You mean tariffying?

Yeah, this seems more accurate.

You’re not responsible for awful people who happen to have been born on the same plot of dirt as you (as an American, I really need this to be true)

I don’t see how your sensory issues affect my eating habits. We don’t even know each other!

Don’t forget about The good old U S of A.

Chase Oliver was too liberal for him? Why, cuz he cares about homeless people and immigrants? Cuz he’s gay? Cuz he voted for Obama once?

And not once did he mention feeling betrayed by Trump because of the masked goons abducting, imprisoning, and deporting people without due process.

So many Libertarians don’t seem to have a fucking clue about Liberty.

The average voter is terrible. And half of them are worse than that.

I was expecting a caption at the bottom: “This meme is about AI”

Cue Al Jazeera theme music

Hey I’m all for a Socialist takeover of the Democratic party and I know we won’t have defeated fascism until we end The Duopoly. I’m just saying Trump has thin skin and I’m sure Gavin’s intern"s trolling is getting under it. Don’t worry - I know Newsom is a lizard person and would happily maintain the new status quo Trump is creating if given a chance.

This is why I live in a city. I wish our small towns were walkable because at this point in my life I’d prefer one, but not an American style one.

Stop it I’m in public and its embarrassing to get this aroussd looking at my phone.

Pathetic

Who walks in the suburbs?

It’s satisfying to see someone give Trump a taste of his own medicine.

I know Newsome isn’t on my side but I can still enjoy watching him give Trump a black eye.

I guess I’m an old man but I don’t understand why people give strangers their phones to enter a number. Your phone has lots of really important shit on it, people. Don’t give it to strangers pleaseeee

Unless you’re an obnoxious dude at a bar. Then, give your phone to anyone who smiles at you!

I agree that we are in very dark times, and likely the darkest we have been in the history of our country, or at least since the Civil War.

But we seem to so quickly forget Operation Wetback, committed under a Republican (but back when Republicans could still plausibly relate to Lincoln and Democrats will ruled the Jim Crow south) and Japanese Internment, committed under FDR, everyone’s favorite progressive Democrat. We forget how Truman prosecuted the Korean war without a declaration from Congress, while both parties in Congress failed to assert their power to stop him.

To be clear, I’m not picking on Democrats because I think they’re the same as Republicans. The Democratic base is much more compassionate, which forces the politicians in the party to be so as well. I’m picking on Democrats because I fear that if we do escape from this Trumpian nightmare without addressing the Oligarchic Duopoly, we will at best have a very temporary reprieve from techno-fascist dystopia. Certainly not the world of compassion, courage, and curiosity that I want to see.

And I agree that Trump is a war criminal and domestic terrorist. That just doesn’t make what was happening before him OK. And it doesn’t absolve his predecessors of their responsibility for helping erode our Constitutional framework.

The Oligarchy is scared of what’s coming: climate change, AI, the loss of American unipolarity in the world. They don’t think they can maintain their status and privilege while continuing to give us the modicum of liberty and societal openness we have enjoyed here in The West (at the expense of much of the rest of the world) for the past 80 years. So they need to clamp down, and the base of the Republican party was always going to be their vehicle to do that. Because people who will support a fascist are going to be in the Republican tent by and large. But the parties themselves are both owned by the same Oligarchy. Just look at the top donors to R and D candidates for the highest federal offices. There’s a lot of overlap between them. And while there are some Dems (and even some Reps) in Congress and more at the state and local level who genuinely want to do right by their constituents, the core of each party are soulless, unprincipled sociopaths who just want power and have chosen one team or the other to get it.

By the way, thank you for not attacking me personally and instead engaging in the content of my comment. It is rare and refreshing.

EDIT: Punctuation

Not once have I made excuses for MAGA. And I explicitly said that Republicans are worse than Dems and that Trump is uniquely bad (maybe in a different sub-thread from this one - it’s hard to tell with all the ignorant hate that came my way in this post). But you clearly have no interest in responding to what I actually say - you only want to attack the caricature of me that you’ve built in your head.

So I’ll offer you an ultimatum analogous to the one you offered me: stop pretending that only one party in America is fascist or admit that you’re a fascist yourself.

If we ever get true people’s representation in government priority number one will be to prosecute all the fuckwads who have been perpetrating this. Unfortunately, I am not hopeful that this will happen.

I think the key is the early introduction itself, provided you are introducing them to an actual computer that you own and not a smart phone or tablet or even a computer running Windows (and therefore owned by Microsoft).