IninewCrow

Trump isn’t the stupid one here

The administration and entire community of professionals and politicians that enable him are

The American people are the dumb ones for just listening to this stupidity and not protesting or standing up to it

Trump stopped being dumb a long time ago … for about a year or two now, he’s being out-dumbed by all the people around him who just accept him as a representative of their country

This is how dumb America has become

The dumbing down is not in hearing what this stupid leadership is saying and portraying

The dumbing down is in the fact that the entire nation just accepts it all and does nothing.

At this point, the American government can utterly fail at doing the most basic things and the American people in general will just stand there, complain a little and take it as another normal in the USA

A few years ago if it had been a Democrat as president, the entire news cycle would have gone apeshit at even the least thing this current government has done … instead incompetency and complete stupidity is just becoming normalized now

The fault is not in the government … the fault is in the nation of people who have just become mindless zombies that really just don’t care any more

If you can’t run it as a system full of independent leaders than it should at least be a multiparty system … when you keep everyone and every group separated at arms length from one another, you get a more democratic consensus on a variety of issues. When you just have a two party system, only the loudest most wealthiest voices ever get heard on the biggest issues at play. It’s better to have a chaotic system of changing alliances than an ageing system that is incapable of ever changing no matter how much the country is falling apart.

Why don’t they just skip the party system and just represent their geographic area.

Politicians are elected to represent the people that voted for them … not the party they are attached to

and usually, the way non-tech people solve a problem like this is to just throw money at it … money like in buying a higher tier internet package because their internet was too slow.

The corruption to them is that dead voters don’t stay dead and have the audacity to actually be alive.

I wish American news would stop reporting on what Democrats MIGHT do … and just report on what they already did.

They keep pumping this endless hope fountain and its getting tiring … I’d rather hear about what was actually done rather than listening to the possibilities.

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‘Let’s try to start … again’

I know he isn’t running for leadership … what I’m point out is that your leadership and even your spokespeople have to always be old people in positions of power … and it’s OK to have older wiser people in power but over the past few decades that idea has become farcical because you are being led by a government of 70 and 80 year olds

Holy crap America … you need an ancient wizard to tell you to get rid of the dinosaur in your midst?

I love Bernie Saunders and I think he’s great … but you really need to get some younger people into positions of power to get you through the next few decades or you’ll be thrown under the bus of more progressive countries around the world or else you’ll just fall under a total facist state because your elderly leadership was easily coerced.

Yup there it is … America’s false hope to do something meaningful and doesn’t follow through with it

You don’t disappoint me by disappointing me

lol … when you install fascist leaning authoritarian minded power mongers into positions of leadership … don’t act surprised if they don’t want to leave when you don’t like them any more.

Why don’t developers or developer organizations just keep licenses and rights to certain codes for themselves.

Keep the rights but freely make it available for everyone to use.

But if a company steps in to make anything proprietary, then you exercise your right to the intellectual property of your code and make a decision for yourself … either agree and make money on it (because developers need to make a living as well) … or refuse and with hold the right for certain groups, companies or corporations to use it (and if you do end up in court over it, chances are high that the developer will get money out of that too)

Yeah … I’m not trusting American to do anything right any more. They keep repeating the pattern of ‘do stupid things’, ‘keep doing stupid things’, ‘hey guys I’ve stopped doing stupid things and I’m going to give you hope’, … then revert back to ‘do stupid things’ again … over and over.

It wouldn’t be so bad with any other country. The problem with the US is that they have such a big effect on the rest of the world due to the size of their military. It’s like having a really dumb neighbour and you can’t say or do anything about them because they have a really unhealthy number of machine guns and military grade weapons in, on and all over their house that everyone can see.

Personally, I honestly just believe in starting at the wealth cap.

If we could all just work for that one thing to happen, everything else could more easily come after that. It’s like trying to build a house … we’re all just talking about what colour paint to use, what kind of blinds to install, the type of sink taps, the colour of the furniture or the type of light fixtures we’d like to see … when we should really be talking about what kind of structure to build first to hold the roof and support the walls, just to get the building started.

If we keep talking about everything else without addressing the elephant in the room that is the problem of ultra wealth in small groups of people, everything that is ever discussed in politics, no matter how informed, debated, discussed or researched it might be, will never matter because everything will always be railroaded by those with money … those people who want to keep their money and their power.

So unless we can find a way to deal with ultra wealth first and foremost, nothing else matters no matter how much it makes sense.

I like a lot these ideas but like you suggest, it should be left up to debate amongst a community of people to represent the time, age and level of technology and capabilities of the times they are debated in.

One core thing I often suggest when I debate these things is the idea of wealth and wealth distribution … it is a hotly debated subject whenever I suggest it because it is always clouded by the prospect or suggestion of communism or socialism and by extension totalitarianism and authoritarianism.

Of everything that could or couldn’t be done about government or society, I think instituted wealth equality would make the greatest difference to human development. And it’s a simple idea but an idea so controversial that most people disagree with it, question it or just don’t even want to think about it.

The idea that an UPPER WEALTH LIMIT should be instituted and permanently set into society. And the limit would still be a high ceiling … for instance, set it at $100 million … how could it be unreasonable to think that anyone could live without wealth beyond that limit? In one lifetime? And the governing system would essentially remain the same, no authoritarian system, no big changes to rights of people, no big changes to how society functions or operates, just that one change - to enact a system where wealth of any one person is capped to an upper limit.

Because many of the problems of developing, redeveloping, reshaping, reconstructing, renewing or upgrading government systems or laws … are all affected and influenced by those with wealth … and the more wealth any individual or individuals have, the more they are likely to change or affect changes for better or for worse. And conversely, once wealth is better distributed to more people, the more likely it is to develop better, more representative laws and regulations because everyone (or more people) would be able to better represent themselves and influence control.

If we removed the insatiable greed of individual people from the system, then it would more likely be able to better represent everyone as a whole … rather than always lopsidely represent only those few people with money and power.

Unless the issue of wealth, especially ultra wealth, is addressed … the problems of developing any kind of new or old government system will always be crippled by those who want to hold onto or protect their wealth and power.

I think we’re still a long way away from that Charlie … in the near future (within 100 years) I’m guessing long life will look and act more like Mitch McConnell … they will be there and relatively healthy but whether or not their mind is OK will be questionable.

The problems of the world will always stay the same no matter what generation the world is in … it’s just human nature and it may get better or worse with time. But having the oldest members of our society take control of how to deal with those issues and problems is not a good idea.

And yes, any new technology to lengthen lifespans will first be made available to the ultra wealthy first … and maybe shared with everyone else later.

And I never enjoy the arguments that people have about population control. Yes I agree that in our current world and current way of doing things … if we keep adding a few more billion people to the planet, then yes it is very unsustainable. However, if we changed the way we lived and worked and shared all the world’s resources, provided education to every person, gave them food, water, medical care and opportunities to live productive lives, then we would have billions of people working towards solutions instead of spending their time maintaining a destructive system in order to survive. Wealth is completely centralized in the world right now to only a few people with the majority of every other human doing their best to just survive … so their only recourse is to just keep participating in a system that is destroying the planet … and when you keep adding people at the bottom of that system, it only makes the problem worse.

So the problem is not population size … its how our world governing system and wealth system works. Because once you feed people, give them comforts, educate them and make their lives livable, then over time, they have fewer children and if done over a couple hundred years, the population would stabilize (and even decrease) to a manageable level. But it would only work if wealth and resources are equally shared and available to everyone everywhere.

And none of these kinds of conversations much matters to someone who is 70 or 80 years of age because they can see their exit and they have no real investment in a future they will never see … which is why they should not be allowed to stay in power to lead nations.

Great point … I still think that the governing system should be upgraded and changed over time and given a major overhaul every few generations just to shake off the old ways of doing things.

But I like your point … ‘some parts of government/constitutional law should be immutable.’

There should be a simple straight forward core of government … something so simple that it would only be expressed in about a hundred words. Something basically stating the basic rights of ‘people’ (stating it as people rather than ‘man’ because it would encompass all genders or any other identity that people might have now or in the future)

That core should be agreed upon to never change because it would be the basis of the current generation and future generations of people far into the future.

Everything else surrounding that core would be up for change, upgrading or even removal … so that every generation could lose all the old methods of doing things and create new ways of governing in order to support and maintain that single core constitutional idea that never changes.

If Democrats can stick to the story they told, are telling and are repeating … they’ll keep winning

I’m not saying this as some right wing nut job … I’m a socially supporting Canadian that fully supports the NDP, the left leaning party here in Canada. Always have and always will.

The problem I always see with our left leaning parties is that they keep promising things before the election and then ramp up the hope when they get elected and then spend the next few years hovering at the level of hope and either get little done or none at all. And it’s always the powers that be, the status quo and monied interests that get in the way. It pervades all of politics with every party (no matter if they are left, center or right) because at the end of the day, its easy to control a political party and a politician simply by threatening their chances of getting re-elected again in the next election.