Not sure what one can do, but if you need a good distracting hobby I’ve heard FPV drone racing is quite a bit of fun.

Who exactly are “you people”?

Why doesn’t the same logic follow?

So in your worldview you can’t wear cotton unless you are in full support of chattel slavery?

What exactly is your point?

If it’s “you can’t critique society because you exist in it” that’s beyond stupid.

If it’s “smartphone are made in capitalist USA” that’s occasionally true, but statistically completely divorced from reality.

If it’s something else you are doing a terrible job of communicating it.

We do love deflecting, don’t we?

With the way American politics are at the moment I interpreted that as a “only the Republicans are the bad guys” and wanted to make it abundantly clear that is not the case.

My bad, thanks for catching that I was looking at 118th caucus not 119th. I thought I just misremembered which of those pesky other parties were part of which caucus.

To cRazi_man’s point there is some work that does needs to be done in order to ensure everyone has food, water, shelter, healthcare, free of poison, etc.

However the vast majority of human labor does not go towards those goals and is instead dedicated to who can get the highest score in ‘slave games’ while that necessary work is grossly undermanned.

It’s not “unlimited” but holy shit is there a lot of damage from the last ~200 years that needs to be undone. Learning and teaching people to rest is a very important one.

We can though, first time was the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 with funding being released in 2010. D president, D Senate, D house.

By 2012 it became obvious that the commitment lined out in the 2009 bill weren’t going to happen and a meek attempt to claw back the funds was made. D president, D Senate, R house.

2021 sees the access broadband act. D president, D Senate, D house.

By 2025 it became obvious that the commitment lined out in the 2021 bill weren’t going to happen. R president, D R Senate, R house.

The only constant is a Democratic Senat so clearly that’s the problem! Right?

Edit: wrong session for 2025 caucus. It’s all Rs there.

If you turn off the oven and it still catches on fire, that’s not a you problem, that’s a problem with the oven. No amount of turning the knob will make it safe.

Per my previous comment, reality disagrees with you.

We elected Carter and it got worse, we elected Clinton and it got worse, we elected Obama and it got worse, we elected Biden and it got worse.

The throughline is that we keep beating the greater evil and suffering the consequences of things getting worse as a result.

Aaaaand, you have no arguments to the contrary…

Let me simplify: iPhones are built and designed by, what you consider, Communists.

Android is capitalism appropriating the largely anarchist project of Linux. Which if capitalists had their way would’ve been strangled in its cradle.

The coal wars threatening to kick off a second civil war, y’know small things.

China produces ~65% of global smartphones. At worst US companies simply re-brand products from overseas OEMs, at best they’re using Chinese produced semiconductors and components to create original products.

The rest of the consumer electronics market is pretty similar. If you believe modern China is communist then they are “doom-scrolling on their communist-produced smartphones” through a communist produced network infrastructure which you are, most likely, reading through a communist-produced screen.

I would argue however that modern China largely split the difference between the USSR, which you are McCarthy-ing about, and the modern Russian Federation, which explicitly reformed into a liberal democracy with a capitalist market economy.

where did you get 1.98?

Public database of rich people spending money on disinformation tactics: https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview

That’s the exact opposite of the Democrat’s political ideology.

Where do you get that idea?

They did though, through the creation and expansion of the secure communities program.. It was attempted to be walked back via the PEP after Obama earned the “deporter in chief” moniker, but yes the DNC did, has and will continue to do so.

Their style is usually more “don’t make a scene” then “suns out, guns out” but the end result is ultimately the same.

How did you quantity that 10x times?

My best naïve estimate puts Democrats at 1.44-1.98x as corrupt.