Hey, buddy, what do you think every fascist government calls em?

Crying about how the other guy is horrible to immigrants too doesn’t bring back Rene or Alex. Nor does it change the fact that this illegitimate regime has taken things to an extreme never seen before.

Don’t touch grass, go play in traffic instead.

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Oh no, no, no. They’re gonna leave em collecting dust in some warehouse right up until the newly privatized weather service needs equipment, who will be able to purchase them at an absolute steal!

Well that escalated quickly…

As someone born and raised there, I approve of this message!

Can’t recall the vendor, but I saw at least one that tried a rent-a-PC things aimed at gamers. But the price was egregious, and I wanna say they didn’t even ship the hardware they advertised.

Anyway, point was it’s already being tested in the wild…

That’s only ever happened temporariily during a shifting of the power and influence of the parties. And although it’s may appear we had three parties, only two are really in power at a time. Also, the third always loses relevance and disappear.

Frankly, this isn’t a matter of opinion, anyway, and to frame it as such is either ignorant or malicious. It is literally_impossible_ to sustain three parties within the rules of our voting and political system.

And one more detail that we don’t want to overlook: the path to shaking up primaries starts right in your backyard. But that I mean the local elections. It feels so small to think about how much some random city officer means in the grand scheme - but the truth is the opposite, the unknown random jackass that maintains the lift stations (or whatever), those are the people who matter. Not a cheetoh-faced McDictator who thinks he matters but can’t remember why.

And here’s why: that tiny sliver of “power” in the hands of the little guy, if, and only if, you combine that with the tiny sliver in the hands of all the other nobodies, the combined strength is unstoppable - far more than a Mango Mussolini in a diaper.

But, fucking eh have they gotten good at convincing all us nobodies to avoid solidarity. But we have to just figure it out anyway, cause there is no losing. Not this time. It’s win, or there nothing left to win or lose next time…

Only when he can’t profit, though. He’s been quite clear on that issue…

I like it. Fuck, it’s way better then what we have right now!

I’ll dream with ya!

Honestly, for me things like this are not mildly interesting, but infuriating. I don’t care how pretty it is, it’s not gonna sound better because of aesthetics. Hell, although I’m not sure on this case, musical instruments crafted to look pretty will often sound worse. And I don’t support savaging nature just to find shit to make fancy ass things for pedophile sociopaths that dedicate their lives to making things worse for everyone else.

No, we need a complete overhaul of our voting system. As things currently stand, a third party will never have any real power on the national level. And don’t get me wrong, local elections are really important, even more than national in many ways. But without proportional representation, there will never be real meaningful change.

Oh, well, the fact that we saw it all as “not our problem” until then kinda makes us opportunistic assholes, though. Especially since we exploited the hell out of the post war circumstances. Shit, original concept for the UN gave us the only veto. But we had to bribe the reluctant countries with something.

Oh, don’t forget that the horrible evil enemy everyone was fighting took a LOT of inspiration in the mechanics of how to be so evil directly from American politics.

So, helping end the war? Yeah, that’s generally a pretty cool thing. Everything else? Ummm, yuck.

The myth we were all taught about the nobility of our country was never true. For fucks sake, the founding of our country was upon the genocide of the native population.

No, we’ve never been great. Sorry.

Your comment kinda sounds like an accusation. If they don’t jack up the price, it’s not profiteering. Hell, even if they sell at the price they paid, it still doesn’t meet the definition.

But, I agree with the sentiment. Scalpers should be drawn and quartered, at minimum!

Ummm…no.

Better than this? Yeah!

But, fuck man, the term banana republic only exists because of us.

That’s it? That’s why you’re being such an arrogant prick?

Huh. You do you, I guess…

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