I suppose I have a problem with so much focus on cultural issues period. It's a scam to manipulate by the right wing. Meanwhile while we do this idiocy, China trains a bunch more engineers.

Seriously, the level of self own we are doing to ourselves is insane.

Short term it isn't. Short term little robotic vehicles give a lot of bang for your buck. Automated construction is likely going to be required, because, well, humans are fragile.

Of course if you want to solve the automated construction problem, it might be a little easier here...

They are also boycotting most forms of thinking, introspection, and reason...

I cancelled prime and don't use the others. Do I still buy a small amount from Amazon? Yes, but it is my last resort, and only if it is cheaper, and I always buy just barely enough to get the free shipping. I'd say I cancelled 90% of what I spent at Amazon, but we need so many more to do it.

Trump will use every thing he controls or influences directly or indirectly to get his way, burning every bridge along the way. Places like Harvard and all the rest have to stand up to it for two reasons.

1. Decency and to protect against fascism.
2. It's cheaper in the long run.

Put another way, it seems almost to begin with avarice and then people willing to believe in lies about other people being inferior, if it gains them what they want, much, like, well the demonization of immigrants. Racism exists of course, but how much was fanned and how much was original?

I wonder if racism is cause or effect sometimes. The original cause seems to be the desire for work to be accomplished without having to pay or treat people decently. Racism seems almost the lie told to justify those actions. AI also seems the goal of work without pay, just as outsourcing before it.

The idea that news must first be profitable is a dangerous one, since it puts profit above truth. They were of course also putting propaganda above truth and honestly if he isn't going to sell it, then it quietly ending may be the least bad outcome. It would be nice if Fox was unprofitable.

His tax bill was massively lowered. That's likely all he cares about, well that and not being shut out of government contracts.

We need the tax rates from before Reagan on over say a million in income a year as a step to try to reign in this mess.

I'd argue that character, decency, honesty, and a foundation built on democratic principles matter more than almost anything. With them, you will always be seeking to course correct toward what is right. With them, you see long term progress. Without them, well, we are here.

Also, have they always supported it, or did they just start now? Republicans have no fixed principles. If it gains them in an election, they will say anything.,

It is worth noting that insane SC decisions are not laws. If we can get power and get some democrats not too afraid to use it we can, at least for now, start the path to nullifying them by either impeaching if we have the votes to remove, adding honest judges, senior status, something.

Basically, until there is a national law banning all of it, gerrymandering likely isn't going anywhere.

Elections are currently majority takes all. You don't generally win many more votes in the House if the margins are close. Yes it creates a greater chance of a greater win by Republicans in a wave year, but that doesn't matter that much. The important key is just to win and it helps.

It's like we need super bowl ads so a few people wake up to the crap that is happening...

We need something... Trump's approval rating should be 0 at this point, as should every republican's in congress not calling for impeachment...

I agree, if we can do it, go for it. It would make the manipulation harder. My favorite approach is to force ranked choice voting where two pass on to the general regardless of party, but that one may be very hard to make happen.

Trump is a walking example of a Faustian Bargain, except you don't make a deal one time. You have to sell your soul daily to appease him.

The party that apes manliness is so completely pathetic. They are terrified of an addled old man.

I agree. Still, if I was to simplify the problem and identify one and only one thing that seems to be causing all this pain it would be all the lies. Lies from so many sources cause democracy to fail and decency to erode.

All people deserve to be treated decently regardless of place of birth.

I'm fairly sure redacting anything that even smells like Trump's name is a crime...