Yeah, I think their CEO might have QNAP stock or something.

It’s hilarious how dumb this is.

I also don’t know exactly what the next step is.

Obviously, protesting and civil disobedience.

Looking at historical precedents, I also think targeted sabotage should be part of it. Nothing like the Reichstag fire or the assassination of Ernst vom Rath that would fuel a civil war.

In WW2, our resistance performed targeted sabotage on (for example) rail lines, pipelines and electrical networks that did not hurt anyone, but which did weaken the German war effort.

One big disadvantage compared to WW2 is the massive surveillance state.

During slavery there was also the underground railroad. I would definitely set up a system like that to bring targeted activists to Canada. You really don’t want to lose your intelligentsia. Let them provide resistance from Canada.

I hope others have better ideas on effective tactics though.

MAGAts in Montana just love Mercury poisoning. They fully endorse Trump’s actions. So I think the goal is primarily to get them their Mercury fix.

/s

That’s why I don’t keep my brushes in the same room as my toilet.

So touching dead skin cells with my skin is supposed to be a biohazard?

First time I hear that.

I guess I also shouldn’t shake hands anymore.

How so? I’m not coughing or spitting on the desk.

Dead skin cells, sure, but that’s not a biohazard.

The gunk is just compacted dust from the desk surfaces.

Perhaps a bit gross, but it’s mostly stuff you’re breathing in daily, just now visible due to being compacted.

Super gross to me would imply something like bodily fluids or other biohazard.

Am I missing something?

You also need the Senate, not just the president.

But Republican senators have abdicated their duties and voters have not replaced them.

That’s why we have this mess.

Yep, Project 2025 wasn’t exaggerated at all. We all knew this would happen.

But I’m gonna blame Biden, Harris and AIPAC for blowing up the liberal-progressive coalition and alienating working class Americans with high inflation.

How do you lose 6 million voters from 2020 to 2024. That’s just insane.

Half of them went to Trump, the other half stayed home.

Madness

People forget that all the people the Nazi’s put in camps were also criminals. According to Nazi propaganda, they were responsible for the deaths of millions of Germans in WW1, for impoverishing hardworking Germans in the Great Depression and for terrorism in resistance to the Nazi regime.

No regime ever has admitted to locking up an innocent person. No dictator has ever said “Yeah, I put innocent people in jail”.

This is why we have separation of powers. The executive branch has zero authority to call anyone a criminal. Only the independent court system has that authority.

I know, but these things tend to be all or nothing.

Either the American workers don’t seize power and they continue to get exploited, or they seize power and then a lot will be possible.

That’s the point. Your problem is that a lot of voters aren’t affected by wage growth. So politicians don’t feel the pressure to enact wage growth.

All those senior people will actually vote for the guy who keeps wage growth in check.

And it is $17 in 2030.

Here from Europe, let me recommend one thing we do well: we link our equivalent of social security to the average wage growth, not to inflation.

This ensures that all voters benefit from wage growth. And thus all voters demand the same thing from the politicians.

It’s not their fault, but they definitely chose to prioritize supporting a genocide above pleasing their most fervent base.

They had polling data for months showing the impopularity of it and the low polling numbers. We all saw the polling data.

They broke what many considered to be an election promise in 2020 that Biden would be a one term. And they robbed their voters of an open primary, most likely because they knew a progressive populist would easily beat Harris. Harris has never appealed to a broad audience.

But even so, Harris got an enormous boost when she replaced Biden. All she had to do was distance herself from his unpopular positions. She should have criticized Biden on inflation and working class income stagnation. She should have let a Palestinian talk at the DNC. She should have met Arab Americans in Dearborn. And she should have voiced criticism on Netanyahu to get the hostages home and stop the killing. Heck, even Biden had more class when handling upset protestors.

But she dropped the ball on all those important issues.

It’s political incompetence and a sell-out to corporate interests.

I’m sure that someone more savvy like Pete Buttigieg would have easily beaten Trump.

But still, it’s not their fault. Everything Trump is doing is his fault.

Correct, so what China does is ship almost completed stuff to Vietnam, they do the final piece of manufacturing and export that.

It’s not as easy as a transshipment, but for the longer term it works out.

Good point.

It is curious to see though. Putin owns Trump, but Xi Jinping owns Putin. And both of them have Iran as a key ally.

So I really wonder how this all will play out. Trump talks a lot, but his leash is short.

He will backtrack when new inflation figures hit. It might take 3-6 months, but China definitely has the stronger hand, by far.

Trump can avoid the inflation by allowing Chinese goods to come through countries like Vietnam or Mexico. This is basically the status quo.

It allows Trump to save face without huge inflation for US consumers.

It’s a bad time to sell, but anyone “buying the dip” will quickly learn what “catching a falling knife” means.

I think the road to the bottom still has some distance to cover.

In addition to that, having kids, crossing international borders and moving to different countries are also things where marriage gives benefits.

And in some jurisdictions, there can be very significant tax advantages.

Which is why there was always a big fight for marriage equality.

But if you don’t want all these legal benefits, then co-habiting is fine.

The Fed won’t ever allow it to get as bad as the Great Depression again. Economic knowledge and monetary policy has greatly evolved since then.

The Great Recession is a more recent and likely scenario.