It does, thanks. And I agree. I don’t claim to know what the perfect system is, but I believe it would be some form of democratic socialism with some sort of magical built-in safeguard against wars of misinformation of the type we’re seeing now.

What do you mean by “these things”?

What about them?

Without an educated, informed population and effective, constantly maintained checks and balances on those in power, the end results of either communism or capitalism are going to be exactly the same.

What I’m saying is that Americans who still have faith in the system need to wake the fuck up. The US is a failed state. trump is going to keep doing whatever he wants, he’s going to ignore the courts, and the checks and balances that are supposed to stop him are all controlled by republicans who aren’t going to do a fucking thing.

Does it though? My point is that the administration is just ignoring the courts at this point, and the more the courts get in their way, the less trump is going to concern himself with what they say. Court injunctions are great if they work, and that remains to be seen.

I’m sure that will stop him. Problem solved everyone!

I don’t like it. Far too real.

Well that’s not funny at all…

When I was a kid, people would get jobs, then stay in those jobs for years and years, getting promotions and raises. Then they’d buy things like new cars, houses, and vacations, just with the money they earned by working their jobs. So I thought that that is how life would work for me. Boy was I wrong!

Who do you mean by liberals? And what would have been the best way to not wholeheartedly support the genocide?

I’m not trying to pick a fight, but I am curious to know who is being accused, and of what specifically. I’m not a US citizen, but I was hoping Kamala would win the election last year. I’m also, like any decent person, disgusted by what’s going on in Gaza and shocked that the entire world is more or less just looking the other way as Israel commits genocide of these people who are just trying to live in their own country.

Just seems to me like there were no good options for an American voter - vote democrat and continue to pressure the party to do the right thing with regard to Gaza, or vote for trump/abstain, which is abhorrent for an endless number of reasons. What should the average person be doing?