Kids these days don’t even know how to rig an election. What are they even teaching in schools.

Florida recently did just that with SB1718 and their agriculture sector paid a big hit. There is an H-2A visa system, but that is not filling the hole undocumented labor left. NPR Link

5 years ago the courts ruled that Trump could not block Twitter users on first amendment grounds. This same ruling could be used as a foundation to force a future government Fediverse server to federate with any other server and host all their unmoderated comments.

With Twitter, a user could still break the TOS and get banned. With a Fediverse server… Not so much. It’s as free as sending an email to the US government filled with nothing but 2mb of racial profanities.

My CPU is running at 2.6 Triple thou cycles per imperial second (TTiS)

I agree that the definition of Socialism tends to be a catch-all for leftist policies, especially in the context of US domestic policy. Here is a (nonextensive) list of the “Socialist” policies that the Dutch have that are attractive to me.

• Strong Unions and high Union membership (twice that of the US)

• Government Mandated PTO (20 day minimum)

• Universal healthcare (Private and Public options. US healthcare is just not comparable)

• Realistic minimum wage (scales with age)

US Politicians who support these policies domestically get labeled as a Socialist/Communist/fringe left/extreme left. I am not going to pretend that The Netherlands (or any Nordic country) is perfect or it isn’t capitalist (Amsterdam is home to the oldest stock exchange in the world), but they are a working example of how a democracy with “Socialist” policies can create a country with a high quality of life.

Yes I’d immigrate to the secretly highly-developed and free nation of the Netherlands.