Barter was very rare in pre market economies. People weren’t trading potatoes for furniture.

You would barter with people you never expected to see again. People you lived with you would owe them one.

Iron age is plausible. Or the axial. Those were agrarian based economies. Some books would survive and preserve some knowledge.

Humans will survive short of something on the level of soil collapse.

Not many, but some.

I’m glad something is destroying capitalism.

Wish we didn’t pick “the hard way” but here we are.

Those three states would more than double the population of Canada and overwhelm their political system. I wouldn’t do that if I were them.

Some of us are. No idea how many. We are separated into news bubbles.

Republicans struggle to win governor in Kentucky and Dems struggle to win anything else.

Is it worse than the first term?

Yes. Trump didn’t think he would win the first time. He had no plan for what do do if he won, so he leaned hard on institutional knowledge of party stalwarts and military people, along with a few trusted insiders from his campaign, but they didn’t know how Washington worked.

This time hard core ideologues from the Heritage foundation were ready. They are tired of democracy and limits on the power of wealth so they are dismantling it with project 2025.

Why are legal people being kicked out?

Trump has only a few actual policies he cares about and one is to stop brown people from imigrating to live in America. This is also a test case of his own power. Because if he can disappear green card holders without due process he can also get rid of citizens that are a threat to his power.

He is getting ready for a night of long knives and a krystalnaght.

When is it time to consider leaving?

Depends. If you are an anti Israel green card holder with a history of organizing college campus protests you should probably pack your bags and make your way to the nearest airport.

If you are a citizen or permanent resident you have to make a judgement about what you are giving up, where you can go, and how likely we are to go full 3rd Reich.

I will say that if we declare war on Canada or Mexico, you should probably make your way to the other one unless you want to stay and fight it out.

Calling it now, Fetterman is going to switch parties.

Maybe not soon, but someday.

Seniors could be dying of hunger on state capitol steps and they would be saying “it’s just a few bodies, they were old anyway”

Yeah all 50 states is crazy. New York and Cali have enough people to get a protest going at the drop of a pin.

Texas has Austin, you get protests there. East coast cities, Chicago, you can get protests.

But there are dozens of states that just don’t have that kind of energy or population density, but they do now.

There have been dozens.

They need to understand that they are fighting for the country. And when they don’t treat the Republicans and billionaires as the enemy they deprive us of the power to fight at the ballot box.

So we have to go to the soapbox. Like lemmy.

And when that fails, many of us (not me) will find they have nothing else to lose and go to the ammo box, like mangione is accused of.

And the rest of us will go to the jury box and vote not guilty.

I hate puns, and I hate dad jokes.

But this,

This is poetry.

Logical enough. I did nearly the same thing.

Hooked up with a couple. Was more attracted to the girlfriend even though boyfriend was more enthusiastic and attentive in bed.

I’m lesbian.

Is that a joke?

Ah, I am not educated on their current status. Only their actions in the 1980’s.

His treatment caused about . 02% of the support for him.

United Heaths treatment of the rest of us caused the rest.

Some new asshole I have no doubt. Are you giving me a magic wand? The powers of a dictator? How broad can I make the changes for this fully functional society you are implicitly asking me to dream up on Lemmy?

I’m just one person. We have a whole as society to figure that stuff out.

They were elected after they murdered the opposition.

Would you vote against the guys that would rape your wife and kids while you watch and then lock you all in a burning building?

The guys that have the support of the US government and the CIA?