Now you can judge someone’s social status by whether they drive a luxury car, if they live in a mansion, or how many employees work for them. In a post-scarcity society, people who want high status have to earn it. By going down to unexplored planets themselves, the bridge crew get to claim any new discoveries as their own. People all over the galaxy will hear about who made first contact with a new civilization.

Remember that in a post-scarcity society, the currency is glory and prestige.

The catch is the courts say what is official and unofficial. A president could then remove Supreme Court members and replace them with ones who agree that such a removal is official and therefore legal.

Is it wrong to wish that Biden would immediately drone strike the justices that are in the majority for this decision?

Maybe they are dropping the first and last letters from MAGA.

“America Great!!!”

YOLO court strikes again

Holy fuck! As if Citizens United wasn’t bad enough. Our government is fully for sale now.

Most countries have a functional mental health system. The US does not. We fail on both accounts.

And the growing LGBT hate. And the potential revival of the Comstock act. And the attempts at banning artificial insemination and contraception…

More of a stampede than a creep these days.

There is a rule for gas stations that prices can only be changed once a day. Sounds like that would be a good start.

Amazing that they will do this and then turn around and complain about the destruction of western culture.

Donald Trump, the convicted felon who admits he still has a gun he has not surrendered as is required of convicted felons?

Bullshit. Your finger doesn’t move after the first pull. That makes it automatic by the legal definition. This is a bad ruling by “judges” who don’t deserve the honor of the name.

Gorsuch has a libertarian streak that leads him to side with individuals against the government. Bad when those individuals are a corporation, good when they are NA tribes.

That’s a really roundabout way of socialising healthcare.

The liberals were right. Those things happened because of actions Trump set in motion.

Nothing liberal or hyperbolic about facts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_collapse#Definitions_and_examples

Would you bet your life on that?

If you think there are fascists on both sides, then you don’t know what fascism is. The left definitely has problems, but being fascist isn’t one of them.

Remember during Covid when supply lines were interrupted, people started hoarding resources, and the store shelves were bare? That was just a comparatively minor disruption compared to what would happen if we “burn it down”. Think seeing children starving in Gaza is horrifying? It would happen here in much larger numbers. Our millions of guns would be turned on us by our neighbors. It would be The Purge in real life. The Rawandan Genocide would be tame by comparison.