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  • Classic democratic party.

    Waiting until the last possible minute to begin pretending to protect Americans from the entitlements of billionaires.

    We knew Trump was running again

    We knew the media was sane washing everything Trump does, did, and will do

    He made specific promises to be a dictator and hinted at this being the last election

    He specifically promised to use the army domestically.

    Now, it’s almost a month after he won and Democrats are considering maybe doing something about framework regarding the army being used domestically.

    Both sides aren’t the same, but they’re both owned by the same people.

    Once upon a time Democrats could float the idea of capitulation to business interests to maintain Americans global business dominance. Nowadays any democrat who isn’t fully progressive on workers rights is just another flavor of corporate Greed.


  • Harder to be taken advantage of if you know the means by which one takes advantage of another.

    Knowing the wealthy need you more than you need them lets you make stronger demands and form unions.

    Being knowledgeable gives you job security and independence, you have intrinsic value as a capable resource - and if spurned can become a troublesome enemy because you understand your opponent and can take advantage accordingly

    Knowledge is absolutely power, and power gives you opportunity for freedom to choose how to live your life.



  • Generally, farmers bitch and cry about anything and everything, except for the things they actually should care about. Like sustainably, and corporate ownership of supply chains that collude on prices and distribution networks while putting all the risk on farmers.

    They are one of the more entitled voter blocks who live in a zero sum, anything to ‘survive’ at the expense of everything else mentality.

    We’d have dust bowl events every 5 years if farmers had their way. It’s absolutely an industry that demands government intervention, because sustainability isn’t short term profitable.

    I’m not suggesting that farmers are inherently bad/greedy/destructive of the environment, as the food supply chain often forces farmers to act this way, but that doesn’t change their current attitudes and approach to agriculture.

    My farmchair quarterback call is that Farmers crop yields should be half of their income, and sustainable practices, limited fertilizer and pesticide use, and overall soil quality and health should act as a multiplier to crop yields. So lower yields but better farming practices pays more than high yield, environment destroying, agriculture


  • Never thought I’d see the day where I hoped a McConnell plan would work in any capacity.

    He’s allowed Trump to exist so project 2025 can happen.

    Moscow Mitch will do anything to make project 2025 happen, maybe he was convinced the “normal” Republicans can mitigate Trump’s penchant for treason and sedition against America and that mitigation risk was worth the project 2025 payout.

    Hopefully he is right about mitigating Trump. Otherwise, I hope McConnell is the first Republican publicly executed because Trump absolutely wants to be able to publicly execute anyone he doesn’t like.


  • If you want specifics, Project 2025 is absolutely the roadmap they are using.

    TL:DR The broadstrokes of America’s decline over the next 4 years are:

    • Destroy education so poor people cannot understand what’s happening to them and how to stop it, and only wealthy will have the means to educate and employ themselves.

    • Destroy labor unions so everyone is individually fighting a united corpo government for livable wages

    • Change local and federal government so elections are pageantry instead of democracy

    • Mandate religion in school, work, government, and eventually the home.

    • Online ID so your internet use can be monitored and tracked

    • Drill baby drill

    • White supremacy/deportation will be super messy and fuck the economy

    • Whatever the consequences of not understanding tariffs are

    If you’re wealthy, none of this applies to you. This election was to confirm if money and power are above the law.

    America overwhelmingly decided they prefer a king unbound by Magna Carta over law, order, and democracy.


  • Not voting has the same consequences, so those aren’t too smart either.

    Gen Z are entitled like boomers, but with almost no economic prospects outside their parents.

    Which makes sense, since loads of Gen Z were priced out of a future before they could even start earning, so there’s no point in giving effort

    At least Trump will guarantee Gen Z nearly unlimited well paying work if they’re interested in bounty hunting immigrants and tracking fertility



  • I wonder if this is why fox news et all were flagrantly lying about roving immigrant gangs occupying towns (that never existed)

    That happens in a lot of immigrants home countries, so immigrants voting to stop it from coming to America makes sense - its why they uprooted their lives and migrated to America in the first place.

    I’m just as disappointed as anyone else in the outcome/demographic split etc - but it’s almost hard to blame people when every “legitimate” news source can pitch a coordinated fantasy and make it real.

    You’re supposed to be able to trust news sources - but when multiple news sources coordinate to make up stories and narratives that aren’t true, and there’s zero consequences for lying or promoting disinformation, people will never be able to make an informed opinion again.

    Just like the lack of consequences for Trump let people believe he’s the target of a witch hunt. People want to believe the accountability applied to them is also applied to major institutions like news, police, and government, but can’t seem to understand it only exists for the poor.




  • A good chunk of Trump’s cancer is caused by terrible left wing policy.

    I hate Trump and everything about the far right, but I can understand people falling in love with the idea of a strongman who will cut through bullshit and do what people want.

    The left is supposed to mitigate income inequality, and make life good for their citizens.

    Both left/right idealogies are entirely owned by corporate interests across the globe - this is the crux of the entire issue.

    The problems facing the middle class are entirely artificial and intentional. There are a myriad of reasons, but the end result is that we have one societies/laws/reality for the wealthy, and a completely different set of rules for the population.

    The left promises to solve everything with equality and the right promises to resolve everything with hierarchy.

    Neither idealogy has any intention of doing anything but funnel as much money/power to big business until their political careers are done.

    The obvious difference is the “Right” idealogies are objectively bad for everyone but the ultra wealthy. Unfortunately being ultra wealthy gives you the ability to own national anti-reality propaganda networks.


  • The scariest thing about Conservatives is they are getting pressed against reality and the false narrative they cling to as the only possible explanation of reality.

    Their lie is so ridiculous and so obviously ‘coming from inside the house’ that they will now protect it with everything they are.

    The only hope is that they accept a conclusion of ‘I was right about everything, just the small detail of who was actually responsible needed a single puzzle piece to confirm’.


  • Go into the office and waste every resource you can.

    Plug in a fan + heater + aquarium + massage pad at your desk and leave everything on constantly even when you leave

    Print every email and throw it in the trash.

    Make coffee 50x a day and pour it down the sink

    Flush a whole roll of TP every hour

    Leave sinks on in the bathroom

    Use entire tubs of soap to wash your hands

    Turn on the microwave for hours at a time

    Heat/cool office thermometer to force HVAC into overdrive

    Open new browser windows until your computer crashes and repeat until the network goes down

    Company wide meme emails that everyone participates in (team building) that crash servers and dominate inboxes

    Pour sugar/crumbs everywhere so there’s pest problems

    Accept every phishing email

    Put USB sticks found on the ground into your work computer

    Open the door for strangers who want to get in the building without a badge

    FORM A UNION

    (nuclear option) introduce bedbugs to all your bosses offices