Absolutely, mileage will vary, so do your research.

Mine got me a mortgage when nobody else was lending. Got my wife the house she’d always wanted, her grandma’s place. I’d been a member for more than a decade by that point. The mortgage wasn’t even through them, they found us the lender, so they at best got a referral fee.

Move your shit to a credit union. They are far more forgiving.

Lawsuits will not beat fascists.

Well not annually.

If the mayor is pro-AI, then the city’s actual citizens are in for a ride.

I remember, Sammy Jankis!

Are you even a real activist?

How many times have you sent the Bee Movie script today?

They don’t expect to need votes ever again.

Please don’t use LOL in these kinds of circumstances. You shouldn’t laugh off people’s attempts to fight back.

That’s all fair. I’m not at all satisfied with their performance, just not surprised. Legislators don’t know how to respond to the Gish Gallop, especially when it’s taken the top offices.

I don’t see a voting way out of this, sadly.

So if it’s a revolution, and we win, we then get to institute different rules that don’t lead to the inevitable two party domination.

No. The people are going to have to do it. Or the military, but that rarely ends well for anyone.

Democrats aren’t revolutionaries. They’re legislators. Most of them didn’t sign up for this but for normal work.

It does mean we have the wrong people in office when we need fighters, but I don’t see how you can throw all the blame on them.

They’re the ones who are afraid of going to Gitmo, assuming they aren’t otherwise disappeared.

There’s a book called The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan, which is about this. Looking from the plants eye view of things, they have manipulated us into growing them in a huge variety of environments. The book focuses on tulips, cannabis, apples, and potatoes, iirc. Fascinating book.

Two quick examples from the book:

Pot gets us high, now we grow it in closets, warehouses, yards, basements, attics, etc.

Apples don’t reproduce true from seed, so Johnny Appleseed brought readily available cider to the Americas. (You need a cutting of an apple tree to grow that type of apple.)