The business owners own the oil companies, the restaurants nearby, and the real estate companies, too.

It's as simple as that. They make money by charging their employees for transportation and for the other things in-office employees have to spend money on.

This doesn't happen in great countries. This doesn't even happen in good countries.

Countries are free to do this, with the understanding that the rest of the world now understands that they are shit countries.

Hell no!

24 hours a week.

3x8 or 4x6.

Not one moment more.

Christians frame things as "All of the Christians are sitting here in one group, and all of the non-Christians are sitting over there in a different group."

And that's fine. It's absolutely true.

And if God exists and is the creator of the universe, that's pretty good for the Christians, and pretty bad for everyone else.

But if God doesn't exist, then the Christians are just all together in a group that isn't getting to enjoy their existence while the rest of the world is just trying to enjoy theirs, and the Christians are just trying to prevent those other people from enjoying their lives.

Either way, I'm surprised that the creator of the universe would organize things so that it would look that way from the outside.

Two out of three Americans believe there's democracy in the U.S.?

I just woke up like three minutes ago and was a little confused and absentmindedly clicked on this expecting to see a picture of Anna Kendrick.

I woke up REAL quick.

That argument would make sense if the people controlling the AI had demonstrated good will toward humanity.

They have not.

The "No Kings" events drew A LOT more than 4 million.

This is the man who just bought Paramount/CBS and Warner Bros for his son and fired Stephen Colbert.

If you care about this, you might want to consider whether to ever turn CBS on again.

Flock cameras should be illegal, and it would be better if they were all destroyed.

They do so much damage to privacy. There's no way these things should exist.

Oh, well I haven’t eaten at Chili's in about 20 years, but I was just talking about going again last week.

Guess I’m not going to do that…

The word "billionaire" exists because "slave owner" had a negative connotation.

Look, if the U.S. Military were going to uphold the Constitution he already wouldn’t be President anymore.

The United States is SOOOOO far behind.

Ahh, yes.

I think the U.S. used to have a system where the farmers assumed responsibility for people who weren't citizens but worked for them.

What was that called again?

The United States should ban cigarettes, but should continue to allow tobacco to be used in smoke-free forms.

If you want to poison yourself, that should be your choice, but poisoning others should not be allowed.

I haven't been banned from Reddit.

I want Lemmy to succeed because I want to interact more with people who are not from the U.S., and I don't want to use platforms from the people who were sitting behind him on inauguration day.

Since Elon feels that he can interfere in Reddit and since Reddit seems open to letting that happen, that's a good sign to me that I should limit my use of Reddit and should use alternatives instead. Lemmy seems to be the most Reddit-like of those alternative platforms, so here I am.

She IS the leader of the Democratic Party.

He called it a privilege.