Yeah, I think their CEO might have QNAP stock or something.

It’s hilarious how dumb this is.

MAGAts in Montana just love Mercury poisoning. They fully endorse Trump’s actions. So I think the goal is primarily to get them their Mercury fix.

/s

You also need the Senate, not just the president.

But Republican senators have abdicated their duties and voters have not replaced them.

That’s why we have this mess.

Yep, Project 2025 wasn’t exaggerated at all. We all knew this would happen.

But I’m gonna blame Biden, Harris and AIPAC for blowing up the liberal-progressive coalition and alienating working class Americans with high inflation.

How do you lose 6 million voters from 2020 to 2024. That’s just insane.

Half of them went to Trump, the other half stayed home.

Madness

People forget that all the people the Nazi’s put in camps were also criminals. According to Nazi propaganda, they were responsible for the deaths of millions of Germans in WW1, for impoverishing hardworking Germans in the Great Depression and for terrorism in resistance to the Nazi regime.

No regime ever has admitted to locking up an innocent person. No dictator has ever said “Yeah, I put innocent people in jail”.

This is why we have separation of powers. The executive branch has zero authority to call anyone a criminal. Only the independent court system has that authority.

Yeah, I agree.

On reddit it seems the remaining human commentators are those who have taken over the mannerisms of the bots and adjusted to talking to the bots.

And you always get stuck in these endless loops of hostile disagreement.

That’s just not how normal humans argue. Even on the internet.

Normal humans either agree to disagree or just give up. In both cases ending the conversation after all useful things have been said.

I agree. Very much like Reddit in the early days.

Also, the level of civility and intellect in the comments is relatively high.

Bingo.

The idea that CEO’s will put morals over profits is hopelessly naive.

If you want companies to act morally, you need to implement legislation and be willing to enforce that legislation. And not small million dollar fines, serious fines like 10% of revenue and personal liability and even jail time for executives.

But the American public only cares about having the stock market go up. They don’t care about their data.

Correct, so what China does is ship almost completed stuff to Vietnam, they do the final piece of manufacturing and export that.

It’s not as easy as a transshipment, but for the longer term it works out.

He will backtrack when new inflation figures hit. It might take 3-6 months, but China definitely has the stronger hand, by far.

Trump can avoid the inflation by allowing Chinese goods to come through countries like Vietnam or Mexico. This is basically the status quo.

It allows Trump to save face without huge inflation for US consumers.

We have long passed the point where lobbying and bribing were just doing your fiduciary duty.

And indeed, it seems we are back to feudalism and you have to pay tribute to the divine king and kiss his ring.

It’s a bad time to sell, but anyone “buying the dip” will quickly learn what “catching a falling knife” means.

I think the road to the bottom still has some distance to cover.

The Fed won’t ever allow it to get as bad as the Great Depression again. Economic knowledge and monetary policy has greatly evolved since then.

The Great Recession is a more recent and likely scenario.

TIL 2000 and 2008 were just fluctuations due to big changes.

Stock market peaked 19 feb, 1.5 months ago. It has lost 17% since then.

That’s an awfully long and persistent fluctuation.

The US stock market has been liberated of 11 trillion dollars and counting.

What a party, what a party.

They are (or were) the biggest producer of Fentanyl (allegedly).

But I have also heard experts say that Fentanyl manufacturing is just moving to the US for domestic consumption, so I don’t know if it’s still true.

Not if a trade war can destroy it first!

And how will they know if you’re a fundie or not?

What they’re doing is checking phones and social media. If they see you are a member of some antifa or BLM org, they’ll get you.

So don’t do those things via Facebook. Use meshtastic and hide your receiver.

But if you practice good OpSec and all they see is baseball, BBQ and church, then they won’t be able to tell the difference.

Thanks for the effort post with great tips!

I would also really recommend having a physical community near you, not just online contacts.

I would even go so far as to say: join a progressive protestant church It’s not a silver bullet, but the fascists in the US are Christian Nationalists and some of them will hesitate to mistreat a Christian. And some of them will feel an obligation towards a Christian.

This is a big part of why Martin Luther King wasn’t killed earlier. The thugs in the 50s had no problem persecuting “godless heathens” in the McCarthy era, but black Christians were Christians.

And yes, they were also mistreated, but it would have been much worse if they had been atheist or communist.

Fascists divide the world very black and white. Us v. Them

Looking like them provides a survival advantage.

Another reason to live in a blue state if you can.