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  • It's honestly just business as usual in American politics, our leaders have been corporate puppets for decades. The only scary part is that they think their victory is so absolute that they can drop the mask.

  • Oh... That explains the toxicity...

  • tell me you haven't worked in food service without saying it.

    Americans really fucking suck.

  • This time, they think they have enough of the general populace controlled that they can get away with it. So far, they've been proven right every time.

  • None of the 50 states currently have a standing military. What if those corporate interests don't take no for an answer, and decide to hire private military contractors to conquer it by force? With the collapse of the U.S. military, there'll be plenty of mercenaries available. What if, after consolidating their power in their new former U.S. holdings, they decide that they want more and push for expansion? At that point, the corporations can have their own professional armies, made up of former U.S. citizens, fight against the remaining "independent" states.

    I'm not saying your initial premise is wrong, but you haven't fully looked at the consequences of releasing ~43 incredibly weak nations into the world with no treaties or alliances protecting them. It guarantees conflict. You'd have maybe seven states masquerading as the "real United States," and complete chaos.

  • Hey Goliath was clearly in the right. David brought a gun to a fist fight, bastard never should have been allowed to walk free after that level of cheating.

  • Turns out constantly voting for the status quo when it is shit got us to fascism anyway!

    Boomers disappearing won't fix this, they've already indoctrinated members of Gen Z. The problem wasn't that being born at a specific time made you a conservative, it's that conservatism requires a lot of idiots to support it. They've bred their fresh crop of idiots, and they won't stop digging their hooks in until we unfuck private media ownership and enforce education standards.

  • The DNC broke every fundraising record they previously had. They only lost the election by our metrics, they all got fabulously paid this year.

  • What actually happens if the Union splits is that corporate interests start buying states. If you think we live in a cyberpunk dystopia now, just imagine what would happen if Amazon owned Mississippi through Georgia.

  • The problem is that the second the federal government fully collapses and states are left on their own, a majority of them will become captured by megacorporations or China. Red states like Mississippi just fail to function on their own, they would require an entity with seriously sizable funding to subsidize them, and the number of entities that can fit that bill is pretty small. Even if these red states band together...they're the worst states. 5 of them together doesn't equal the income brought in by places like California or New York, who would perhaps instead enjoy a large surplus of state funding they could make use of and maintain individuality in the face of a corporate dystopia.

  • She raised the most donations they've ever seen. They're not masochists, just greedy, and they care more about making money than winning.

  • Capitalism: A Love Story and Where to Invade Next came out at the start of Obama's era and the end, respectively, and both offer some criticisms of Obama. Of course, Fahrenheit 11/9 really lays into him, particularly because of Obama's stunt in Flint, Michigan where he boldly tricked people into drinking the local water.

    You didn't hear shit because you didn't watch his other movies.

  • Won't anyone think about this poor innocent war criminal's family!

    The only tragedy when people this evil die is that they can only die once, but their actions caused hundreds of deaths.

  • Fuck you, sincerely. I never asked to be born in this shithole, and our political system was fucked before I even had a chance to vote. We've enough suffering without armchair assholes wishing more on us.

  • psychopathy is a selected trait in capitalism.

  • I'm not hopeful it will, especially since the U.S. has already gone back to killing children instead.

  • I live in a place that gets pretty cold during winter, typically between -10 and 0 fahrenheit. They absolutely grip the leg tight and can get sweaty in the summer, but kinda necessary for winter.

    For spring and fall I usually pair them with shorts or skirts for cutesy reasons, but this meme is v accurate to my winter experience.

  • If I remember correctly, the issue last time is that they wanted us on permanent Daylight Savings Time, instead of Standard Time. So I expect Trump to force the U.S. onto permanent DST, just because all science says it would be worse for us than going to Standard.

  • Wow, so wild that the agency you crippled with a nonsensical pension funding requirement is no longer running as efficiently as you demand! what a huge surprise, no one could have seen this coming!

    Super cool that the Democrats didn't reverse that insane requirement btw.