You think it’s ghosts and goblins. I think it was a bad trade for more Epstein files in the hopes they’ll topple the emperor.

Do you have a strategy or just hopelessness?

Well, not all the way evenly. It’s fine to have relatively rich and poor. Money should be a measure of what your society owes you, and society owes my doctor more than it owes my deadbeat… whatever, who just doesn’t want to get a job.

Make that doctor as many lattes and avocado toasts as he wants.

Everyone working 40 hours a week should be able to ask their neighbors for things like “take my garbage from the curb to the dump” or “educate my kids” or “make me a sandwich”. That is the concept of money at its core.

We’ll say the going rate for a skilled worker is $100k a year with a working lifetime of ~40 years, about $4m in total. Ain’t nobody out there that deserves the lifetime’s work of 250 people working solely for them, 40 hours a week, ~44 weeks a year. (That’s about a billion dollars.) Yeah, maybe you can control that many people or more if you’re working towards a common purpose and providing value for others, but that would be a billion dollars in gross income that’s redistributed, not net profit for one person.

That’s not what the phrase “dark pattern” means.

“nuh uh” is shorter. Might save you some time when people continually post evidence.

It’s a switch. It’s clearly marked. It literally says “sponsored”.

https://time.com/7280045/voters-should-pick-their-candidates-not-party-bosses/

“Every single” is the kind of lazy shit that gets us into this mess. It’s going to take more thought than that.

I hope you’re ready to hear that same refrain constantly and increasing over the next 12 months.

Well, that part of the system is fixed. There was a cost to that fix, so please make it worth it.

It makes the damage that’s being done loud and visible instead of quietly having our country dismantled without people noticing because “they don’t follow politics” and the lack of Due Process hasn’t affected them personally yet.

I generally agree, but part of the reason Schumer can’t whip votes is that he no longer controls the DNC.

He can’t direct DNC money towards the candidates that vote the way he wants, and he can’t direct money to their opponents to punish them when they break ranks.

I think this would be good for democracy, in the same way that anti-gerrymandering laws are good for democracy. … You know, except when.

Yeah. We need to fight that in a smart way.

You can’t just say all Dems are bad. You can’t just say all incumbents are bad. Term limits aren’t the answer, and probably wouldn’t help with most of these.

We need to get good candidates in primaries and support those candidates. Now is the time to be doing this. We need someone to step up for that seat, ideally this month, and we need to get behind them.

Ideally it’d be someone with enough history to show they’re not a Sinema.

Yeah. They would have caved. It was the epitome of how Republicans are destroying government.

They would have caved or there would have been consequences.

And it’s better to lose all of our airports, publicly, loudly, and visibly, than it is to lose our entire Judicial branch of government.

They’re all retiring at the end of their terms if they like it or not.

Just make sure we have a good candidate in the primary. And we need to actually support people who are better before their primaries.

Well, it wasn’t just billionaires. It was anyone trying to fly for the holidays.

I, for one, was willing to endure for healthcare. It was a fight that was worth it. It’s not Medicare for All, but it was something.

Note that impersonating police is a crime. I expect this would also be a crime.

Just pointing out the issues with unidentified, masked police.

It can’t be that hard to get a couple ICE vests. Then you can do whatever you want.

One 2k check is not ubi.

We might. He owns the Supreme Court and Congress. For some reason they’ve abdicated all of their power and have no mind of their own.

And who’s gonna vote no?