Alex

Training is short so they make sure to make it count, they don’t see what they’re doing as a profession necessitating years of training like other professions unfortunately.

It’s a good thing to keep in mind but it’s a different culture, right now they can’t decide if torture and rape of prisoners is okay.

Whenever you find yourself thinking about “how to get rid of the others”, you’ve already taken a wrong turn somewhere like this.

Shit legislation with lack of price-negotiation through collective bargaining, is the main issue, costs land at the individual enduser in the end. They could’ve likely gotten half the money and save the twins but instead they’ll get none with that pricetag calculated from putting a number to the value of a human life - that makes most insurers pull out the fineprint and drop coverage overnight…

Given the size of Barry I think it’s safe to assume he detests it.

Isn’t this why you have the VP running mates? You vote for them just as much.

It’s hard to convince people to bother and to care or participate when a bunch of rich aristocrats run the circus, everything from the news to the courts have been corrupted to the point where money and power have practically become synonymous words and now democracy is on the line - so if they want things to change now’s the last chance to make a difference.

A lot of the problems boil down to FPTP-voting and the current way political campaigns are financed. They result in this polarized deadwater where money and power practically become synonymous words wielded to keep anything from changing via journalism and the courts on this matter. It’s exactly as intended by the old roman aristocrats that designed it over 2 millenia ago to maintain influence regardless of voter outcomes.

Scared into submission while getting squeezed out of every cent.

They just repeat what their donors tell them to keep their campaigns funded. They want less regulations or nothing changed because change is scary.

They moved on from experimental democracy with FPTP to better forms of representation that isn’t so easily manipulated by the rich.

The outcome of FPTP-voting is naturally a two party system, the ancient wealthy romans designed it so deliberately in order for them to easily manipulate regardless of election outcomes to maintain their wealth and power. Everywhere it is used politics degenerate into voters being reduced to pick between “business as usual” and “tax cuts for the rich.” Wealthy donors play both horses and don’t really care about the outcome except when some progressive candidate appears and they find themselves forced to run some interference behind the scenes to help even the odds back to the usual bread and circus’ that they prefer.

The revolution is whenever people quit doing whatever the tv tells them and start unionizing/growing their network of relations to demand change.

As long as politicians appoint the judges they’ll be in their pocket to maintain their bright careers.

How streaming doesn’t count as broadcasting is a tad too convenient for the studio to not be a deliberate loophole. Even when the language is tested in court the lobbyism favors the deep pockets asking to split hairs clearly in bad faith.

Indeed. an impartial judge wouldn’t let studios split hairs over words like this but as long as they’re appointed by politicians, they will side with whoever has the deeper pockets, because that’s what’s required for a continuing bright career.