hiddengoat @ hiddengoat @kbin.social

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Yes, it is in fact about the POTUS being a fucking moron that dismantled the pandemic response team and spewed nonsense about the CDC and vaccines on a daily basis.

This isn't even a Nixon situation where he's throwing shit he knows to be false at the wall in hopes it sticks. This is Trump literally not understanding the difference between Executive Branch policy enforcement and Judicial Branch civil/criminal proceedings.

HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS MAN EXIST?

Fucking brown-nosing enablers and people that are smarter than him using him as a tool, that's how.

Announce thing, stock price spikes, don't do thing.

Is that not market manipulation?

Because trademarks are about market. There is no reason for a business in California to have a say over what a business in New York is named if neither will be entering the other's market.

It happens sometimes that two businesses will have the same mark in different markets but one outpaces the other in growth. If one starts encroaching on the other it typically comes down to a determination of which one was used first in that area. This is why you have the example I gave. It's also why Burger King is called Hungry Jack's in Australia.

Another issue is one of identification. Is this mark associated with this business? Unless you happen to live in an area where there's a Taco John's did you even know they existed? I had never heard of them because the nearest one to me in is fuckin' Arkansas about 400 miles from here. They're concentrated in the midwest. It's a regional chain. Why should they have any claim to a trademark in Florida? Simple answer is: They shouldn't and don't. The term is too generic and has been used by places that sell tacos for longer than this company has been around. They knew they would lost just on basic facts and no matter how they try to spin it as "BIG COMPANY BAD" the fact is they shouldn't have had the mark in the first place.

This is Taco Bell using its size and wealth to take something from smaller players so that it could make money with it.

This is bullshit. The other companies can claim that they're abandoning their marks due to cost but the truth of the matter is these marks should not have been issued. Neither were the first to use "Taco Tuesday." The phrase "Taco Tuesday" has entered everyday parlance. Unless you live near one of these restaurants you may not even know they run a "Taco Tuesday" and, most important of all, you may not even realize that they have a trademark on the term because it's so generic.

And that's the real issue, and the reason they abandoned the mark. Any IP attorney would have looked at this told them it was a complete waste of money to defend because they never should have been granted the marks in the first place.

Sure, don't generalize cops.

I'll stop the moment they stop generalizing minorities, teenagers, and poor people.

Until then, dick yourself in the mouth so I don't have to fucking hear your dumb ass speak.

Sincerely,

Grandson of a former police chief that quit because he literally couldn't fire enough people to de-shit the force he took over.

Dead, because they're a priority target.

Open carry is for inch-dick assholes.

It's like this... you know when you hear about some cop that has a history of violence that somehow escapes punishment right up until they kill someone? You know... like happens with alarming regularity?

In every circumstance there were DOZENS of officers that kept quiet. There were DOZENS of people that refused to say anything, that would go as far as lying in open court about activities, in order to protect a fucking coworker.

THAT is why all cops are bastards. They value being a cop and protecting cops more than they value PROTECTING AND SERVING THE PEOPLE THEY ARE BEING FUCKING PAID TO PROTECT AND SERVE.

They are a gang. Every force, everywhere, no exceptions.

Here's a better idea than throwing millions upon billions at a bunch of sociopathic cunts that don't care about anything but themselves... fire all of them and start paying social workers what they're actually worth. Instead of an armed police force you have people that live within a given community that are trained in deescalation, that know how to handle people with mental health issues, that are FAR better at handling high stress situations than any cop ever has because social work is uncaring, unforgiving, underpaid shit work that you only do if you actually want to help people and that needs to fucking change.

Defund the pigs and give their money to actual professionals.

I'd tell you to go blow yourself but it's clear your mouth is already filled with corpocock.