Yup. If you have shitty values it’s hard to do the right thing.

rofl good luck over there

The hypocrisy is one significant factor, but more importantly are the values that many wealthy Democrats lack.

University. The expensive college wanted IT staff but only paid minimum wage and only hired people on financial aid.

Actually, many teachers oppose early start times, and perfect attendance awards are disappearing every year, too.

No, no, you misunderstand. The “aid” is the bullets.

In many situations the union is a good way to put more pressure on the boss. Yes, the boss can still do something shady, but the consequences are likely to be more significant.

For many people this is where the word s*** that you mentioned really does matter. The goal is to get to the thing before it begins which could be 30 seconds or 30 minutes early, whatever. And I think now when we all have digital devices, it’s pretty easy to make use of your time by reading a book or the news or watching TikTok or whatever, so it’s not like you’re wasting time sitting around if you happen to arrive 20 minutes ahead of schedule.

Your logic is the first step in what we call “blaming the victim”. In reality minors often end up in bad situations, but you don’t get to blame them for older people’s actions. Be careful here.

He’s not criticizing the country. He’s criticizing the military and the political leadership. There’s a very big difference between the two. It’s actually a major issue in bad political reporting that people will conflate those entirely distinct entities.

Your unhoused numbers are wrong. Those are the official “sleeping on the streets” numbers, which is not the same thing. First because they’re official, and therefore almost certainly undercounting, and second because they exclude all of the situations where people don’t have houses but are kinda not exactly in a cardboard box.

Just stop enforcing the DMCA on American work. Or, how about no more US copyright law in Canada? That would be exciting.

Right, but he can’t raise income tax very much, and he needs money to give to all the rich fuckers, so a big federal sales tax “disguised” as a tariff is a decent way to raise funds.

Elders are not the solution. Hero worship is a fatal flaw, and this author might know that, but the headline suggests otherwise.

People have said that, but I disagree. I think that fascists really are that stupid. It looks like a strategy because a lot of mainstream media has been happy to embrace the chaos, all they want is that 24-hour news cycle. But if you look at reliable political writers, people who think long-term, none of Trump’s bullshit baffles anyone.

If you think about the tariffs, he was trying to flex because he’s a narcissist, and people around him, perhaps including himself, were getting richer through insider trading. It’s a basic scam. Everyone understands it. No one is baffled.

Unless people use nukes, right? Yeah. Maybe you lose everything. That’s the risk, my friend.

I don’t want anyone to have access to nuclear weapons, since you asked.

But the reality is that some countries, including Israel and the United States, already have them. These two countries are currently engaged in military and terroristic activity in multiple international venues. So if that’s the rules that the big boys are playing with, and then someone else comes along and considers whether they might want to join the party too, your question is I think irresponsible. What you should have been asking is, what is likely to keep the Iranian people safer, nukes or no nukes?

In Palestine and Israel and Iran, it’s fine to look at the governments and say how bad they are, and you may well be right, or maybe not, I don’t know. But we can look at the people whose lives are being destroyed or permanently ended and wish that those numbers went down. If the administrations are full of evil jerks and they stay in power but the death count drops, that’s still a good thing.

The average consumer doesn’t care about that aspect though.

They do, of course. There’s plenty of rice of other kinds.

If Musk actually does go to Russia, then I think any of his American investments will be up for grabs. That would be quite entertaining.