Sir they've already voted for him, you don't need to keep selling him to the voters.

The problem is that there's no core bureaucracy capable of running an FDR-style state anymore, and everyone who would be lining up for the job are the same grifters and sycophants that have been running the show for the past 40 years. You can lean into neoliberalism real easily, but leaning back away from it requires rebuilding your entire state apparatus from scratch.

"I'm sorry, asking what your credit score is makes your credit score drop 30 points. No, you're not allowed to see the algorithms we use to determine your credit score either."

I feel like the US is 5-10 years away from some mass hysteria movement, like a burgerfied Taiping Rebellion where someone declares themselves Jesus' third aunt and orders their legions of rabid followers to crucify every 5G tower in the country.

This may legitimately be one of the most damaging moments in western hegemony moving forward. The one area where BRICS and other non-westerm blocs have not made major strides to dissociate from the west is Linux; even North Korea uses its own Linux distro domestically. A large part of the reason for that is that it's traditionally been seen as such a stable and generally apolitical kernel that the usual worries about spyware in your firmware isn't as big of a concern, so China and Russia don't have major concerns about leveraging the kernel for their domestic industries. Hell, Russian programmers have been massive players in open source development traditionally.

This is fire across the bow for Russia, and you can be sure some bureaucrat in Beijing is taking notes right now.

I sincerely cannot understand why anyone would find the idea of spending a week in the scorching desert sun listening to the Grateful Dead's grandchildren playing their music before sleeping in a tent with just enough water to not die of dehydration fun.

I can, however, imagine a person who would find that fun, and now I can't imagine how that person would pay $1500/person to go to that.

Literally what is the point of a Dune survival game if you're not either playing as the Fremen or constantly having to look over your shoulder to make sure you're not about to get turned into a water refill station? If you're going to choose to do Dune as your setting, why wouldn't you want to have extra NPC factions so you can have the rich interconnected politics?

What's next, removing the worms and sand?

The permanent solution is not having people living anywhere in Florida that isn't 50+ ft in elevation above sea level, but good luck convincing the gusanos and small business tyrants that owning a mansion directly in the path of infinite category 5 hurricanes isn't a good idea.

In ebil Soviet Russia, an ailing gerontocracy refuses to believe that the people do not like it despite hard evidence, leading them to continue ignoring the systematic issues destroying the country from within.

Just comical amounts of racism. I guess it's only fitting that the US chase the braindrain it relies on to drive any productive sectors it hasn't outsourced back to their home countries as it spirals into imperial decline.

Glad to see the "are women bourgeois?"-type discourse predates the modern left.

The intent doesn't change the reality. If your kid only had food to eat because of a Trump policy and you're presented with a choice between him and a nigh-identical ancient piece of shit, which one do you think you're going to pull the lever for?