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Like with every single thing that humans try to do to help each other, corporations have figured out how to exploit it for themselves.

We feel like tipping helps people because literally handing money to someone SHOULD help them. Except what actually happens is that corporations, with the full support of the government that they own, simply use that social convention to offset the wages that they have to pay their staff.

It's not complicated to say that I don't want my tax dollars to provide weapons to blow up people in their homes.

A distinction without difference since he isn't even asking Congress to pull funding nor is he even calling on anyone to just stop killing people.

Just one more little reminder that American democracy is an illusion and the choice that most of us get is as meaningful as "coke vs Pepsi".

Who are you supposed to vote for if you are against sponsoring genocide?

The Democrats think that supporting genocide will still leave them with enough daylight between them and the actual fascists of the GOP, but it isn't going to make people run to the polls on election night and Americans deserve an actual choice.

This is why the whole "marvel vs DC" thing is fucking stupid. Most people don't know or care about that difference, they just know they saw a shitty superhero movie. Better movies overall help both companies.

That's exactly it, and this is also why the media CONSTANTLY "discovering" that Trump is a Nazi is just signal boosting his campaign content.

Maybe in another eight years they will move on from "dae notice that Trump is a racist fascist Nazi?" And instead start saying "don't vote for racist fascist Nazis, do this instead."

It tells us a lot about whoever wrote that speech and is planning to run a Trump Whitehouse.

Lower Decks is awesome. The only thing I didn't like about Picard is that romulans and vulkans need to wear nametags if they are both going to wear federation uniforms.

PB Glizzy, nuclear weapons, computers, same basic difference.

These farms produce alfalfa for animal feed, almost exclusively. We just don't need the amount of meat that we currently consume, it's just about the least efficient way to turn water into food. We could just lose these farms entirely and it would just make steak and dairy products a bit more expensive, which they probably should be given the massive environmental impact from producing them.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/12/colorado-drought-water-alfalfa-farmers-conservation

Why can't we put companies in prison for shit like this?

Fair enough, so who is getting executed for this one?

C) charge them the for the water they are pulling out of a river they don't actually own.

They decided to farm in a desert because they could pass the enormous cost of doing so to other people. They aren't owed shit.

I want to know what is wrong with people that they vote to protect abortion but then ALSO vote gross Christian fundies into office.

It's just racism isn't it?

Right? He wants all the unofficial but traditional perks and benefits of being a president without being bound by all the traditional obligations and expectations of the office.

It's like he thinks being rich gives him an exception to all this shit, but he's to stupid to realize that MOST American Presidents are rich, many of them more than he'll ever be.

That's Trump's whole life. He thinks being rich cures him of rules and obligations, but then he wants into "high society" because of the access and authority that it provides. But that price of admission to that circle isn't JUST about being rich, it's about following the very rules that Trump doesn't feel bound by.

It's why the only thing he can think to do with the office of the president is trying to find cool stuff to show people to make people fonally like him.

This is America, even rich people can be trash.

Except sports.

Or maybe they literally blew up their whole continent and got to start over again after learning how shit worked.

Europe is old, but their current governments and infrastructure isn't.

Should a Jewish photographer be required to work the klan themed wedding of Baron Trump to the reanimated corpse of Eva Braun? Just because they were asked to?

A single proprietor business should be allowed to deny any job that they aren't comfortable working, just like any employee of a company could refuse to work such a job.

I don't like bigots either, but requiring a photographer to work at whatever event wants to hire them is absurd. You don't lose all right to autonomy just because you offer a service, least of all a service that provides nothing that anyone actually needs.

I would refuse to work at a Trumper wedding, so I'm glad we have the right to say no to that. That's the whole point of this ruling.

If this was a photographer of color refusing to work a klan wedding no one would be arguing that they shouldn't have been allowed to say no.