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Wait. Are you saying they actually have the ability to build 10-foot tall mini-fusion reactors?

I think maybe we can build something smaller than a literal star, but there's no practical way to do fusion even on a planetary scale.

So if we surpass being a Type 1 civilization I guess, a million years after we have abolished capitalism.

The fact that the only serious investment comes from governments implies quiet the opposite, that it's really only useful for scientific research.

I think it's still incredibly useful for research! But that's it.

I'm still in the "fusion is not viable" camp. It's going to be useful for scientific research, but never power generation.

That's the trick!

They believe everyone is gluttonous and slothful because they're misanthropic.

I don't know why they even left Reddit. Were they really that mad about app development?

ICE is under Homeland Security. Besides, being new doesn't really make them not the Gestapo. The Gestapo was new at one point as well after all.

It was bad in 2004 too, people just didn't realize that ICE was the Gestapo back then.

The mask is off. That's all.

To be clear, it's not going to be talking heads on TV or annoying people on the internet that can educate them. They'll only listen if fellow workers tell them the truth.

It's merely an opportunity for political education, someone still has to go out among the workers and do it.

I work in a factory. I know I'm going to remind my fellow workers of the consequences.

I know they won't learn it on their own.

Political education is something that has to be actively done to them. Normal people don't learn about politics by choice.

Sounds like an opportunity for political education.

To be fair, South Americans have a lot of very legitimate reasons to be angry at the US.

If people voted for Gore instead of Nader, American history would be very different.

People did vote for Gore. Their votes were invalidated by the Supreme Court. The election was stolen.

Playing with historical counterfactuals is pointless anyway. Voting is over. They aren't going to let us vote them out of power anymore. The elections will either be canceled or rigged.

It's time to do something else.

protests (BLM, Gaza), violence (Matthew crooks, Luigi) has at best accomplished zero,

We need organized labor actions. We run this country and we can shut it down. That's how we got the New Deal.

The one exception I’d give is boycotts - like the Tesla boycotts that have destroyed their sales numbers.

Don't forget the vandalism and arsons. There's more than one way to hurt a business.

US American

Bush was forced onto us by the Supreme Court in a judicial coup that basically set us on our current trajectory. Trump has never won more than 50% of the vote, even this time around he only got 49.9%

In a democratic country this shit wouldn't happen. Elections have always been dubiously free and fair in this shithole.

I'm in my 30s, hardly a kid. I've watched this shithole country get worse and worse my whole life, and I am beyond convinced that we will only stop it with political actions that go far beyond the ballot box. You're going to have to get your hands dirty.

If we're allowed to vote for the next president you might as well, I know I will, but stop pretending it is nearly good enough.

I think that saying is just the British patting themselves on the back. It was mostly just Soviet blood that liberated the camps.

You forgot the jury box i.e. jury nullification

"Eyy what murders? I didn't see no murder. Brian Thompson just fell on some bullets."

Unfortunately I think most of us would probably survive at least the a couple of those years, as much as we might wish we died.

Voting won't save you.

Voting also isn't the only option.

Recall that there are four boxes of liberty.

If they let us vote again then we might as well do it, but at the rate things are going they might just rig the election if they don't cancel it.