Yeah, this is from before you were born, it must be hard to understand why it matters.

The concept of a tactical nuke implies the existence of a recreational nuke.

What we had before Citizens United is what lead to Citizens United. Unless we overturn the structures that made the Citizen’s United decision possible, we don’t fix anything.

We need a second Reconstruction.

As we all know, US politics wasn’t controlled by oligarchs before Citizens United.

That’s basically neoliberalism: infrastructure, education, healthcare, clean water, all of that costs money. Just sell it off.

Investing in the future costs money and lowers our quarterly profits, just sell it off so the investors get bigger numbers immediately.

And remember: markets are efficient 🤡

Except horses aren’t allowed to vote, so actually, it’s nothing like that.

Sure, I’m just saying, this wouldn’t be a hard law to enforce.

You don’t think they’ll drag such a tax through the court system? Our enemies don’t want any restraints on businesses, anything we try to do will be fought.

or tax the company to help mitigate the harm it’s causing by eliminating jobs.

Well. Discounting items in self-checkout is actually a tax on the company for using self-checkout.

I don’t think it would be difficult to outright forbid self-checkout at all, actually.

There’s a difference between enforcing laws on individuals and enforcing laws on businesses. Businesses can’t exactly run and hide, if they’re using self-checkout they’re going to get found out. That’s distinct from something like the drug trade, which is all underground and hidden.

Getting hit by a car was the first domino to me eventually starting hrt.

This is political, the majority don’t really care if it came from a lab. They just want to smear China as causing the pandemic.

You can just play a different game. It’s a toy. This shit doesn’t matter.

Animal Farm wasn’t real. It was literally made up to trick you into not supporting revolution.

Their logic is “women are cattle that exist to breed” and so there’s literally no argument in favor of abortion you can ever make.

The only thing that ever convinces them is if a woman becomes a person to them, so perhaps a daughter or other family member, and so they’re able to justify her abortion because she’s a person. This will never be applied to a woman they don’t know.

This is what settlers have always done. Do you think settlers in North America didn’t abduct indigenous people?

Okay, but that sounds like something entirely different, it sounds like they’re cutting corners to do less work.

New recruits understand their job doesn’t matter and they shouldn’t put in any more effort than they have to, it’s the older people that think being an engineer is something to be proud of and put in the effort. What you’re observing is engineers treating their jobs the same as every other worker, because this is how everyone without a college degree has been for decades.

But that’s distinct from someone who struggles with counting to ten, which can only be described as a disability.

Actually I’m someone that has a panic disorder. Instead of getting reasonable accomodations, I’m punished for having panic attacks. I’m sure the boomers think it’s because I’m a weak-minded young person or whatever.

But go off.

They get standardized training which does not accommodate their special needs and doesn’t train them for what to do when they have special needs that are not being reasonably addressed by their workplace.