If there wasn't such a strong black market for illegal drugs in the US, these cartels wouldn't have this much power/money.

Damn, that's going to be a very strong chin

If only we had a functioning government interested in protecting the people, we might avoid a lot of suffering/bloodshed.

Wait did MGT, just have a moment of self-awareness seeing Loomer?

This is from a state where they are afraid of books harming their children.

$10,000 fine on a $1,000,000 lottery is just a 1% tax. I'm surprised he even bothered to notice.

Seems like a good place for free public housing.

Thats like saying its fine to pit maneuver someone for driving with a cellphone in their hand. Its not safe for the citizen or an appropriate response. The state should not put you in a situation where you are likely to break a limb or suffer a brain injury for a minor infraction.

Enshitification is no accident.

Capitalism's fundamental flaw is that it exploits and feeds people's greed. It requires an external system of regulation to ensure that the vast majority of people aren't left with so little that murdering the people responsible for their suffering doesn't seem like a better option than continuing in the system.

One could envision a system that uses mutually aligned incentives to ensure that when you succeed, we all do better, and when I succeed, we all do better. What does that system look like? It looks like a flattened hierarchy, where it is practically impossible for one person to accumulate enough wealth to influence national politics. I think it likely looks like state that guarantees healthcare, education, food, privacy, housing, and a job if you want it. Why does it look like that, because all of those things are neccesary to a happy, fulfilled, and productive life. If you have more people optimally outputting, your economy has strength and resiliency. With a modicome of smart public investment, you can fiscally guarentee that in perpetuity. In order to achieve it you need a government worth trusting, we don't have one, but we can build one.

If nothing else, the modern era of capital accumulation demonstrates that there are so many more resources in the world than people to use them. What if we just let them? Since the war on Iran started the US has spent more than 1/3 of what the UN estimates it would cost to end world hunger (37B/97B).

His whole speech was a call for bipartisanship and for all workers to unite along class lines. Aside from a tiny bit of pandering to the venue/audience which makes the rightwing audience more receptive to the message, he didn't endorse or praise the Republican party. If you want Republican voters to wake up and vote in their own interest, this is how the message has to go. It's also a great way to sow division within the Republican party.

It is also the directors job to get good performances out of the actors. When directing a bunch of kids, they should have near line by line direction for tone and inflection, you can tell that didn't happen, Sokka might be the most egregious example of that.

I wanted the punk aesthetic to come to come back, but not like this.

From the man who ran the "Never Back Down" campaign and was nearly the first to do so...

Yarr!

Here's hoping she stays in to the primary and splits the Rep. vote.

Not sure why this is illegal. Against the company's terms of service, sure. But the government shouldn't be involved.

Socialism doesn't have to be centrally planned.

The US has also been passing laws to clamp down on protesting in the wake of the Dakota Access, BLM, and Stop Cop City protests.

The Drilled podcast is doing a season about the global legislative shift now.

If they don't bother releasing people locked up under laws that no longer exist, why would they bother retrying all those people? To be clear they should do both, but they don't do much of either.