U mad, bro?

The problem is thinking of him as a “power broker” rather than one part of a larger movement. Power is not something that can be “brokered”, it comes from the collective effort of people.

The Epstein class is a malignant tumor everywhere that will take all of us to deal with.

Don’t forget that they lied about the cancer it causes to the entirety of America in front of Congress and nothing happened to them. Just like the Business plot. And the Civil war.

We have a long tradition in America of letting Wealthy White men get away will literally everything, up to and including high treason.

Its true that most people don’t know how the debt works, but that is by design.

We have 39 trillion in debt, but what did we use it for? Do we have nicer roads, better schools, or more hospitals? No.

A huge part of the debt came from the bad bets of companies being offloaded onto the government via the treasury. People don’t understand just how cheap it was (we’ve just about hit the point where inflation is unavoidable) for the Epstein class to borrow government money.

That borrowing was against our future and we won’t have the growth or infrastructure to justify that debt load. My reasoning is that the bow will break somewhere, and it will bring everything else down with it because the system isn’t sustainable as it exists today.

Complete collapse of the financial system brought about by a debt fueled meltdown

I got a feeling stocks aren’t going too matter much here soon.

I work on the uninterruptible power supplies in many of these monstrosities. I heard from someone who works in one of them while I was on a job saying that they literally pay themselves off in 7 months. That’s how much money is flying around in this space, and all that money is just more explosive power for the bomb its going to be at the heart of our economy.

Our team is being run ragged out here in the PNW because of the absolute mass of Data Centers being built on cheap land in eastern WA.

That makes it even funnier

“I can’t be held liable your honor because I have poorfluenza, I’m simply not rich enough to know that shooting that greedy pig in the back was wrong.”

One of the main underlying causes is that the working class hasn’t been allowed to benefit as much from productivity gains due to automation as the Epstein class has.

We’ve all seem the graph about productivity vs wage, but what it implicates is an intentional divide set up between tech advances and labor rights to paint workers as a bunch of Luddites stifling progress.

UBI and tax code overhaul would help eliminate resistance to applying new technology

I like to think the person who revealed this to the public was like “Good news, everyone!” like Prof Farnsworth

By 2032 ish, 12 years of service is plenty.

He’s doing pretty well cultivating a new generation of Democrats not beholdened to Corporations and AIPAC. Mamdani, platner, AOC, etc are crushing polls.

The commercial position pipeline is the aftermath of the problem. When an industry like Big Tobacco can call up someone their long time government whore McConnell, they know he will put out every time. If they have to contend with someone new every few years, you might get a few people who have actual principles, and tell them to pound sand.

If we get enough of principled people, we can end lobbying for good.

Other way around, preventing people from forming decades long relationships with lobbyists reduces their effectiveness.

Netanyahu launched the war by killing Khamenei, while we were in the middle of negotiations no less. This is 100℅ Israels fault, and we should have pulled out the instant it happened and let Israel fight its own wars for once.

Symbols do have meaning, but those meanings are assigned by people. I don’t think Graham got the tattoo because he thought it was a Nazi symbol, I think he got it because he was a drunk 21 year old who saw a skull and crossbones and though he and his buddies should have a group tattoo. His Jewish family members didn’t take offense to it, and they know him best, so I don’t see why I should be up in arms like you are.

My problem is with how much this has popped up in national news compared to his message, politics, and policies, all of which are far more important than his taste in tattoos.

The only reason to continue to bring it up is if you want to accuse him of being a Nazi. If so, you are going to need to present more evidence, because this passive insinuation is intellectual cowardice.

Because it is a crudely drawn skull and crossbones gotten by a drunk Marine 20 years ago.

You’ve wormed out every question that asks the relevance to his policy positions. Which is kind of more important than what his tattoo is supposed to be.

But that doesn’t answer my question of how this relates to the material conditions Mainers face and how it relates to any of Platners policies.

How will sexts early in his marriage change the fact that nowhere is affordable to live for any working class person?

How would a tattoo change his position on the affordability of groceries?

If the “squeaky clean” Establishment was such a better choice, why have their actions lead us to this point?

You can have the moral high ground. Pat yourself on the back for standing up to theoretical secret Nazis. I actually want to be able to take care of my family and halt my tax dollars from going to actual real nazis to kill children in Gaza.

Platners the democratic nominee, support him or support Collins.