that is called a dictatorial show of force

Billions don’t want to stop path to trillionaire-dom just because they don’t lead the market in any way at all any longer.

But once one has learned to leave one social network without any worry then doing it again is actually easy.

What is an “average working class Trump voter” ?

With private ballots why are you so sure rich upper middle class people didn’t vote for him ?

Ronald Reagan happened to GenX.

amen.

rabbits in skinner boxes pressing two buttons for a treat is not a far cry from tech workers sitting in cublices pressing 104 buttons for paycheck nor internet users doing it for imaginary internet points.

i have found that brighter ones can be easier to find at the bottom of a bag or on the counter

I’ve got the movie on DVD but I can try

The various police agencies in this county aren’t quiet about using surveillance that the STAZI would blush at. The newspapers and local bloggers refuse to push the issue with the police by asking questions or doing long term journalism for the effort is not TikTok-able.

If citizens criticize the police online the police find them using digital tracking and then harass them IRL and online.

The system is broken. And it makes the people that it breaks believe that they are noble for being part of the abuse cycle.

The USA is in a bit of a pickle with privacy, guns, stochastic violence, and system decay.

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all people are questionable. the love of money is envy manifest.

envy is the most destructive compound human emotion.

we have a lot of life saving technology medically that we use to snap people from the jaws of death so that the state can execute them later

WIN WIN WIN

The Ghost of Aaron Schwartz

enshitification is based on the ease of moving profits from users to creators then from creators to shareholders in a digital service economy all the while degrading the service for the users and then the creators as the profit fulcrum.

so enshitification might be a different thing than the reality around manufacturing items in an international environment which requires design decisions that later require revising because not all materials are available from everyone in the way a design is called for. and finding people that can assemble things while receiving a wage that they can live so that a company can make a profit requires compromises. and that is just two tiny points in not including shipping and workspaces and insurance et cetera

it is hard, yo. in a not a one part is inconceivable hard but in a it gets complicated pretty quickly type of hard.

What would stealing junk food be in that situation, then ?

No. No one gets “extra votes” for kids.

16

if you can get taxed as a worker at 16 you get to vote.

representative government is pretty good

let’s talk dumping the executive branch. those bums are worthless.

Federalist Paper 29

The founding fathers thought that standing armies make any leader a tyrant.