The worm that keeps getting put into payment processor’s brains is that they might somehow be held criminally liable for games people purchase. It’s like telling a bus driver that they might be liable because they gave a ride to someone who robbed a store.

I was about to say, wasn’t Germany a serious ally of the US until about…oh, 8 months ago? Same with Japan. What could’ve changed? I wonder.

Arguably, taking off on this tangent, murdering Hitler might have very well pumped the brakes on the Holocaust. Late-war letters and memos from German High Command mention that part of the issues they were having with manpower and materiel was due to Hitler’s insistence on running the camps, which was a serious drain on manpower and logistics.

“Go broke so my corporate raider friends can buy up GM and sell it for parts”, because all the corporate raiders forgot that you actually have to have someone who WANTS the product you’re selling. Toyota or whoever isn’t going to want GM’s manufacturing arm in America because of those tariffs.

Try looking for worker coops around you. If you’re in a decently mid-sized city, there’s bound to be a few.

It’s the puritanical Christianity (no alcohol ever - there’s a lot of people who want to go back to a more strict and all encompassing form of Prohibition) mixing with prosperity gospel Christianity (you can’t be poor if God is happy with you, and poor people must be sinning or somehow wrong with God).

We also nationalized several enormous companies with arguably excellent results (ConEd, Amtrak, the post-WWI FRA).

Field ID on most sparrows boils down to “yep that’s a sparrow”.

I think there’s a fourth category, which is people who are keeping quiet for their own health. If you blew the whistle, how long do you truly believe you’d remain anonymous? Even if you moved to a foreign country right afterwards, how long do you think you’d stay alive? You have a highly narcissistic man in control of one of the most complex and far-reaching systems of surveillance ever built, and that man is HIGHLY invested in keeping his secrets - and failing that, he’s never been above making examples. Don’t forget Trump worked with the Mob, likely the Russian Mafia, and came of age in the tail end of the era where blowing the whistle on the wrong person in NY could very well end with you getting a lead injection from a very Italian man.

You can absolutely deport legal immigrants. The admin has done it hundreds of times already. Normally this is only if you violate your visa terms or whatever, but it turns out the law only works if people actually enforce it. Trump is Andrew Jackson 2.0 - “sure the courts told me I can’t do it. I’m gonna do it anyway, and who the hell is gonna stop me”.

This depends on the employer. I have absolutely worked (in short bursts) for employers that have told me any sick time must be accompanied by a doctor’s note, even for a routine illness like flu, cold, etc. This is usually an attempt to make sure people don’t actually take days off, ever, especially since it’s often combined with arcane PTO rules.

You forget that Vance is up next if Trump goes, and despite having the charisma of a tub of melted icecream, he’s got a whole panoply of yes-men who want nothing more than to see Vance’s version of a white, Christian America come true.

Bingo. The main body of the cult truly bought into the idea that Trump is either God’s handpicked man, a prophet, or Jesus Christ Himself. Morality doesn’t apply to the Selected.

Because DOGE is still running on Elon Musk’s strategy of “move fast, break things, and don’t fix anything until shit’s on fire”. People won’t be dying in concentration camps because of DOGE, they’ll just be homeless and probably half-dead of starvation (because of the repeal of the PFDA).

The larger part will eat it happily.

Sounds an awful lot like the old HUAC trials. “We’ll grant you clemency, all you gotta do is give us the names of your best friends that are communists. We just wanna talk to them.”

Nah, this is more stochastic violence. “Will nobody rid me of this turbulent college president” vibes.

I would say “shit we got President Kingpin”, but Wilson Fisk arguably would be good at things.

Except Collective Shout is Australian (which is unsurprising, considering that AUS is also a hotbed of hate groups).

The general difference, though unspoken, is that the kids being “trafficked” in their heads are white middle class suburban kids. A lot of conspiracy simply leads back to antisemitism, white supremacy, or both.