Citizens United wasn’t legislation, it was a Supreme Court decision. The only way to fix it following the current rules is to ask the court again or to change the Constitution. Of course, if you are willing to just ignore laws then you have many options (see current Presidential administration for examples).

I am quite sure. I was out with a friend and he got fined for not carrying ID. The legal requirement starts at 16.

Both true and not true.

The idea that you have to register to vote is not normal in most democracies.

For example, in the Netherlands you have to carry ID at all times, whether you are voting or just going for a walk. You don’t have to register to vote, you just get mail a while before the election with a paper that you take to the voting booth, which is usually a few minutes walk away.

Such a system prevents fraud (which is already a non-issue in the USA, even with its confusing and difficult system), and also makes it easy for as many people to vote.

The goal of voter ID laws is to provide ways to disenfranchise people, by making things slightly harder and create plausible points to not count some ballots.

Not only, since TERFs exist.

Galbraith wrote one of my favorite books!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Affluent_Society

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In the Netherlands we have wooncorporatie, which are non-profit home rental companies. I think it’s a reasonable model, although the center right government tried to get rid of them for years. (Now we have a coalition of far-right parties in power, and they don’t even have anything like a consistent ideology much less policy so who can know what the future brings?)

In spite of their persecution complex, Christianity is the largest religion by population worldwide and in many countries. Understanding the way they think can be useful in dealing with them.

In the eternal words of Bob Marley:

Some people think

Great God will come from the sky

Take away everything

And make everybody feel high

But if you know what life is worth

You will look for yours on earth

And now we see the light

We’re going to stand up for our right

It turns out that conservative people believe in specific people, not in ideology. So any claims about reasons for specific policies are basically just pretext.

Thank goodness we’re firing all those wasteful government bureaucrats, who were adding red tape and keeping businesses from innovating. Soon things will be great again, like in the 1850…

Yeah how’s being broadly appealing working out?

Simply not true. Many organizations gave warning before bombing.

The Israeli military does that now, for example.

Looking to history, the IRA usually gave warning when they planted a bomb.

He’s in Europe supporting fascists and Nazi’s.

So… no power, is what your saying.

karnemelk. shudder

This didn’t seem correct to me. Ask far as I know the ISO 8601 standard is just about presentation, and has no start date (although you cannot go before year 1 in most systems that I’ve seen).

I found this article:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/14/2303889/-Nope-There-are-no-150-year-olds-on-Social-Security-It-s-COBOL

Which confirms the gist though.

Please stop falling for efforts to divide the working class.

Amy such efforts should immediately be viewed as suspicious. The divide is not old vs young, or white vs black, or even rich vs poor. It is the capital class versus the labor class.

Boomers grew up in a very tiny slice of global history where the working class actually got improvements in their material conditions, so it is hard for them to understand the struggles of people before or after… but they are being ground down by capitalism the same as the rest of us.

Your comrades at work may not understand the importance of unions or collective action, but they are still your comrades. Your grandmother may not realize that all of her extra productivity went to make billionaires richer, but she is still your comrade.

GenX is 72% according to that site.

It is much more common for people who have only worked at 1 or 2 places, and who have not seen the impacts of changing economic cycles, to have less context and understanding of what is normal and acceptable.