I have. I called them the good cops. They would never dare to bend the law like the Republicans do. But that doesn’t matter, because it’s only a role they play. They leave the room when it’s time for the dark stuff. A really good person would never allow the bad cop to bend the law.

False dichometry. Democrats did everything to hand over power to the Republicans. It’s a good cop bad cop, one party situation.

People have to organise on their own and make sure that good people are in power.

Same bewilderment as adherents to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism express for the behavior of Democrats.

Only that we have republics and not democracies.

Every country is cleaning their streets off homeless people before a world cup or olympic games. The US is just a bit more generous with their definition of homelessness. Everything will be fine when the tourists arrive.

/s

It could be deeper. Some people argue that the Fifa investigation that made Blatter resign were triggered by the US in retaliation for giving Russia the world cup before the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup (not a proof of my statement)

Worse than spying - manipulating politics and social cohesion.

Which could also be manipulation. Young TikTok watchers are only a fraction of the voters. The change in outcome could mainly be driven by excluding the right-wing candidate from the second election.

I believe that there is a stranglehold in information warfare. But without any supporting reasoning I don’t understand why the motivation for that warfare should come from Neo-Confederates. I would rather believe that that explanation is a distraction and part of the warfare.

pillaging of the ruins

That’s not recurring revenue. They must know that Russia and China will take their lunch money if they let the US disintegrate.

which implemented extraordinarily severe social restrictions, even though it failed to contain the disease

People have suggested that it was used to crush the Shanghai opposition.

The author is very confident in his own assumptions about the motivation for decisions.

it is the stranglehold in information warfare that prevents Americans from living in a shared reality

So where is the connection to neoconfederates?

Neo-Confederates are groups and individuals who portray the Confederate States of America and its actions during the American Civil War in a positive light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Confederates

What’s the deal for the billionaires that they let somebody else own the president?

Why would the neoconfederates also win in the north? I would assume that not everything can be attributed to people from the south.

In 2000, for instance, the US Census Bureau found that residential segregation has on average declined since 1980 in the West and South, but less so in the Northeast and Midwest.[116] Indeed, the top ten most segregated cities are in the Rust Belt, where total populations have declined in the last few decades.

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

The Nuremberg trials were international criminal trials held by France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States against leaders of defeated Nazi Germany

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

This avoided the trial of almost everybody else.

Looking at history, it’s equally ridiculous in real life. People do meaningless jobs, are a dead soldier or have no jobs at all because their boss wanted a boat or they live on land that happens to have oil or is of strategic importance.

It takes a lot more exercize to burn food off than people think, especially to burn fat off.

It’s not necessarily the intensity but the duration. The exercise must be long enough that fat is metabolized.

Depending on several factors, there can be a 10–20 min period of time after the onset of exercise until fat metabolism can catch up with carbohydrate metabolism.

https://pressbooks.calstate.edu/nutritionandfitness/chapter/8-5-exercise-intensity-and-fuel-use/

It’s not just that they don’t know. They’re willfully ignorant. People have some kind of consumer brainrot.

The same media is sent to all people in the west. The US is just some years ahead.

So, how can it be prevented?

Please learn about the new food pyramid. /s

That more equitable system doesn’t come from nothing. Without preparation it will be like the end of the Roman empire, when local warlords, called knights, were organising the retirement plans for the peasants.