ITT people confuse the mathematical limits of consolidating currency with the actual unbounded consolidation of power.

No, the rich don't care about the health of the economy. Yes, they will run out of money that can be directly siphoned from your consumer pockets. That's just the beginning of the real endgame.

Short on rent money? I'll be happy to write off your rents in perpetuity if you sign this contract granting rights to your organs upon death. Can't afford clothes? A lifetime agreed employment spent sorting trash will keep you in free, durable work clothes. Can't afford to raise your kids? We'll give you a sweet deal to cover necessities and they can pay it back later. Muggers and thieves got you down? Come sign on to our secure company commune!

These are the exact conditions that historically lead to feudal systems. People didn't abandon their homesteads and independence to become serfs voluntarily. It was always out of necessity.

1. Apparently we can't disagree if your comments are anything to go by, regardless of how much reading we do
2. Calling your highly touted T h e o r y a science is laughable. It's descriptive philosophy and as such has no predictive/prescriptive value

There's a reason you have to call it theory and why that theory gets bent like a pretzel whenever something runs counter to it. It must be correct because at its core it's theology for the disillusioned. The material conditions weren't right bro, trust me bro, just one more vanguard party bro, we're gonna be stateless I promise, just need a little more critical support for these fascists bro...

Getting elected isn't the problem, it's being hamstrung by preemptively antagonizing a police force that's a major power bloc in your city. He won't be able to walk in day 1 and purge corruption from a massive, violent, broken institution.

Is there any easy way to migrate from lemmy to piefed? Would rather spend my time and donations on sane devs working to improve their platform instead of curating their own personal propoganda fiefdom.

This is the issue. They never give actual criticism of the reporting or the reporters or go into any depth on the bias. By being an English language outlet not based in Russia/China they are, ipso facto, a lying tabloid rag. It's an absurd cyclical logic.

Me knowing that you can't because windows already bricked my SSD

If you poll on actual policy and don't couch it in ideology or partisan framing, the vast majority of people agree. From basic economic policy to abortion access to housing regulations to climate action, ~70% or more are in agreement. And keep in mind this is with a constant media barrage promoting division.

In a better system we wouldn't be bound to just D and R. It would be something to more accurately represent the nuances of the voter (probably an evolution of the coalition systems in newer Democracies). You end up those popular policies as the core of governance with the outer fringe policies on the political curve getting less sway. Compromise is a part of any system of governance except maybe despotism.

But the Constitution did set the country up for states to be like their own nations

Yes and when the Constitution was written they were basically 13 semi-sovereign states who were such nascent politicians that they couldn't imagine a government without a king (just renamed president). The constitution should have been entirely reworked after the Civil War and probably needed more major revisions as the population, topography and demographics of the nation changed.

The state of our federal administration is fucked because the constitution is fundamentally flawed. If it was written for a modern world, the federal government would have the foundation to weather this assault and possibly the teeth to nip the rot in the bud. At the very least it wouldn't be so rigid that people like you feel the need to cling to a centuries old piece of paper as infallible.

Using a maliciously broken system as self evidence for its abandonment and prohibition is absurd. There's nothing inherently more oppressive or evil about a federal government than a smaller state government. If you're not considering a restructure to address the root flaws then you're just whinging over which boot you'd prefer to kick in your door.

Sounds like a good idea until you have a soup of 50 sovereign states who still don't agree but are now completely wide open to international power plays and local violence. The people only have "different visions" because the rich are best served by having us divided. Caving to that pressure only makes us more vulnerable to their neo-feudal ambitions.

A lot of people don't understand that Catholicism is secretly 10 different denominations in a trench coat. It's overdue for another schism; the more progressive end keeps pushing for changes to bring back lapsed/excluded members while the reactionary right keeps ramping up resistance.

You can see in the clip he checks his left hand with a lift but can't match it with his right hand. Similarly, he conspicuously doesn't move his right hand in his most recent recorded speech.

Connecting the dots between this video and his droopy public appearance yesterday: he's clearly recovering from stroke-type symptoms, probably a TIA.

Notice the persistent rightward tilt of his head and that he only moves his left hand. The uncanny mouth movements people have pointed out are probably an AI touch up to correct his facial droop. They basically propped him up for this video and kept him out of the spotlight during yesterday's public appearance.

My money is that he's projected to recover (they wouldn't be able to hide a paralyzed president forever) but it's another mark against his health claims. If it was a TIA it could be foreshadowing The Big One

About 1 in 3 people who has a TIA will eventually have a stroke, with about half occurring within a year after the TIA.