beebarfbadger @ beebarfbadger @lemmy.world

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Every. Single. Time.

Looking at the TP with my functional eyes? I am skeptical.

I’m sick of these private corporations fucking over all of us repeatedly and NOTHING being done.

You misunderstand the role distribution. The American people are not the ones who are being protected from the big companies in the country.

They are the prey being offered to the big companies.

The companies have won. They are paying the legislation to provide a buffet of easily exploitable, squeezable unprotected victims. Depending on whether you need medical procedures, an education, or are just unlucky enough to be chosen to become labour in the private prison complex due to being the wrong colour, the companies are just waiting for you to fall into their respective web, at which point they own you, suck you dry and leave you to bankruptcy or worse.

Not at all (as long as you're rich enough to bribe him and get served by his capers).

Not the breed, the institution holding the competition.

Fizzgig

Whoever disagrees on anything with Trump or is too weak to defend themselves when he needs a scapegoat for his failures.

that’s all held by the executive

From now on, that'll all be handled by the most rabid capitol rioters. If they demonstrate their loyalty by murdering undesirable political figures, the president will throw around pardons like it's his main competence.

and only Congress can unfuck us with impeachment

Yeah, how's that been working out so far?

So in other words, Trump can do whatever he wants as long as his cronies vote that it's okay.

The question wasn't "what came first - the chicken or the chicken egg?" The first chicken hatched from AN egg. Question answered.

Ooooh no. A government position would imply at least a shred of accountability. They'd lobby for privatisation. Failing that, they'd bribe the officials in charge to run the whole system into the ground so that they can argue a private entrepreneur could run it more efficiently, and then they'd do it with as little oversight as they can buy from their legislators.

The problem here is that it would reward the government for either a) punishing criminals but also b) framing innocents with the goal of taking their money. We're seeing how well that works with the private prison industrial complex. In essence, it just creates an industry of creating criminals where there were none.

Punishing criminals severely is great. Making it a business will end up with the worst kind of people optimising the revenue from it.

The cellphone has a range of 100km. That thing is amazing.

Any trained monkey can use it.

-He/llo there!

-Gender role Kenobi!

The thing is that, depending on your tastes, there's a good chance at least some of the new content will appeal to people, but I do absolutely understand getting that bad aftertaste every time you remember that it all leads canonically into those three movies and .... nyeeeerrrrgghhh.

By the way, it seems that even a good portion of the producers seem to at least partially share that feeling, which makes it doubly sad that disney is making almost everyone shoehorn in some hint of retroactively created foreshadowing with the goal of explaining that no, palps returning that way isn't the ass-pull it obviously was at all, nuh-uh!

I wouldn't necessarily say that they are not woke. If it maximises their returns, they will definitely do anything they think will get them the woke crowd's money (see also the shoehorned lesbian kiss in ep9). They will also do their best to get the money of the anti-woke crowd (see also: removing the black man from posters; keeping the lesbian kiss contained to five easily cuttable seconds for certain releases).

It's more correct to not think of them as woke nor not woke, they are just whoring themselves out to whomever they believe they can get to bring them the largest amounts of money (see the company's history of political donations).

You don’t see rushed straight relationships in Hollywood.

You may want to sit down now, because if you like, I can gather a list of all movies whose script contains the line

"and then the hero gets the girl despite there being no perceivable chemistry or other factors they have in common except him being the main character and her being The Girl^TM in the movie. They kiss. The End."

The less said about the sequel trilogy, the better, but do yourself a favour and don't miss out on watching Andor just because of the movies. That show is just really good and also incidentally Star Wars.

At least you won't have that particular problem again until you read about somebody who sneezed someone else's intestines out of his body.