You’re forgetting about the masses of rubes. Who also vote. And are pure morons.

100%

They only take action to punch down any potential actual left-leaning candidates, ensuring no progressive representation ever gathers power stations.

These are direct results of the government’s failure to govern. The whole purpose of government is to regulate.

Billionaire wealth should have immediately been taxed at the highest historical levels. Now we’re past the tipping point and have to simply endure living in an empire as it crumbles around us, while masses of rubes cheer their oppressors.

*superficially desirable

Oh he did- he leaned his full weight toward creating today’s reality for the last 55 years of his life.

They have physical locations and extant real estate across the entire US.

So, rather than continuing to give billions to private ISPs that do literally nothing with that money, and who double-down to curtail services whenever mildly inconvenient, my suggestion is that we (ie US Government) does not provide a single additional dollar in funding or subsidies, and instead invests that money in building itself a USG internet UTILITY. If necessary, clawback the billions that have gone to Comcast, ATT, Verizon et al, or just seize their networks and charge their executives with RICO and fraud. They essentially operate as a cartel anyway.

I actually meant both. To use USPS for basic banking, AND have them offer internet from the same locations.

The US Government needs to stop dicking around with this neoliberal bullshit and just offer mobile and home Internet AS A UTILITY.

Use the existing USPS infrastructure and cut out all the bullshit ISPs and parasitical orgs that have been bloating themselves on taxpayers for decades, with zero improvements to users.

Bring back basic banking at USPS too.

*milquetoast

Vinz Clortho?

People are also desperately lonely and isolated. They hang out in coffee shops just to have other living humans around them- even if they’re not actively interacting.

We are all alone, together.

I would say it’s the reverse for me. The older I am, the more I understand, the angrier I remain.

Dunning-Kruger and American egoism are a deadly combination

End qualified immunity and abolish police unions. They’re the bastions of the bad apples that bottleneck better candidates.

“Downtown murders rise”

I wish our government actually regulated these corporations so they are not able to have a tentacle in so many essential technologies.

All of the symptoms of the crushing power of techbro oligarchs are directly tied to failures of govt to regulate.

“We don’t claim this guy, at all. Literally any other generation can have him.” -Millennials

Cancer loves to metastasize

Because the cops and their union have been throwing tantrums and bending politicians ears.

They’re excellent for fine-tuned use-cases that need digesting huge volumes of text- for example, legal and insurance industries. But having a hundred different AI models all trained on scraped nonsense and then hallucinating bizarre outcomes to prompts just isn’t very useful to the average person. Especially as more and more average computer users are less and less computer literate. That writing is on the wall.