Trump and Elon are going to crash the economy. I know the stock market is actually based on rich people vibes, but I can’t see it not tanking at some point, quite possibly soon. I took all the money I had saved for a down payment on a house out of the market on Tuesday.
Fidel pisses me off so much. He achieved amazing things in the name of prosperity for all the people, then went and killed or imprisoned political opponents and LGBT.
However the continued sanctions against Cuba are blatantly in place to make sure socialism doesn’t “work”.
Trump’s “floor” is roughly 30%. These are the cultists, people who would support anything Trump says no matter how insane. These are the people who travelled to DC and ended up attacking the Capital Building on January 6.
We need our own party, but before that can happen we need nationwide elimination of first past the post elections. Or the demise of the Democratic party. I’ll take either but preferably both.
Liberal. Not in the way it’s used in the US these days, but the actual definition.
If it weren’t for illegal weed and the free market part (depending on what you mean by consumer protections) I’d say you’re pretty progressive for the US.
What do you think of social safety nets? What about universal basic income? What about tax rates (individual and corporate)? These answers would give me a better picture of your politics.
I wonder if the word choice in “pretending to be altruistic” is intentional for autistic. If so then she is very clever.
Two of my cats have secret hiding spots that I can’t find. This is a very small house. I can always find the other two.
That’s it, and it’s fantastic. All his work is so great. It’s the only manga I’ve ever read. This guide is useful for reading order if you’ve never read manga before.
Reading order:
It loads a blank page with a title right now. Maybe someone decided that if they put the pages back up they can follow the letter of the order, but censor the page contents.
My wife kept her name when we got married ten years ago. It has only caused minimal problems with bureaucracy.
That’s awesome. Who usually wins?
I mean, it used to be considered disrespectful to sit down to eat without taking off your hat. I would eat with you while you wear a hat no problem, but I would take mine off.
But how could we ban the content when the owners of the media are fascists? When all three branches of the government are dominated by people who rely on this messaging?
You want people to relax while we’re in the beginning of a fascist takeover of our country?
Right on, fair enough.
I live in the state that gave Trump his highest margin of victory, so I have seen what you describe many times.
My friend listened to punk music and played in punk bands. He was very conservative politically. I hadn’t seen him in a while and we decided to go to a show hours away and catch up. We had stopped talking politics to preserve our friendship. We were on our way back from the show, listening to Rancid, and I couldn’t stand it anymore. I was like “hey man, you love this music, but do you not hear the lyrics? How can you say the things you say?” I didn’t know he had changed.
He had been doing survey work for a mining company for years. He explained that after he got out of that job, everything became clear. He wasn’t conservative anymore, in fact he had become progressive.
He explained that when he worked with nothing but hard right conservatives, with Fox News on all day, it seeped into his brain and corrupted him.
This is an intelligent man I’m talking about. He was a victim of propaganda and was smart enough to realize it once he was away from it.
This is always on my mind:
"“We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.”
Trump said this at a speech in Nevada during the primary in 2016, and people cheered.
It’s happened twice to me, I’m now 41. I was able to get it resolved both times but it was not easy and in the first case seriously hurt my credit score for seven years.
When you die your social is reused and assigned to someone else eventually.
This is not true, but often repeated. From SSA
This has happened many times. In the last city I lived in, a man went in to have a leg amputated and they got the wrong one, so he ended up with zero legs.
For what it’s worth Elizabeth Warren is considered one of the few left of center Democrats in the US. With this information I would say you are close to a social Democrat, and definitely not a conservative as we understand it in the US.