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Unless youre the AG of Missouri suing to stop student loan forgiveness to protect the bottom line of a company, a company that didn't ask for help, upon standing that if company closes up shop then Missouri will lose tax revenue.

This is not what the law is supposed to be

Use of the law like this, ticky tacky application and enforcement, and wholesale non enforcement of the wealthy will lead to no one respecting the law. Because the actions of the judicial branch aren't respectable. Inequality is tracked for a reason. When it becomes too much? Historically, we see revolution. France removed their last monarchs head before it got as bad as it now. So wealth inequality is worse NOW than it was for the French Revolution.

I'm not saying we need to guillotine the 1% and their stooges, but I sure ain't gonna stop anyone who is, know what I mean?

Some people will fear the law, the same way people feared the mafia, but respect? Yea, nope. That's earned. Change the rules all you want, you can't make people respect a bunch of Grammer nazi bitches.

I mean, I halfway agree with you. The World Economic Forum meets up annually. It's a real sanitized name for entrenched wealth, sounds super official, like a neighborhood bus line that fancies itself the "generic county transit authority". I too can call myself an authority on something but that doesn't make it so. Lol.

No one attending was voted into power, all but a handful were born into it. There doesn't need to be any one person in charge when all their motivations already align. Humanity is not inherently hierarchle. So they shmooze, exchange tips, fuck each other wives while wearing masks to hide who they are (you really think Kubrick would've made Eyes Wide Shut if he didn't know that that kind of shit happens irl. Theyl discuss strategies on how to fuck over everyone else on the planet so they'll never have to sweat a drop from hard work unless they want to. They share Panama paper worthy plans and stories from their trips to whomever replaced Epstein. Cuz someone did. I trust the rich two things only, one is be callously, obscenely greedy as fuck and the other: the world's largest collection of pedophiles and rapists. When you can buy anything, including people's children's innocence, with no consequences, what's left to buy? Nothing. Nothing but

Power.

id totally give up a genies wish to make everyone attending their annual event, and their entire poison pill blood line, teleport to the bright side surface of mercury, immediately.

My 2nd wish would be to rapture every Christian to the heliopause.

Humanity would be so much better off, idk if I even need the 3rd wish then

NeoLiberal refers to lassaiz-faire capitalism. Reagan, Thatcher, Pinochet, Marty Friedman and the Chicago school of economics. Ayn Rand.

NeoLiberal has nothing to do with social policy. It doesn't care who is sucking who's dick at church or who's marrying their first cousin in their backyard bud light lazy river.

NeoLiberal = trickledown = Reaganomics

In actuality it's translated as corporatocracy.

What part of Donald Trump is against ANY of that? It is entirely the NeoLiberal revolution of the 80s, and daddies money, that allowed Trump the opportunity to rise in NYC.

Fill me in. Enlighten me. I'll be waiting.

I disagree flat out. MAGA is fullblown neoliberal. They don't want to regulate corporations, they don't want to raise taxes, they want to cut, dismantle regulatory control and shutter the government, allowing those who can to loot unfettered and unimposed. There's a phrase, it's not a war crime if it's the first time; that feels applicable here.

What am I not seeing, how is MAGA not the trickledown zombie if Reagan corpse? Shit, Reagan used the phrase first.

Whats been built in the past 40 years? In America. I don't see any bullet trains, I see stroads. I see some new high rises, but none that push any limits, except maybe the millennium tower in SF, and I assumed we were good letting Pisa hold the leaning tower title, but maybe I assumed wrong.

I'm wracking my head trying to think of a single American innovation that wasn't A. Created by DARPA and the public got the militaries hand me downs (GPS, IBM, Internet, Hubble) or B. Heavily subsidized to fund research and contracts/ preordered by the government.

Capitalists don't innovate. They build systems for wealth extraction. Let's look at the capitalist golden boy, Apple. There was and is no innovation with the iPhone. Phones already existed. So did cameras and MP3 players. Nothing new about a touchscreen or a GUI interface, the iPhone took all these elements and basic microcomputer parts, put it all together, renamed programs as 'apps', and charged $500 for it at a time when cell phones sold off at $200 high end. There is almost no change between models just stronger conponents, they just bricked old ones with updates and bloat forcing upgrading. Which is beyond fucked up. And since the 5c, at least, Apple has just purchased it's components from Samsungs waste bin. For over a decade buying a new $1000 iPhone was the same as buying a 2 year old Samsung, just with lipstick on the pig.

For a good sized segment an iPhone is a status thing. Those with one judge others and look down on them. It works both ways. Those who have an iPhone, I judge to be suckers and idiots. Because y'all got swindled by the greatest swindling modern history. Paying premium for bargain bin tech. Smh.

What reseach wasn't paid for with public money yet the dividends all end up privately gained? What a fucking shell game capitalists play. We're all taken for fools. They don't create jobs, they took over existing industries, lay offs for efficiency, repress competition, merge into monopolies, then it's the enshitification <- where we are now, where user gets fucked, businesses get fucked, but it's a monopoly so what can we all do? Amazon, Google, 2 textbook examples of get.fucked.inc.

Ever wonder why all the billionaires scramble for government contracts? Seriously. All of them. Show me a rich person not on the teat of the fed. I'm going to go with that's because there are no private contracts at that level. Not that there couldn't be, but that would require innovation and risk, and, again, Capitalists don't do that. Why would they? Perfect example. Take Shell, or Chevron. Why wouldn't they, in the 80s start to pivot towards solar and wind? They were the leaders of the energy secter, positioning emerging technology is R+D mixed with ROI. Surely they had people to crunch those numbers. But instead, what does history show they did? Suppress the climate studies, hire the mercs with PhDs to muddy the waters, and extract extract extract. They already have all this infrastructure paid for by the public in tax breaks. They're gonna use that earning potential until it costs more to operate than they can write off, or get tax breaks for.

All the way until they've fucked the climate for everyone else.

Not that they care. If capitalism has an underpinning catch all catch phrase it's, without a doubt, "I got Mine, Fuck you" silhouetted over a picture of someone pulling a ladder up behind them.

Neoliberalism doesn't build, it extracts.

Societies that don't build don't stand for long, and then are forgotten by time because they left nothing to show for themselves.

Good on you. The world needs more of this

Be proud of this. don't lose this, don't let the world beat it out of you.

We got rid of them in the name of small government.

It was the Neo-liberal takeover ushered in under Reagan (and has been every president since) that shuttered the doors.

A constant, soul sucking feature of Neo-liberal society is it's refusal to invest or reinvest into itself, choosing to extract as much wealth out of the working class as possible as fast as possible - short of rioting.

Its a funny thing from this crowd, they say we should run the government like a business but they never say what KIND of business. A non-profit? A ma and pop?...silence.

Infrastructure, Education, Medicine all have a positive Return On Investment (ROI), which means that the smart business decision is to pay for it all, ensuring it's thorough, properly done, and to best practices.

But that is not what neo-libs mean. They mean short term profit corporations where responsible parties go unpunished.

The literal worst system you can imagine.

Honestly? It has a place of it's the last resort, if for whatever reason, a person's circumstances necessitate their constant presence and decision making ability.

Like, if there's no family the kids can go stay with, or if you're the last nuclear engineer/ER Dr./bar pilot within 1000 miles and you're already on call 24/7.

If you're presence/agency/rationality is more essential than your immediate health - and those examples could very well be - then, if you're able to compartmentalize esoteric you from physical you and cede control of the process to the prescribing doctor, ie, you just shut up, take the discomfort, ignore your brains opinion about anything that has to do with it and carry on, then methadone might be an option for you.

If you can in anyway manuever your life to avoid methadone, I 110% suggest you do that.

Withdrawal from methadone can last 6 months to a year. Withdrawal from opiates is a matter of weeks, not months. With ibogaine that's reduced to ~16hrs. Ibogaine is curiously illegal, and rated schedule 1 (no medical value, nothing to see here; look away) in America.

Sigh. Deep breaths. Here we go

It's crucial to know that even tho they are within the same family; Vicodin/Percocet withdrawal ≠ heroin withdrawal ≠ fentanyl withdrawal. The shit is exponential, I am not exaggerating.

One acre of poppies yields 1 kg of opium. It will take 100 acres of poppies to yield 1 kg of morphine. Expounding;

1acre poppies= 1kg Opium 100kg Opium=1kg Morphine 100kg Morphine= 1kg heroin 100kg heroin = 1kg fentanyl

Withdrawal symptoms/intensity are directly proportional. I know this, anecdotally. Your brain in withdrawal will pull out every trick, every rationality it can grasp to convince you to get more of w/e. "Immediate-needs you" is attacking "Overall you"...or COO v CEO, sous v exec chef, quartermaster v captain. You are caught in the middle of a war between your brain and your body. You, what you would call you, your consciousness, is emergent from both. You are not your brain. Your brain is not seperate from your body either, even tho the ego sells convincingly, they both need each other. Recovery requires setting the ego aside ( {DEEP BREATH, HOLD ON!} which it absolutely does not want to do, it will do ANYTHING before it even allows itself to be back burnered, on a fucking timer even. In it's original, unadulterated form it is insessently needy and unrelentingly demanding. A tick is less demanding and it's literally sucking your blood. This is why ego death is so transformative. It's not that you changed, cuz it didn't you are still you, obviously, it's that you can now exist outside parameters defined by the ego. It fucking feels like you're dying too, the ego sells convincingly, but then *pop, * you're thru. And you're still you. Just with less weight. And why was that so hard? WTF self? Life is fucking weird).

Phew...

I'd argue, bite the bullet and reap what youve sown and get it done with. Cold turkey is like an old neighborhood beat down while structured is a 364 day jail sentence with 5 years probation - but it doesn't require "esoteric you" to reconcile yourself. The main problem with that, to me, is no matter where you go, there you are. You can't run from yourself. Many have tried. I'm not aware of any that have survived the attempt unscathed.

Now we can chemically synthesize fent so the hundreds of millions of poppy acreage, known as Afghanistan, just lost a whole lot of its value. ...notice how our military isn't there anymore. Weird, huh?

I wonder if it's the higher percentage of Neanderthal DNA.

Smokers also require more pain meds, not just the opiates but the -caines as well.

I have strawberry blonde hair and smoke. Any pain meds and me is like, 'turn it all the way up Dentist' or 'yea, Vicodin does nothing. That bottle is like 2 doses.'

I landed me a debilitating repetitive injury from work, and besides taking a lateral move, I needed pain meds just to function. The pain would spread from my shoulder/back/arm up my neck into my brain. I'm talking rapid onset migraines where I'd go blind.

First time, I was driving.

Not fun.

I didn't know that could even happen. Regardless, I needed help to work, then without them Id withdraw and be unable to work. Right down the slippery slope I went. Got to a point where I just said no more, idc what happens, took 10days off work, sat at home with 30 boxes of donuts, various one step meals, 20 gallons of choc milk and otter pops. Told myself, and everyone else, i was sick. I refused to make any decisions besides what to eat that was in the building for the entire time as I considered my mind compromised and sus.

I am exceptionally willful tho and can compartmentalize like it's the ADHD Olympics. Results will vary. I do not recommended the experience. 0/10. Dengue fever in a foreign land where I speak 0.5% of the language was more pleasant.

The difference is need. Itll work the pain first, what's leftover will work towards the high

Good health/no pain= to the moon 🚀

Also, I'm happy it helped you. It can be fantastic in a clinical setting.

While this is for sure life changing for those it helps, and magnanimous of this heroine, it is still chock full of shame that the motherfuckers who've twisted the system all up STILL get their win, no matter what.

I hope BRICS absolutely destroys the dollar, and when that falls, and the military and police no longer are getting paid, everything else'll fall too. Then the rich can be just as broke as everyone else, but they'll have food, supplies, jewelry so the armed will be making it out to mansion manor with the quickness. Like the next day.

And no, the police won't work to restore order. Work for free? Have you met these people before? Look at the last 20 years, those motherfuckers will be LEADING the looting.

Don't think they'll be any kind of ally tho, they'll be burning thru ammo taking out any one who even looks at them, you included. They're only about themselves, as evidenced, by everywhere.

I agree with what yr saying but it all makes me think you've never tried, whether on purpose or not, fentanyl.

Fent...makes you absolutely retarded when yr on it, but when you are, you are transported to the warm busom of God til you snap out of it. You don't care about anything, hunger, cold, any trauma, any worries, any stressors. It all melts away for that short amount of time.

Besides the physical addiction sending a need as strong as thirst in the desert, that reprieve from pain is addicting all it's own. A good majority of people actively using and seeking out fent assume they'll die from it, and they're fine with that.

I've never been on the ban drugs train, I think the subjective exploration of consciousness and meta-reality are incredibly important for people, be that in personal mental health and growth, artistically and spiritually. At the same time, I think letting Shamans control the flow isn't a terrible idea, but if implemented should also come with an end date after society comes to terms with itself. I think terminal patients should be given as much DMT as they want for as long as they want it, it's like making practice runs at the other side. I think ibogaine should be widely available for resetting addictions back to null, but that should prob be a guided trip, same thing with ayehuasca.

But fent shouldn't be allowed outside a medical setting. The opioid receptor is devil in a red dress; dance with the devil, devil don't change, devil changes you.

In a kinder society we would prescribe meds that turn off pain receptors, like the ones developed from jellyfish and other neurotoxins, but that would prob be stipulated with forced, active restraint bed rest. We don't use those now because pain let's us know when we push too far, otherwise we'd just keep reinjuring ourselves. But fent gives that absence of pain too, and coupled with the i-cant-stress-how-extreme-cravings people will look at the work necessary to holistically end their pains and just say, nah man. At the cost of everything. Parents abandoning children. Cuz once their high, they don't care. So they just plan to stay forever high.

I'm all for banning fent.

It's the embodiment of my second favorite malaphor "build a man a fire and he's warm for a night, but set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life"

If only the DHS or FBI, having tapped everyone's cell phones, would actively police those sending the death threats.

....if only...sigh

Since they don't, it appears that this is the society they prefer for us all to live in, which is even more chilling, imo.

Physicality doesn't scare me. People can see fuckwads like this OK Rep threatening fist fights and think they can do the same, but in America, where people pack heat to go to the playground, the dumb few who fuck around will find out real fast, and then those behind them thinking the same will watch as no charges come up due to stand your ground laws and basic self-defense survival instincts.

The public is being primed to lash out prior to the election. They'll try to raise the heat without it boiling over until next November, then everything is on the table, and rules only apply to the surviving losing actors. Just watch. The playbooks as old as time.

It's a sign of emotional maturity, frankly I'd call it a lynchpin to adulthood (so without it, yr still a child) when a person can realize that at any given moment the best version of them they can be, might just be as a supporting character to someone else.

Alright I can accept that.

Personally I consider the fetus a baby once it's viable. Thankfully, Technology has lowered the internal incubation time frame, in other words, preemies have a much higher survival rate now.

The ensuing sketch situations then, is that if a fetus can be external incubated from week 16 (just throwing a number out there, I have no idea what the current medical limit is) then do we mandate a birth, (I assume thru caesarian, I don't know if pitocin can induce whenever, but beyond that, I think pitocin needs to be way more restricted than it currently is. I'm no OBGYN, my opinion means nothing) forcing the women to carry to term, or does society pick up the tab for the next 5 months, cuz no ones jumping up to fund that. And then where does the infant go? Adoption is thrown out like it's a cure all and for some, sure, but I could read daily a novel case of child abuse in just foster care alone. There is no cure all.

The keao that all fetuses deserve personhood is insane. That makes miscarriages murder or manslaughter at best, and women can do everything right and still lose the child. Allowing the state fetal person hood will not only relegate women to 2nd class citizens without their own bodily autonomy but then we'll see state overreach, where miscarriages are treated as crimes and women are jailed for them.

We know that for a fact, because it's already happening down in Alabama.

So a person goes from advocating that all life is sacred at conception to jailing, terrorizing and traumatizing our girls. Our girls, many if whom are in a fragile state from having just had a miscarriage and distraught, and in their time of need and vulnerability, we lock them up and vring them up in charges?

Yo, bro. That cure is worse than the disease, ya get me? That's a traumatized, just for fucking funsies, woman who probably will never want to have children now. That's guaranteeing our falling birth rate drops off the cliff.

When women are too scared to have babies, un, I don't know if you know this, but THATS IT. Humanity no more. Civilization crumbles without enough young people to support the needs of the old. we are already staring down that loaded barrel, so instead of working to lower that gun, why are y'all raising more?

So we're clear, every women you know could have 2 kids and somehow afford them, but thats maybe 1000 women and when off in the big city there's 4 million women refusing any and all vaginal sex (the poophole's the loophole, guess what? your society still ends and those 2000 babies you know, they're all gonna starve with everyone else, cuz none of us subsistence farm anymore.

Linkedin is the utopia of liberal social media.

You're compared to all your peers, in the entire industry #globalization

You're never not applying for a new position. #gottagetthemgains

Work/life coaches with any influence have their followers looking like guppies, mouth open, pushing their way to the front, just waiting for their food. I've never seen boots licked to a polish before but got.damn. #trickledown

All in grindcore, no time off, work life balance? work IS life. #hereditarykneepads #itsnitslaveryifitsachoice

It's all the worst parts of work and none of the fun of social media. I don't know why anyone uses Linkedin at all. There are better ways at self-flagellation.

Y'know, 20 weeks was the compromise. Arguing fetal personhood is lunacy. LUN.A.CY. even the BIBLE disagrees with that. Compensation for murdered family members didn't have the pregnant wife at 200%. All of which is fucked anyway because it implies people are property, which is something the majority of us don't agree too today. The BIBLE also only mentions abortion ONE TIME and HOW TO GET ONE.

There is no Christian high horse here. I've read the bible. I've studied the bible, as in all I did for months was read that book, have a notepad for thoughts and notation. The Christian right have been manipulated into taking a position that prior to the 70s propaganda campaign they supported (look it up, it's true).

Are these the same people arguing against science and "wokeness" in school? What about their children's rights to factual knowledge or a degree from an accredited school? When do we, as a society, stop letting parents treat their kids as property? Because that's the core of what their doing, and their arguments come in bad faith.

They aren't gonna find the heaven their hoping for, not if that socialist carpenter who fucking hated bankers but loved dinner parties, drinking wine, chillin with the prostitutes. You KNOW JC was singing every fucking shanty known with them fishermen. He must've been the life of every party, by default, yea? Christ also said, so there's absolutely zero confusion, that those that seek forgiveness at the end will not be welcomed into heaven. The religion is modeled, in fact there's a couple books named it in the bible, on ACTS. The followers are supposed to embody the sentiment (WWJD? Letting JC into your heart - meaning to know his mentality so well you are just the kind of person who defaults to the same conclusion he does. So like 3 Christians I've met in my whole life will get to heaven, by the standards Jesus himself laid out)and lead the kind of life that gives to the point of hurting, having FAITH that their needs will be meet, thru the Lord. So a Christian, living the way we're supposed to, is potentially going hungry every night and giving/helping everyone they can trusting that God will send someone to help them. Faith only lives in the face of uncertainty and for those faithful, they'll feel no fear. You have to LIVE the gospel. It takes ACTS. Plural. Many. Daily. You have to be ready to be a martyr. You have to BE the saviour you seek. That's where you'll find heaven. And only there do you find moral high ground.

You can't put onto others that which you won't put on yourself. That includes opinions on how life should be led and what people "should" be allowed to do. People will do what they're gonna do, regardless of legality, imposing the trite into law (say, mixing your fabrics) just diminishes the law, not the person. You can make giving water to the thirsty illegal and it's the law that's the monster there, not the human. Well, the humans behind the law are. Definitely.

So shit man. King Solomon didn't think a baby was of the same value as a grown woman. For almost all of human existence children weren't named until they were thought to survive. First it was 3 years, then naming, then 1 year (as SCIENCE improved) etc.

If science has done one thing, just ONE thing we should all be proud of, it's reducing infant mortality for both the child and the mother. It's assumed they'll both survive now. This essentially presupposes the current argument. We are coming from a condition of Aplenty to even have this argument. Thanks to science, not God - unless you think he's behind the scientists - but then you'd have to accept the scientific definition of zygote, fetus and child - cuz God sent all that right?

God commanded us to be good shepards and use our agency. Part of our agency is what seperates us from beast, and that's our rationality. To be a Christian worthy of heaven you Must. Be. Rational. or not only are you complacently living in sin by ignoring what God wants for us, but you are actively throwing away your God given gifts and FLAUNTING it with pride, hiding behind a misunderstood version of faith.

I never said I was against voting, quite the opposite actually.

I'm just trying to temper expectations back to reality. Voting for change when you have two options 1. Status quo, even tho everyone acknowledges it's not working - for us anyways 2. Fascism.

Ya see how only one side offers change, and that change is terrifying?

The Dems are essentially incapable of leading change that benefits everyone, and when they do pass big policy, it's Republican policy (Welfare to work, 3 strikes, ACA).

Unfortunately for anyone concerned with the future or wanting better, be that the youth or progressives, Liberals (moderate "Democrats", commonly called centrists nowadays)vision of society is what we have. Trickle down. Subscription model everything. Yada yada. When all you care about is money (which is implied by being pro-corporate, socially conciliatory) all you care about is not rocking the boat. It's the mayor of DC naming the street Black Lives Matter to placate unrest, NOT to do ANYTHING actual meaningful, but to do something trite and superficial that liberals can close their ears off to anything else while they point and say "I did something".

Voting my guy, is the START of defense. It is not offense. The difference is CRUCIAL if effecting change is your actual goal. We need precise language, expectations, and goals to ward off the liberal duplicity and double speak. I'm on your side man, I'm just trying to flesh out some of the nuance your way.

And yo, don't at me, we gotta be better than that in an exchange of ideas. You don't know where I'm coming from. I just lost my house and every fucking thing Ive ever owned, and my hedgehogs, on the 5th of July (neighbors fireworks, FML fr). I'm a little busy trying to stay warm and clothed this winter instead of leading a protest, sorry if that doesn't fit your timetable, it doesn't fit mine either.

Conservatives should love this, as it's part of the Original plan right?

Uncap the house. More reps = less power per rep.

I will ALWAYS err on the side of diluting power. Always, All ways.