You have to get your kids up and make sure they get dressed and get to school. And you have to do that early because you have to get to work.

Now we could build a civilization around something other than work especially given how much automation we keep doing but fuck that right?

In a non-commercial setting. You can do all the research you want at public universities I mean assuming you can get them funded.

And you can run whatever software you want at home.

The laws are targeted specifically at businesses who are chomping at the bit to abuse new tech.

It is funny to me to watch the centrists actually doing something about potential job losses while the left wing sits around with their thumbs up their asses. I am absolutely a lefty and I'm really sick and tired of how useless my side has become and how we have completely given up on the working class.

You can't do things with a simple majority because one half of our political party, the Republican party, are batshit crazy fascists that we cannot trust with the power of a simple majority. And they consistently win Congress even though they consistently do not get enough votes to win Congress both due to voter suppression and gerrymandering.

So no we can't do things with a simple majority we need a supermajority because we need to put the brakes on a bunch of crazy fascists who are busy screwing us all over and we know it but like an abused spouse we just can't quit them

Bernie is usually correct and nobody really listens to him. The left wing has become pretty fucking useless. What he needs to be doing is focusing on voter suppression and that's what the left-wing everywhere needs to be doing. But that doesn't get the headlines so here we are.

What Bernie is trying to do is get attention to a movement because he's trying to do what worked in the '60s. This isn't a 1960s the fascists adapted to the tactics Bernie Sanders is using back in the mid-70s and he never figured that out. In his defense neither did anyone else on the left wing. I only figured it out a few years ago and fuck knows nobody listens to me.

Obama figured it out. That's why he formed his own organizations for combating voter suppression so that he could win his elections. But he's kind of a selfish little fuck so once he had what he wanted he didn't really do much more. And he left the Republicans dismantle what he built. Doesn't help that Hillary was happily letting that happen because she was undermining any potential opponents because people hate Hillary Clinton and always have and she knew she wouldn't get the nomination otherwise.

I've said it before but every single system designed to protect you has failed.

Too many voters are obsessed with tough on crime. It's politically impossible.

Go look at some midterm ads right now attacking the Democrats and every single one of them will be going after them for either being radical socialists or weak on crime or both.

The Republicans do the same thing every time, they make a law often one that's already there with a few extremely minor changes that does something like make it illegal to be a pedophile or something when it's obviously already is, than they add something in it the Democrats can't vote for usually banning birth control or criminalizing abortion or something. The Democrats vote against the law because of course they do it's got a poison pill in it and then the Republicans run on such and such politician voted to let predators attack your children or something.

I am older than dirt and they have been doing this bullshit since I was a kid and since before that I'm sure and voters always fall for it.

Keep in mind that only gets the Republicans to about 45% but voter suppression can make up the other 6% and winner take all voting means they can win elections without winning elections. What some might call cheating... Or election interference if you're kind of dumb and don't just want to use the existing term voter suppression.

So anyway the point is the Democrats are constantly walking a minefield where they can't just ban things that sane and intelligent people don't want. And the Republicans are just fascists at this point.

It is funny watching a bunch of old people showing up at Community meetings where data centers are being rammed through and watching those people realize that after 50 years of undermining democracy for stupid reasons they no longer have a proper functioning democracy so they don't really have a say in anything. I've seen a couple of cases where people are just dumbfounded because the data centers are getting built and there's nothing they can do about it because they're too stupid to stop voting for people who are going to let the data center is be built so their communities are just fucked.

But during the elections they'll get scared of some trans girls or violent video games or whatever moral panic there is or they will get scared of the socialists or they'll get confused by advertisements about week on crime and then they will once again vote against what they actually want. And again that's only about 45% of the country that's that stupid but voter suppression works.

Privately they are waiting for the adults to come to their senses in America so we can be done with this fucking chuckle head who got us into this mess.

Who is just totally chuffed about this? The Danish who we have pissed off? The UK who we've pissed off? Canada who we've pissed off? All of Eastern Europe who we've pissed off? Taiwan and Japan and SK who we've pissed off? Australia who we've pissed off?

So to answer "Can you talk a 6 year old through the complexities of international relations?" Probably better than anyone can talk this 56 year old through them!

I want America to be the leader in the West, not isolate it by throwing tantrums, engaging in illegal trade wars, pissing off longtime allies, threatetning our bordering nations with annexation and generally making us look like jackasses on the world state. I want America to be, as a famous Republican said, "the shining beacon on the hill". Your party and your leader are denying Ukraine aide, right now! You are not agreeing with me!

People like you have tried to ovverrun America with the same bullshit. It's not religious but the outcome is close enough to the same. You have more in common with a Muslim fundamentalist than you do with a Republican from 50 years ago. You act like fascists. TDS is not an argument.

I call you names because you are too chickenshit to take off your anonymous tag to post under... an anonymous username. You are a Trump cum receptacle and I want you deported from my country.

You want a real conversation or you want to shitpost. For you it'll always be the latter so eat all of my shit, then shit it out and eat it again.

An American woman in Minneapolis woman tells one of the illegally appointed and illegally masked federal gestapo to stop terrorizing her neighbors

He responds by shooting her in the face

Make authoritarianism Socially Unacceptable again.

No fascists or you'll become them.

They had their chance, it was called 2016 elections.

Then they tried to overthrow the government. Now yeah, you don't get a say because you decided to destroy the system. So, you know, eat shit. Next time learn some civics.

You're such a dullard, like this type of thinking is what has made a mess of politics.

You're both politically retarded but power craven at once. Retarded authoritarianism, that's what you stand for.

"Can you talk a 6 year old through the complexities of international relations?"

I might have better luck with the 6 year than you, they might understand the concept of "say one thing publicly, think and act on others privately".

But after 10 million compute hours it's still setting up the board.

In 2026 you can just say democrats. We don't have to pretend the Republican party or anything else but batshit crazy religious lunatics and fascist psychopaths anymore. The Democratic party isn't perfect but we are so far past both sides bad at this point that you can just say Democrats and we aren't going to get upset. This isn't 1993 we don't have to pretend partisanship matters anymore.

As for the Democrats fixing shit not a chance. Not because they aren't going to try but because holy living mother of Christ where the hell do you begin? They are going to have their hands full, assuming Trump ever leaves office, just trying to keep everything from collapsing. And in 2 years the dipshit voters who put a pedophile rapist in the white house twice are going to vote Republican because the Democrats won't have fixed every single fucking problem in their lives that they caused by voting Republican.

70% of baby boomers voted for Trump and 65% of the older Gen x voted for him. There are days when I'm not at my kindest and I really wish the Boomer remover had done its job. I also wish the American left Wing would stop blowing off young men and calling them small dick mediocre rapists... It would be really nice if the left wing would stop bitching about patriarchy long enough to remember that not every single dude on the planet is a fucking rapist pedophile and that maybe they ought to do something about the fucking economy and jobs or at least mention it in passing in between blurting out dumb shit like defund the police and then having to spend 30 minutes explaining what the fuck that means to nobody in particular

Basically the center is too busy trying to fix the messes caused by the right wing and the left are too busy playing around with their dumb hobby bullshit. We don't have a chance of breaking up any of the trusts.

Although private equity is made the healthcare system bad enough that the doctors who have real money and real time for lobbying or starting to step in because it's affecting them directly.

Because there's less choice every year. They don't have to care about what you want or what you think. Because it's so much easier to just be the only game in town and if you don't like it well you can't even go fuck off to the mountains because they own that land too.

I remember reading a post from a guy who moved from super liberal Oregon to the land of the free that is Texas expecting it to be a lot cooler because there would be less government regulation and he'd be able to do all the cool stuff he wanted to do like drive his ATVs and go hunting and shit. Only to find out that any of the land worth doing any of that on was already owned by other people with a lot more money than him and there was fuck all for him to do in Texas. You didn't have to worry about following the rules when you were out in a public park because there weren't any. At least not the kind he was used to it from Oregon.

I guess what I'm trying to get out here is you don't realize what you lost until it's gone. We lost antitrust law enforcement and we still haven't realized what we lost...

This doesn't really apply to F2P games, the product is the skins and the emotes and the battle passes and such. It's more that most of the players are bycatch, they're casting a big net to catch the whales.