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At some point it becomes easier to just travel to places to buy your gpus and such. When I was in Singapore, their prices on electronics were both good and compatible with my own stuff. I visit there to see an old MMO friend and it's just... Closer to the source, I guess.

This more or less captures the spirit of the last 100 days, yup. Maybe I should watch some Bojack, it's certainly more lighthearted than this political season has been. Ugh

Any idea which states might fit the bill?

I didn't know the governor said that. And the cons so exist, but really only to landlords and rich people like him.

I'll be honest that rent control isn't perfect though. A band aid at best.

I heard about that, I just don't know who else can join the coalition. It might be easier to do it as an amendment if there a massive shift in power over the next decade (and I shudder to think what that'd be that was so upsetting or so lethal that the entire landscape changes to Dems having a super majority).

Too bad the same can't be said about the national election this time. Looks like the rent control one isn't going well either, which is bananas given a majority of voters are renters.

You know the innocent but in context messed up movie I watched right before this election because of a song? The Sound of Music. Know the young girls "love interest?" Goes full Nazi by the halfway point.

That's your Gen Z men looking to fit in a new Nazi order.

Same. I'm not sure if I'm more... "Ok" with this? We should still abolish the electoral college, but we were shafted by the American people this time (and the propaganda machine making things worse). It's the first time since I turned 18 that the GOP actually won the popular vote... Sigh

I'd say we tend to still have a few good qualities from our culture (or at least a product of a subculture), but there absolutely no doubt about the bad ones. I especially hate how they are regarding education, since that's one of the most important things we have.

It's a shame we're slowly losing those good qualities, though. Individualism, for instance, is at it's extreme in the US and is one of the ways it's attracted so many artists and creatives. Too bad corporate interests are eroding that steadily for decades, and fascism is likely to stifle the first amendment once and for all.

Indeed. Slightly better timeline had him die of heart disease in 2022. Won't to us as much good now, though. (Although you gotta wonder if JD sans-Trump would take us out of NATO)

Oh I'm 100% with you and there is never a way to confirm how things would have gone. We were doomed since 2020, I knew Biden would have a hard time with a second term. I just hoped Trump would have died by now.

Honestly, I'm not sure it matters. It was never possible to change those minds just as it's impossible to convince people that Republicans are always disasters for the economy. The best bet is that people simply stop caring about 2020 since they got their Trump and he'll eventually die and less influential GOP will probably pick different talking points by 2028.

We really need to address foreign interference though, that's the main problem as they stoke those fires. Only chance of that is a significantly different political landscape in 2028, assuming the ebb and flow gives the lead back to Dems as it usually does.