Oh, you mean she doesn’t like the idea of being murdered so the US can use it as an excuse to murder even more brown people.

So she is just fine with murdering innocent people, until it is her turn to die. So strange.

She is also married to a 60 year old.

Yes, but people die IRL when you play it.

The US could have been ahead of the curve but the greedy oligarchs decided it was more profitable to keep on destroying the environment.

The corporatocracy does not believe in the values of a open and free Internet. They have show us their hand over and over again. Why people keep playing when they know they will lose to the house is beyond me.

You’re not thinking right. Why run at all if your presidential powers never actually go away!?

Every country has bribery and many countries, like the US, formalize a bribery system into law by putting in limitations and adding recording requirements.

I think you point out correctly that powerful special interests use things like lobbying and regulatory capture to control government policy.

The cause is the real issue that no one wants to talk about because it means taking a cold hard look at ourselves and behavior. I would argue it is ultimately a cultural issue so fixing our policies will not be enough to affect change.

They needed to because they were lobbied to. The people’s will only matters when it aligns with what the wealthy that are in power want. When you realize this policy begins to make more sense.

What you describe goes way back further than 100 years.

The hippies never disappeared, they were marginalized, ostracized, and excised by a fascist system. The War on Drugs was one of many tools the oppressive government used. Some hippies did in fact become yuppies but I don’t blame them, the system was simply stronger than their ideals.

GenX aren’t what I would call centrists. That implies they try to balance or can see the value in both sides of the political spectrum. They are not leftists by any means as multiple fascist purges of the left in US history has ensured they don’t exist in any appreciable numbers. I could agree they are centrists between the right and the far right.

GenZ are not woke, they are malleable. They don’t have strong ideals, values, or a Zeitgeist if you will. I think you confuse woke with just not caring and accepting reality as it is. This is not really conviction though, it is sinply resignation.

You are absolutely correct every generation is selfish. Also, the generation before will always complain about the later generation. This theme has existed throughout all recorded human history.

Most the people I meet are generally good and will make positive decisions given the time, resources, and opportunity. This is regardless of generation.

The problem clearly lies with a minority of wealthy individuals who have disproportionate level of power and representation. This is also nothing new. This same issue existed when the country was founded.

My entire small town exclusively uses Facebook for everything from local gossip, to selling stuff, to even hooking up. All the businesses use it and the only way to get updates on local power outages or emergency notices is through it as well. I don’t use Facebook so it is a bit annoying.

Oh darn, the guy who chopped up discarded mattresses and put them in pillows had another setback. Don’t worry, I am sure Trump will just appoint him to some important position soon.

Liberty!

You may think it is common knowledge, but there was a reason Black Gold had a contract that explicitly stated waste management cannot divulge where the biosolids are sent.

I highly doubt they filter out heavy metals and pharmaceuticals though. That would be prohibitively expensive plus I hear that plants love Prozac. They crave it apparently.

I think you are correct though, everyone does it.

Great article with a lot of insight.

The level of idiocy in this statement is so profound it isn’t even funny. Republicans are going to regulate!? You would have to ignore all reality, history, and common sense to believe this bullshit for even a second.

Weirder than the Epstein class!?

It has already been preemptively made illegal in several states.

https://news.ballotpedia.org/2025/03/25/thirteen-states-have-now-banned-ranked-choice-voting-as-municipalities-decide-on-whether-to-adopt-it/

There was this great story about New York wastewater management program. A reporter was doing an in depth dive into their wastewater system and noticed that after the wastewater was concentrated into a solid mass after filtering they would haul it away in trucks.

The reporter asked a simple question about where the trucks go but was immediately rebuffed. They would not tell them so the reporter got in their car and followed them. They went to the Black Gold potting soil factory where the solid human waste was converted into potting soil for people’s gardens.

The 200 million rural farmers control the country!

No wait, the 400 million service workers control the country!

No wait, it is the 500 million middle class that control the country!

No wait, it is the 130,000 of the wealthy class that controls the country!

No wait, it is the 320 billionaires that control the country!

No wait, it is the 2,878 Congressional members that control the country!

No wait, it is seven leaders who control the country!

No wait, it is Xi who controls the country!