I agree with most of what you say, but you’re really talking up Putin, who is worse than Trump so far. How do you believe the Ukraine war should be resolved?

Fair point on disabled people and mothers shouldn’t be counted for a year after birth. If rich people are unemployed yes they should be counted.

Yeah that’s the new one. Hugh Grant’s best performance.

I’d prefer a straight up count of individuals not in school, training, or employment age 18 to retirement age.

The unemployment rate is a lie. If you’re unemployed for more than six months you stop being counted.

That’s the crazy thing. If you explain leftist policies to them they will generally say that sounds good. But once they hear a trigger word like socialist or even Democrat they’re out.

You guys should watch Heretic.

Teaching American exceptionalism for over a hundred years then over the past fifty defunding education systematically. The fact that the country was built on slavery then had Jim Crow officially until the 70s. Unofficially it’s still around. The red scare that has caused people to automatically reject social improvements if they benefit everyone. Zero-sum thinking about literally everything - like if someone else benefits that must mean I’m losing.

So many reasons Americans are taught to be sociopaths. Both by our official education system and our general culture. We could go on and on. Yet at least half of us don’t think like that. But we have no power.

We were in a pretty damn safe society until a few days ago. But yeah you’re still right.

Protest day is the 5th at noon in your local downtown or better at your state capital building. Unfortunately it’s in the middle of a capitalist drone’s work day and I just found out today so I think it’s going to be a fail. Don’t let that stop you.

I was interested, but I can’t click to visit any of the forums.

I’ve already been overly specific on this account and I don’t want to get doxxed. I install and service computer networks of a certain kind.

Believe it or not I watch regular TV! I travel for work constantly and I have TV on in the hotel room. It makes me feel less lonely. That’s how I’m seeing these ads. On my PCs it’s Firefox+ublock origin.