But we sure can’t have solar or offsore wind or anything else to help produce energy because fuck everyone except th fucking oligarchs.

BoTh SiDeS are anti-labor and pro-corporate. We’ve got two parties that are very happy to argue about bathrooms for YEARS while doing NOTHING.

You’re so close!

Republicans obstruct, which is so much easier to do in our system. And yet, Democrats have still passed some leglslation that’s helpful. Republicans haven’t.

You easily see the corruption across the entire system. What you don’t see is that it still matters, and that the parties are not the same.

They notably did not say “merry”. ;-)

That’s the thing. Obstruction is so much easier. So Republicans have been able to stop most of the progress we would have made.

Because unfortunately as much as the “both sides” thing is generally bullshit, our oligarchs have corrupted the entire system. The government mostly only works for them now. That being said Democrats are still the only party doing anything for us. Meh

I’d be more excited to play with it but just like I haven’t printed anything in years, I haven’t needed an office suite in years. I just don’t do any of that stuff any more.

Alright alright, medium sighted it is ;-)

Is why I said looking holes in the hanging drone :)

They’re certainly enhanced and it’s related probably but I’m not sure it’s a 1:1 thing exactly. But far closer to the truth than things like “Democrats just don’t do anything”.

Okay. So stop voting and help the fascists then. I can’t stop you.

I hate where we are as well. I’m 50 and remember when it was just starting to go bad. It sucks.

But I will always vote.

A bit short-sighted, perhaps, when oligarchs control the media and encourage the “both sides” bullshit so people won’t vote, and right-wing media has gone for decades convincing a third of the populace to vote for fascism.

If we were able to break through that propaganda, voting would give us a supermajority of at least Democrats, and some number of actual progressives such that we might be able to get shit done.

That said, giving up is certainly not the answer.

But if they had truly implemented an earth-shattering transformation, then surely at least some faint tremors would have registered with the public. Instead, Biden’s popularity plunged early in his presidency and never recovered. There was no uptick in Biden’s approval rate produced by trustbusting, no green shoots that promised to blossom with more time.

Perhaps oligarchal control of the media means that when progress is actually made, it is not communicated to the populace.

Neo-Brandeisian ideas have drawn at least some support from Trump world.

This is probably necessary if we have any hope of re-taking our country back from fascism and oligarchy.

Well, I don’t know. The author of the piece definitely doesn’t agree, and I’m not sure if I do or not. I do know I personally think the root of our problems in the US are primarily the oligarchs. Fascists are a close second, with Evangelicals a close third.

Wow, whoever had that idea is genius. Cheap and hard to counter.

I see discussions of launching migs, but really, you’d want to launch smaller aircraft - prop planes, or maybe a small drone with a fragmentation grenade to poke enough holes in the hanging drone to disable it, something like that. And that’s assuming you can launch anything like that into the airspace without risking it being shot down.

“Ongoing” ceasefire…

Yes because the second half is fine by the Senate and is the removal part. So impeachment in the house has happened but the Senate has never voted to approve.

So it’s like a cop writing a ticket but it never gets filed with the courts or something like that.

If you knew all that and were just bitching about it, sorry and I agree with your bitching. Hehe

Impeachment is a political process and Congress is controlled by fascists.

fucking pieces of shit.

And their trucks, too!

Well, “trucks”. heh

I grew up in DFW. I’m absolutely unsurprised that’s where this happened.

I read that people saw all four walking around, although I’m sure they were taken to be checked out. But seems like really good news so far.

I think the article is clear about what it means by that. It mentions that technically Russia was slowly gaining territory, although at a cost that might not be sustainable. And now those gains have slightly reversed - at least for now (and hopefully that trend will continue).