Tack on the attempts to maintain high/high quality amenities in sparsely populated, low tax revenue areas, and you have a nice fat deficit for your small town compounding that problem.

Ah yes, one more country being puppeted by Russia, a country infamous for it’s corruption, will decrease corruption. /s

On the other hand, look at how easy it was for Trump to completely hijack the GOP. That’s the model you should aim for.

That’s what I’ve been saying for a while now.

“true capitalism” or some shit

Disparage actual capitalism for not being capitalist enough, and do an Indiana Jones hot swap for the actual end goal of worker ownership.

Has the same vibes as homelander forcing the deep to eat the octopus.

Yeah, I just missed the memo. But for the other planets, I’ll probably be using the new rails.

That must have been a bizarre debugging session.

I briefly saw this meme on my dad’s phone while he was browsing facebook. He’s a right wing Trump voter.

So take from that what you will.

Last night my in game alarm went off for low power. I was about to fix it, so I muted it. But then I realized I was done for the night, so I turned it back on, saved, and exited.

So there is no way I forget what my next task is.

That’s a real “factorio teaches you software engineering” kind of moment.

2,1,2,1,1,1

Disgusting, I love it

Yeah. It’s gonna be a shit show.

Nobody will step up, because manufacturing electronics like this is incredibly expensive, and any new president in 2028 could instantly drop Trump’s dumb ass tariffs.

So you’d be going into an expensive, already risky business, with an even bigger risk that one day the competition suddenly drops their prices by ~40% due to a drop in tariffs. Nobody’s gonna take that risk.

And even if somebody successfully did take on that risk, they’d charge just under the price of the electronics that have the tariffs baked into the price, so congrats, no matter what we’d esentially be paying a ~40% markup on electronics, and that’s before accounting for all the businesses that raise prices even further than the tariffs to account for the drop in demand, and supply chain halt.

Christmas is a losing battle for a consumer side strike. We gotta pick our battles, and that ain’t one of them. Pretty much any other time of the year would be fine, because for the most part people would only be personally sacrificing consuming things for themselves.

This is probably the only way a general strike in the U.S. would ever work. Employers are draconian, and nobody wants to be the first to risk their neck at their workplace for a normal strike.

The problem is organization, and keeping everybody to it for more than just a few days.

Probably because the boy scouts no longer fits their narrative of “women bad”.

Rainbow Railroad comes to mind. Though most of their ops aren’t in the U.S., but that will probably be changing

It would take more than a couple. Trump is terrible on his own, but he isn’t the sole problem, he’s largely just a symptom of the bigger problem.

I wonder what universalmonk is doing now. Probably spending their big fat new commission/check.