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Also, having proportional representative multiparty democracies results in governments that actually try to represent the interests of the public instead of exclusively serving the donor / capitalist class.

Basic utilities like electricity is privatized in most of the US. Are we cooked when inevitable degrowth occurs?

Consumers living paycheck to paycheck don't have the time or energy to pay attention to inflation. If they can afford something they need then they buy it. If you need gas for your car then you buy it regardless of the price.

Is that because conservatives are the only ones have kids these days?

60,000 Americans die every year because of the insurance industry, but how many oligarchs were brought to justice? How many oligarchs were arrested for raping children on Epstein's island? How many oligarchs were arrested for funding Israel's genocide of Gaza? How many oligarchs were arrested for the massive tax evasion revealed from the Panama papers???

Justice that only punches down is not justice. If our system will not hold the wealthy accountable for their crimes against humanity then our system is utterly rotten

If he truly killed himself, I am guessing he was blacklisted from his profession which is a very common retaliation against whistle blowers.

5 years in jail is protecting him?

Yes! I am a leftist now, but I was raised Christian conservative. I truly believe that if you don't believe that people can learn and grow then can you truly call yourself a leftist?

Sounds super democratic. Why not copy the German system where the majority party in the majority coalition becomes PM / Chancellor?

Or maybe he is having a lucid moment where he is realizing how insane it was for him and his party to back an actual fascist.

Trump absolutely will be worse, but yeah, that doesn't absolve Genocide-Joe of funding genocide

Is there a path to adopt Palestinian children who need homes?

That implies that social media is going to be banned; it isn't. The only thing this ban does is punish Tiktok for allowing content that revealed Israel's genocide.

The thing about freedom of speech is that we are only allowed speech that doesn't threaten the interests of the oligarchs. If any speech creates a real movement that threatens the oligarchy then the government takes swift action against it (hence outlawing socialism during the red scare)

Exposing CEOs doesn't do anything because the rich have the government in their pocket. Remember the Panama papers? Yeah, that accomplished nothing.

Phase 5. True despair: you graduate, apply to 500 jobs over 6 months and get zero job offers

Oligarch from the capital class will use his power to weaken the working class? No way, unbelievable

Biden winning in 2020 gave us hope that people were realizing that fascists are full of shit and that they lie about everything, but Trump winning last month has shattered any faith or hope I had left in our two party system. It is hard to believe in a system when people are relentlessly assaulted with right wing propaganda year after year and then ultimately vote for a convicted felon pedo traitorous oligarch who denies climate science.

I mostly agree. This is abuse of Presidential power so it is hypocritical for liberals to deny that... But, at the same time, if I were in Biden's situation I would likely do the same. And here is why:

1. It is his son. His last son. Of course any loving father will do whatever they can to protect their son.
2. Why should Democrats care what Republicans think? Democrats are getting curb stomped by fascists who give zero shit about the integrity of our institutions or abuse of political power. They truly don't. People voted for a pedophile felon traitorous oligarch. If you agree to an honorable sparring match of fisty-cuffs and your opponent pulls out a glock and shoots you in the knees and the crowd cheers for the cheater, do you have any moral or pragmatic reason to keep playing by the rules? No.

Context doesn't matter when lonely people are seeking a dopamine hit through a false sense of moral / intellectual superiority.

Bad takes drive engagement and the dopamine hits from engagement makes life under hyper atomized late stage capitalism slightly less depressing.

Ah, back when game development was managed by game developers who were gamers themselves and prioritized quality over min-maxing shareholder profits...

Or another way to look at it, is that it was the market takeover phase of capitalism where capitalists are willing to operate at a loss to corner the market and create their own monopolies (see Nintendo, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc). But once market grow stalls out they switch to the milking phase or enshitification phase of capitalism where they prioritize profits over everything else