Allonzee

If it makes you feel better, everything was already ruined.

The best case scenario was continued crony capitalist dystopic hellscape with the poor's lives being burned up in subservient subsistence to our modern pharoah oligarch class... but you know with identity affirming ribbons and pins and stuff.

Now we get all the oligarch stuff with... concentration camps and death squads and stuff.

Either way, the owners win, they don't care. Their mistresses will always have abortion on tap, their nepo children will always have their identities affirmed, elections are simply for the poors to either inflict supplimental cruelty on other poors or not to give us the illusion of choice and keep us hating one another instead of looking up at our owners.

This country was ruined irreparably in the 1980s, a few Tuesdays ago was just a reminder of that reality.

That song is in my toddler's music rotation.

Humans didn't evolve until about 300,000 years ago. Humans didn't exist 900,000 years ago.

If we did, it would make us even dumber, since we already spent about 280k years in the dirt before we considered growing food ourselves in one place.

Congratulations, you bucked the overwhelming norm. People who make it to Congress, with the exception of spoilers, have proven to their respective parties through state elections that they love money, don't get bored of getting moar money, and know how to get it. That's how you get promoted in the parties. It's all they care about.

Because our values are so far beyond fucked it's almost funny in an absurdist humor kind of way.

They'll be fine. They're rich kids.

I'm far more worried about the kids their dad voted to cut yet more public ed funds for ( because the ruins of public ed we've already defunded to cut people like Sandler's taxes are clearly still too bloated for Adam to want to pay into despite Happy Madison enjoying a preliterate workforce that profits from that) and voted to deport the parents of.

You know, the kids without the means to defend themselves from what Adam Sandler voted to do to them.

Americans love coming to the rescue of the small class of people who have far too much to help themselves with, meanwhile, at your nearest tent city where your fellow Americans and more importantly human beings we've failed are literally dying of exposure right now... crickets

Are you American?

I only ask because Americans are trained from birth to know (through for profit media and oligarch captured public education) that money is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end, and the very meaning of existence and life itself as its own end.

It's why we're a bunch of rugged individuals competing against one another for oligarch scraps and not a society. It's the wedge that informs all others to keep their exploited capital batteries at war with each other instead of looking up at the greedy bastards running up their ego scores by burning us.

I don't know why anyone likes neoliberals.

She's a model one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/16/nancy-pelosi-federal-lawmakers-should-be-able-to-trade-stock.html

I vote blue with my nose held as always for harm reduction, but neoliberals like Pelosi are why so many actual leftwing people that want a society walked away, they have no party that isnt enthusiastically part of the root problem of maintaining crony market capitalism at society's catastrophic expense.

There are millions of Americans that desperately need and deserve respect and empathy, and receive none. Adam Sandler isn't one of them.

He's an obscenely rich douchebag who voted for Trump despite having all the means to know all the people it would hurt, including children that conveniently aren't his.

Most prisoners on earth, homeless populations being harassed in every population center by our law enforcement with literally nowhere else to go to die of exposure in our name, but the Sandman doesn't like to have his picture taken at dinner despite having sought out celebrity and having been handsomely rewarded for it, jfc.

Imagine thinking wealthy republicans need to be harassed even less.

You answered your own question.

In a nation where money decides election wins, you've already completely lost. There is no longer a way to make a society here that focuses on the wellbeing of the citizenry as long as the correct framework remade to prohibit it exists. .

The best we can hope for, if literally anyone gave shit one about there being a future here, is painful but necessary collapse, this system is completely corrupted and cannot be repaired. To not see this just makes one blind. The owners use the media they own for exclusive private benefit to divide the populace and maintain perpetual control.

I voted for Harris out of harm reduction to attempt to mitigate some cruelty, but not with hope. Rejecting Reagan was our last chance, and we utterly failed, now the corruption is baked in generationally.

The DNC is fine with Republicans being in power. Neoliberals and Fascists agree on the most important thing: Economic growth for the owners comes first, then they bicker about how to or if to address the social issue symptoms of that crony market capitalist economy for 4 years.

Neither party would be so civil if a democratic socialist administration or better was about to take power. That would be a bipartisan emergency both sides would use every second to undermine before the fact.

Don't worry though, neither of our two power sharing parties that matter would ever let that get close to occurring. The DNC/RNC would have too much to lose. They need eachother to point at when the owners need to turn the screws on their exploitation livestock while convincing many of them that their party tried to stop it.