PowerCrazy

Eh. The national guard could be used as a moderating force. For example they could require that ICE Officers be escorted by national guard members at all times while they enact their "lawful" duties. Failure to be escorted could be declared unlawful action and the transgressing ICE member would be arrested and turned over to federal judicial branch, after a lengthy bureaucratic process. Of course this would require democrat politicians to actually want to disrupt the very system they were elected to uphold.

I also don't think the national guard gives a shit one way or another about any specific private property. In the aggregate as a construct of a capitalistic state, sure they will support capitalism, but in the reality of the individuals who make up the state national guard, they are being abused by the very system they are supposed to protect. They seem fertile ground for revolution. It's not oligarchs and billionaires who join the national guard. It's not senators' sons, and the daughters of NGO founders who are in the national guard. In short, the members of the national guard are not the ones benefiting from our current system, in contrast to the federal officers and police that do benefit.

"Gun Lobby" is just another capitalistic industry that did successful regulatory capture a century or so ago. Who cares about them. The fact that guns are useful tools is beside the point. It's like claiming that Trump is making a an enemy of John Deere.

I'm still using DDR3 as I haven't upgraded my computer in like 6years. It's fine. I can play most games at 4k and I'm rocking an Nvidia 4070. I don't really see any compelling reason to upgrade until GTA6 comes out. (I can play gta5 just fine)

They don't need an excuse and what do you think the next level of "escalation" would look like in Minneapolis? Armed forces refusing deployment orders? The end of the US? This admin is walking a dangerous line and using the cover of a "law-enforcement" action is doing a lot of work. As soon as it escalates to "putting down an insurrection" everyone in the admin is at risk of being vacated from office, mortally. Trump may not realize it, but the people on the ground will.

Now ban all advertising, please!

The only thing that matters is how clean our power is. If you are worrying about "cost" you are supporting capitalism and the fossil fuel industry. And cost to consumers is extremely misleading mostly as a result of power policy, completely divorced from cost to generate. Nuclear can absolutely be cheap, just end the subsidies on other fuel sources, allowing fuel recycling, and imprison all shareholders, congressmen, and lobbyists of the international energy cartels.

God I want a nuclear reactor in my literal backyard.

Fortunately I live in Illinois the state that has over 50% of it's power provided by Nuclear, the most in the nation. (As of 2024, Illinois generates 53.62% of electricity from nuclear power, 31.10% from fossil fuels (comprising of coal, natural gas, petroleum, and other gases), and 15.28% from renewables (comprising of wind, solar, hydropower, and biomass)). It will be nice to get the renewable mix up too, but in the meantime I'm quite happy. Electricity isn't the cheapest, but it surely is the cleanest which is the only thing that actually matters.

https://cleanenergy.illinois.gov/tracking-illinois-progress/electricity-generation-mix.html

Nice. More previous administrations need to be held accountable, even if for the wrong reasons.

Author of the article thinks its "punk rock" to support the blue capitalist party. It's just not realistic to do anything except vote blue no matter who. You have to be an adult about this. Until Communist Jesus arrives and saves us from ourselves, it's just not the right time to do anything except maintain the status quo. Very Smart author.

I mean impeaching cabinet members is kind of pointless innit? Trump can easilly find a replacement that is functionally identical. You have to cut the head off VP+President at the very least. But really just skip all that bullshit and start advocating for a Constitutional Convention, the US government is broken and a CC is the only non-violent option.