That and labor organizing, environmental awareness, and many other things where the absence helps the rich get wealthier .

It’s also just a blatant theft; there is a lot of money to be made here however it goes down , and that money goes to connected arseholes

They really need a SD who will not say no

Very unpopular opinion: it’s good that mainstream media is self censoring because this undermines their usefulness and authority, eventually allowing better media to gain more followers.

A good way to tell the long term future of a state is to see how ballots are counted, and if the published stats pass United Nations tests for fair elections.

Most states flunk, some pass, it’s been a few years since I last checked, so I’m not going to give potentially bad info. But it falls down to what one might suspect, more blue states pass than red states

It’s still much much much better to be in some states than others. It’s also far easier to move now while there is still freedom of interstate movement. It may not get so bad, but why make any assumptions?

Even if that is true, if this is going to happen, the number of people victimized will be far more than the capacity of this new detention.

I think this currently is more about standard government corruption than anything else, it’s not liberal or conservative: just money changing hands.

Forbes vets its own ads. Many people there had to think this was a good thing.

It’s not a random ad from another company

Yea, but he going to be really enthusiastic while he is shoveling money to both musk and perhaps himself. And he believes the moon landings are real.

It could have been a moon landing denier or even a flat earther.

There is a non zero chance he may actually be good for the space program in general? In the meantime the bar is lowered enough that this may be the best in a bad lot, even if this nomination redefines the term “industry capture”

Not great, not terrible

So energetic!!

Nothing wrong with the government having an official health drink, that all stores carry, or else!

Enforced by fines or can’t use new, yet to be introduced tax break.

Sure the above seems ridiculous, but is it really never going to happen, for sure?

I think we have all seen this sort of thing play out in the last few years. Republicans are shocked and worried , or at least some token ones are. Then they all magically fall into line and vote as a block

Maybe the convention lost them more voters than gained ? Widely circulated videos of democrat delegates making fun of the protest that was naming the dead kids might have lost Michigan all by itself .

Also https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/12/3/live-south-koreas-president-yoon-declares-emergency-martial-law

An incompetent Supreme Court would fit your argument.

But what about a malicious court doing destructive things a paralyzed congress could not possibly fix?

Maybe a network of volunteers can foster care for some, a few have sweet temperaments ?

I can volunteer some pet food

Sometimes history shows oligarchs breaking stuff to make more money for themselves: trade patterns, movement of people, social safety nets, previous methods of doing business.

I think we all got so used to the modern times that it’s hard to image this still happening, but on a bigger scale.

Or, it could be mostly empty threats now, designed to manipulate the markets. We saw Trump scares during his last term in office, particularly near the end, that would deliberately scare enough people to make bank in stocks and bonds. Scaring a nation is very profitable.

Probably both types of things.

I read he is blocking the National Assembly building to avoid the martial law being lifted; both parties, including his, will vote to lift it should they get inside

He is right about the Palestinian humanitarian orgs, been doing that for a year. I don’t know about the military, unless he means Biden is probably not doing all he can to prevent them from being misused domestically. Don’t know anything there

Biden is not sharpening the knife: he simply placed a knife sharpener on the counter and is a good sport about letting others use it .

It always was a caretaker presidency, that’s what I thought when he first got into office.

I expect thoughtful words from his speeches as he gently leaves office