This quote applies when we’re dealing with the systemic wealth and justice gap we have in the US: "Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.”

Democracy is pretty great but it’s clear the laws and framework we have don’t support democracy in the idea of what is popular is what we’ll have.

Your feckless do nothing version of the government is why we’re in this position. People of privilege have the ability to delay and stall things they don’t want til they don’t happen. Stalling on court cases, dragging out development on clean energy, bureaucratic procedural nonsense. The governments ability to get anything done is a huge part of the reason people voted for Trump. He doesn’t get good things done but stuff does happen and change, proving that if the government wanted to they could. Wanting an effective government is not a desire for fascism. I hate moderates who promote this kind of tyranny. Sounds like you are more devoted to order than justice.

Not fully prosecuting Trump and his team made everything he did frosting on a shit sandwich. It doesn’t matter. He failed to rise to the challenge of the moment thinking “Covid & economy” were the issue but the reason they were the issue was because of Trump.

The trades problem is a typical small business problem with toxic work environments. I knew plenty that washed out of the trades because of that. The “nobody wants to work anymore” tradesmen but really it’s “nobody wants to work with me for what I’m willing to pay”

This is nonsense, an M1 runs many multiples faster and at much lower wattage.

That guy was right. And if we completely switched over and ignored the fear campaigns promoted by coal/oil/gas we’d have one of the safest and greenest electrical grids.

We should just make tipping illegal and pay people a living wage and charge what things cost. This also has the secondary effect of tipping or giving gratuity to elected and appointed officials illegal to. It used to be called a bribe but if you do it shirt the favor it’s a legal gratuity. If it weren’t for most of the people here I’d really hate it here.

The loudest ones were Russian and Chinese bots sewing discord and hastening the USA’s decline.