I think Maxwell ground coffee has a lot of additives that are not coffee. Even if I am wrong, because I never heard of proof of that. Ground coffee in the USA is allowed things like a max percentage of ground up bugs. And because Maxwell buys coffee as cheaply as it can, one gets extra pesticides.

I buy whole beans

Maybe they could double up on the theme and have loft, efficiency, 1 and 2 bedrooms.

The loft size could allow people to buy coffee once a month , given how coffee cost will increase tenfold soon

In states that do not use counting methods approved by the United Nations, voting provides legitimacy to ongoing multi-decade scams.

If the vote counting is illegitimate, should one vote for the better candidate anyway? This is an intensely debated thing over history in many countries.

Solving that, then voting is like you describe.

There are many layers to just how wrong voting is in the USA. And many of these scams, and the toleration of them, definitely affects reforms in unrelated areas other than the direct elections

Like many things in life, it gets complicated based on where you are at, what you believe, and personality.

If it’s important to you, then vote.

If you feel like your vote counts, vote.

If it is a small town election and the ballots are counted by people in the town, then vote.

For everything else, it’s shades of gray

I thought it was a spoof, satire!

But it’s reported in the billionaire press

I’ve think voting in the USA is a faith driven social event, mixed with a mentality of watching sports.

It’s like a purification ritual , and is a descendant of the big tent Christian rivivals seen in the 1800s.

“Have you been saved” and “have you voted” are inflected the same ways in speech patterns.

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Job reports from the government are on shaky ground, not only because of the shutdown but because of misinformation the previous months.

I expect in the future most job stats will also be from non governmental orgs

In my area of rural east Texas a lot of the people who participate in 911 responses are volunteers from all walks of life.

For example the call can be passed to the volunteer fire department who will stay on the phone. It’s not inconceivable some are in lemmy

The smoking gun quote came from Trump’s phone interview with NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor:

“I spoke to the governor, she was very nice,” Trump said. “But I said, ‘Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different.’ They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place…it looks like terrible.”

This is an absolutely nuclear quote.

But note that we linked to the local KGW affiliate report on it and not NBC’s. And that’s because NBC didn’t even mention the quote at all in its own coverage. As Dan Froomkin highlighted in his article about all this, NBC ran two stories by Alcindor (with Alexandra Marquez) about her interview with Trump, neither of which mentioned that bombshell of a quote.

Instead, it was only because NBC apparently sent the full transcript to affiliates that Evan Watson at KGW picked it up and ran a story about it.

But that raises a ton of questions, including how could NBC and Alcindor not see this as a story? And what is wrong with the mainstream media that it basically skipped over this? The quote is devastating. It reveals a president who is either completely detached from reality, easily manipulated by advisors feeding him false information, or being deliberately deceived by old Fox News footage (as we now know was happening). It raises fundamental questions about who is actually running the country and whether the person with access to nuclear codes can distinguish between television clips from five years ago and reality. As we detailed yesterday, this quote reveals everything about how Trump ended up threatening military action against an American city based on five-year-old Fox News b-roll.

NBC’s failure to see the story in this is journalistic malpractice of the highest order. When the President admits he can’t tell the difference between Fox News b-roll and reality, that’s not a throwaway line—it’s the story.

An unexpected breakthrough will make many people wealthier if they have advanced knowledge of when

This has reinforced my beliefs that half of all political disputes online is word definitions

But the old rules do not apply, and that’s important to recognise.

Maybe. People do not change that much; power structures change slower. For me it’s hard to tell what is happening.

The bottom line is that the US is an oligarchy, and has just handed the keys to actual, real fascists.

I don’t know if much has changed, my family is from the old Deep South, where blacks were not allowed in town after sundown or they were shot. Lots of what was common three generations ago would be front page news today.

That, and given how the average worker has suffered even today. These things we call fascism are not that impressive to me. Not yet.

I don’t know, this is getting beyond my knowledge about how things work.

But if I would hazard a guess ( and I’m an engineer not an economist) I would think a lot of this new huge wealth is imaginary and not tied to real world power, it’s not land or control over people so much as prices of paper. So I think the oligarchs who own literally millions of lands have more say. This may come back to bite me.

I think for now the old rules still apply. Later as tech increases this may change

Liberals == moderates, not followers of human rights

Same people as King described 50 years ago

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice

If most wealth is in the hands of 100k families and the following years do not cause them to loose their money or lives. Then I think most will not care much how the map is drawn

Lots of new things will happen

America’s true masters is a very complicated web between the top two thousand families or so. I’m not sure if I have the knowledge to follow the discussion if something so off script happened by a minor part of that oligarchy.

I think the ultimate fate would be decided by the maths of projected loss or profits, by a significant part of those families.

Perhaps enough would make more money if the elections were cancelled . In my imagination I don’t see how though, but it will not be the first time I lacked imagination .

However if the elections are cancelled that means more people would listen to the revolutionaries. I think if no elections then perhaps a small chance for socialism, but things would have to get very bad economically. Much worse than now.

It may be best if the elections canceled and the economy became worse. Which is why I think not going to be allowed

The anti Trump forces saw their power, revelled in it, and called it a day. It will not be applied to other companies.

It’s like the nationwide protests

Elections will not be suspended because the results have been fraudulently skewed in many areas for so long that the ultra wealthy are making bank between the good dems and bad gop playing good cop, bad cop.

If there is one rule in American politics it is that the pumping of wealth from the lower classes to the upper classes will not be interrupted.

Trump is currently in center stage, but he is not in control, and his team knows it even if he is getting senile.

To extract the most wealth the democrats must come to power between the gop banditry. So this is why not only the democrats will be allowed to win next year, they will secure the presidency in two years.

Most people think now is bad, but the next cycle of the gop winning again in the 2030s will be hellish

I think one needs to define liberal here; as noted elsewhere what is one persons liberal is not seen as liberal by others. Especially when reading an essay in a non American paper.