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Of course. Once a billionaire gains his their first billion, they already day

Hey we got our first illegal immigrant president, if that ain't woke I don't know what is.

I've not really cared about Star Wars since the prequels came out. I'm not saying the original trilogy was full of hidden meaning but the kind of boring tonal mess of the prequels followed by the cardboard caricatures that populate the final trilogy were kind of the last straw for me and the spinoffs didn't really do much better. I tried watching some of those spinoff movies and shows but they all feel boring and repetitive. Kind of like Marvel.

That said, I'm probably just not the target audience any more. And that's fine.

I will say I had fun with the Mandalorian the first season or two, but mostly because I like Pedro Pascal.

First, while 10 or 13 million is of course enough to be considered very rich, if every guy with 10+ million got to decide national policy it wouldn't be much of an oligarchy. "The 1%" is a catchy soundbite but in reality it's more like the 0.01% that's the problem.

Second, even if that were the case, an advocate for the people is an advocate for the people. Bernie Sanders isn't poor but he's one of the most dedicated and effective advocates for the working class there is. You can be well off and still be working for the betterment of your fellow citizens. You probably can't be a billionaire and still credibly fight for more equality though. Gets tough to explain hoarding that kind of wealth.

Can we still call the GOP conservative at this point? Trump is just putting random billionaires in charge and advocating for an unlimited debt ceiling to throw more good money after bad. What happened to fiscal responsibility? Last time he was president he raised the national debt more than any other president since Reagan just for more tax breaks for the wealthy. How is any of this still "conservative"?

Ain't democracy grand? We can sit on our asses, put a ballot in a box every 4 years and if it doesn't go our way we can just pretend nothing that happens is our fault.

If it hurts you that much take action. Do what AOC did. Get involved. Doomerism is trump's biggest ally.

Democrats aiming to lose what little support they have left.

I think we have more than enough soap boxes already. Preaching at people doesn't work. And violent revolution tends to put the next dictator in charge in the end. The biggest problem we have is the media both foreign and domestic benefits from playing us against each other. And we gleefully jump into their little game. Yes "the right" is worse but "the left" these days doesn't do that much better. Kamela's whole bid for presidency was "Trump is bad" She's not wrong it's just not a platform.

Speak to whoever you can, your neighbors and family whoever needs it. Speak with patience and compassion, don't fall into the "orange man bad" trap, you'll just end up in a rage cycle. Talk about the actual underlying issues. Find local ways to address them. Build from there. Bernie is 100% right, the only way out is through the grass roots. If we give up on that then the future is nothing but violence for them and violence for us.

Oh and stop the endless doomerism. It's another peasant trap that the powers that be adore.

Yeah there's no way he can come out and publicly condone murder of course. Good old Bernie is right as well. Without political backing murder won't actually improve things, no matter how cathartic the moment was.

Typical girlboss character. In the books all she did was bake cookies for Geralt and now she has a sword of course.

Yeah that's exactly what I said. Well done.