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That the shareholders push for things in their interest over that of the company doesn't exactly strike me as conspiratorial thinking. Nearly everyone in an organization will push for what's best for them.

Maintaining a healthy organization is in nearly everyone's best interest, but if you have a small group of decision makers who are not invested in the health of the organization, they'll be willing to make decisions at the expense of the organization.

The domestic producers are plenty active too.

And while inflation has come down (prices have stopped climbing), a lot of prices have not (they are still where they climbed up to) nor will they. So people are still facing sticker shock at the grocery store and gas station (keep in mind that until the COVID supply chain inflation hit, we'd spent over a decade with the Fed unable to get inflation up to 2%). Until wages come up enough to counter that sticker shock (they've come up some, but not this much), insisting that the economy is in good shape is going to come across as 'pissing on my leg and telling me it's raining' even to people who don't seek out reactionary disinformation.

When your political project is 'make everyone as miserable as I am', whining about every goddamn thing is actually a kind of praxis.

This looks to have taken place when Jack was still in charge there. Not that Elon hasn't spent every waking hour since the buyout proving himself to be terrible, but it's useful to remember that just because the current guy is really bad doesn't retroactively make the guy before him good.

Ending the black market the cartel thrives in is the proper way to deal with them. Waging an endless 'war' on a vague concept that makes the most vicious cartel leaders fabulously wealthy is clearly not.

Now is there a particular reason that you're playing devil's strawman all over this thread?

They'll almost certainly try to (and some people who are currently involved may see some success). But they won't have their de facto monopoly anymore. And these organizations are rife with internal corruption (shocking, I know); they aren't being run efficiently.

Without their monopoly profits, they aren't going to be able to afford the hit squads, the bribed law enforcement, or the silence of the people who know where the bodies are buried (often literally).

Crime won't magically fall to zero overnight, but these organizations will not be having a good time.

If legal alternatives undercut their main income stream, yes, they'll disappear. Or rather, they'll fall apart as their resources become scarce and the 'middle managers' being cut out of the remaining money start fighting the higher ups and each other.

Ending alcohol prohibition didn't strengthen the bootleggers. It put them out of business as Budweiser ate their lunch.

If we suspect the Saudis did this, we should absolutely look into it, and if they did, stop providing them with weapons.

But while we're auditing who may have used American weapons to kill migrants, we might want to check on this little organization called Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Devil's Milkshake

The CPC doesn't deserve defense. The most reactionary Tiananmen protester was more communist than any Dengist since then was.

At last, able-bodied adults will join kids and pets in checks notes dying in a hot car

The state party isn't gonna support a primary against him. It'll just be Paula Jean Swearengin running a doomed campaign like in 18 (the last time she primaried him) and 20 (when she ran against our other nepo baby senator)# .

The good that comes from that, from the perspective of the boss-landlord is that if your employee-tenants start getting the idea to strike, you control both their income and their shelter, so they reconsider.

Then you offer on-site housing to your scabs.

9/11, Never Forget.

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Ah fuck, it's been scraping the Facebook comments under every math problem with parentheses that was posted for 'engagement'

Not that lakes don't get rough (just ask Gordon Lightfoot), but they tend to be a bit more limited.

It looks like there are some larger (and as such probably more protective) islands nearby that they can evacuate to.

As far as untested tech solutions to climate change go, I'll gladly take artificial albedo over the "let's blot out the sun" that they've been floating the last few years.

As much Saudi money as he burned though, I'm expecting him to leave an embassy in a half dozen suitcases.

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