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That’s just what I was thinking. It should contain added microplastics and industrial waste. And it should come in bottles made of plastic that cant’ be recycled and never breaks down. That would be the proper way to support right wing environmental policies. It would also be another “don’t get vaccinated” way for them to kill their own supporters.

They are aggressively going after anyone who points out that almost everything they say is a lie. That’s what “woke” really means. They’re terrified of anyone who is awake and paying attention.

Just ignore the fact that you’re up to your waist in floodwater and go about your normal business. After a while it will stop bothering you.

I appreciate your patient contributions to this discussion. And I agree with you. This is another case of blaming the victim. When someone makes a threat threatens you the focus needs to be on those making the threat. How you handle the threat is only important if no one stops the aggressor.

Large parts of the GOP want to turn our country into a “what it used to be” that never existed. Destroying our educational system is a critical part of that mission. The lies at the base of their movement are not very effective against people with critical thinking skills, so they want to avoid letting anyone teach those.

These people are a genuine threat because we have allowed them into positions of genuine power. There will be no long-term solutions to the problems they are causing until we get them back out of power.

I was thinking the same thing.

The problem is that honest names, like repression fund or authoritarianism fund, don’t score well in marketing research.

You have given the correct and inevitable answer.

I try very hard to buy everything on physical media. I subscribe to a few streaming services, but I never buy non-physical media. You don’t really own anything that can suddenly disappear because a company changes policies, get bought, or goes out of business.

Everything I buy is then ripped and stored on my local media server. That makes them more convenient and allows me to store the physical media out of the way. If something goes wrong, I can always re-rip.

It is worth noting that optical discs age and can become unreadable over time. If that happens, I can always go in the opposite direction and burn a new disc from my digital copy.

Recession, as we define it, is only really meaningful to those of at least moderate wealth. That line used to be low enough that it included the majority of the population. Extreme wealth inequality has changed that. The majority are now below that line. Recession has become a concern for the rich. The rest of us suffer from wage stagnation and inflation to support ever increasing corporate profits, but that problem doesn’t have a simple name and is rarely part of the economic debate. “The Economy” is doing fine, but most of us who have to participate in it are not.

I agree with your sentiments, but I do not think you’re right about the legal responsibilities. There are several terrible court precedents, going back to the time of Henry Ford, that establish draconian requirements for those running a corporation. The laws dealing with incorporation need to be rewritten, for many reasons, but with the power corporations currently have over our political process that is not likely to happen.

I would argue that unfettered capitalism generally rewards the least humane management and the worst people.

In the US, police also have no obligation to actually stop crime or protect citizens, even if the incident is happening right in front of them while on duty. There have been several court decisions that establish the lack of any police obligation to act.

It leaves me with the obvious question, given that, why do we continue to pay them? I actually think we need some form of law enforcement, but it becomes increasingly obvious that what we have is nothing like what we need.

I’m sorry, but I don’t see how anything can beat “Put down that chainsaw and listen to me”. It may be the best opening line ever sung.

Translation: Elon Musk desperately searches for buzzwords that will boost the stock of his failing company.

The air traffic control system has never entirely recovered from what Reagan did to it in 1981. He fired a lot of them to bust their union, at the cost of public safety. In the short term, there weren’t enough controllers to cover the losses. That lasted for around a decade. Since then, the problem has been that the pay is no longer good enough to attract the number of people needed. Air traffic control is one of the most stressful jobs in existence and, without a union, the pay has lagged. We can thank Reagan, and all of the tight-budget conservatives who followed him, for our current problems with air safety.

I didn’t realize that "intellectual diversity’ meant giving equal time to politically motivated drivel that fails to pass even the laugh test for factual basis or intellectual rigor.

This is what happens when everyone has easy access to children.

Excellent idea!

What can we do to push traffic to shoptrumpsneakers.com?

A potentially awesome service…from a company that offers no contact numbers or email addresses.

Whether or not Putin actually had him assassinated, years of unfair imprisonment and abuse certainly contributed heavily to his death. Putin is responsible, in one sense or another.

I knew that was true of new articles, but did not realize it also happened with opinion pieces like this one. Thank you for the information.