I do IT category management, sourcing/procurement for F500 companies. Been doing it for like 15 years and I don’t know what else I would be doing. I like the work. It’s challenging, changes enough, and there is a mix of strategic and tactical work. Notably, I don’t get burned out with it.

At that kind of weather, wouldn’t you need to go like battery operated? I’ve done a few rides at like 10 degrees F, but my feet always got cold.

It’s interesting to point that out because China is still is capitalistic. Just more state capitalism?
Ya know, I would love to read a book on China on this topic. Like how what have they done to get where they are.

Everyone is suffering. The vast majority of people voting don’t want anything better. Sure, we can have ideals, but ya gotta face facts that people just don’t want anything better and will not avocate for it.

And Democrats have the gall to complain in private about how we want them to do something.

We already do. Ya don’t see it because it’s been a slow turn. We are the richest country in the world in history, but yet, we have issues paving roads because of the rich don’t want to pay their fair share. We could take a few points of the GDP and we could have the greatest country this world has ever seen, a pure utopia.

There are plenty of unsung heros.

And if people don’t stop him, then he very well may. But ya know what happens when dictators die? Revolutions. Tales old as time.

The G7 apparently is organized around shared values of pluralism, liberal democracy, and representative government. What I don’t understand is, why India or Brazil isn’t in this group? It’s clear why China or Russia is not in that list.

They want someone who is cheaper to control. Trump wants like hundreds of millions of dollars, and that’s a chunk of change. If they had more money, instead of funneling it into NPOs, and super PACs, they could do it. None of this is rocket science. Trump is fairly transparent. If Putin and Musk can do it, so can they.

The answer is violence.

None of that matters as long as the rich make money.

That’s why personally I am not sitting here being outraged and Facebooking the outrage. It ain’t gonna do anything.

So, white men got there only based on their skin and gender? So therefore they are incompetent?

What good are protests if it doesn’t lead to sustained organizing and voting patterns? These kind of things take decades to undo; e.g. Civil Rights Act.

Oh wow. Nobody could have predicted this.

These people had like 50 years to codify it, and did not. They knew all along what the strategy was and they did nothing. They did nothing when Clinton reduced benefits and did his whole thing.

Always has been

It’s our tyrannical government, so it’s okay.

Fuck him. Make him pay.