you cannot choose whether you are oppressed. you can only choose by whom. and if you don’t make that choice, then somebody else makes it for you

yeah at a certain point it becomes a trade-off between “no geopolitical dependence on uranium” and “no geopolitical dependence on something that is currently produced in china, but could be produced anywhere if we tried hard enough”

it’s a trade-off. the average generation curve depends on the inclination; each has its pros and cons

power is the best thing in the world to work in right now, it touches sooo many aspects of humanity and is changing so fast!

100%

I don’t think everybody who makes a bad claim is a troll. A lot of people just are that stupid.

Trumpistan doesn’t intend to face another election. He’s here for the last chance; it’s grab power now or fail forever. And he knows it, that’s why he acts like that. The medicaid cuts are widely unpopular, but he doesn’t care what voters think anymore.

Police should stop and hinder ICE conductions; after all they have the duty to protect people from illegal harm. And ICE is clearly doing illegal things.

The Trumpistan party doesn’t intend to be elected ever again. That’s their last attempt. They try to take the country by a coup now. They don’t intend to face any votings, ever again. That’s why they’re acting like this.

And even if it was more than three, they’d just propose the same bill again, until it passes

One could call it the “biggest” suicide note in history.

(i got this phrase from castlevania, iirc, where a heartbroken lord starts to wage lots of wars to force others to kill him, because he no longer wants to live, but for some reason is unable to just die without somebody else’s actions.)

It’s interesting that the US has civil war both at its beginning and at its end.

I suspect it illustrates some “ring of fire” that surrounds the US.

Where will this bring america in 20 years? Republicans don’t ask that question because to them, “in 20 years” is a meaningless category. that simply does not exist. the future does not exist, according to them.

They will be labeled “socialists”

a vote for bart is a vote for anarchy

oh they enjoy suffering! suffering builds character or something

america is truly an exceptional place, just not the kind of exception that i’d like to ever encounter

i can literally imagine an american sitting at the kitchen table and thinking “hmm, what do we need in our lives? more spice”

well, here’s the bill.

Just for comparison: NASA got $25 billion per year for the last 10 years or so. source

the same goes for me for all makeup & decorations

by “bad” he means anybody who doesn’t agree with him

In other words, trump intends to throw US citizens who disagree with trump in these camps as well.

That’s gonna mean politically motivated disappearances, abductions, a.k.a. state sponsored terrorism.

The question is, can the states protect their own people against the Federal Government?

I did some research and found that:

• the Army branch of the military has 500K active troops and 300K reservists. The national guard has 200K troops. Both can be commanded by the president, hypothetically.
• Additionally, the US has 200K federal police officers (FBI, …) and 900K state / local police officers. I guess this means approximately 1 Million officers are under state control across the whole US?

Just to give you an idea of troop strengths, in case a civil war does break out.