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No way. The oil bros would be real unhappy about that, because it means that they might have to be accountable for anything at some point ever. It's going to be something fucking stupid.

I mean, yeah. They want a king. I am, without any exaggeration or irony, surprised that they haven't tried to dissolve the legislative branch entirely yet.

Thanks, man. I am trying.

Okay, first of all, I was questioning your assertion. We should always be willing to critically examine our beliefs, or we'd still be beholden to the divine right of kings.

Second, while I appreciate that that's the current state of affairs, I think that no small part of it is due to Overton window drift and nobody being willing to stick their neck out and present a bold alternative vision for people to adopt. All we have is "Mexicans bad" and everything from "Mexicans bad lite" to "[pride flags][si se puede] Mexicans okay ish". You don't see anyone calling for taking a hammer to the system that makes immigration so fucked up in the first place.

I was constantly reminded of my native heritage by my parents while growing up in Oklahoma; they always argued what stupid fraction of which tribe we were. Of course, there's no documentation. I did the genealogy a while back, and it turns out I'm so fucking white that I could make snow get deported by ICE; I'm, like, pronounce the H white. Anyway, so much to say that being sent back to England, while certainly a punishment, would be getting off easy, all things considered.

Edit: I don't consider myself a racist, I just suffer from skimming. I just re-read the post :(

Meh. I'm not sure how much I really believe this vs. the only candidates with the financial backing and media platform to get noticed in primaries tend to be the corpocentrists.

I'm mostly sure that they're only doing so as a stop gap. Re-alignment takes time, and we've sent a loud and clear message that we don't want to be anybody's friend anymore. Even if we get Cyber-Bernie 3000 for president in four years, the damage will still be done, and there will always be the lingering understanding that we may just turn around and directly elect Elon Musk as president (don't fucking talk to me about constitutionality without telling me you've been in a coma for the last year first).

Pettiness. I guess some people suffer from such extreme grass deficiency that they'll go through all the trouble of setting up bots to do fully automated luxury harassment instead of small-batch hand-raised harassment.

It scans?! Yar, I'll be lootin' this here phrase, matey!

This.

"COME ON DOWN TO CRAZY DOLAN'S WHERE WE'RE PRACTICALLY GIVING AWAY INFLUENCE! WANNA TAKE OVER EUROPE LMAO HERE'S MY VENMO! WANT US TO GO FROM G'DAY TO G'DLUCK WITH AUSTRALIA? THAT'LL BE ONE TRUMP HOTEL AND A DANCE WITH A GLOWING ORB^wow!!!^. ACT NOW, THESE DEALS WON'T LAST, BECAUSE PETER THIEL JUST CASH APP'D ME TO DRONE STRIKE THE FCC AND WHO FUCKING KNOWS WHAT'LL HAPPEN AFTER THAT"

A machine can never be held responsible, therefore a machine must ALWAYS make management decisions

"Hmm, rise to the moment and present a real alternative? Why, when we can just run a shitty uninspiring candidate and just say 'vote for them or Donald Trump kills everyone?'"