As well they should be.
Trump has already made it clear that his opinion of the accuracy of economic statistics depends solely on whether they reflect well or poorly on him.
So it’s pretty well guaranteed that the primary requirement of any future statistics will be that they reflect well on him, and accuracy and veracity will be somewhere further down the list.
It’s starting to feel a bit Pol Pot in here…
Cue Israel bombing the airport.
I would assume their totals aren’t going to change much but thry’ll lose some number of users from the UK and gain a more or less equal number of users from a seemingly random snd ever-changing assortment of other countries.
As far as genre statistics and the like go, I wouldn’t expect them to change other than as they generally do, just as tastes and trends change.
America - the land of “people should be punished for voting the ‘wrong’ way.”
It’s amazing that all it took was a few months of Trump in office for Republicans to stop even bothering to pretend to be anything other than overtly and explicitly anti-American - to out themselves as deliberate and even enthusiastic enemies of every single thing that ever made America great…
They can’t win unless they cheat.
The Art of the Thing That Sort of Vaguely Looks Like a Deal Unless You Look Closer.
And once again, all we can do is wait and see if any of the thousands of people with the authority to fight this will lift a finger to do so.
And my prediction is no - they won’t. Between the cowards and the co-conspirators, there’s nobody left who will even try to stop the overthrow of the US givernment and the establishment of a plutocratic autocracy in its place.
You mean Alligator Auschwitz.
Just her way of saying, “Hey everybody, pay attention to me!”
“Debate” in this case is actually just the blatant and obvious truth vs. evasions, excuses and lies.
Unfortunately, at this particular point in our history, the evasions, excuses and lies will probably prevail.
Appropriately enough, that bubble of aging people also holds an outsized proprtion of the political power.
So all they have to do, if they want to ensure that there’s a constant supply of young people to do the work, is use their political power to make the country the kind of place into which people would want to bring children.
And I have to say, cruel though it might be, that if they can’t even be arsed to do that, then it’s their own problem and their own fault.
So?
The only doensidecto a declining population is that the moneyed class will have fewer people to exploit, and atvthis point, anything that harms the moneyed class is a good thing.
Oh, and:
Many researchers believe this accelerating global shift is being driven in large part by a positive reality.
And I believe they’re wrong. I believe it’s driven primarily by the negative reality that much of human civilization (and the planet itself) has been warped and corrupted for the benefit of a relative handful of greedy, power-hungry psychopaths, and more people all the time don’t want to bring a child into such a shitty world.
So literally what happened here is Trump said, “I want to violate the Constitution” and the Supreme Court said, " Okay — go ahead."
And that’s it for the rule of law in the US.
All that’s left now is to tally the mass murders along the way to the inevitable collapse of the US, and to hope that our descendents can build something better out of the rubble.
We’re Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister. Of course.
How odd that a single policy document okayed white supremacism, false medical information and pedophilia.
It’s almost as if the three are all somehow interrelated - like they’re all promoted by and for the same people.
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