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That certainly was the case for a long time. I’ve haven’t had any issues for 5+ years. Devs made it a priority.

Agree with your thesis. We don’t live in some society disconnected from the ancient past. We aren’t any smarter, self aware or capable of better discernment. Everything is about power and always will be.

Platform podcasters who spread misinformation

Lol just say Joe Rogan

I got a subscription two months ago because I had an event where it was simply easier to just use Spotify. I’m going back to plexamp I guess.

I remember oink and waffles. What an era.

I wish I could just not show up for work and still have a job.

There is no way out of the situation we’re in without immense sacrifice by the average person. It doesn’t matter who is president. We have to pay the boomers credit card bill. The gambit of selling paper dollars for real world goods started in the 70s and is at the end stages now. We are left with a gutted US economy that produces no material goods. It’s going to get worse before it gets any better.

I just use ChatGPT.

The US economy has been running on funny money for decades at this point. It’s like a game of musical chairs for who’s going to get stuck with the fallout from a debt-laden service economy driven by speculation and increasingly nefarious financial instruments.

Trump isn’t a Christian

Ancient FM & Sleep Pill

I never asked you where you’re from out of respect for your privacy and for the ideological nature of the conversation. It follows however that I wouldn’t consider the myriad of things in your border because I don’t know where you live. However I wholly reject your dismissal of the overarching importance of geopolitics which has not only created structure throughout history but particularly at this stage in the 21st century. We are witnessing a polar shift and if you are not one of the countries I mentioned then you are a chess piece on the board. Liberalism is on the ropes. The US, China and Russia are reverting to neo-imperialist strategies to carve the world into fiefdoms. Maybe your government voted to have subsidies for auto workers. Great. You can enjoy your democracy but only if you can either A) defend yourself or B) have another country defend you. If you have a “democracy” you are almost certainly in the latter category because 50% of your public funds arent being dumped into the military and you’re ostensibly not being ruled by an unelected bureaucracy devoted to geopolitical interests in lieu of the domestic.

what we have now clearly isn’t working?

How do you know that? If we can all vote then things should be working as intended, right?

If things aren’t working then it’s either… A) We not a “real” democracy due to x,y,z B) Democracy doesn’t work

If A then how is it not just proof of B?

More importantly in terms of net domestic migration the overwhelming majority of people are going to the states in blue. Particularly Florida andTexas.

You granted I might be right. So I asked (first) what our options are if this is the case. You’re evading the question.

Liberal is culturally interchangable the term “progressive”. Intellectually the “progress” inevitably leads to socialism. This guy is someone who is unashamedly taking that next step. I suppose we agree that he’s being intellectually and spiritually honest in doing so. Most of the time the socialism/communism talk is simply used to entice the masses and drum up votes. He seems earnest in that from what I know.

If democracy isn’t real which government do you propose?