What the title says. The federal government is incrementally eroding our rights in ways that aren't going to put people on the streets with guns immediately, but where in a year or two we will wake up one day and realize that we are afraid to speak our minds, to vote for the opposition candidate, or to go outside. Our freedom of movement, speech, conscience, our right to own guns, our right to vote, and our right to conduct commerce will be subjected to federal restriction. Congress, even under a majority democratic house and senate, will do nothing. The supreme court is toothless. At best, state governors will bang theirs fists against their podiums on TV, but the national guards will be nationalized to herd us into concentration camps for opposing the federal government. Attorneys general will waste months in useless court cases, and the white house will simply ignore the ruling. There is absolutely nothing stopping the federal government from doing this right now, and I doubt any semblance of opposition beyond tweeting and complaining on social media will materialize. Governors, Judges, Mayors, Senators, Congressmen will be arrested and replaced with government approved candidates. The United States will cease to even resemble a democracy.
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I believe it's changed the expectations around "instant" messaging. When I was growing up, if someone texted you, you weren't obligated to reply immediately. With IMs, you might reply if you were near your computer.
Now, my project manager messages me on slack over lunch break and then messages me like 15mins later with "Hello???"
Trump was the original COVID too
what
Today they would definitely put him in prison for the rest of his life, until some democratic president pardoned him on their last day in office
I forgot about Jon's gay lover
I'm almost totally off of google. I still have a gmail tied to some accounts but I don't use it for anything other than signing into those accounts, and I'm slowly moving them onto my proton mail.
Need an alternative for google maps for routing though
Oh shit, I totally didn't see that the marshmallow was biting the kid. The image is so small it looked like a power outlet behind him on the wall
I don't understand, though. Were they expecting not to be arrested? I thought that was the point of civil disobedience. What was the point of occupying the library if not to instigate a response from police or campus police?
I know what the marshmallow test is; I don't get the joke in the comic. It depicts one of the kids who didn't wait. Where's the joke?
I don't get it
I work with these fucking yuppies every day and I hate them so fucking much.
None of the things you described are examples of socialism. Socialism is not "when the government does things"
Tell me why that's a bad thing? Why should I care?
I said a good keyboard. Plus the OSs are garbage
Every single one of those people should have their licenses suspended. AI, which is inherently a misrepresentation of truth, belongs nowhere near a courtroom. They should legitimately be ashamed of themselves for allowing such an abortion into a courtroom
I don't subscribe to any philosophy which advocates for the murder of its enemies
Did you read your own link? The one you yourself even quoted? It calls itself an independent socialist magazine.
Which is why I don't value his economics paper very highly
No serious economist refers to themself as a Marxian. A "marxian economist" is like saying "a psychic physicist". Right off the bat, anyone who commits themselves to a pseudoscientific view should not have their scientific views taken very seriously at all.
To be frank, I don't take anything economic commentary by "An Independent Socialist Magazine" seriously lol. Socialism has been so thoroughly discredited that anybody who willingly accepts such a label is inherently not a serious person.
"The standard of living was better before antibiotics! Nobody was poor!" lol, borderline religious nonsense
I think you're mixing terms. Capitalism is the private ownership of property. Socialism is the worker's ownership of property; often managed by a state (which in theory should be run by the workers). None of the things you mentioned are examples of socialism.
That's crazy because it looks pretty bad lol