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What makes this appalling is that the current situation is entirely the result of deliberate choice by the president. I know there will be a lot of commenters rushing in to breathlessly claim 'Inflation was worse under Biden!'. However, there is a difference between inflation being the result of a literal 'once a 100 year' global pandemic and Trump deciding to attack Iran because he needed to remove attention from hi…
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> It's almost as if the choice between the two parties is no choice at all. Hi, I live in Minneapolis/Saint Paul. You may have heard about what the Republicans in the federal government did here a couple of months ago! The only appropriate response to your sentiment would, rightly, get me banned from this website. Please think before you speak.
For those who just watch fox news we're up to an estimated 700 million dollars of damage, completely aside from the human suffering for no definable reasons. The murders and the justification for murders, the protecting of murderers, and the celebration of convicted murderers in the local MN GOP. https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2026/06/11/minne... https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/06/02/floyd-family-atto…
After inflation maybe that one was more expensive!
CPI vs PPI, in case you’re curious like me … CPI tracks retail costs and the cost of living, whereas PPI tracks wholesale costs. As such, PPI acts as an early indicator of future consumer inflation.
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I see, you prefer your gangs unchecked?
I clearly did not say that, re-read and try again. There's a lot of thoughtful responses to your histrionics, I suggest you take a breath and actually engage with the ideas contained within them.
Sorry, can you please point to one of these thoughtful responses? I've seen one idea suggested: "sortition". But no ideas for how to get it peacefully without voting it in. I engaged with all these comments and asked this question.
"Voting doesn't work" is a cynical, doomerist, thought terminating cliche. I don't want this mind virus to propagate. You may call my comments "histrionics". But instead I suggest you take a breath and think about where calling voting and elections "useless" leads.
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> We are a country who serves only corporations and those who own them. Regular people have been almost completely removed from the process Regular people removed themselves when we chose cultural flashpoints over material wealth.
Even though the forever pursuit of more material wealth is exactly what brought the USA to this point.
I think it is simply wrong on the facts that the national government has been primarily focused on raising national GDP and material well-being, or that it has done a good job.
The topic of growth is almost absent from campaign messaging, and investment in infrastructure for the future is a minuscule part of budgets.
If economic growth was the priority, we would see streamlined code and legislation throughout the country and focus on improving them. Politicians would be spending their time trying to figure out how to lower the costs of High-Speed Rail or Bridges or houses.
What makes this appalling is that the current situation is entirely the result of deliberate choice by the president. I know there will be a lot of commenters rushing in to breathlessly claim 'Inflation was worse under Biden!'. However, there is a difference between inflation being the result of a literal 'once a 100 year' global pandemic and Trump deciding to attack Iran because he needed to remove attention from hi…
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The politics in this country have been intentionally broken going back to Clinton and Obama. It is impossible to make meaningful change anymore. Add in the propaganda convincing 2/5th of the country to consistently vote against their own interests and fundamentally misunderstand core issues, and it is difficult to see what can be done in the next 10 years. The USA has had a hostile takeover by oligarchs. We are a cou…
> We are a country who serves only corporations and those who own them. Regular people have been almost completely removed from the process Regular people removed themselves when we chose cultural flashpoints over material wealth.
I know plenty of good honest people who simply don’t know what’s going on and cannot navigate today’s political landscape
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It's an interesting point. With Clinton, l'affaire de bj was a willful attempt to take the president's private life public as a means of congressional focus. It should be noted that until then, this was effectively off limits . It was an open secret in DC that his predecessor, Bush the 1st, kept a mistress for years and that was never discussed publicly. In the case of Obama, the GOP noted that their top priority was…
The Lewinsky Affair got traction because Clinton used his position of power (literally in the Oval Office) to take advantage of a young subordinate, in a time when ‘sexual harassment’ was becoming a hot topic. Then lying about the affair made it much worse (as cover-ups often do). It was definitely used against Clinton by his opponents, but the way he abused his position, then perjured himself was truly shameful.
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> Disparaging democracy The ancient Athenians knew that elections favored the rich. That’s why they incorporated selection by lot into their system. Our modern understanding of democracy has fetishized elections to the point that some voters might see hundreds of them in a year, including for positions that shouldn’t ever be elected ( e.g. judges), while still having little to no actual civic power.
The "just vote" lot are the perfect pressure release valve for the failed system. Out of control inflation? No healthcare? Endless war? Just vote! You just have to vote for a democrat! It's time to say no to these charlatans. If people lose hope in the system, that's when it can change.
Biased much? Why not say no to Republicans, they put us in this mess time and time again.
What makes this appalling is that the current situation is entirely the result of deliberate choice by the president. I know there will be a lot of commenters rushing in to breathlessly claim 'Inflation was worse under Biden!'. However, there is a difference between inflation being the result of a literal 'once a 100 year' global pandemic and Trump deciding to attack Iran because he needed to remove attention from hi…
The fact that he could kidnap Maduro probably gave him false confidence that waltzing into Iran might work out. Alas, for us.