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If the US imposed vast sumptuary laws, it would become immensely more powerful. Imagine if instead of wasting money on pets, sports, betting, luxury homes, luxury cars, boats, expensive clothing, alcohol, or artwork, all that money was channeled into the investment markets or used to buy government bonds. There are many products and services which are objectively bad for society in that they are wasteful. >What policies specifically? Price ceilings in basic goods. For instance, no cars over 75k. No shorts over $75. No pants over 75$. No sneakers over $60. The goal is not to make goods more accessible, since that would result in shortages. The goal is simply to reduce wasteful spending. >Additionally All professional sports leagues are shut down. All betting platforms and casinos are shut down. All businesses involved in producing or hosting music, movies, uninformative shows, or entertainment are shut down. Ethanol can no longer be sold for human consumption. Boats must be purchased by a legal business entity rather than an individual. >Anything else? Landscaping is another one of the most wasteful industries in the US, but I'm not quite sure how to regulate it yet. There are legitimate reasons to outsource landscaping activities. Perhaps nurseries would not be allowed to sell ornamental plants. Instead, only food producing plants would be allowed.
I have a bullet and a gun. If the SEA monkey autist that post that one video about planes under people's threads posts under mine, I am going to shoot my knee out.
I feel that David Chase didn't show enough of New York. They become intrinsic to the plot in the last 2/3 Seasons, yet you barely see any of them. I think it would have been beneficial to the story, if you saw things from their perspective a little more, have Butch be a more fleshed out character, considering how important he is to the finale. Why was he so put off by latter half of S6 Phil? Why was he so moved by Tony visiting Phil? I do see the argument against this, where one could argue that it would remove the focus from the core cast, but The Sopranos always feels like it has atleast one pointless plotline throughout the Season. Thoughts?
"Wokeness" and extreme media fixation on culture war bullshit were probably one of the main driving forces behind the past republican success in the last 2 years. Normal people were simply tired of it and it definitely prevented some undecided voters from voting Kamala.
Now that Trumpy is in power, maga accounts and his social media team are basically doing the same thing except reversed. Rep socials and media are focused on soy edits and incomprehensable messages about "TOTAL REMIGRATION" while importing thousands of "good because legal" h1b shitjeets, "NO WARS" wasting money in Iran while fucking over the entire western world with tariffs and gas, "FIX THE ECONOMY BIDEN RUINED" by raping the wallets of his voters and not doing anything about it etc etc.
Is annoying chuddiness gonna drive people away from MAGA like shitlibs were driving voters away from dems?
'teen, it's time to take a hard look in the mirror and ask yourself how you actually benefit from the tech system, from any of this? How do you actually benefit from getting your particular candidate elected? Tiktok? Goyslop for food? Getting gaslit by AI? Data centers in your backyard? Dying for Israel? Owning the libs? Can you really do this for the rest of your life?
Make no mistake. There is a way out. There is a world beautiful and cleansed of the poisons that fill our minds, bodies, spirits and communities. You could drink water with no microplastics, sleep under a roof you own, You could wake up with the sun to live and love fully without fear of cultural replacement or economic destruction.
But you need to let go of the petty conveniences. You need to let go of the endless pleasure train designed to keep you compliant. You need to let go of this idea that you need a system of tech around you to survive. "
