car which is bought once and is mostly outside of vendor control once you have it

Well, cars in the 1940s at least. Don’t buy a Tesla.

It’s 100% their money. They control its rules, and it’s designed to make them rich at our expense. Their money is part of how they steal our wealth.

The people who voted for Trump are obviously the most directly responsible, full stop with parking brake.

Every major currency has at least one jerk face on it.

Does that mean Windows is Catholicism?

I wouldn’t listen to a victim who says it’s great, because they’ve got a brain implant from Elon Musk. For all I know it’s like Get Out.

There’s an economy - paying rent to each other until there’s only one musical chair left.

We wanted to fight corporate bailouts too, and it worked out well enough that we could afford to have kids.

They’ve no nukes.

You’re gonna nuke an upwind state that you’d like to conquer? It’d be a drone fight like Ukraine.

They lack economic power.

California’s economy ranks fifth internationally, behind the US, China, Germany, and Japan. On a per capita basis, California’s GDP is greater than that of all of these countries.

they don’t have a cultural identity

Dude, that’s bogus. This is literally the same bullshit Putin says about Ukraine.

The only meaningful argument against secession is that individual states would be weaker against invaders.

Except it didn’t work. We were invaded over the internet and lost. What are we protecting ourselves against? Being invaded by a world power that gives its people health care? Losing the democracy we just lost despite never having it to begin with?

The USA is bad for everyone now… Even Americans.

Kids are a force

There’s another!

The national anthem on loop. Because they have to hear it all the time and it’ll remind them.

Even in our fantasies we wouldn’t get away with it. But much ass would be whooped nonetheless.

Nostr obviously

That is pretty flawless reasoning, so it’s definitely real and not a Truman show at all.

If we’re talking clinical depression, then it’s innate and even a perfect society will need to treat them.

If we’re talking depressed the mood because you were obsessing over something depressing, then stop doing that.

In both cases it’s the root cause that needs to be addressed, not the frowny face symptom. We need to pursue a perfect society in a healthy way.

We have no choice but to compare imperfect systems and pick something.

Oh yeah? List the forms.