In my county we get paid 35 dollars per day for jury duty.

Blue wave in the midterms is just one sandbag in the wall that would need to be built to stop the flood of fascism.

You get paid about 3.50 and hour in my state.

Russia, Iran, and North Korea still have elections.

They will be held. They might not matter, but voting booths will open.

I wish I had your faith that there is a large group of followers that don’t realize they are doing evil.

So many people in the west have decided they don’t want security, mutual aid, or really anything that might mitigate suffering.

It seems like we are all gonna have to suffer the consequences of that until they realize how fucked up that is.

I am deeply saddened that we are gonna need a bunch nore Patrick Henries to make this true.

According to other headlines they already have IDF soldiers refusing to deploy to Gaza and going to prison instead. The Nazis invented the gas chambers because shooting crowds of civilians was leaving their SS troopers disabled with PTSD. they need to gamify it to provide some psychological cover for their grunts to finish the job.

Honestly, most of history wasn’t war, it’s just that the records were written and preserved by a bunch of Romaboos that focused on the wars.

Decent amount, but I would get a lot of details wrong.

Shooting up your school? What schools did you go to?

Pumped up kicks fits this for me.

I’ve pulled loans from retirement twice, and thank God I was able to pay them back. I dunno what I will do without my widele 401k.

If nothing else the fall in birth rates world-wide will lead to political instability.

If they can maintain the infrastructure of wealth without workers they won’t care what people do, and if they can’t then the surveillance will collapse with the supply chains.

Either way there is an other side to this dark tunnel, not without suffering and death, but there is still hope for resistance to the new facism.

Here in the US most schools gave up trying to ban phones in the 2010’s.

Dems control districting of fewer seats than reps. That’s just a path to permanent minority rule by the reps.

Now there is a path of escalation I had no anticipated. The Republican federal judges rule the cali maps unconstituonal, Cali goes forward anyway because the 10th amendment and that ruling is patent bullshit. Then Republicans refuse to seat the Cali delegation to Congress, essentially seizing power.

That would set the hair of neoliberals on fire.

Begining of the end? Nah, these seeds were planted by Nixon, they sprouted under Reagan, Bush watered them, Trump is just harvesting them.

Realistically, Clinton, Obama, and Biden watered them too, just not as generously.

The supreme court, which has nothing to say as trump dismantles the US government, will suddenly stop any action by a Democrat, should one ever attain the white house. (Or any other non-psychotic president). Any change must include removal of those corrupt individuals from their place of power.

The strong do as they please and the weak suffer what they must.

Not gonna stop until they find out how that worked for the Athenians.