I’ll be very honest. I’m extremely active in politics and been so for around 2 decades. My family navigated the political spectrum right and are now pretty progressive-left by US calibration. By European I’m most closely aligned with Social Democrats and the Nordic Model.

Where I’m being honest is that I don’t think socialism or Democratic socialism is well defined, and I don’t think even the left does a good job conveying consistency on this. It certainly doesn’t help that there are far-right astroturfers trying to wedge-drive the issue and complicate it.

For instance, if Bernie Sanders pitched himself as a Social Democrat as opposed to a Democratic Socialist, which is precisely what his policy proposals are in reality, then that would be SO much easier to convey to the less informed, apathetic voters of this country.

That is, a truly mixed economy with strongly regulated markets in favor of the consumer, environment, and promoting small-business competition while curving corporate conglomerates too big to fail. One where collective bargaining / unions are strong; where Democracy is decoupled and inoculated from private money with strong campaign finance and election laws. Where select industries like healthcare are nationalized in the hands of the people via Democratic institutions, but there is still some market capitalism and profit to be had to assume risk and investment. Where the rich are taxed heavily and social safety nets strong for those to get back on their feet.

It doesn’t help that big D Dems work against this at every turn…

I was wondering if there was any way to see whether following CK’s death of other right-wing pundits either toned down or got more emboldened overall.

Amish were always very good builders.

Then their church said they could have power tools and then they became unstoppable.

Worth noting that Michigan is a Hotspot for far-right extremist groups. It was from here they conspired to kidnap Whitmer. False flags are of course common, too. Wasn’t a recent shooting there from some qanon nutjob, too?

Is it unusual for a CEO to last as long as Huang has with nvidia? (1993 if I’m reading right).

Not too mention people holding their cash and toning down holidays massively, like my family is doing.

So much for individual freedom and small government, huh.

Holy shit they had to close a 17 mile stretch of the I-5 for this bullshit? For those unfamiliar that’s a major artery linking LA to San Diego. Talking an 8-10 lane highway.

But kudos to Newsom for closing it for traffic safety and going against the hubris of the military claiming it was safe.

What a way to mark 250 years of the Marines with a couch fucker and shells detonating over the interstate.

I’m reading pilot error is around 70% with 10% being mechanical? Either way, the amount of regulatory oversight, having 2 pilots on commercial flights is far safer. Leaving aside the fact that a single engine is a single point of failure while all airliners must be verified to fly with half their engines working.

I think while pilot error can lead us to believe we can train ourselves to be above the problem, we must also understand the nature of GA and single points of failure leave little room for error, again, unlike commercial aviation where there are often multiple levels of redundancy.

So for me personally, I just can’t bring myself to do it. Especially considering that driving is already one of the most dangerous things we do on a daily basis and I only do that mostly out of necessity.

Private single-engine planes (under GA) have somewhere around the same or worse fatality rates to riding a motorcycle. Don’t think I’ll go up in one, at least while my kids aren’t yet adults.

Oh boy. I wonder what true nutrition’s custom powders are like; or rather from where they’re sourcing their stuff…

Yes, Russia.

As by design by Trump Putin.

Longterm destabilization by fracturing America’s closest allies was an obvious goal. Still, no country can build a longterm plan knowing the US can go to shit every 4 years. The volatility is off the charts. So systemic change needs to occur to prevent this shit.

Yep, that is also true.

These Brownshirts can fuck off, but that’s a paintball marker; captioning that as a “long gun” is just going to be low-hanging fruit for imbeciles.

So they’re torturing her. Israel is torturing her.

If they had a semi or fully-automatic rifle, the fatality count would’ve been higher. Fortunately, they actually have sensible laws.

Daily Show did a biographical spot on him, and it’s honestly wild.

Trump gave them permission to clap if they wished. I take it as something of a good sign that none of them broke norms and joined in.

I did not say that. I simply said they may be our last hope of true allegiance to the flag. Military pledges loyalty to the Constitution; not the President.