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Needs more trans

Journalists generally prefer reporting on bad news. Trump being in excellent health qualifies.

Luckily the law is an unerring indicator of absolute fact and guarantor of the common good, and it says these emissions are totally cool.

This is simply a refinement of the precarity in which all Americans live.

I find it ironic that the conservative worldview so often discounts ideas like evolution, while also, for the last 50 years, worked to introduce evolutionary factors to bring about homo economicus, in which being alive and executing currency-based transactions are functionally identical. They would like people to conflate capital with other fundamental laws of space and time. They have been largely sucessful, as the common wisdom seems to now basically be: if you don’t earn, you die.

It’s the real answer behind questions like why don’t we have universal healthcare? or Why are labor unions aggressively compromised and suppressed? or How come I can’t afford groceries, fuel, energy, or a decent place to live?

It is well within our nation’s capability to remedy these problems, but that would take away levers of control and result in a society with too much freedom, where the incumbent cultures, industries and decision makers’ iron grasp on influence and security would be a lot weaker. Such a disaster could not possibly be allowed to happen.

If you have a US passport, certain niceties are still observed, certain rules about how little your employer is allowed to get away with paying you, or what your bank can and cannot do with your money while it sits in their vault. You have some tools to slightly improve your comfort, just enough for most people to count themselves lucky when they see the consequences for failure on street corners with cardboard signs every day.

If you become sufficiently troublesome to be noticed by the elite, those citizen’s priveleges magically evaporate and you’re subject to many of the same indignities as someone who doesn’t have a US passport. In either case, the wrong kind of horrible person in charge can drive somebody into a corner very quickly by simply withdrawing their capability to exist in the economic layer of our culture.

It’s like giving somebody cyanide. They can no longer absorb oxygen, except the oxygen in this case is currency. Again, money=life, so our unfortunate subject can quickly be deprived the capability to meaningfully get food, medicine, shelter, transportation, or information. Thus, they cease to exist, and the real Americans can get on with pretending Pax Americana is still a viable strategy.

I admire the professionalism in the judge, it would be very hard to not just type out eat a dick up, till ya hiccup for 94 pages.

Was he attempting to flee illegally into Mexico? Oh, the irony.

See, now here we have something that can be empirically proven with data from reliable public institutions. The cost of living for a place, and the people living there; how much money they make, and what they’re buying. All hard numbers.

And yet, we have reporting here on peoples’ opinion about financial situations. The subtext I read in this was that opinions are more important than facts and that reporting on the poll results was of greater import than the horrifying reality of creeping kleptocratic fascist psychopaths getting away with things that are the obvious cause of our limited and declining prosperity.

You know, a year ago people in charge were all, like nooo we’re not going to fire people and pocket the payroll savings

When did we cross the line where everybody stopped lying? I mean, our vaunted business leaders dropping the bullshit is welcome, even if its bad news… but the interesting bit is in the collective, unconscious decision to just own up to this as the likeliest future.

I have so many questions

This assumes knowing the truth can be as decisive as the law. Thats a pretty big ask already. It will only get bigger later.

Enjoy your access to this technology before the bigger players do something that “disrupts” your capability to:

• Use electricity
• Afford computers
• Have time to think about stuff other than food & shelter
• Get access to medicine
• Discern truth from fiction for anything you’re not directly experiencing

We’re on a razor’s edge balanced between dystopia and a sci-fi dream, and we keep getting pushed in the wrong direction by the tech debt and social/economic conventions of the 20th century. We need to tool up while we remain in this transitional phase. It might be very bad later. There’s a chance it might be awesome too. Expect the worst, hope for the best.

We knew she wasn’t qualified by dint of being nominated.

Tump rambles incoherent lies in a speech? In other news, water has been found to be wet.

Trump belongs in exactly one place.

Maybe its too on the nose to say so on Lemmy, but fuck Reddit right in the earhole. Their pearl-clutching, risk-averse, pro-corporate moderation-bot and tattle-tale system was the last straw.