Affordability is a bit bigger than just Trumps war. Minimum wage needs to be raised by several orders of magnitude, all businesses need to be heavily and aggressively regulated, and the buggest need to be either broken up, seized and made public utilities, or both
Capitalism is the root cause there, and while Trump is a pretty perfect avatar for capitalism made flesh. The war with Iran is making it worse but shit ain’t been affordable since Covid or before
I don’t even give a shit about the peace prize, the other Nobels are always more interesting and important these days anyhow, but now I just want whoever would piss Trump off the most to win
You could even argue that whoever pisses him off the most does in fact deserve it
Honey! I’m sure you have at least 10 times as much brain tissue as a fruit fly! Maybe even a mosquito
Boggles my mind that we can study the brain of something so tiny. That there’s even enough mass to study at all
For real this is one of the more jarring things I’ve read about this admin in a while. And I keep up with it far more than is probably healthy.
I’ve been white knuckling the past few weeks because I have this gut feeling that midterms are going to be a crazy watershed moment and it appears that tensions are beginning to boil over
I expect this announcement was released two weeks prior so that they can weaponize it in battleground elections. This might get really ugly really fast
I can hear the conservative talk radio hosts my parents worshiped when I was growing up complaining about this sort of thing, saying they ain’t real jobs.
Conservatives especially but really it’s probably a much larger portion of Americans than I want to think about, have been so thoroughly pilled by capitalist brainwashing that they think a job doesn’t count unless someone involved is making money from the job.
“Cause if it isn’t making dollars, then it isn’t making sense. If you aren’t moving units then youre not worth the expense” -David Bazan
I could see country-wide change happening… Just not in a positive direction
At this point I’m unsure of any path forward in the US politically that will end in making things any better in the short term. I’m voting still and everyone should, but I fear it’ll either be what you said or the fascists seize more power by calling fraud and cheating. L
I mean… wildly gestures at everything doesn’t appear to be that much of a mystery
Cut off one head and two more shall rise to take its place
This is not actually true, a great deal of credit for the passing of the Civil Rights Act can and should be attributed to nationwide riots that took place in the week directly following Martin Luther King Juniors assassination. Known as the Holy Week Uprising. The American public education system purposely doesn’t talk about this and pushes the peaceful protest angle to prevent any meaningful organizing. It can easily work here too
Oh look more dark enlightenment things! This is all very cool and good
I’m getting a beer truck and acting like Stone Cold Steve Austin until it’s drained and everyone on the block is hammered
If yall beat Alabama we’ll get to find out in Atlanta it looks like
Edit: Also I think our success against yall recently is just that Kirby has had Sarks number thus far, I ain’t complaining at all but if yall get someone else in there the money and talet yall can get worry me
No it’s far far worse than drivin in my truck
I’m legitimately upset that I have to pull for Texas today, they’ve quickly become one of my more hated teams that ain’t rivals since they joined the SEC. It feels way dirtier than pulling for Tennnesse or LSU(I’m a UGA fan since we don’t have flair)
Fun fact, Soulja Boy ripped off the Monster Mash when he created the dance that shares his name
I don’t care for Auburn
I think it’s balls? You have to throw three balls or you’re out like in baseball?
Maybe we’re both confused