the means of returning to power - would be absent.

Unless the randomized reps decide they like their newfound power, and change the rules to allow them to maintain/extend/return to power.

Bribes would be a concern, so good pay and anti-corruption mechanicms would still be required.

Direct bribes are only part of the problem. Corporations would still do the things they’re doing now, where they bribe politicians with cushy jobs once they leave their government positions. Good pay on the job while at the government doesn’t stop that.

Randomized representatives can still be propagandized, bribed, and have hunger for power.

Let’s play a game! Which of these quotes are Trump’s, and which are Hitler’s?

1. “Jews and migrants are poisoning Aryan blood,”

2. “They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done,”

3. “I will get rid of the communist vermin”

4. “They’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia, over the world. They’re pouring into our country.”

5. “I will take care of the enemy within”

6. “We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”

7. “One people, one realm, one leader.”

Here is the answer key: Every other one is a Hitler quote, starting with the first one. And yet, these quotes are in significant overlap. We shouldn’t have a president who is taking a page out of Hitler’s book.

Tack on the attempts to maintain high/high quality amenities in sparsely populated, low tax revenue areas, and you have a nice fat deficit for your small town compounding that problem.

Ah yes, one more country being puppeted by Russia, a country infamous for it’s corruption, will decrease corruption. /s

On the other hand, look at how easy it was for Trump to completely hijack the GOP. That’s the model you should aim for.

That’s what I’ve been saying for a while now.

“true capitalism” or some shit

Disparage actual capitalism for not being capitalist enough, and do an Indiana Jones hot swap for the actual end goal of worker ownership.

Has the same vibes as homelander forcing the deep to eat the octopus.

A potentially good option if you’re on Android is putting it in your secure folder. It’s basically just a sub directory for all your files, notes, and pictures, but it an encrypted form.

So if you’re technical enough to understand jow to enter a password (most people), then you have an easy to use option. Just don’t forget your password, and don’t set it to something easy to crack. It’s the same rules for any other password.

I’m sure there are similar options for windows/mac/ios

But if you’re a more technical user, by all means it is in your interest to encrypt the whole thing.

https://lemmy.world/post/21961202

Absolute worst case you could always keep track of it as a raw text/markdown/excel/Libre calc/whatever your preference is. You’re not going to get any predictions or useful data out.

But it would at least provide a record for your doctor if need be. And as long as you encrypt the device you store it on, or the directory its stored in, it’s relatively safe to do so.

I briefly saw this meme on my dad’s phone while he was browsing facebook. He’s a right wing Trump voter.

So take from that what you will.

Yeah. It’s gonna be a shit show.

Nobody will step up, because manufacturing electronics like this is incredibly expensive, and any new president in 2028 could instantly drop Trump’s dumb ass tariffs.

So you’d be going into an expensive, already risky business, with an even bigger risk that one day the competition suddenly drops their prices by ~40% due to a drop in tariffs. Nobody’s gonna take that risk.

And even if somebody successfully did take on that risk, they’d charge just under the price of the electronics that have the tariffs baked into the price, so congrats, no matter what we’d esentially be paying a ~40% markup on electronics, and that’s before accounting for all the businesses that raise prices even further than the tariffs to account for the drop in demand, and supply chain halt.

Christmas is a losing battle for a consumer side strike. We gotta pick our battles, and that ain’t one of them. Pretty much any other time of the year would be fine, because for the most part people would only be personally sacrificing consuming things for themselves.

This is probably the only way a general strike in the U.S. would ever work. Employers are draconian, and nobody wants to be the first to risk their neck at their workplace for a normal strike.

The problem is organization, and keeping everybody to it for more than just a few days.

Probably because the boy scouts no longer fits their narrative of “women bad”.

They’re operating under a lot of propaganda, and no understanding of economics. They’re ignorant of the fact that Trump inherited the economy that Obama fixed, which is why at the time under Trump things were better. They’re ignorant of the fact that Trump fucked everything up with his handling of the pandemic, previous tarrifs, and in turn fucked the economy up on the way out. They’re ignorant that Biden was trying to clean up Trump’s mess, and instead assign blame to Biden.

And every after all that, there is still the added fact that the president doesn’t directly control the economy, and has limited options. But that doesn’t matter to them. They’ve been sold a simple solution to a complicated problem.

It would take more than a couple. Trump is terrible on his own, but he isn’t the sole problem, he’s largely just a symptom of the bigger problem.

I wonder what universalmonk is doing now. Probably spending their big fat new commission/check.

He of all people has earned a retirement, but I’m still thankful that he’ll be around to add a voice of sanity.