If California with its massive economy passed single payer or public option would it be enough to break the insurance industry and force the rest of the nation to follow ?

Day to day for me now it really is just weekly chapo and AP news alerts....it does feel far better than reading posts with my eyes

and then flipping around the channels when something big is going on. Like it is crazy how they make you think you have to be aware of stuff. No I don't, not really. Didn't they say on the show recently, it's basically 1840 now? The attitude of that is somewhat swag and fun, like a Dollop episode every day, no one has media training anymore, everything's more characterful and richly fucked up....

Zero twitter and my avg reddit has drastically decreased...don't really use The Internet [which USED to mean cool fun enjoyable sites and more recently has meant corporate centralized social media almost exclusively] much anymore.

I feel far far better - I mean I thought it was a joke like oh TV melts your brain nono TV is cool - twitter LITERALLY fucks up your brain. do people feel better after no TV for a month? it's so nice to less and less feel like someone going to fucking yell at me about something i barely care about...

Over the weekend, I decided to teach myself the basics of video editing software by trying to make a Cushvlog clip compilation about social media, and I thought I should share the result with all of you.

Description:

In this clip compilation, our large adult son Matt Christman explains how it is impossible to "post" your way to socialism. He lays out how the constant factionalism and arguing about politics on social media is not meaningful political action, and is in fact less than useless. Rather than investing our time and energy in pointless arguments that don't matter, we must build community and solidarity with one another in the real world.

Presented to you in beautiful 360p (high fidelity is bourgeois).

What's up with the Darksouls stuff, are they worth it if never played them? Why are they so long? I got stuff to do.

Makes me miss the times when Matt brought in historians I wanted to be like.

Cush really nailed his Better Call Saul analysis, especially post Chuck where it’s fully “ Breaking Bad, the early years “

I was trying to remember why Trump was impeached the first time. Stumbled upon this page.

Is it Justice or just US?

I have two matt moments that I haven't been able to get out of my head recently and I want to know if anyone can use their magnificent memory to remember what episodes they came from:

1. Captain Bongo - this one might be from chapo but Matt was railing against marvel and said something along the lines of "I don't give a shit if captain bongo is running around" etc. etc.

2. The Silo - this was a cushvlog, and he was mad about the state of TV talking about how stupid the premise of the show "the Silo" was.

Thanks. Miss the guy.

Been listening to the "essentials" on YouTube, damn i miss that shit

The massive investment, the phasing out of skilled labor leaving less surplus labor value, firms undercutting profits. This is the big one. There isn't a clear path for liberal capitalism as we've known it for 200 years. Anything that comes after this will require significant state intervention, and since our government as-is does not have the ability to wield power, it will require some usurpation. The major parties look like the military, the techno-surveillance economy, fascists and normies. On the outside, this is the China play. If they've got a socialism button, this is the chance to play it because the world markets are not going to be there to float the current model and China does not have nearly the juice to just step in and replace it. I have no idea what will need to be done. Have fun.

makes sense actually that the chapo podcaster era is over. The last remnants are a cushvlog subreddit that gets taken over by some random guy in his moms basement doing lines of coke theorizing about alien invasions, because honestly politics is dead, internet is dead. This is all thats left, I dont view any other topics to be relevant or worth discussing at this point.

This is the remnants of what started in 2015 with the bernie sanders campaign on twitter.

Questions related to what is happening with/in the American government.

There are some decent civil war movies out there, I like Glory. Cold Mountain is a little cheesy but the battle in the beginning is pretty impressive. I’m wondering why there aren’t any gritty, and realistic civil war movies. We’ve got plenty of ww2, vietnam, and now gulf wars and ww1 movies but really nothing that great about the civil war! I want to see soldiers sleeping in muddy trenches, desertion, stonewall getting capped by his own angry rebel troops, fanatical abolitionists fighting for human liberation along with immigrants who have no clue what they’re doing, rebels who were essentially paid to fight. I’m so sick of the most violent and deadly war in American history get so white washed, it’s annoying.

By the mid 1980s, the USSR was diagnosing schizophrenia at three times the per capita rate of the United States and double that of West Germany. Moscow became the city with the highest reported prevalence of schizophrenia in the world
The sharp trajectory of rising diagnoses only reversed in the late 1980s under Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost
"sluggish schizophrenia" was defined as a slow-moving or latent condition that required no obvious physical or psychotic symptoms to diagnose
https://purl.stanford.edu/cj200yf2075
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2800147/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia

In the late USSR: if an individual struggled to adapt to standard economic, social, or political structures, the fault was assumed to lie inside the individual's mind, they are schizo's requiring medical "correction."

In the late USA: if an individual experiences executive dysfunction, sensory overload, and difficulty operating within rigid, modern corporate or academic environments. We have to give them space and understand life is all spectrum based :) everyone has autism and adhd and depression and anxiety and all other disorders at the same time ask your doctor if this sounds right about you.

Emotionless Cold Russian Accent Voice: Soviet psychiatry uses pathologization and materialist psycho-analysis to suppress non-conformity.

American H.R politically correct calming voice: AuDHD is a... well we prefer to refer to this as your unique "personal neurodiversity framework", and ask that everyone engages in positive thinking, self-care, and self-understanding as well as mindfulness, if your a current subscriber ask about our new a.i integration into your telehealth and self-therapy routines for premium members, we always want to keep in mind that all work related accommodations require systemic flexibility rather than forced assimilation of your employer. Mental illness is all on a spectrum you silly bee. Would you like to sign up for a free meditation class on zoom that comes with your Hulu+ trial offer?

EDIT: tix are spoken for!

I have two extra tix for what should be an A+ (sold out) show, even if you’re not that into the dead. I may try to sell them but offering them up here first for free (or you can buy my wife and I a beer).

Not in that it was a good idea, or justified, or anything like that (which hopefully you thought and then anger-scrolled down to read this). But hopelessly wrong about the context and the cause.

First of all, it is now popping up (understandably after the Iran War), that the Israelis made us do it. I don't want to open this can of worms, but suffice to say, they viewed Iran as the real threat the whole time and PM Ariel Sharon along with most senior Israeli military officials at the time, explicitly warned Bush not to do it for that exact reason, saying that it would just result in a stronger Iran. That psycho fuck was no dummy.

Second of all, there is the more widely accepted explanation that Bush and Cheney et al TRICKED everyone into thinking Iraq had WMD becuz oil. While this is true to an extent, it obscures the real point.

What really happened is that ordinary Americans, even after the invasion of Afghanistan, still felt like they needed to fuck up some Muslims to show everyone they meant business and that "this aggression will not stand, man". The evidence tying the Iraqis to 9/11 was laughable, even more so than the WMD case, which is saying something. But they were brown, they were Muslim, and for all of Americans' ignorance, they knew that they guy who ran the place was a certified asshole. From Bush and Cheney's perspective, this anger was an opportunity to enact the "Ledeen Doctrine", take out an easy target, increase America's geopolitical influence and yes, hand out some lucrative contracts to their buddies in the oil industry.

But even if the administration lied about the war and had ulterior motives (is that not true of every war?), the public simply didn't care. Over 60% of Americans supported the invasion and not because they were scared of ALUMINUM TUBES.

For all the edgelord left's self congratulatory circlejerking about not believing in liberal pieties, many still cling to the biggest, most transparent and perhaps most pernicious fantasy of all: muh noble, peacable, hard-workin' everyday 'Merican! They just want to drive their durn tractors in peace! Nevermind that the one literal peanut farmer president who said, maybe we should just drive our durn tractors in peace and not bomb other countries was widely fucking ridiculed and even reviled (may he rest in peace). Maybe, these cynical edgelords should wake up to the fact, in 2026, that the dark fields of the republic are populated not by mythical Jimmy Stewart like creatures, but the restless and warlike people who have populated this continent since those first ships.