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  • Short sighted for who? Executive compensation is tied to stock performance via options. If their actions boost the stock price in the short term, what do they care about the companies performance at a future date after they've cashed out?

    We're currently in the extraction phase of our neoliberal economic system's lifecycle and it's only downhill from here.

  • Learn what? This was the intended outcome: layoffs without severance or unemployment.*

    *Unemployment benefits aren't totally off the table due to the companies changing of job requirements, but that's going to depend on local laws and individual employee circumstances.

  • So...Pitbulls were bred for a purpose, just like all other working dog breeds.

    That doesn't mean they're all inherently dangerous dogs, but it does mean they carry significantly more risk then other breeds.

    Unless you actually believe that they're the only working breed not created by selectively breeding for specific hereditary behavioral characteristics?

    Mind you, I actually like pitbulls, but that doesn't mean I should disregard what I know about the breed itself and why they were originally created.

    Also FYI that article is about personality, not breed specific characteristics.

  • You are leaving out the historical context of hyper violent insane independent action for honor mindset of the soldiers within the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy (IJA/IJN).

    This culture of insubordination included a widespread belief that they did not to have obey civilian commands, and is largely responsible for ground level soldiers deciding on their own to kick off the war in Manchuria.

    It's entirely reasonable to envision a counterfactual version where either one of, or both the IJA and IJN refuse to surrender, or even just large contingents within either.

    I'm not saying this to invalidate anything you've said, but I do think it's highly relevant context when considering any alternative ways that could have gone.

  • What if you couldn't just go on? What if their negligence seriously and permanently harmed you i.e. burns from scalding coffee, toxic chemical contamination, etc.?

    Is the risk of hospitalization, or major surgery, just an L to shrug off?

    Again, I ask you: why do you think a fast food company would want to sneak in an arbitration clause?

  • Look, the worst that could happen is that he murders you, but honestly, he probably won't.

    It's more likey he'll probably just wear you down emotionally until you support him financially, while he stays at home and takes out credit cards under your name.

    On the plus side, I bet he'll fuck like a racehorse on the rare days when he isn't too dipped, or shit faced.

    Edit: Just noticed you added that he's a veteran with PTSD, and yes, that changes my answer: he will probably murder you.

    Not just because he's a veteran with PTSD, but because he's clearly a massively damaged and dangerous person AND has war trauma.

    Most likely outcome: strangulation.

  • Anyone who's name is an anagram for The Reptile invalidates your entire premise...

    Additionally, he's also probably had at least one of his former boytoy lover's killed and he's just generally an awful human being who's entire goal is immiserate everyone he doesn't intend on sharing his doomsday bunker with.

  • This isn't a bad thing, or a good thing, it's just a geopolitical reality.

    Serbia is still within even a weakened Russia's sphere of influence, and is unlikely to move towards Europe.

    But with Russia not looking so great, they still need geopolitical allies to invest and help grow their economy, possibly help with security i.e. technology.

    China actually helped Serbian nationalists during their Kosovo genocide, and got their embassy in Belgrade bombed because of that. Well, because they let the Serbs use a part of it as a signals and comms center. Point is, they have very recent historical ties.

    Also, Russia isn't in a position to really push back on China for anything, so, here we are.

  • No, the President can't just declassify ANY document with the stroke of a pen. Extremely sensitive information, for example nuclear weapons technology, has to be subjected to bureaucratic review process to determine what can actually be declassified, or not.

    But none of that is relevant to this situation, so it wouldn't solve it. Judge Cannon would simply generate additional reasons to delay the trial.

  • Why should they know better?

    She, and Chuck Schummer, will always have more in common with Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump, then with any working class voter, or rank and file Democrat.

    They're two sides of the same coin, serving the same master.

  • It was a better UI and user experience then Android by the time it launched....but by the time it launched the smartphone market had already exploded and the app developer marketplace had already matured into a profitable sector. There was no incentive to attract enough developers to build out a similar ecosystem on the late to the party Windows Phone

  • He's not just the only anti-abortion Democrat serving in Congress, but party leadership and power brokers threw all of the influence and money that they could to defeat his challenger from the left during the last primary. He just barely won because they dragged him across the finish line.

    FYI this DOJ investigation and plenty more were known when the Democratic party establishment decided to invest all that time and effort into defeating his primary challenger.

    It didn't matter that he was a dirty scumbag who was staring down an indictment, he would vote how they wanted him to i.e. fuck the base and big ups the donor class.

  • Right, and that scenario along with the quote could just as easily been applied to the hypothetical alternative scenario I laid out on my last comment.

    This is just a terribly written and poorly sourced article that no editor should have allowed to be published.