RangerJosie

Dude....What the fuck are you talking about?

I'm talking about how this country is fuckin' cooked. You're talking about seals and digital profiling.

Dragonbased.

After Bush's foreverwar and decades of being lied to about policy I want. That I was baited with in order to gain my vote, (Universal Healthcare if you're curious) I don't want us to win. If we can't at minimum have things that developed countries take for granted I don't want the US to continue. 800+ military bases. Sanctions on most of the world, which in itself is just economic warfare. So its just more war. We provide almost nothing that someone else doesn't make both better and cheaper. Unless you count undeserved ego. We are the undisputed world champs at undeserved ego. We've been huffing our own farts since the Soviets won WWII for us. I mean, the math is easy. It's a classic trolley problem. 350,000,000 vs 8,000,000,000. Don't even have to think about it.

And its not like our fall was unexpected. At least not in the circles I run in. (Broke mfers) We could see obvious shit like how infinite growth + finite resources = inevitable collapse. How scarcity is engineered to maintain the systems of capital and control. We could feed the planet with 2 midwestern states worth of hydroponic farms. Could have it built and operational before the next election. But to even suggest such a thing is the very height of lunacy. Just over the hill and through the woods into new and unknown lands of just snake-fuckingly crazy. Yeah we've limped along for a while. Shambling from one "correction" to the next. Don't know how old you are but that wasn't a thing that happened every 6-8 years before like 2000. This whole thing is over. We still feel the momentum because it takes a while for something this big to wind down. But make no mistake it is done. Middle class is history. We have rich mfers so obscenely wealthy that by the time they find a way to spend all the money they have on today's date their descendants will refer to us modern humans as primitive monkeys. If our avarice lets the human race survive that long. If we don't snuff ourselves in one pointless war or another. AI is wiping out entire industries. And there are no guardrails. No regulations. Nary a thought to what that landscape is going to look like in a year or two. You seen Google's new Veo 3? In a couple weeks your grandma is gonna see a newscaster on FB that is a flawless AI generation indistinguishable from a flesh and blood human. And its going to tell her some shit like "Scientists discover a signal from Heaven and Jesus is quoted as saying President Donald Trump is my avatar on earth until I come back" and she'll believe it. Because why wouldn't she? They've been trained to believe that all reputable news is fake and absolute horse shit is the secret truth only known to them and their friends.

There's a chance that we can throw off the yoke once things get bad enough for us soft, comfortable americans to get mad enough to do something real. And that time is coming. It is definitely swelling now. You see stuff like Luigi. A ceo got capped and the nation cheered. A distraught father avenged his son by turning a member of the enforcement arm of capital into fender ketchup, and the nation cheered. People are getting angrier. Can't afford a home. Can barely feed ourselves. Retirement is a really funny joke. 401ks were a bandaid to cover the wound left behind by the end of pensions. And now they're useless too. People are "retiring" now and don't have nearly enough to retire on in modern day america. Long story short. The "American Dream" is dead and buried. A house, a car, 2.5 kids, white picket fence. They don't exist anymore. Private Equity bought up all the houses. Kids are too expensive. The picket fence is an HOA violation.

Every single jot of the social contract that made this giant ponzi scheme we call The United States function has been systematically destroyed. We're staring down the barrel of climate catastrophe. Can't make a living. Can't afford kids. People either see no future or a future so bleak that the idea of bringing a child into it is a cruelty beyond description.

So no. I'm not interested in preserving this failed experiment. Not without some pretty radical changes within the next decade or so.

Nah I mean point for point. From whatever bastardized version of the Bible is popular nowadays.

Chump is never beating the Antichrist allegations.

Multiple consecutive legendary pump & dump schemes.

If everything is compromised why can't I buy one of those far superior Huawei phones?

Yeah. A ""security risk"" of all us fucking slaves realizing what a raw deal we've got.

That poor fool.

Then decades of sinophobic propaganda melted. It was amazing to watch.

Love your avatar. I miss Netscape. Not that I remember it being awesome or anything. Just nostalgia.

I hope I live long enough to see the petrodollar die.