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  • Another foreigner from a country the size of a medium sized state, with absolutely no concept of the size of this country, thinks we can all go on a general strike one day, and overthrow the government. Or at least thinks it would be entertaining to watch us try, and fail.

    They won't be so entertained by the decades-long global Depression that would follow a collapse of the US economy, but they'll just blame that on us as well, even though we were just following their bad advice.

  • Trump will be dead by then (Yay!)

  • Gen Z (and everyone else) needs to learn that they are stronger as Unaffiliated Independents. No candidate wins based on their party base. The winner is ALWAYS the candidate who won the independent vote.

    Stay independent, and make them earn your vote every time.

  • Someone who doesn't enjoy irony or schadenfreude.

  • A MAGA.

  • Hegseth isn't Trump. MAGA is a classic Cult of Personality, and it is ALL about Trump. Once he assumes room temperature, MAGA is finished.

    Some of his followers, especially the politicians, will try to keep it going, but 90% of street level MAGAs were on board because of Trump, and once he's gone, their interest in politics will wane. None of his henchmen or children will be acceptable, even though there will be many who will claim to be his chosen, or logical, successor, but NONE of them will attract the Trumper.

    Besides, MAGA is down to less than 30%. It will be far lower after Trump croaks. Even if they could rally around a MAGA candidate, there won't be the support. And of all the MAGA figures, the guy that helped Trump break his America First promise definitely won't be the guy. Neither will Vance. Rubio has the only shot, because he still has non-MAGA creds, but he will also be tainted with MAGA, so it won't work.

  • I just read that corporations are starting to cozy up to Democrats, in anticipation of the Democratic Bloodbath in the Midterms. Perhaps they'll see that supporting MAGA and ICE is a bad idea.

  • How hard can it be?

  • Here we go again with the doom & gloom propaganda. Social Security is literally the easiest problem in DC to fix. Just raise the income cap from $185.5K to $250K, or $500K, or $1 Million, or remove the cap altogether.

    That's all it would take to solve the problem.

  • If it's in Texas or Florida, it's probably just a phony residence, so he doesn't have to pay state taxes.

  • He's cool with stealing all of our data, and making us feel helpless about what others are doing with it, so I don't see why he shouldn't feel that same fear.

  • Oh, no, he's proven who he is at his core. He doesn't deserve a second of peace for the rest of his life.

  • Checking, checking...yep, he's on The List.

  • He's not the only one, there are a bunch of companies that want to launch fleets of satellites. I read a recent article that said in the very near future, only about one out of every 15 visible "stars" will be natural.

    Since the beginning of time, every living creature, including every evolutionary stage of mankind, have looked at the sky in wonder, awe, navigation, science, calendars, romance, beauty, religion, etc. Gazing into the cosmos has been a core human experience for trillions of people since the beginning of humankind, and now these Sociopathic Oligarchs want to STEAL that from every future human, just so they can have a little more money.

  • This is the argument I've always had about nuclear energy. Sure it works great in other countries, but in America the plants will be built by corporations whose ONLY priority is profit, and they will cut corner after corner, and legally bribe government regulators to do nothing about it, until it fails. It is inevitable, and we ALL know it, which is why nobody really advocates too hard for nuclear power in America. We all know how fucked up it would be.

  • For the most part, there's nothing to boycott yet. Showing up to council meetings by the dozens, imploring them to say No to the data centers they've already been bribed to accept, is the same action, done preemptively. Boycotts come later, when the data centers are actually open.

    I'm aware that some are already operational, but they are a fraction of what these predators want to build.

    Right now, the move is to let them know that we don't want this, and there will be consequences for supporting data centers. Then vote them out in the next election, and make it very vocal why.

    And in small towns and counties, where the council members also operate businesses, those businesses need to be boycotted. You don't get to inflict existential damage on this town and it's citizens, without feeling retribution for it. I hope your bribe was fat enough to sustain you after your business crashes, because that's the choice you made.

  • Testifying in front of Congress doesn't mean anything. That's just a dog & pony show meant to placate the rubes. NOTHING ever happens as a result.

    Look at Tickemaster/ Live Nation. They e had to explain themselves a number of times to Congress over the last 30 years, and they've only gotten bigger and more predatory. It finally took all those politicians trying to get Taylor Swift tickets for their screeching daughters that made them angry enough to finally do something about it. They are finally having a trial about it, but it's still unclear if they'll feel any consequences or make any changes.

  • There seem to be only three things that data centers are going to be used for: Crypto Mining, Mass Surveillance, and Data Collection, none of which helps the average citizen, most of it hurts us badly, yet we have to pay for it all.

    What's not to love?

  • A net.