AutistoMephisto @ AutistoMephisto @lemmy.world

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Oh, he's not using the kid as a prop. The kid is a shield. He's so afraid of sharing a certain health insurance CEO's fate, that he keeps his child near him.

And now they're trying to make it about race, check this out.

I'm speaking, of course, of greedy, wealth hoarding dragons like Smaug. Who would slaughter an entire mountain of Dwarves to get his claws on wealth he will never spend, just to have it.

Walgreens is a bad choice. They've invested a ton of money into cameras and surveillance for their locations. Almost on the level of Target for loss prevention.

Yep, they should form a union and demand hazard pay on their CBAs.

Nah, they need to do it at Black Rock HQ.

Alexa, Play The Rebel Path(Cello Version)

As an aside, another proposed moniker for this hero is "Lancelot", as he has clearly slain a dragon. Three cheers for the Dragonslayer!

I'd like to inquire as to what, specifically, you disagree with. I understand that you don't think any person is inherently evil, however I hold that actions are a reflection of one's character. While this CEO may indeed have done a couple good turns for people he personally knew or cared about, his actions and decisions as the CEO of a health insurance company have inflicted incalculable suffering upon hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people and their families. As a human being, I could never imagine doing such things, nor do I want to.

This, to me, reflects a deeply sociopathic character. Selfish, arrogant, greedy, and malicious. This was a person who saw themselves above mere mortals such as you and I, whom he saw as tools, disposable and replaceable. And when you see yourself as above mere mortals, would you not want the mortals to believe it, as well? Is it then, so surprising that the mortals stop seeing you as human altogether?

A couple things. I don't see any billionaire as a human, and to be frank, they did it to themselves. They've spent decades spinning a narrative that they're this special untouchable caste of modern-day demigods. That we have to try them differently and respectfully, because they have more money, and the closer you get to "God", the further you get from "Human".

Secondly, he chose to do evil. He willingly and without hesitation discarded his humanity. I can't be bothered to feel bad for someone like that.

Well, really, they did it to themselves. We didn't turn them into greedy, avaricious weath-hoarding dragons, they did. The closer one moves the slider to "God", the further it moves from "Human".

See my other comment:

When a dragon is slain, we don't mourn its death, we cheer the Dragonslayer.

I fully agree. If I were a billionaire, I would be "let's get a team together and come up with a strategy" levels of nervous. See, the 1% has sort of dehumanized themselves, by creating this decades-long narrative that they're this untouchable caste almost on the level of Demigods, and the closer you get to God, the further you get from Human. Now that one has been shot and killed in broad daylight in the middle of NYC, and again with the idiots on the homemade submarine, that narrative is obviously untrue. When a dragon is slain, we don't mourn its death, we cheer the Dragonslayer. So, if I were in the 1%, I'd be very worried about appearing all too human, all too quickly.

Any silver I get I'm feeding to the furnace and casting into bars.

Look, I've made some bad choices in life. I'm in my 30's, I live with my girlfriend and her mother, and my credit only just recently got above 600. But because of the rules the CPFB put in place, I'll be laughed out of ANY bank if I walk in and ask for a mortgage for just a bare plot of land with nothing on it. And maybe I'm being selfish, but the CPFB hasn't done dick to make home ownership more affordable, or to keep private equity from snatching up all available inventory.

On the other hand, it's because of the CPFB that one must have absolutely sterling credit to even think about getting a mortgage. Prior to the 2008 housing crisis that led to its creation, banks were handing out mortgages like Halloween candy, all anyone had to do was walk up and say "Trick or Treat!". Didn't matter whether or not the person getting the mortgage made enough money to even pay the interest, the mortgage and the house were both there for the taking.

And Kamala’s strategy for relieving pressure on the housing market was a $25,000 credit for first time home buyers?

This was also going to be coupled with a large tax credit to construction companies for building single-family homes and another tax credit for selling them to first-time homeowners.

Taken together, that all sounds pretty good. But I think what really needs to change is zoning laws. The problem is that the federal government has no control over the zoning ordinances of local communities. Hell, state governments barely have control over that. Usually whenever a rezoning of a neighborhood is brought up, it causes a firestorm at city council meetings.

Probably says "Fit for human consumption". Humans can actually eat mealworms.

That and the third place is being and has been turned into a place where you are expected to buy something(food+drink and merch)instead of just enjoying yourself and spend time with friends. There's nowhere for kids of any age to go that doesn't charge a fee to get in(some parks), doesn't have rules against talking(libraries), hasn't been made obsolete(malls, arcades), or is unreligious.

Well, yeah. "House" no longer means "Place where people live". It's now defined as "long-term investment/passive income generator".

I mean, he could, but wouldn't he need Congress to confirm his appointments? They'd just do what they did while Obama was in office and block any motion for a vote, especially since the Democratic party doesn't hold a filibuster-proof, 60-member Senate majority. Although, Obama had that and still blew it, the price of believing one can still engage in good faith negotiations with bad faith actors, I'm afraid.

They're already declaring their intentions to not negotiate with Harris in good faith, should she win the election, and to block all Presidential appointments. Hopefully she will go ahead and do it anyway. SCOTUS does get the final say in what does and does not constitute an "Official Act", but they don't have any enforcement mechanism. All they can do is send a strongly-worded letter, asking her to stop, but they can't force her to stop.