en masse
That sounds wonderful to me, I just want that mass of righteous people to write down all of their ideas so future generations can continue their work even after the fervor has died down. I call those ideas laws and regulations and the ongoing spirit of that mass of righteous people a government, but I’m not too attached to semantics.
Until they monopolize their industry, which is something they’re always going to be trying to do by their very nature as for profits and which has already essentially happened here
A government can be influenced if it is transparent and democratic, which can be ensured if they’ve got good bylaws that are being scrupulously enforced. Like, if you have decisionmakers a) accountable to free and fair elections (whether they’re elected directly or appointed by elected people) holding b) regular and public meetings where c) outside organizations can raise disputes and get them decided under d) neutral procedures that are published in advance and that every party has equal opportunity to understand and take advantage of, and e) if those decisions and the reasoning behind them are also published and cited as precedent to be reinforced or overturned in subsequent decisions, then I really think the rest takes care of itself.
And I think we had a lot of this figured out when we got done fighting totalitarian regimes in the 1940s and turned around and passed the Administrative Procedure Act, but conservatives keep adding loopholes and trying to drag all of us back to feudalism and monarchies.
I’ll never understand what is so fucking difficult about dealing with people like trump,
Dealing with people like Trump is easy, until you have people like Slotkin and Fetterman in your ranks and people like Zuckerberg and Bezos hanging around and you have to worry about all of them stabbing you in the back to try to curry favor with Trump.
Our problem really isn’t Trump, our problem is all the other opportunistic scumbags who think they can take advantage of the shit storms Trump causes. Solidarity kills fascism easily, but it is in tragically short supply these days because capitalism kills solidarity.
I think it is possible to have a government that functions in this way on a long term basis. I don’t think the same can be said of for profit companies.
Yeah, payment processing is among the many many many industries that ought to be nationalized so they can be administered in a transparent and democratic manner (see also, healthcare education housing electricity internet etc.)
There’s just too much opportunity to use it to manipulate markets and oppress minority viewpoints for it to remain in private hands imo
Unfortunately I’m not sure his obvious stupidity will be an impediment to his efforts to seize power. Wouldn’t be the first time we’ve been bowled over by a highly motivated idiot.
Which means relentless exposure to mosquito-borne illnesses in an environment where they’re getting sub-par (if any) healthcare
Ah, I should’ve done some more research before sounding off
Ha, good point
Yeah, always room for improvement, but from my limited perspective this site does pretty well
I’d say it’s not as bad because it comes from (I think) a genuinely well meaning place, but it is definitely destructive, both just on its own and because it will produce a Streisand effect from the people it pisses off and cause them to devolve into full time trolls when they might not otherwise
He’s like the only major rock star from the 60s-80s period I can think of who I haven’t heard about sexually harassing or assaulting someone at some point
The couple used to physically fight regularly and, according to Osbourne, they would “beat the shit out of each other.” She has described herself as “a beaten woman” when she was at the hands of husband Ozzy where he once knocked out her front teeth. She once retaliated by throwing a full bottle of scotch at his head.
The Speaker of the House just had to shut down his chamber of Congress early because people are asking him questions he doesn’t want to answer, and that’s a sign of mastery to you? I think this looks more like the beginning of the end.
Of course, that’s probably the most dangerous phase of this because they’re going to lash out like cornered animals, and what comes next could be even worse than this, so I’m not celebrating here, but calling Donald fuckin Trump master of anything just doesn’t square with reality to me.
Also, not like anybody from the Biden administration told them no when they said they wanted to spend all of their COVID money on stupid cop bullshit
For real, the Atlantic went full centrist contrarian dipshit years ago but people still treat it like an intelligent publication because of great work they did decades ago under different owners
Our idiom fluency will have to pull itself up by its own bootstraps one supposes
“My Hunter is not an asshole. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, and an asshole, but he is not a medical expert.” - Joe Biden (probably)
I love how every partisan hack always pulls out “partisan hack” whenever someone says something they don’t like
Information that was leaked from the Heritage Foundation shows this Trump administration official wants to make people pass some kind of test before they are allowed to vote (which is something white supremacists used historically to stop non-white people from voting) and stop all immigration (which is something you’d do if you were a white supremacist who believed in great replacement bullshit)