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I think 13 stripes is fine, as it can be seen as a reference to Trump’s age preference for “women”.

The thin green line.

The pro-Trump solution is simply to change the American flag to be red, white and green.

Sadly, 1/3 of the country continues to actually support the current administration and at least another 1/3 seems to be completely uncaring and ambivalent about the fact that we are allowing a literal detained lunatic to sleepwalk us into fasism, corporate oligarchy, economic uncertainty, war and global chaos.

There are people out there protesting and doing the right thing, but there are still far too many people who don’t seem to give a damn and nobody in any position of even remote power seems willing to do anything meaningful to correct course.

So we wait for the next election in November to see what, if anything, happens next. But we’re still being ruled by the unchecked whims of a madman.

The fact that the “We the People” of the United States just sit back and shrug as this idiot fucks one thing after another up is fucking nuts.

I’ve tried to embrace existentialism in most parts of my life, but when it comes to American politics, the very best I can do is absurdism. The whole system of capitalist republican oligarchy has proven to be joke.

Basically the same thing happened to me…

Reddit user for 10 years, 10,000+ karma, active in a lot of niche communities and even started a couple myself. All the sudden got banned multiple times in the span of a few months in 2025 for talking shit about Trump, ICE, China, and generative AI companies… And then I was perma-banned across all accounts and devices with any new account banned within a couple of hours of creation. Their loss.

I’m ashamed to admit that I was a too addicted to browsing and commenting Reddit multiple times a day. Like most social media, that’s by design, as the algorithm is tailor-made to draw you in and keep you engaged.

It’s much better for me, and for the internet at large, to just spend more time on the fediverse where I can be part of an actual community instead of a cog in some corporate data harvesting machine. I’m actually glad that Reddit requires an app these days to browse on mobile, because sometimes i find myself browsing reddit for a few minutes before the pop-up blocks me from continuing and then I remember to check the fediverse instead.

Living in government housing while my art and music is being exploited for the profit of the richest men in the world doesn’t sound like a good future to me.

And what good is subsidized higher education if there are no jobs left for human beings? Are they going to pay for our bread and circuses too, while they rob us blind and live on private islands?

Again, we need to address the root of the problem here: AI is built on the corporate exploitation of intellectual labor.

Tax them, fine, great. But this does absolutely nothing to address the fundamental exploration of intellectual labor of the creative class at the heart of the problem with generative AI.

I think Bernie is simply too old and out of touch to navigate this issue.