I always railed against this. I’m using clockwise-lockwise from now on.

It’s like you two are the argument that I have going on on my own head about this topic. Snooggums is my pessimistic side.

In countries without capitalism and property rights, the billionaires are the government and the judiciary and the military.

In the US, they just have solidified a really good means of controlling it… I mean, the amount we don’t tax them, the super PACs we let them contribute to, and the control they have over our media is definitely a form of control that may not be “as bad” as other systems (arguably) but it seems like it’s really similar.

I mean, underfunding our own governmental space program might also be a contributing factor. 🤷

Elon Musk poses a clear and present danger to American national security. The sooner the US government revokes his security clearance, terminates its contracts with him and the entities he controls, and builds its own alternatives to Starlink and SpaceX, the safer America will be. (emphasis mine$

The government not doing that in the first place lead to SpaceX having the monopoly, so I think that is part of the problem.

It has been a dumping ground for immigrants for a long time. The British used to send their convicts, that didn’t make the cut for hanging but they surely didn’t want in “their” country, here to be slaves.

Not many people know that between 1718 and 1775 over 52,000 convicts were transported from the British Isles to America, mainly to Maryland and Virginia, to be sold as slaves to the highest bidder. —The History Press

If you see anyone online show the search results and pricing on Amazon, then try to replicate those search results and product price on a device that is totally partitioned from your viewing of the item/price elsewhere, you’re likely to find it is not possible. If you then go back to the original device and do the same, you’ll magically find the same product and lower price.

I noticed this on Walmarts website when asking chat GPT to find items for me. I was wondering why it was happening. Some of the price differences were extreme too.

Let me guess, the EU actually put laws in place to ”remediate that problem” like a ”functioning government”.

I was told that they discovered her father was white.

It’s birther nonsense, just some crazy conspiracy theory they can spread. Next they will say she was born in India.

Will this be her Dark Brandon moniker?!

And it’s a hell of a lot easier to reform voting there too.

I just watched the clip again and you’re totally right. When I watched the first time, it was like an uncanny valley thing - it was mostly human but something was still really off.

The footage also caught the attention of far-right influencer Charlie Kirk, who argued that Haitians were reportedly eating people’s pets all across the country.

Many such reports 🙄

And I’m honestly surprised they let you do that many password tries. I would seriously consider changing banks.

It’s YA but I suggest Hatchet because it’s the book I remember actually making an impression on me.

They’re much more like the Cheney (Dick and Liz) that announced they wouldn’t vote for Trump

Not just won’t vote for Trump, tho, they said they will vote for Harris!

I agree wit both of you - Trump talked a good game for people with little education, presented himself as an “outsider who would drain the swamp” of politicians they have learned to distrust, he “said what he meant” (aka insults and bigotry), and was a “self-made millionaire” (something they all aspire to and believe they could be someday). It was a good grift for the population he targeted, as the original commenter said, angry at industry leaving their towns, angry at politicians not helping. You know what PT Barnum said: “There is a fool born every minute”. He said a lot of other applicable things too because he was a successful con man, just like Trump.

That’s what I see too!

Or the reason. Surely a man who says abortions are because a woman can’t “keep her skirt down” only did it because his wife was in danger, was raped, or the fetus wasn’t viable and not out of convenience or family planning right?