I actually feel the same, but I was trying to not be too much of a downer.

Thanks for the recommendation, but I’m already subscribed. If you read the post a couple months ago from someone who just got a tiny phone, I made a longish comment on it with my own mini-review of it.

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996 ain’t exactly conducive to family time.

Frankly, you’re blatantly full of bigoted bullshit. The dichotomy between how you opened your response, and then closed it is extremely telling in that regard. The fact is most people will vote for whatever they believe will benefit themselves the most personally, no matter their background - that includes you, despite your subtle attempt to imply otherwise.

There probably are some small percentage of Chinese people who will vote as you say - much like there are MAGAts who blindly support whatever insane buffoonery Trump is up to. This is why turnout is so important, so the majority opinion actually wins despite attempts to manipulate the outcome.

Of course it is. Next you’ll be telling me horseradishing passwords is a thing, too!

But, seriously - that’s interesting to know, so TYVM for the opportunity to learn.

So can MAGAts, who are more likely as a whole to be (inadvertently or otherwise) working against true American interests. I’ll grant they may not understand or realize that fact, and so are not entirely deliberately meaning to have that effect - ignorance doesn’t absolve anyone of responsibility for their actions, however.

Never mind there are plenty of young Americans (including multiple ethnic backgrounds) with a significant interest in… shall we say “alternative” forms of government nowadays? Sure some small proportion of those Chinese Americans may be plants, but I’ll wager a much larger majority are not & have a much stronger interest in seeing America live up to it’s oft-stated “ideals” - ones which is is failing miserably at living up to right now.

I have never seen it, so I didn’t think about that aspect although it should have been obvious. My apologies.

Can we start calling it “peppering” since too much salt is bad for you?

I was already aware of much of what you said, although I probably hadn’t gazed down the road quite as far.

However, what I was referring to was the regulation the commenter I replied to was calling for. What I meant was that proper legislation wouldn’t happen until the “rugpull” you described actually happens, and the economy finally goes into the recession it would otherwise already be deep into at this point. Being delayed so long may make it especially ugly, I fear - or it may just bridge us into the next thing that keeps the economy propped up, such as the robotics you mentioned.

May you live in interesting times, indeed.

So, heaven?

That won’t happen until the brick wall is not only hit, but completely demolished. While Democrats are significantly more rational than Republicans, they are still almost as much in the oligarchs’ collective pockets. Only the Progressives give me any hope, but there aren’t nearly enough of them in Congress yet to make shit happen.

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Yes, they’re the perennial “undecideds” who determine the outcomes of elections & our futures based on nothing more than how tightly their panties are bunched on election day. If it’s a good day for them, then maybe their favorite “influencer” at that moment tells them how to vote.

Meanwhile, ICE agents probably get promotions.

I appreciate your persistence in trying to help, but it’s honestly better spent elsewhere. I’ve long lost virtually all hope, and even if things magically became as they should be tomorrow I believe I’m far too damaged at this point to be recovered as the person I could and should have been. It’s been too long. I have no life outside of my responsibilities, and I’m just going through the motions - and not terribly well, at that.

Facts don’t matter to these bozos. It’s all about getting high off the feeling of sanctimony, regardless of how false it is.

Sorry, poetry never appealed to me for whatever reason.

Other than getting fired for something completely unrelated, the chief doesn’t seem to have suffered anything from this - at least nothing is mentioned in this article. An article, BTW, that is nearly a year old.

I’m honestly too depressed to channel anything - it just comes out at random moments when I’m alone while I struggle to keep myself going (something only happening at all because I have to for those dependent upon me).

To borrow from Sir Mix-A-Lot, didn’t miss the red beans and rice.