Topham hat is a cruel master

He’s the richest man in history. Commrade Nolan, therefore, hates his fucking guts. Nothing complex about this.

Remarkably stupid blog post, you’re welcome.

Granted...just seems that Amazon/Bezos is a convenient and frequent whipping boy around these parts. 15x the posts for about a quarter of the proposed incentives (based on my city’s proposal). Rather ironic considering GMG takes the king’s shilling while doing so.

This feels like invented outrage.

I ordered 9 things on amazon this weekend and i hope my city wins the amazon 2nd HQ. The biggest employer here pays no local property tax and was incentivized to build here. Then it brought 20k professional jobs to the area. This town has gone through a massive boom because of them and its a great city.

Are we using linear time? The whales we extincted or almost extincted happened in the 1800s. The whales the Japanese hunt aren’t endangered.

That’s a great way to get shot.

The Antarctic Minke whale population is over 500,000. An annual catch of a few hundred will not affect that population in any meaningful way. There are plenty of reasons not to hunt whales, you don’t need to come up with bullshit new ones.

I’m failing to see a real issue here. A quick wiki search shows the Minke whale population at 515K per a 2012 study, if Japan is sticking to their quota (333) they are only killing 0.06% of the population. Not nearly enough to have any negative impact on the population.

Yeah that’s a great idea /s

International waters aren’t lawless, they just aren’t anybody’s territorial waters. Anti-piracy laws are still enforced.

It’s international waters, just go full pirate at this point. I’ve seen what Sea Shepard calls their “direct action”, it pretty much amounts to them pissing in the wind.

I watched Whale Wars when it was on, and I never understood why THIS is the hill those environmentalists choose to die on. There are over 500,000 Minke whales and they take 300 of them and make use of most of the whale?

I’d rather see them spend their time fighting shitheads who cut the fins off sharks and toss them…

Because that would end the anti-whaling group for good and give the Japs fully unchallenged whale killing.

I agree, I’d love to see the US grow its own solar industry more - more investment in research, more products manufactured. Tell your DC electric officials to add this into the proposal...maybe our voices will help.

Careful, not admitting that America is the Worst Nation in the World {its Not} Leaves you open to attacks and being labeled a Racist. You know Americans have to make everything about them, and nobody has it worse.

Yeah, 65% of 20 million people can’t get water and you are using this as a point of US-centric masochism. Fuck off. There is nothing hilarious about dead Pakistanis due to lack of clean water.

Wait, are you implying that the US colonized the subcontinent, then allowed the partition, then caused Pakistan to be a nightmare? Because that is ahistorical at best and a lie at worst.

without taking like 90% of the blame for creating it