ExFed

Unfortunately a lot of people haven’t been paying attention.

So long as it’s appropriately branded. If we get a bunch of “Trump bucks” right before midterms, I’m sure that could sway some people to keep him in power.

Good point; I was unaware of the state-level laws. Regardless, I will stand by my statement: it’s better than what we’ve currently got.

America needs mandatory voting to stop this behavior

As much as that seems like a good solution, it’s unlikely to win many supporters. You’d be better off making voting day a federal holiday.

ROFL using (claimed) age as a proxy for maturity. Classic.

Best guess? They’re either truly dedicated satirists, gone off the metamodernist deep end into deep post-irony, or they’ve genuinely decided that modernist Grand Narratives weren’t really all that bad (let’s just ignore all the atrocities they brought about). After all, far-left modernist narratives aren’t at all like those other, far-right modernist narratives! They’re different, just like everybody else who is selling a utopia (that’s only practically attainable through an authoritarian regime).

You do see my username, right? I ain’t afraid of no ghost!

Oooohhh, spooky! 👻

Thanks for disambiguating! :)

They only have little in common if you’re unimaginative.

Or one of them.

Unsure if edgy sarcasm or ML propaganda… Please disambiguate.

Reality eventually catches up to everybody, no matter how strong the cult; the Devil always overplays his hand.

The question is are we willing to buck up and start writing the rules for a game that beats whatever MAGA is playing? Or are we just going to whine cynically that everything is awful and there’s no hope and we’re all doomed?

Taiwan will scuttle their microchip fabs before letting China take over. Unless China have infiltrated and taken over the fabs and secured them from destruction, there’s far less economic value in invading Taiwan.

It looks like China is only a couple years away from building completely in-country fabs competitive with Taiwan. If that’s the case, then Taiwan using the economic value of their microchip fabs as a defense may very soon come to an end.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-rival-west-ai-chips-2025-12-17/

I see what you did there…

Are we sure he wasn’t just rigging the coin-toss in the most obvious way possible?

Or the courts will find some way to single out CA’s map; like the fact that they even had a public referendum makes it illegal … Maybe that’s a bit cynical, but that’s where I’m at these days.

If you want to skip the editorial fluff and just skip to Paul Krugman’s post: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/too-cruel-too-soon

Because we voted a criminal into office and let him take control like a king. Laws, like the Hatch Act, are optional.

But that would be slow, hard, and expensive. Just murdering them is quick, cheap, and easy!

The Rs are using every resource they have right now to make the public think this shutdown is the Dems fault

illegally, to boot. MAGA and the GOP are massively overplaying their hand. The only way we get out of this ahead is by forcing them to apply all that pain they promised the American people.