People are in the most dire economic straits that I can remember. Nobody has any money and prices are going through the roof. What we're experiencing right now is worse than the Great Recession after the housing market collapsed and it's likely to get much worse very soon.

More than two years later and the US can't even rebuild a major bridge. They haven't even finished designing and budgeting for it yet. Wanna bet that China could get it done much quicker?

The number of repossessions is way up and people everywhere are trapped by auto debt. Insurance premiums are sky high. Meanwhile, other people can't even afford to buy old used cars because the prices have spiked to the moon. Something's gotta give.

Correction: RICH Americans are leaving. Most of us can't afford to escape this dying empire.

Yeah, I've seen this movie before.

Lucy and I still need $145 for rent by tomorrow! Could you please contribute a bit? 🙏 Any amount helps and will get us closer! 💜

Over the course of the last 60 years, every piece of public infrastructure has been dismantled, to the point that we're fully dependent on private, for-profit corporations to do anything. The government just dishes out money to corporations to do things, because it can't do anything itself anymore.

This is what happens when Nancy Pelosi's insider trading is so notorious that Wall Street started copying her moves because she was beating the S&P. Everyone refused to stop her. If you impeach Trump for insider trading and market manipulation, you'd need to go after all of Congress, too.

I don't understand who this stuff appeals to. I don't want to see military aircraft showing off. All this does is remind me that the military budget is massively inflated, and that this is footage of $120 million going up in flames. How many people could have been helped with that money instead?

I would never say he should be drawn and quartered for this. That's something I wouldn't say.

Shut it down. Pop the AI bubble.

If Japan does this, it would destroy the dollar, by the way.

Tech bros are so ridiculously out of touch.

Given that we're seeing these zoonotic viruses emerge as a result of our destroying the natural world and anthropogenic climate change, it's difficult not to see them as part of the planet's immune response designed to wipe out existential threats to its health and safety.

Passed by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote in Congress and shepherded by the liberals members of the Epstein class. Dems are just as responsible for NCLB and dismantling education as the Republicans.

Andes Hantavirus presumptive positive in B.C. as per our PHO today We aren't ready for this

Why even have a ceasefire if it means that Israel will keep attacking and you have no ability to fight back? 2,400 ceasefire violations by Israel means that there hasn't actually been an active ceasefire.

Liberals really need to reckon with the fact that a majority of the country voted for who they perceived to be a lesser evil in 2024, and it wasn't their candidate. Most people were suffering so much under Biden-Harris that they went with a president that they already knew would be terrible.

Can we please just have a functioning postal service instead? We don't need Walmart and Amazon to turn into the USPS.

I don't know how anyone that understands this still supports the Dems in any way and expresses any hesitation about the need to tear this entire system down. The longer we delay, the worse things are going to get. The crises of late capitalism are intensifying.

I have bad news for those of you that think the NYT interviews anti-establishment voices that don't already hold power. This guy is such an obvious bullshit artist. His aesthetic and rhetoric are purely performative.

"The US is the world’s biggest producer of oil and natural gas [...] But unlike many other big oil producers the US does not have a state-owned oil company. [...] Big oil companies are receiving the large majority of this extra revenue. So far, there is little sign they will reinvest those proceeds"

We're about to experience an unprecedented energy crisis.

LOL "They found that grinding work reduces an agent’s stated faith in the system. It also apparently really got Claude worked up, as it was reportedly the only agent of the three to start stating support for redistribution and labor unions and offering critiques of inequality."

The American century of humiliation

How long until the West Coast becomes uninhabitable?

If you think this is bad, imagine what’s it’s going to be like in another 20 years…

There are always just enough Dems to help the Republicans implement their right wing agenda. Conversely, Dems always end up a couple of votes short when it comes to passing legislation that would help ordinary people. It’s almost like all of this is a rigged, scripted game… 🤔

All the ridiculous posts I see from liberals and centrists really affirm the idea that everyone is the hero of their own story, regardless of how villainous they actually are.

Wall Street is desperately trying to convince itself that this time is different.

People are in complete denial about how bad the jet fuel shortage is going to get. What happens when air travel and commerce grinds to a halt because there's no fuel left?

So what's the plan after a bunch of DemSocs get into elected office and they deliver crumbs, ushering in a kinder, gentler version of capitalism? Keep cheering? Vote harder? Pretend that all of our problems no longer exist?

So Trump took a bunch of CEOs and this creep to China with him? The Epstein class, indeed.

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LOL

Consumerism is going to be the death of us all.

Literally Blue MAGA.

Buckle up. We've barely begun to see the real effects of Trump's illegal war with Iran yet. This is nothing compared to the pain we're all going to be experiencing by the summer.

I'm sure this will end well...

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Of course this news would generate a ton of casual racism and xenophobia in the US.

The president that botched COVID is in the process of botching the response to hantavirus. Our last president botched the response to monkeypox and bird flu. It’s a miracle that we’re not all dead yet. Public health no longer exists in the US.

i don't think it works like that

Yet if Rahm somehow made it out of the primary and got the nomination, every Dem and “leftist” would vote for him, because they have zero standards and still approach elections with a trolley problem mindset. Then they wonder why everything keeps getting worse and fascism is ascendant.

In case you’re wondering who’s actually in charge of the country.

Because of capitalism, that's why. Seeking to profit from the next round of mass death and misery.

This isn't new. This has been the reality for many since at least 2022. It's how we ended up with Trump 2.0. 10% of the population accounts for nearly half of all consumer spending. This level of economic inequality is unsustainable.

What happened during the last Roaring 20s? 🤔

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