Unpopular opinion but I agree. Maybe I don’t hang around enough stinky people, but I’ve encountered far more instances of punch-in-the-face perfume/cologne than body odor.

This is why I always check the ingredients list.

“The good cop and the bad cop aren’t 100% the same!”

You’re so right, support for genocide was just a minor mark against perfection. Keep compromising, soon you’ll be agreeing that democrats shouldn’t fight for marriage equality because some other issue is on the table and we shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of slightly better than rabid nazis.

Not just Bill Gates, huh?

That’s because the democrats are not much of an opposition and when they’ve been given votes, they don’t do much with them, which is one reason why they have trouble getting those votes in the first place. They insist on catering to republican-lites (i.e. moderate fascists) and insist that when in power they should “work with” (i.e. bend over for) republicans.

Just take a look at the recent run with Harris: https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-view-republican-cabinet-1965824

Vice President Kamala Harris was asked by the co-hosts of The View on Tuesday whether she would have done anything differently than President Biden, responding “not a thing comes to mind,” before coming back to the question and adding that she plans to appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if she is elected in November.

So she was fine with all the support for genocide, but thought we needed more republican influence in government. Even when democrats spell this out clearly, you insist that the problem is we’re just not voting hard enough.

The non-corrupt ones are a tiny minority and get drowned out by well-funded opposition. If the tide even hints at turning then the billionaires turn to straight-up fascism, as we’re seeing now.

In 2016 both Hillary and Trump had a lower than 50% approval rating and yet they were the frontrunners: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/08/09/an-examination-of-the-2016-electorate-based-on-validated-voters/

Congress has a less than 50% approval rating and it’s made up of elected politicians: https://www.statista.com/statistics/207579/public-approval-rating-of-the-us-congress/

We don’t have a democracy, we have a system where you can only choose which representative for billionaires you dislike the least. They’re all corrupt, any that aren’t are quickly drowned out by well-funded opposition.

I don’t understand what part you’re saying doesn’t work. Obviously paying down the debt doesn’t work if someone does the opposite right after, that’s true of everything.

I wouldn’t say manageable, it was only a matter of time before the debt would topple over since it compounds. That’s just what happens with anything that has assumed infinite growth. Deliberately burning down the economy of course accelerates the collapse.

Slowly? Isn’t just the interest payment on the debt like $1 trillion a year now?

I’m not driving between neighborhoods much, but I do see for sale signs here and there. What I notice a lot more, however, are tons of for lease signs in front of business real estate.

Its not a bubble but most people here dont think for themselves.

But the ones who believe the AI hype think for themselves. Right.

Microsoft was ready to lose money on Xbox for 10 years to take a place in the console market. And it’s a very profitable market for them now.

Is it? They recently had mass layoffs in the Xbox division and had to jack up prices for gamepass. Compared to Sony and Nintendo, their console sales are pitiful. This is after pouring billions of dollars into the Xbox brand.

Trust is why I brought up a federal reserve issued digital currency. The federal reserve already creates US dollars. This would be the same except there wouldn’t be an entity printing physical dollars and you’d need an account to work with it, like a debit or credit card.

People already mostly pay through mobile, cards, online, etc. The trust is already there. Digital currencies don’t have to be a cryptocurrency. A well-known institution like the federal reserve could issue a digital currency and provide assurances for stability of value as well as measures like the ability to roll back fraudulent transactions. Since it’s just a number in a database and not tied up in investments, you wouldn’t even need the FDIC since your account and the amount of money in your account will remain as long as the federal reserve is still around.

The people protesting the genocide weren’t enough political pressure? She essentially told them to shut up and then ignored them. Tell me, how would she be more willing to listen to them after she didn’t need their votes?

You said:

If your goal was to stop the genocide, you should’ve voted for the person that values human lives

I said:

Neither of the top two candidates qualify.

Then you disagreed citing isolated examples of caring about human lives while ignoring the platform of genocide she hitched her wagon to. I pointed out how her examples of “caring” were out of political convenience. If you acknowledge that she’s not a good person, then you agreed with me from the beginning but decided to try to defend her anyway.

Harris has only tried to do the right thing if it was politically convenient. Remember in the debate when she called out the racist history of Biden? Magically she dropped all that when she became his VP. Similarly, she was willing to run with the genocide platform because she thought it would help her chances at the presidency. Yes, she’s the better choice, but even the better choice is not good enough. Neither candidate was willing to do something about the genocide and I think that’s something important to recognize.

It doesn’t mean I think she wasn’t the better candidate and it doesn’t mean I think people shouldn’t have voted for her, but when we’ve come to the point where genocide is being actively supported with Biden sending billions of dollars in weapons to the cause and Harris hitching her trailer to that dumpster fire (and this is supposed to be the “good” party) then the situation is just absolutely fucked.