“The purpose of a system is what it does”

LOL, good luck with that.

(Inverse ETFs, especially leveraged ones, don’t work the way you think they do. They’re not really intended or suitable for anything but day-trading.)

You can only live and breathe your job with little to no entertainment.

Not to diminish your point, but back then they still had (often walkable) “third places.” That included social clubs – think the freemasons, shriners, the “water buffalo lodge” from the Flintstones (since that what Millennials and younger are most likely to be familiar with), etc. They also knew their neighbors a lot better than we typically do today: most houses had substantial front porches generating ad-hoc conversions with people walking by, they more frequently had block parties, etc.

TL;DR: they got a lot of their entertainment though actual in-person human interaction.

Slave labor.

They’ll solve that by making divorce illegal, obviously.

That’s how you can tell they lying about their goals.

I keep looking for the master plan, “what are they actually trying to achieve”

Sabotaging the US to help Putin really is the only motive that fits all the data.

My dad voted for Trump, so if he calls me to help with his Social Security I’m gonna fucking laugh in his face.

It wasn’t even necessarily the majority. Not back then, and not now. What happens is that normalcy bias stops even people who oppose the regime from acting against it until it’s already too late:

But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

— Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

Hold the prosecutor in contempt.

IIRC the judge can order the arrests and also deputize people to carry them out.

The most dangerous possible thing right now would be for people to see this small victory, claim “mission accomplished” and quit fighting.

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Or when they commit a crime while black.

I’m more a fan of identical triple monitors and keeping them all in the same orientation (all vertical for doing a lot of programming; all horizontal for everything else), but that might just be my perfectionism coming through.

The sad thing is, Elizabeth Warren is one of the least-bad ones.

For those unaware (not the parent commenter), that’s literally the plan. It’s the post-Soviet model of blatant corruption, creating oligarchs by selling off government assets at fire-sale prices to their cronies.

The key is triple monitors so you don’t have a bezel in the middle of your field of view.

Well, yeah. Any uterus on the battlefield is one that isn’t back home gestating the next generation of cannon fodder.

(It’s despicable, but I’m pretty sure that’s how these shit stains actually think.)

Quit trying to normalize fascism!