I am deeply interested in the thoughts of billionaires who benefit from the incomparably greater amount of work other people perform to provide them with obscene amounts of wealth so they can find a comfortable balance between exploiting workers and flying in dick rockets for fun.
HenchmanNumber3
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Citizens who do not support the mere notion of government are forfeiting their best chance to ensure a world that works for their shared common interests as members of the public.
People who support corporate hegemony and anarcho-capitalism are boot-licking authoritarianism. They are distracted by daydreams that they will be micro-authoritarian feudal lords and not the serfs being crushed under the corporate boot.
If drug use while pregnant is child endangerment, then society should be indicted whenever a woman is denied all the prenatal care necessary to deliver a healthy baby regardless of her income or wealth, otherwise we'd be prosecuting people for being poor. Oh wait, we already do that in other scenarios! My bad. Carry on!
If you have to coin a phrase for it, I'd say something like comparative minimization rationalization.
I sincerely appreciate that WSJ thinks their propaganda is so important that I'd want to pay to read it.
This sounds like a walkaway hashtag comment.
Never try to do anything good because bad might inadvertently result from the action.
It's possible that they thought the first one didn't post and kept trying. Sometimes you get a timeout error and return to the editable text with the post button again but the post already went through.
The Superman problem. Main sources of conflict tend to involve depowering, fighting another godlike, or threatening people they care about. Over and over again.
The Lancet published a study comparing the COVID infection rate and death rate in the 50 states. It concluded that “SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 deaths disproportionately clustered in U.S. states with lower mean years of education, higher poverty rates, limited access to quality health care, and less interpersonal trust — the trust that people report having in one another.” These sociological factors appear to have made a bigger difference than lockdowns (which were “associated with a statistically significant and meaningfully large reduction in the cumulative infection rate, but not the cumulative death rate”).
The states with less education and higher poverty rates, etc. were more likely to be red states that opened up sooner, so lockdowns likewise corresponded to fewer infections and fewer deaths.
Look at Alabama and Oregon. Similar population sizes. Alabama opened up earlier and had about three times as many infections and deaths (or more).
You don't have to like her music, but you have to respect her ability to sell her image and music.
Actually this is a point of conflict for some of her fans. Some of my friends are swifties and they hate consumerism and high concert prices and collectibles and marketing that incentivize FOMO to spend more money. They jokingly call her their capitalist queen.
What a coincidence! My deeply held religious beliefs in a new religion I just made up holds all LGBTQ+ books as sacred religious texts...