They’re gerrymanding congress, not your local city council

Taking control of a local government via an election remains doable for a modestly sized and motivated group. You can change things

It can with local support.

The outcome of that is less availability of groceries, long treks to buy food, and higher prices.

What’s actually needed is a unionized competitor

Sure… but you need to do it in a way that keeps them listening

Yeah. Breaking that was what the New Deal was about; it shifted wealth away from the robber barons and created a generation of broadly if imperfectly shared prosperity

Also: if you’re a white-looking US citizen buttonhole them and tell a very very long and pointless story. The more time they spend listening to you, the less harm they can do.

The racism and dictatorship were the important promises. The rest was just for suckers

I strongly recommend getting a fitting and spending some time riding with a local club. The former makes sure you’re comfortable, the latter can familiarize you with riding on roads and get you into better shape

This is very very different from anything the US has had since McCarthy

Pretty much anything more complex than a bicycle has that effect

With Flock and the airline data sales, its very difficult to protect offline privacy

The cuts already happened already. He is as-yet-undiagnosed

I think that’s a fairly small part of it. There were two big things that happened:

1. Scientists were able to show that the HPV vaccine prevents cervical cancer. This gets rid of the treatment/cure payment thing entirely.
2. Air pollution turned out to be a lot more harmful than people realized, which means that there’s a much stronger reason to get rid of combustion as a routine thing that happens, and Trump’s bribe-payers would be out a really huge amount of money if that happened.

To be fair, they’re also talking about lethal injection for unfavored groups

Its ok, they were born, so they must have sinned, and are therefore going to hell and not worthy of being cured. /s

Thats the Republican plan, more or less

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Billionaires and Presidents can very easily surround themselves with people who tell them what they want to hear.

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