Fuck Chuck.

Meow.

I’m spreading the good news throughout his body as fast as I can.

I am Trump’s malignant hernia and I endorse this result.

That would probably get you arrested at best, shot dead at worst. On the spot resistance means the beginnings of civil war. The only way you’re successfully stopping the literal kidnappings by ICE that are in progress is with armed resistance. And I say success with a beachload of salt. Because what happens next is probably a war the lay public cannot win.

The way people are resisting though, and it seems really quite inspiring that it’s lasted this long without an escalation (i.e. shooting), and that’s posting to social media that ICE are coming and where they are, and doing everything they can to disrupt ICE activities with protests and such, wearing silly costumes (which help to reduce anger toward those protesting).

I believe the only militaristic way out of this situation with any chance of “success” is that state leaders order their local militaries to insubordinate and refuse to carry out federal orders including refusing to assist ICE. In the event ICE fire on an American citizen they could even expel ICE, and set up state border control to deny access to any federal troops.

Hopefully, nobody wants to shoot each other and it doesn’t result in civil war, but this is the civil war local states have a chance of winning.

The only political solution is that the Republicans insubordinate against Trump, Vance, and everyone else who has clearly violated the constitution and the law. Impeach the lot of them and reassert the power of the house and congress over the executive branch, and the supreme court too. But… I don’t see even a hint of this possibility occurring.

It’d be a miracle if Trump capitulates to the democrats’ demands and they can’t fold now either or they lose all credibility.

So yeah, fuck me if I can predict how this escalates next. But the way I measure “success” is that this situation returns to some kind of normalcy without mass loss of innocent life.

Forgetting about the potential collateral damage of the current food stamps situation, and the hundreds of thousands of lives uprooted already by ICE… It’s also obvious the sociopathic right want to be rid of the externalities of the poor, or those who can’t or won’t work, and anyone who supports them.

They do of course need young people to work the shitty jobs though, and their own youth don’t want to do that work, so, that could be their undoing unless the war propaganda is successful and they succeed at motivating a new militarized working class. Don’t want to work in the factories? Off to bootcamp with you. Are you ready to become a citizen? I’m doing my part!

RIP USA the rate things are going. Good luck brothers, sisters and everyone in-between.

That’s awesome. More nations need inheritance taxes.

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Yeah.

This is basically the circular end point of existential philosophy. We have fundamental needs that if satisfied we simply do feel better, regardless of our philosophy. Not just food and shelter, but various cognitive needs as well, of course. Understand and satisfy those, and you’re good.

We can still get tangled in knots about the mysteries of the universe, but the fundamental realization is that certainly, nothing matters if you’re dead. So you might as well take satisfying your fundamental needs as your purpose.

I can only imagine. 🫠

That’s a result of Tokyo and the other biggest cities only separating into recyclable bottles, non-recyclable or non-burnable material (i.e. inorganics) and all the rest which is as you say incinerated.

They also have some, if not the most clean burning incenerators in the world, and they use the waste material for construction and land reclamation.

Burning plastics at very high temperatures is far more environmentally friendly than sending them to landfills or attempting to recycle them.

Nevertheless they are known for excess packaging and obviously my arguments about standardization still apply to Japan as much as anyone else.

Yes, but the main issue is how mixed the materials are in our consumables. Mixed recycling is basically bullshit. We should have more standardized packaging and more categories of separation strictly enforced. Japan does this pretty well.

You could opt in to pay extra for sorting if you can afford it sure.

And emissions need to be better taxed, and illegal dumping and discharge into rivers and such a jailable crime with big fines for businesses with accountability going right up the chain to investors.

Thank you kind sir for you time giving me all that background. Sounds like a case of could be a lot worse, bit there’s always next time to fuck it up better. DEI is important, but there really are a handful of crazy identitarians who need to be kept away from power if real democratic socialism is to stand a chance of becoming reality in the English speaking world.

I stand corrected then. Sounds like trash for Canada. Any idea what the government is thinking? I thought it was progressive…

Tax windfall for Canadian government, maybe? Business still has to do business to stay in business. So as long as Canadians benefit, not sure it matters if they’re “Trump supported” does it?

If you didn’t already know Takaichi was trast, well you do now.

This is flagrant rectal tongue foraging for favours.

When’s day?

I mean… Wholesome?

Late stage capitalism is because why.