Yeah, the whole “love each other and forgive everything” lessons of my youth have been replaced by “fuck you, I’m getting mine” christians.

Ah yes, the Boomer Christians.

Dems have to be very smart about how they move forward. They can’t stoop to the level of breaking laws that intentionally harm the American people, but I swear to God, if a Democrat says some bullshit about reaching across the aisle, then **we’re fucked.**

If the system was working as expected, it would be fine to work with republican colleagues across the aisle. But since the system is fucked right now, there’s no reason to capitulate and work together with fascist who are destroying the government from the inside in exchange for corporate donations.

Unfortunately, until campaign finance laws And the consequences of citizens United are fixed, there really is no moving forward. As long as corporations are allowed to legally exist as people, and free speech is equated to money, corporations can afford to buy politicians both sides of the aisle in every race. They get to decide who gets more money based on who will support the policies that favor them.

The Democratic Party has long been the party of neoliberalism exiting solely to represent corporate interests. Their defense of the status quo is essentially keeping the money flowing into their campaign for reelection every election cycle.

Everything they do to actually help people as in consequential and changing those facts and simply appears to be doing some marginal good. It doesn’t functionally change the issues in the broken system.

When people say the Democratic Party has a problem with optics or communicating what they actually do for the people it’s only half right. They just don’t have the backbone to spew all of the lies and bullshit as readily as the Republican Party Because their constituents, at least in the democratic cities, have a halfway decent education and won’t believe blatant lies. They know they can’t get away with it so their messaging is just as half assed as the progressive policies they pretend to give a shit about.

All of this is just part of their plan to drastically shrink the government to a size where you can drown it in the bathtub.

Don’t forget that squirrel, raccoon, and possum meat. That’s where the magic flavor comes from!

Yeah, my favorite is when they figure out what features people are willing to pay for and then paywal everything that makes an app useful.

And after they monetize that fully and realize that the money is not endless, they switch to a subscription model. So that they can have you pay for your depreciating crappy software forever.

But at least you know it kind of works while you’re paying for it. It takes way too much effort to find some other unknown piece of software for the same function, and it is usually performs worse than what you had until the developers figure out how to make the features work again before putting it behind a paywall and subscription model again again.

But along the way, everyone gets to be miserable from the users to the developers and the project managers. Everyone except of course, the shareholders Because they get to make money, no matter how crappy their product, which they don’t use anyway, becomes.

A great recent example of this is Plex. It used to be open source and free, then it got more popular and started developing other features, and I asked people to pay reasonable amount for them.

After it got more popular and easy to use and set up, they started jacking up the prices, removing features and forcing people to buy subscriptions.

Your alternative now is to go back to a less fully featured more difficult to set up but open source alternative and something like Jellyfin. Except that most people won’t know how to set it up, there are way less devices and TVs will support their software, and you can’t get it to work easily for your technologically illiterate family and or friends.

So again, Your choices are stay with a crappy commercialized money-grubbing subscription based product that at least works and is fully featured for now until they decide to stop. Or, get a new, less developed, more difficult to set up, highly technical, and less supported product that’s open source and hope that it doesn’t fall into the same pitfalls as its user base and popularity grows.

True Democrat just means neoliberal corporatist. They only care about money and the appearance of giving a shit about people.

So, Fiat currency is going to shit the bed and be quickly replaced by the digital dollar Which will of course destabilize the world banking system.

The US will probably try to pay off its existing trillions in debts using the USD and causing massive inflation before replacing it with the digital dollar.

America clearly thinks it won’t matter, and it can be self-sufficient until it drives enough people into a digital currency, while ignoring the massive inflation caused on the USD.

Yeah, that only worked on small contractors when he was building his casinos because they didn’t have the infinite Russian money for lawyers.

Turns out that doesn’t work so well on sovereign nations and international corporations.

Larry Ellison, founder of the software firm Oracle, is the second-richest billionaire in both the US and the world, and for a brief moment was No. 1 in the world. But for a long time, unlike many of his peers, he was unable to boast that he controlled a chunk of the news and opinion reaching the American public.

Boo hoo. Cry me a fucking River you privileged fuck.