With enough propaganda anything is possible.

That’s, a remarkably rosy set of predictions.

I hope you are right, and big picture, I think things might shake out that way eventually.

But I am not as optimistic as you on several points.

I don’t think LLM AI will do as much as you claim as fast as you imagine.

I don’t think the owner class will put enough pressure on the politicians to generate that level of systemic change. They will muddle through with a thousand band aids stuck together.

Which will lead to an increasingly dystopic hellscape in which young people increasingly persue careers as scam artists, wanna be celebrities, and outright criminals because those are the only paths to a comfortable life.

But so hope to be wrong. Good luck to us all.

The one thing you can count on conservatives paying attention to is messing with their money.

What happens might not be pretty, but if they try to day “fuck it, guess we are ending the program” there will be hell to pay.

Who said they have a wife?

Social security is funded by government bonds.

Bonds are just a promise the government makes to pay a certain amount of money at a certain amount of interest after a certain time has passed.

They aren’t stacking gold bars in fort Knox.

(They might or might not be stacking gold, they just aren’t paying for social security that way.)

SS has always been a funded by the promise to pay it. I don’t understand what you mean by “stealing”

No one has been paid less than they are owed just because SS ran a surplus for 60 years.

Non wealthy people had their taxes cut for a time, but raised permanently. The trump tax cuts were a wealth transfer from the working class to the owner class.

Sorry to come with “um, ackshuslly” but they didn’t ask if they were convicted of a crime. The question was "were they jailed? And according to your post, they were not.

Yeah, America is undermining it’s own hegemony since 2016 and what do you know? The threat of violence is rising.

Russia invaded Ukraine, China is threatening Taiwan, Ethiopia is threatening Eritrea, Venezuela is threatening Guyana. A world where large nations can bully, invade, and occupy small nations unopposed is not really better than the Pax Americana.

I’m a fan of sortition over ballot, but what is the purpose of this? To have fun?

I have been trying to cut down my social media use. Leaving reddit was a big part of that. What actually happened was I spend time here and on YouTube, and occasionally I load up old reddit!

I’m trying guys, but it’s hard.

I was told I looked young for my age. Then I transitioned and lost another 5 to 7 years.

It’s certainly possible that nosey co-workers have sussed out the truth, but also some people just don’t look their age.

Sounds like change we can believe in.

I left out a critical word. Edited comment above.

I left out a very important word, edited comment above.

Every accusation is a confession.

This is nonsense. If you believe that you should skip to violent revolution because you are not getting anywhere peacefully.

I’m (edit:not) saying I think that’s a good idea. But if you are going to refuse to vote for the better guy because he’s not good ENOUGH then you were never going to vote at all, and the rest of us will go back to persuading the last 3 swing voters.

I I stalled helldiver’s and didn’t realize I was doing that.

I’m not exactly savvy though.

A lot of Texans are thinking about it. My mother is deeply a-political, she retired last year, but she told me a year ago that if I needed to move to the Netherlands she would move to help me. (Her grandparents were dutch immigrants, so she might qualify for citizenship where I wouldn’t.)

Only once. DM had a circular dungeon. We started a fight and got split and a couple PC’s fled the fight deeper into the dungeon.

Some out of game drama leaked into the game and one player sprinted their character through the whole dungeon, brining all the enemies together behind him as he looped back around.

It was a shits and giggles evil campaign, we weren’t, super attached to our characters, so we kicked that player out and started a new campaign.

He talks about it all the time. You just aren’t following any media that report it.