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Gotta love American exceptionalism ... and then when other countries copy the U.S., you kinda gotta facepalm.

To be clear, the DNC is fighting against its constituents. This is Washington politicians and funders vs. the people. Sad to say, Washington is winning.

As Trump has shown us quite clearly, it doesn't really matter what the Supreme Court says.

One of the problems that the major news outlets have is that they repeat each other. It's not merely an issue of AI compiling news stories, but that on top of the fact that all of these newspapers are doing hardly any research. For example, if you live in a town that's not too large, there might only be one local paper, and they might send out reporters to local events. Obviously you would then go to that newspaper if you wanted to learn about local events, because they are adding explicit value.

But if you're trying to read about national politics, a lot of the information is going to be the same in a lot of the newspapers. Which means nobody cares about the newspaper itself. And this is a creation of the newspaper's own decision making over the past few decades.

Well yeah. It's possible for peaceful protests to work, but let's look at history. In reality, the pigs are going to get violent regardless of what anyone does, the national guard will be called out and they're going to use tear gas because their bosses want them to, and despite the fear of injury or death, large groups of people will keep working to make things better.

This is guaranteed to occur. For good or bad, whatever, it will happen. So let's stop worrying about certain outcomes and move our focus to the uncertain things.

Right ... except for all of the poor Boomers out there ... let's just forget about them. Let's forget about all the Boomers who tried very hard to stop the wealth shift to the rich. They don't count; they don't exist.

You decided to blame the old people instead of ... checks notes ... the rich people. That was a bizarre choice. Meh.

I would qualify your first point. Parkinson's Law tells us that we have pointless bosses in huge numbers, and they need to justify their own existence. The people who actually produce things, everyone can see if they're working or not by looking at the output. But their supervisors, and especially their supervisors' supervisors, those people are desperate to make themselves relevant, to justify their pointlessly-large salaries despite a complete lack of utility.

Yes, and you should understand the corruption quite well seeing it firsthand over there, right? (Sad to say.)

There you go again. Blame the protestors for actions that others caused in conditions others created. Forget about the DNC, Biden, Harris ... they had no control over their own policies, did they? Of course not!

Yeah the whole warning reads like bullshit. We already know that Trump supporters, and probably people inside the FBI, will join in protests and commit acts of violence. This is an old tactic, it's been around for decades, and it will always be used whenever people are having large political gatherings. You cannot avoid it.

So what's the alternative? Not ever protest? That's a stupid idea. And the author knows it stupid, which is why they didn't say it, and they just ignored the entire topic. Which means they are trying to manipulate people and we should ignore them because they are untrustworthy.

I'm not worried about the hypocrisy here. I couldn't give a f*** about Trump being hypocritical. But I care an awful lot that he's threatening to do something terrible to someone he considers a political opponent.