This will be super regional. A lot of the US a trip the the grocery store is a 30 minute drive one way. They make that trip once a month and load up their SUV with all their groceries.

Some people work 3 Jobs and their schedule is super tight, so even a 10 minute trip is a burden they would rather risk porch pirates than deal with.

I believe there are lots of places that porch pirates make delivery to door or mailbox just unrealistic. Personally I have never been a victim of theft to my knowledge. My knee jerk response to mitigation strategies is “why? It’s not a problem for me” and I suspect most of my neighborhood this would be true.

So I suspect Americans reaction will vary dramatically by region. I see the Amazon dropoff locations and the boxes in stores near me and I don’t see anyone use them.

I sometimes wonder if I am ever broke and hungry if I could just grab some food off the pickup shelf in a restraint near me. I won’t, because I am not broke and have never needed to skip meals, because I am fortunate to have friends and family support even when I was broke. But it must not be a huge problem where I am or those shelves would not have food on them.

The Democrats are a conservative party. They want to get back to the days when the parties had no ideological differences and were just clubs that voters picked personalities they liked most.

That ended during the progressive era, when some politicians (in both parties) got ideas about making the country better for working class people. The Republicans had more friends that were rich as fuck so they started propaganda campaigns among Republican voters and the progressive Republicans were primaried out of office.

Now the Democrats are stuck with the leftist label they don’t really want. Some of their voters do, but only some. American voters want leftist policies to be enacted but are allergic to leftist politicians and organizing.

If he wants to be an occupying army he shouldn’t be surprised when he gets treated like one.

There is also that the vast majority of gender critical feminists are women, and the majority of assaults are committed by men.

I don’t worry about terfs assaulting me directly, while I suppose it’s possible, I worry they will weaponize law enforcement or some transphobic white knight against me.

I think it’s far more likely the find a smarter fascist to rally behind than they fracture. They won’t learn their lesson until they have to skip meals for a few months at least. Even then, they will say it’s Biden’s fault.

China was facing the possibility of total collapse before the trade war, and they are more vulnerable than the US to the effects of the trade war.

I’m not saying the US will “win” the trade war, (no nation will be better off.) but if China comes through on top it will be analogous to Vietnam, where the US has every conventional advantage but political pressure at home forces capitulation.

Trump doesn’t know what he is doing, but there is a chance he gets his way more or less just because he was handed a deck stacked wildly in his favor.

Absolutely. Subsidies just make the problem worse next election cycle.

You forgot the increased subsidies for first time homebuyers in the democrat plan.

You are correct that neither party has proposed a solution that would help because neither party will admit that home prices need to fall, substancially.

Build enough of them and that problem will work itself out.

But you could also regulate or tax your way to making houses undesirable as investments.

Right there must be a wealth transfer.

This is straight up the problem. You cant reduce housing costs without reducing the price of houses. Individuals know this and reject housing development in their communities because they like to see line go up.

But if we want young people to ever be able to move out/buy a house, the price of houses has to fall.

Well off suburbanites should not be exempt from redistribution, but I. Doubt it will happen in a grand revolution.

Completely true.

Do you know what the difference is between a millionaire and a billionaire?

A billion dollars.

There is really no comparison. Doctors, lawyers, tenured professors, even most CEOS are working class compared to the investor class.

That’s some Grade A denial right there.

Everything in the Handmaid’s tale was inspired by real life somewhere. Saudi Arabia for women’s restricted travel.

I would put nothing past y’all quaida.

Voting is at it’s base a means of information transfer, but it’s also a way to transfer power.

Legislators presidents are not all powerful, but there can be real consequences to who gets to make the rules.

We do not disagree about what is most important. But voting is a gateway to civic involvement. I don’t think people who don’t vote are more likely to organize labor, volunteer, or engage in activism. I think it’s the opposite. Voters are more likely to be engaged and engaged active people are more likely to be voters.

That’s the thing. There was no sacrifice. There was no pro Palestine candidate. There was a quiet genocide supporter and a loud genocide supporter. You can’t punish the quiet candidate by abstaining or voting for the loud genocide supporter.

The message they take from that is voters don’t give a shit about Palestine or genocide except that some voters want it to happen faster with more death and suffering.

You are correct that we cannot vote our way to peace, prosperity, justice, or any other desireable goal. Voting is not the end, it’s the first step on a long road to building those things. Do unionize your workplace. Volunteer for your local aid agency. Build dual power. It’s just so easy (nearly always) that there is no excuse to not vote.

Honestly, I think the same of you. If you are American, You can’t see the forest for the trees and you voted or allowed the election of someone that was even worse for the palestinians, Americans, and the world.

I’m sure the people being tortured in Cecot in Elsalvador take comfort that at least the Democrats got punished at the polls for their support of Israel.

The Ukrainian families that lost their loved ones when the US cut off intelligence sharing for 48 hours and let the Russians get the jump on exposed troops.

The thousands of US government workers that lost their jobs to DOGE can rest easy knowing that at least Harris didn’t get elected after supporting genocide.

Nobodies life was saved, the isrealies continue their ethnic cleansing, with the full throated support of the US president, but you get to sleep soundly knowing All the death, torture, and suffering is worth it.

Shame.

Lose an election to who

Voters.

Democratic leadership can schedule events or platform people or even change the rules but voters get to vote at the end of the day. There are more voters than leadership. And if voters didn’t vote for centrists in primaries there wouldn’t be any centrists in office.

Agreed, sometimes, basically all the time, you have to choose between the bad and worse options.