Surprise surprise, an industry doesn’t work like people assume it does. This applies to literally everything, everyday in society. Yet society keeps on rolling along because they are done this way for a reason. Nothing is new anymore, things work the way they do because that’s how it works best. That is until the media intentionally makes a mountain out of a mole hill for ratings, and thus advertising revenue. And the current makeup of the government is a veritable golden goose for media companies. Constant scandal and bullshit being thrown around all the time with modern communication means a constant source of revenue.

Congressional partisanship has fucked this country up, and it’s not new it dates back to the late 1800s and turn of the century. They limited the House of Representatives artificially to 435 members back in 1911. It has not been truly representative of the populace since then with districts in different states varying by millions of people from one end of the spectrum to the other since some states are so sparsely populated. The purpose of the House is to represent the size of each State. The Senate represents each equally. The House has been hamstring to be a weird fucked up version of both with this limitation.

The Supreme Court should be increased to 13 seats, matching the 13 federal circuits, with each Justice overseeing a circuit, as designed. At its height, the court had 10 seats in 1863. A Republican controlled Congress in 1866 began fucking with the court due to partisanship to try to limit the power of Democrat Andrew Johnson, reducing the court to 7 members, and after he left they increased it again to the current limit of 9 in 1869 allowing Ulysses S. Grant to appoint two new justices.

FDR wanted to increase the court size in 1937, appointing new judges as incumbent ones reached the age of 70, up to a maximum bench of 15, but that was rejected by Congress. So we’re at the point now where the US has one of the smallest Supreme Courts in the world, with scholars saying it cannot possibly represent a country the size of the US adequately, and we haven’t updated it since 1869 due to political squabbling. The larger the court, the less power any individual justice has, reducing or removing the “swing justice” problem we’ve dealt with for over a century now.

And while we’re at it, get rid of the first past the post system, designed during a time where only white landowners could vote, and were expected to keep up with politics as a result of their abundance of daily time not slaving away with the menial jobs, and travel took weeks across the states to deliver news and ballots. It’s a system of its time, but it inherently creates a two party system, which puts people into an us vs them train of thought, which isn’t how the world works. We have the ability to do ranked choice voting, it works great in countries that have implemented it. Hell, it has even been implemented in some local and state elections in the US already. The parties themselves don’t have to go away, but there needs to be more than two viable options, and that means changing how the choices are made.

You might want to get your rights and lefts checked. When you hold up your thumb and pointer finger at a right angle in front of you, the left one looks like an L.

Or… Not? And we accept the DNC fucked the election by not insisting Biden stay out of it last year due to age.

But that would require the octogenarians admitting they shouldn’t be running the country still and need to pass it on to younger generations. Instead they’re ostriches sticking their head in the sand and attacking anyone that even attempts to get close to suggest it.

This is what we have. A shit old choice, or the total end of Democracy in the US. It’s not a hard decision, just the worst two option choice we’ve had in history, brought about by the party’s inability to admit we need to transition away from the two party system, something the founding fathers specifically wanted against.

You assume the general populace can recognize intent in writing, and differentiate between things like comedy, satire, and factual statements when they aren’t explicitly declared in context.

The fact there is currently so much successful propaganda spread worldwide through traditional media that we’re seeing a large resurgence of extreme nationalism, xenophobia, and Nazism again, along with a current very public genocide with a ton of public support, proves that to be factually incorrect. The average person is fucking stupid.

Too big to fail means too big to exist, you’re a defacto monopoly and need to be broken apart if you’re too big to fail.

The simple fix for the lawsuits failure is to have whoever loses pay the winner’s attorney’s fees, like most sane first world countries.

All of the “successful” aka settled lawsuits he has are just ones he was able to outlast whoever was suing him by delaying as long as possible so the plaintiff can’t afford to keep it up.

They clearly are thinking that no one will suspect them if they’re so against something.

In reality, since it happens so often, the rest of us wonder why they’re thinking about it so much and instead just assume they’re part of the group they claim to hate so much.

They already are, the media just reports on every one of these crashes. Even just reporting on each human fatality daily would put things closer to perspective even with every autonomous accident being reported as if it were the end times.

Liability of an accident doesn’t factor into those statistics. They include all accidents regardless of blame.

And you act like that exact scenario hasn’t happened with human drivers. In Arizona alone, 3.5 people die every day in traffic incidents. Given the number of dumb fuck road ragers brake checking other drivers on the road, stopping in the middle of an intersection and getting hit probably happens at least once a day, probably more.

Yet even with all those fatalities, and other accidents in general, the autonomous systems still have fewer incidents per mile driven.

The Mooch was easily my fav press secretary from that shit show.

FYI , if you haven’t seen it yet, he’s one of the whales on “Killer Whales”, that crypto Shark Tank knock off. The show is wild, everyone talking shit about the products, but still saying they’d support it. And the prize isn’t actually any sort of money for the schemes, just a mentorship with the whales. It’s absolutely great to watch with a bag of popcorn.