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They can... sue in court (like Dems did to block Trump’s border wall funding)

Yes. That's exactly my entire point. And this only works if the courts determine the act to not be legal. This is why, as I said, there are over 250 cases against the administration right now.

There's a lot going on right now which the public dislikes but that doesn't necessarily make an act illegal. If nothing else, Trump knows how to work the courts. He also disregards the courts and we're still waiting to see if there's any repercussions to that.

Trump is not Obama. Obama fucked up by caving to McConnell. Trump would not do the same. There is no comparison of this administration and any other. History is irrelevant at this point.

Yes. Tell me how congress jails officials.

Dems could’ve jailed officials for contempt

How does that work?

Owning more wealth than the majority of the country while keeping employees on food stamps is fine. Come after the king, you're cancelled.

I don't see a way out of this idiocracy.

Really? Tell me how a political party can police another party. The only actions congress, in particular, have is impeachment. Impeachment is effectively suing the defendant with no inherit repercussions.

Give me one example of an illegal action taken by this administration and what the Democrats could legally do to “block, stop, or reverse” it.

This bill is about denouncing the antisemitic attack in Boulder with a single line at the literal bottom reading,

expresses gratitude to law enforcement officers, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, for protecting the homeland.

I won’t stop you from holding politicians accountable for every line of every bill they vote for but you’re distorting reality to fit your narrative. There is nothing wrong with supporting this bill and I question why anyone would reject it.

Are you lost?

It's not the responsibility of a political party to police the actions of an administration. If someone does something you believe to be illegal, you sue them. According to a LLM search, the administration has over 250 cases against them right now. The courts are the ones responsible for judging the actions of the administration and holding it accountable.

Trump was elected to do the things he's doing. There's no surprises here. Congress is stacked against the Democrats. There really isn't anything they can legally do until they regain either the Senate or the House.

The concern should be the legal actions he's taking; the ones the supreme court ultimately determine are fine. The few that pass that bar are going to be major hurdles to restoring normalcy.

What the Democrats should be doing is forming a unified party that listens to the concerns of the people and finding someone to voice this movement.

It really comes down to the people. We always have the choice of who to elect. We seem to be voting for people who are against our own personal interests because our electoral system is a farce. Politicians are lying so often and so blatantly now that, regardless of your affiliation, the truth is often clouded by bias and emotion, if not intentionally buried. About half of Americans now believe our elections are rigged even though the evidence indicates they're highly secure.

I mean, if you're here asking what can be done to fix this shit we're in right now, the answer is to reform our elections, make them tax payer funded, embrace STAR or Ranked Choice Voting, and pass the bill that prevents elected leaders from holding stocks. Or, I don't know how you do this but getting people to know the difference between factual unbiased news and fake news and preventing biased opinions from distorting their realities.

I dunno. That last bit seems a bit much. I don't see these cowards pulling a Tiananmen Sq.

However, speaking of militias, or rather speaking to militias - THIS is the intent of a Well Regulated Militia - to fight authoritarianism. Had you taken an oath, as a member of a Well Regulated Militia, Trumpism would be your target.

Unregulated militias, militias not authorized by the state, are not constitutionally protected and are outlawed in all fifty states. States should have been pressing charges against the Proud Boys, et al. Now they've been empowered and here we are. The groups pseudo-defined by their obligation to personal liberty are the fascists.

But the rest of this, yeah. That's what we've been expecting since November. Shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. What we really should be concerned with is how people keep getting dumber and accepting the lies told by this administration and the propaganda outfits. Even the liberal news is guilty of distorting the truth.

Are you going to be surprised if an actual civil war happens? You've gotta be half expecting it, right?

When it's trash day on my block (city life) and the collectors leave a trash can in an open parking spot and I move that can to the sidewalk, you're claiming that I'm doing this because it makes me feel good to be helpful to someone I'll never encounter, and that this isn't "true altruism".

So, should we be discussing why we don't do things that make us feel bad? "True altruism" can't exist because we don't go around helping people commit murders or because we're not voting for a politician we dislike? I don't think that's the intent of the word.

I mean, there's 'doing things because they make you "feel good"' and there's altruism. These are not the same nor are they mutually exclusive.

I think perhaps the word you're trying to shoehorn into altruism is heroism - when you do something for the benefit of others knowing it's detrimental to yourself. Or, if you really want to dig into doing things that make you feel bad, I'm not really sure what word that would be. Idiocracy?

I live in a building where these contactless and cashless washing / drying units are provided for residents to clean their clothes.

Thanks. Hadn't thought that far ahead.

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No matter what kind of business you run, if you haven't already raised your prices, you're taking a huge risk.

We have no idea what's going to happen with the tariffs, what products will eventually increase 10 to 100+%, how the loss of the migrant workforce will impact food costs, how the ongoing war in Ukraine will impact fuel and crop costs, or how any of the other idiotic decisions this administration is making will impact every corner of every industry.

I mean, I've personally been stocking up on supplies since November 2024. The only thing we know for sure is that this guy is currently running the country exactly how people in the 20th century feared "a woman" would run the country - emotionally and erratically with zero assurances.

I would be terrified if I were a business owner.

Another longtime user here. If you haven't already, you might want to disable autoupdates on all your devices. The "new experience" is not without its controversies.

Nobody’s ever done an adaptation of Asimov’s The Foundation Trilogy, which is too bad.

Are you saying that Apple's adaptation isn't worthy of acknowledgment or are you not aware they've been producing it?

https://archive.is/cy0MT

...the company had crafted a pitch deck for advertisers bragging that it could exploit "moments of psychological vulnerability" in its users by targeting terms like "worthless," "insecure," "stressed," "defeated," "anxious," "stupid," "useless," and "like a failure."

As much as there's an opportunity for selling a product, there's an opportunity for extending support. Maybe there's a sliver of a silver lining in that this surveillance could be used for good. It's disheartening though that of course this will never happen.

I mean, if you wanted to be the good guy, you'd develop AI chat bots that could reach out to people seemingly in distress.

I got you https://share.inquirer.com/o92LoO

As a white American male, not once have I considered my own “white American” culture. Kind of hard to wrap my head around the idea. Maybe because I don’t at all relate to what I would consider “white America” - like country music, corn fields, guns, fear of others, etc. So, yeah, there’s a diversity of white American culture across the country.

I also don’t have any emotional connection to the places my ancestors were born. So, at the same time, I reject stereotypical white American culture and my own heritage.

My culture is my family, my friends, my community and the things we do to pass the time and to strive to be better neighbors. It’s not based on color, or nationality, or heritage. It’s more about zip code than anything else.

But I recognize I’m in the minority. A lot of my friends are really into football and tailgating, etc. That’s not something I’ve been able to go all-in on. It seems cultish to me and I like to keep my head above ground.

Personally, I’ve never had a strong desire to fit in or belong to a group. I enjoy the freedom of flexibility and decision making based on my own lived experiences rather than the experiences of others.

To your point about ethnic events, the greatest thing about the US is the diverse culture. I would hate to be part of a monoculture like you find in the vast majority of other countries. It feels a bit like indoctrination to me.