They've built bunkers in Hawaii and have private armies. They could care less what happens to us. It's not like the old days when they feared us. They're global and we're local.

I do think they're underestimating how spiteful and destructive we are and our capacity to get a hold of nuclear weapons and keep flinging them at their bunkers until they collapse. But the way I see it is if they let civilization collapse about half of them will be killed but the other half are going to have a pretty good time and there's lots of them happy to flip that coin.

I think it's going to be up to the Democratic party to convince the ultra wealthy not to flip that coin, just like FDR did back in the day.

Seriously, best case scenario you're a pro Trump gay. Good for you. I'm sure they'll kill you last.

Go fuck a couch. Have fun in the FEMA Reeducation Camps where you'll be forced to drink adrenochorme and listen to Hilary Clinton teach Critical Race Theory!

and I'm a Strong Black woman. We have so much in common!

Let's just pretend you are gay, I mean 10% of the population is so it's possible. You're political instincts suck and they're gonna get you killed during the reign of King Trump the Lesser.

This is how the transphobes think. It's why going after trans people is so effective. Well that and the LGBTQ community isn't nearly as unified as it should be...

Nobody says "Boy I don't like Democrats, I'm a fascist now!". That's not how people think. They get tricked by culture war bullshit into voting against their immediate & long term best interest by skilled bastards like Karl Rove who know exactly how to push their buttons.

If you really are gay and not just one of the unending supply of Russian bots I'm stuck arguing with even here on /. you should know how effective the slur "Welfare Queen" was and why it was a slur.

If you bury your head in the sand and pretend you and your community aren't being manipulated you're gonna die in a work camp (again, assuming you're not just another Russian or GOP bot account, which is a stretch, so tired of coddling you guys).

And I'm going to tell you right now that a large number of people on this forum are going to start facing age discrimination and you're going to find out what does consequences are when you try to sue an employer that illegally fired you after months of not being able to find work and find out first that are corrupt judiciary has been packed by pro-corporate judges for nearly four decades now.

Some of that blame goes to Democrats for being so fucking wishy-washy and allowing the Republican party to block their judicial appointments when they were in power. But at the end of the day the blame rests on guys like Mitch McConnell and the heritage foundation all of whom are the Republican party in the flesh.

I get it. Trans people are icky and weird. Trans girls trigger your uncanny valley effect if they don't pass and if they do pass they make you feel weird and gay which you learned when you were in grade school was a bad thing.... Or maybe it's not trans maybe there's some other nonsensical social issue that makes you want to vote against your own immediate and long-term economic interests.

Whatever it is please for the love of God come to your senses just long enough to at least stay home in November if you can't be bothered voting for yourself

you're very weird. I get that you're trying to trigger me, but you know it's Congress that controls weapons shipments, not Biden, right?

I get it, you're not American, so you don't get how our system works. It's Ok.

I prefer them since it's enough space to code on and I game at 1080p. My old man eyes aren't going to see the finer details anyway. And this way I don't end up downscaling from the panels native resolution.

and I loved it but the NES kinda spanked it with games like Trojan, Castlevania & Super Mario.

The biggest problem (besides the controller that killed your hands and died in less than 6 months) was the games were all programmed 2 year before the console launched so they were ports of simple arcade games vs the more advanced NES/Famicom games we were getting in '86.

The actual 7800 hardware could easily hang with and at times best the NES. Folks tend to compare much, much newer NES games (often with enhancement chips and memory mappers) to the 7800 catalog that except for a sound chip was always a bare rom cart.

If you wanna see what a base 7800 could do in the right hands look up video of the homebrew port of 1942 for it. It's amazing, and I'd have killed for it back in the day. Basketbrawl is also a good showing for the system.

Trump's supreme court has made several rulings drastically expanding a company's ability to force arbitration. I know Trump's popular around here but there are consequences to his presidency a lot of his fans haven't thought of.

Disney will be happy to save this for things like your age discrimination lawsuit.... Good luck with that under binding arbitration.

You just know JD's gonna be Donold's Prison Bitch. He'll loan him out for cigarettes.

is that small, local mental healthcare services would take over and get funding. It was always kind of a stupid idea, but on top of that they didn't fund the local services.

The same thing happened with the "Project", e.g. the federal block housing. They were built to house *extremely* poor rural people (mostly black). Think the sort of people who lived what we'd call "shanties". Bits of discarded wood fashioned into a house.

If you're coming from that they were pretty nice, and there was supposed to be jobs programs to go with the houses, but same thing, Reagan cut funding to the support programs and the housing went to hell.

And finally legalized hard drugs has been tried a few times where the funding to addiction treatment services never materialized. Same deal.

It's a classic trick for sabotaging effective programs. You're trying to solve a complicated problem (mental health, poverty, drug addiction) and the solution is multi-staged, so if you want to kill it and make your opponent look bad you just focus on one of the stages.

It'd be like breaking one function in a computer program, it's just one part but it's going to take everything down.

that we're using all this electricity and energy and there's little to no indication it's going to be beneficial to the general populace. If anything it's likely to make things worse, so far the only reason to build out this much capacity is for LLMs that are used to replace jobs, meaning more layoffs.

I'm tired of living in a world that's openly hostile to my mere existence.

COVID is ridiculously contagious. If it was already out in the wild it wouldn't need to escape from a lab. That's why the lab leak conspiracy theory has the implicit understanding that it was a bioengineered virus. Because that's the only way to make the conspiracy theory make any semblance of sense

Along with a half dozen other regulatory changes that happened under Ronald Reagan. We completely changed all of the incentive structures around running a company and heavily focused them on extreme short-term gains at the cost of everything.

If you look into why Boeing planes keep falling out of the sky and read a few articles about it it's basically because of that. We really need to completely restructure starting by banning stock buybacks.

It's one of those things where people who constantly pine for the good old days never want to go back to the heavy regulatory environment post-Depression that gave us those good old days.

That had a EV charging station and there wasn't a single Tesla there. Oddly enough it was mostly Fords with a couple of kias