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Talking about plans to commit crimes on public forums is basically just doing the cops work for them

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a measure of average wage growth right? I think it's possible that there are big variations between geographic regions and industries and income, so for some people wage growth more than outpaced inflation but for a lot of others it didn't.

choose to extend a war in Ukraine and send 100 billion to Ukraine while their own are struggling.

a) they didn't start that war,

b) out of all the stupid shit our federal government spends money on, why fixate on this one?

c) rich people and companies are under-taxed anyway, so it's not like we're hurting for potential revenue. We have more than enough money to fund Ukraine's defense and take care of poor people.

what people live under is what matters

That much I agree with and have known since George W Bush won the popular vote in 2004 despite there being no WMDs in Iraq and all sorts of civilian casualties because gas stayed cheap

As far as this "being the last election", there's too many safeguards in our governmental system and too many armed people (in both the civilian and military population) with deep vested interests to ensure real elections still happen for that to change.

I'm not so sure considering there's a good argument to be made that this wasn't a "real" election, given all the voter suppressing bullshit that happened. I think we need to ask ourselves what a "real" election is and how we will know if we lose them, because I don't think even our good elected officials are going to tell us about it (because they think, arguably correctly, that living under a stable autocracy is better than the chaos that could happen when a mass of people reject the legitimacy of the government).

Bad times are not end times.

This is true and cannot be said enough. The world doesn't end, it moves on to the next struggle, and there is always a way to make it better. It might be very small, but there is always something to do. Like, yesterday I ended up up hanging out with some very sad old ladies who volunteered for my local League of Women Voters chapter and got them to laugh a couple of times at how ridiculously bad at bridge I am, and that was the little bit of good I could do yesterday. It wasn't much, but it was something.

I have to be honest, I am panicking a little bit.

I don't have any great insight to offer, but - yeah, me too

I'm not sure how much this explains the Latino vote, but I heard some pundit yesterday make a halfway decent point about how a $1 increase hits harder when you live in a rural area where wages tend to be lower to begin with.

the garbage homeland

Puerto Rico is not garbage

I wonder how many of these are second generation immigrants. I'm very much generalizing here, but they can frequently be some of the most "fuck you got mine" people throughout history (like, a lot of Irish and Italian Americans second generations voted for all sorts of racist douchebags up and down the eastern seaboard in the 1960s-1990s, I think a similar thing happened with German Americans and Polish Americans in the Midwest).

I'm about to check out too

Please don't.

There are valid reasons to want to leave.

I don't disagree, but the reasons to stay are more compelling. You never know when you'll get to be the right person in the right place at the right time ~~who~~ to help someone else avoid some suffering they don't deserve, but you've gotta be here to do that.

If nothing else, procrastinate on it for a bit. You can always change your mind later.

e; typo

Acting like there will be an election (e.g. organizing and building political coalitions) will put us in a better position to deal with whatever else happens

I don't think you're wrong but I also have to add that I won't accept that we just can't run black women for offices for that reason

e; I should have read this thread further, it looks like other people are already discussing this