those of us that are not rich or connected.