I’m sure these neoliberals wish they could just do what they did in Chile in the early 1970s: overthrow a democracy and replace it with a neoliberal dictatorship.

Admittedly, they don’t necessarily want a permanent dictatorship, it’s more a means to achieve their final goal, which is a neoliberal technocracy. They believe that neoliberalism has been proven to be the best socioeconomic system - the culmination of, and end of, all human history - and that if we can just get the right technocrats in power they can tweak and adjust things just right so as to get neoliberal capitalism back on track. It is, after all, the last and only system human beings will ever need (according to them).

He probably wants to force them to sell the team back to Dan Snyder, too. Trump and Snyder do seem to be men cut from the same cloth.

I hate this country so fucking much.

Oh man, let me tell you. We built our house a few years ago and it was an ordeal. After a while I just stopped asking the builder to fix things because I knew it would be faster and better to fix them myself or get someone else to fix them. It has added tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of the home, and all of that has come out of our own pocket, we didn’t get to roll all those extra costs into the mortgage loan.

Some of the corners they cut were unbelievable. They didn’t put any insulation in our attic. None. Our master shower drain was just draining directly into the crawl space, not hooked up the drain pipe at all. There was also no insulation in the crawl space, nor was there a vapor barrier. Poor workmanship everywhere, the floors especially are ass.

Several people have told me I should sue the builder, and I probably should, but I’d have to pay for a lawyer, and it would probably take months and months. It’s an expense and a hassle I don’t want, so instead I just tell everyone to never, ever use Taylor Homes of Nashville. Ever. Even though, every other builder is probably just as bad.

May I ask what country this was in? My wife works in addiction and rehab here in the US and she’s astounded at this. She says at her facility the max for detox is five days, and max rehab is 28 days.

People dealing with opioid addiction, pain, depression, anxiety and other conditions should see a health professional to get a prescription for FDA-approved treatments, Hays said.

There’s a reason so many people don’t go the approved route, and instead try self medicating. It’s because our healthcare system is run by insurance and pharmaceutical companies, who care only about maximizing profits.

Seeing a health professional in the US means first getting insurance, which can be its own baffling ordeal, then finding an in network doctor, then spending an hour waiting for the doctor so you can spend 5 or 10 minutes with them (probably being lectured), then, assuming they take your mental health concerns seriously, they’ll just prescribe you a drug anyway. If it’s between that and going down to the gas station and getting a bottle of momentary relief, I get why many people choose the gas station elixir.