Thing is, yeah they're fucking stupid but they're also voters who the Dems could have persuaded and hardly tried. Repeatedly spamming "vote for us or you get Trumped again" doesn't count as persuasion.
quicklime
joined 2 years ago
it's not even remotely close to half of the city burning down. But given the damage estimates are running somewhere around $150 billion, it's bad enough
I can't help feeling that the real bad news is not that online platforms have been ruined, but that people have been and remain dependent on them.
I suspect the answer to that might be the same as to the classic question, "Can the markets stay completely insane and irrational longer than I can remain solvent?"
something something Melon Husk and Rare-Earth Mining
Yes -- surely the eligible pool is tiny at best. And the pull to use skills of deception for profit instead is widespread.
We / our society need many more like that guy, but I wouldn't wish that level of stress on anyone. I'll bet he gave two years off his eventual lifespan for every year undercover. On the other hand, lifespan would be worth so little in a white-supremacist christofascism.
Gladly, but more like r/collapse 😐
They work for anyone who can ensure their sky-high wages and benefits and near-immunity from prosecution or firing. But yeah, that would be the billionaires who fund the predictable media drumbeat/circlejerk on "law and order" (read: prosecution for the poor, total invisibility for most "white collar" crime), who thereby are effectively the prime supporters of the police state. The billionaires hardly give a shit personally about policing or justice, beyond the basic level of "I just want clean streets and a safe home and car", but they use the law-n-order schtick as an obvious yet unbeatable tactic to buy almost any political outcome they desire.
Let's be really honest and clear about this, unless it's actually in question: If Uber and Lyft had to pay a living wage, including proper healthcare and taking care of the costs of vehicle ownership and maintenance, they would not be in business. They would not exist. The difference between that world and the one we're in is all in corporate profit. Their business model requires massive wage theft to be profitable.
Indeed there are cold stews.
Why were they making a movie about Donald Regan?