It’s not just the US, it’s been happening for years in other countries like the UK as well.

Traditionally there has been one party that is for working people and another for capital and the owner class.

The right has been getting further and further into far right authoritarianism. That posed a problem for the Dems going back to the Clinton Presidency: do they stick with being the party of working people or do they try to have their cake and eat it by tacking to the center and assuming that the working class will continue to vote for them no matter what?

It largely worked for a time and gave Obama two terms but ever since then they have been susceptible to criticism that they’re out of touch, elitists, entitled, and that they look down their nose at working people whilst still assuming that they will get their vote, which opened the door to Republicans.

You can’t serve two masters for very long, you can’t be the party of working people while being run by upper middle class graduates. You can’t claim to care about the people with the least while cozying up to CEOs and megadonors. Sooner or later it all falls apart, as it did with Hillary Clinton’s run, where working people disliked her elitism and she didn’t have enough support from elsewhere to make up the shortfall. That should’ve been a warning. Instead they doubled down.

The problem in the US is that there are only two viable parties. The Dems won’t go back to being the party of working people because they wouldn’t know how to do that even if they wanted to. What happens when the Trump Presidency turns out to be a disaster?

See, this is why I rent.

Numbers are so 1940’s, I thought they might have moved to QR codes by now.

And then actually shooting something into the sun is harder than just blasting it out of the solar system.

This is fun to play with: https://trinket.io/embed/glowscript/6642756b52?toggleCode=true&start=result

Let me go get my Planck length sized violin.

I can’t recommend pfSense enough.

The IDF just murdered your family, razed your house, and torched your crops. You are now homeless and alone, you can’t travel and you’re broke. What is your next course of action?

I can’t reconcile

Israel has slowly settled additional territory

with

There is no excuse for terrorism

The IDF is stealing land, making people homeless, burning crops, murdering Palestinians, and so on.

What is an appropriate response in your view?

What tipped you off?

Of course not.

“He was later given the nickname “The Teflon Don” after three high-profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals …”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gotti

The original Teflon Don was John Gotti.

He died in jail.

He helped out with Withnail & I too.

I’m not sure if it’s what you’re looking for but I use Infuse on the ATV for the times the Plex client can’t play a file, usually because it’s DV format.

Neither of those things are true.

Do I need to ELI5 for you?

Yes please. Spell it out, why would I be a witness and why would an incomplete recollection of me being seven years old, several decades ago result in me being called to testify?

You aren’t making sense.

Of course. I hope you’re in a good place now.

How so? If you have a point to make here, please go right ahead.

I don’t follow?

Blocking you now. Your approach to this discussion has been embarrassing.