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  • It will be reversed when the next guy sits in the chair.

    It will be reversed IF a next guy sits in the chair.

    For now, with congress cucked, executive orders are basically as good as laws.

    Your argument would be believable if we weren’t in an active war with Iraq as triggered entirely by executive order instead of congress.

    If there is no next guy, this is the new norm.

    J6 happened last time, this time they have 22,000 ICE agents under Trumps thumb.

    If you want me to believe there will be another guy after Trump, you’re going to need to convince me there is even a single believable non-violent way that can happen despite the above.

    Wanting to believe things will magically change back to normal is not enough. It wasn’t enough to change actual laws like citizens united, and it won’t be enough to change this behaviour back now that there’s a well paid army of ICE to prevent it, and a private oligarchy that benefits from it more than the norm we’ve left.

    And in that norm, yeah, I agree, executive orders aren’t laws. But that’s not the way it works now, nor is there any believable way that we get back to it peacefully.


  • Just like no child left behind, the patriot act, citizens united, and fucking all of reagonomics wasn’t permanent right?

    Honest question, in what time frame do you expect this law to change back?

    5 years? 10 years? 20 years?

    The future in which this law changes back is fully dependant on the US not becoming more fascist. Yet here we are now, basically the same spot as Russia post collapse of communism, all excellerated by the other policies I mentioned that are technically not permanent yet have pushed us into this spot over the last 50 years.

    You want to act like this isn’t permanent? Give me a single plausible way this law can change back in the next 5 years, as electing a non-fascist no longer gaurantees they’ll even take office post J6. That is the reality we’ve living in, regardless of this headline being click bait. It’s factually, and realistically accurate based on the absolutley abysmal potential futures in front of us.



  • “bUt nO oNe’S sUrE wHy”

    Meanwhile at Microsoft:

    “Stop using Windows 10. We lied and made Windows 11. It’s all AI bullshit that we will Cortana in 2 years. Please scan your face and taint to login.”

    Microsoft FEELS and ACTS like they have a monopoly.

    They do not have a monopoly.

    People can use Linux. So they are using Linux. Now up to 10% from 5% at the end of last year.

    If Microslop doesn’t start making business decisions based in actual reality, then Linux user share is going to hit 20-30% of NA by early next year at the current growth rate.



  • My dude. You can just look at the current stock market and compare it to the Nifty 50 bubble from the late 70’s to see how fucked everything is about to become.

    You don’t need anything you just said. You’re just making excuses to avoiding engaging with the very valid points I made because you incorrectly assume I don’t have a masters in economics likely more recent that yours.

    So here’s a bunch of easily comprehensible facts that competely disproves your bullshit entirely:

    https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/nar-2025-profile-of-home-buyers-sellers-reveals-market-extremes

    First-time home buyers now make up just 21% of the market—the lowest share since NAR began tracking.

    First time home buyers are at record lows.

    The median age of first-time buyers is 40—a record high

    Highest average home buying age ever recorded is now, and it’s 40.

    Which means, clearly, for the first time ever recorded, Americans need to work into their 40’s to be able to buy their FIRST HOUSE. You likely bought your first house when that average was 20.

    the typical age of home sellers this year is 64, the highest ever recorded… those between the ages of 60 and 78, are the largest share of both home buyers and sellers—moving markets more than younger generations often due to their better financial position.

    Younger generations do not have boomer money. They don’t because real wages have stayed stagnant for 40 years.

    https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/

    … despite the strong labor market, wage growth has lagged economists’ expectations. In fact, despite some ups and downs over the past several decades, today’s real average wage (that is, the wage after accounting for inflation) has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago.

    So a 2026 dollar is now worth about the same as a dollar earned in 1989. Wages have not grown, only prices. So Americans can’t afford homes until their 40’s.

    This is basic economics. I don’t even need to calculate trends or slopes to understand how this is just cause and effect.

    You have no idea what you’re talking about. Please read the above to expand your education rather than hiding behind it as if it’s something incomprehensible.


  • What was the average age of homebuyers when you were young? Was it over 40 like it is now? No. How many times have you had federal minimum wage increase when you were young? It’s increased 0 times in the last two decades. Likely close to 11 for you. What was the rate of suicide in adults over 20 when you were young? Currently it’s the 3rd highest rate of death in 2026 just under heart disease and cancer.

    You have near monthly school shootings, or none at all?

    You’re cherry picking. The future we live in now is awful in comparison to what you lived.










  • There’s not a single oligarch who champions Democrats or liberal policies for a reason.

    The people at the top put the tyrant who’s a supervisor in place against all laws and reason. Your analogy only works if it’s a workplace instead of a government that’s been crippled to be as inefficiently nepotistic as a workplace. Entirely done by the one and only party that’s been campaigning for running the country like a business for decades.

    Absolutley none of that is the same as managers (Democrats) and workers (every US citizen) now stuck employed somewhere they can’t leave because the whole company was sold to a team that gutted everything we all built together over a century to instead maximize our suffering for where it can be most profitable. Something the left has fought against for decades, and now gets blamed for “going too far.”

    They clearly didn’t go far enough. That’s the only thing rotten about them. They didn’t rot as fast as the rest of the ship, and are literally the only ones now doing anything to at least try to stop the rot from spreading.

    Not a single GOP member cares about this country more than they care about Trump and his donors money. That rot is far more visible and obviously worse.

    We wouldn’t even have an Epstein class if Reagan didn’t cut their taxes so that wealth could instead be spent on setting up international child sex trafficking rings.

    If you want to compare this country to a business then please stop pretending like that is something anyone but republicans have wanted for decades for the very reasons we’re now discussing as bad.

    Both sides are now rotten, and that rot has almost exclusively come from only one of those sides.


  • I’m glad they did this study, but as they controlled for hazards, they did jack all to explore the meaning of their results beyond how it lined up with their hypothesis.

    Just because the study went the way the expected doesn’t mean there’s causality. In fact, there’s a bigger likelihood that adolescent cannabis use just doubles the likelihood of psychotic and bipolar diagnosis.

    People are born with those conditions and weed just brings those behaviors out more easily. Specifically mania within those inclined to it from Bipolar.

    I feel this study is fairly disingenuous seeing as it never bothers to consider the possibility that they are just more easily diagnosing these conditions in kids through their use of weed. These conditions are traditionally very hard to diagnose in children at ALL, as most psychotic behavior (that isn’t EXTREME) usually manifests in later life typically in the early to late 20’s.

    Imo, this study has done nothing but prove that these conditions continue to go undiagnosed in children unless weed gives them enough comfort to behave in the more visibly psychotic ways most kids hide until adulthood.

    No insult intended. Just surprised to not see this even considered in the study.


  • One side is far more rotted than the other, as evidenced by Trump being mentioned in the Epstein files more than even Epstein.

    Trump is now 100% the entirety of the Republican party. So that side of the rot has already eaten away anyything resembling reason and replaced it with the most horrendously inhuman decisions imaginable that have increased national misery for profit.

    Democrats never wasted $200 Billion on a private army that can’t do their job without public executions happening weekly.

    Don’t make such a stupid comparison when stupid is the reason it’s got this bad.