We had a babysitter whose husband was a pastor and would always talk about being scared for our souls. In her eyes, being a good person and having a private relationship with God was inadequate to avoid going to hell. She truly felt that church attendance and renouncing other religions was the only path to salvation - belief, prayer, and following the teachings of Jesus would be inadequate.

It’s hilarious that these offshoots of Protestantism basically went so deep into the sauce that they became Catholics again. Martin Luther spinning in his grave.

Shit Americans will do instead of just abolishing HOAs.

The only thing holding a lot of Americans back from violence is the knowledge that that’s exactly the excuse the regime wants to declare martial law and suspend elections.

The only things holding Americans back from violence are relatively abundant food, entertainment and comfort. All of which will still continue to exist once free elections are gone. Plus what they replace them with will be branded super duper free elections, and that will be enough for a lot of people.

There is little to no evidence that the 1/3rd of eligible voters who didn’t vote in Nov 2024 are any more engaged with what is happening than they were back then.

All they have to do is orchestrate this coup in a somewhat intelligent way that doesn’t immediately collapse the economy and they can absolutely pull it off.

Most Americans are not going to fight for abstract rights when their immediate tangible needs are being met.

Because people should know better than to vote for them but they don’t.

That is a potential solution for people looking to resolve the situation. They don’t want to do that, they just want to effectively ban trans people from public spaces by making both bathroom options wrong/dangerous.

Even the old school chuds on bodybuilding.com would go for the chicken AND broccoli diet. Idk what the point is of completely foregoing fiber.

It also helps if they’re actually guilty of crimes that the president can hold over them to ensure loyalty.

It basically doesn’t matter if she resigns or not. Whoever takes her place will be decided by Trump who will just want someone who will cover up the worst of the Epstein files, run cover to ICE misconduct, and never prosecute those who bribe Trump. Whether it’s Bondi or not barely matters.

Self-hosted options like Mumble also exist.

Self-hosted is a pain to get started with but as everything enshittifies if will only get more important.

Paid with what? Who stops him from demanding more, and how are they paid and with what? Billionaire power comes from currency that is spendable on a large open market. The market doesn’t exist anymore.

Why will the handyman keep coming?

Look dude I get it you really like Elon

0/10 reading comprehension.

but he’s a criminal and deserves to go to jail or hang for the thousands of people who died due to his USAID cuts.

Agreed.

I’m done with this conversation and you

Cool but what I was saying is that you’ll never pin any of this on him because he managed to do all the damage he did without committing a crime. The fact that this was possible is itself the problem . You haven’t even engaged with what the actual problem is, you’re just reacting emotionally.

What crimes? Name them. And how they would be proven beyond a reasonable doubt? Remember, all he has to do is create reasonable doubt. These guys have staff who will literally do nothing much make sure that doubt exists. Name one specific order he gave ar DOGE that is verifiable - one order that he definitely gave, that a specific person definitely followed. You can’t do it. Prosecutors won’t be able to either.

If anything there will be more of a case against government workers for following instructions from people who had no legal authority to give them.

This is why granting someone power completely outside of legal bounds - outside of any laws that govern the cabinet - is a really really bad idea.

Lol dude even the prison from Andor needs maintenance staff who aren’t prisoners to operate and fix shit. This model doesn’t work when prisoners and the prison are all there is.

Their bunkers plans are mostly insane. Zuck has a bunker designed for him and like 100 staff. I don’t think he understands how the power dynamics are going to change once civilization ends and his money isn’t worth anything.

For what? All that damage and it’s extremely unlikely he committed a crime. He held no official cabinet position and had no official authority. Probably didn’t even do much of anything himself. US isn’t capable of holding a billionaire accountable.

The number AIPAC pays him actually doesn’t mean much because Schumer is so central to their operations that they would pay him literally whatever be needed to stay in power. 1.7M is just what it cost to keep him in power. They would gladly give him 20M if that’s what it took.

Neither are most Americans so you’re fine.

Maybe the surgery was a success. Dude asked for a dong the size of a Pringles can, got one, and all his blood went to it and he died. Checks out to me.

The comment is a response to the title - that China’s exports are “overbearing” as if China is inflicting trade on others unilaterally. The point is that whatever extent to which the US is a victim in this, it was a victim entirely by choice, and a great many people in the US for richer for it. They could have decided not to bypass the local labour market by using China for manufacturing, but there was profit to be made. China just got good at it and used it to their advantage.