Exactly. Without legal slavery, segregation and the subjugation of women, there’s only one way to have a large, cheap, uneducated work force: end all reproductive freedom, destroy the middle class.

Again and again, this is partly religious and partly economic. Before women poured into the workforce in the late 60s/early 70s, your average white man had an unpaid indentured servant who performed cooking, housework and childcare in exchange for free room and board, leaving Daddy free to smoke and work. This was…

Chemicals! You don’t want chemicals in your body, do you?

I’ve never even gotten anyone who is into detox stuff to tell me what any of these supposed toxins actually are.

I feel like there are two kinds of people in the world.  People who don’t need to be told this, and people who won’t believe you.

The really funny part is the Unsullied themselves had no idea what their name referred to until Season 3.

Is it pretty universally acknowledged that GoT got bad in the last few seasons though?

I tend to cringe at fandom names, but... wow.

Most retail companies have a single policy to avoid possible litigation: do not ever lay a hand on a customer/patron. This includes trying to stop shoplifting or even defending/intervening in an assault because both can open up employees and companies to lawsuits by the offender if they get injured on the premises.…

I think what’s happening in San Francisco demonstrates that supervised injection sites aren’t enough. Harm reduction efforts like that have to include an effort to drive, maybe even force people using things like a safe injection site into treatment.  Letting people be fentanyl addicts until they kill themselves is an…

Third, Starbucks made $6.2 billion in profit in the first quarter of this year.

While clothes washing does have to take place it DOES not have to take place in a coffee shop restroom which is a private business NOT a public accommodation.

Considering shoplifting is increasingly made legal for all intents and purposes (look at the current state of affairs in San Francisco) and if an employee defends themselves from assault they face being fired (admittedly on the company) and/or sued for doing so those ‘laws’ don’t amount to a hill of beans.

His solution? Why, shuttering numerous stores, potentially leaving scores of the employees he’s purportedly concerned for temporarily without an income or health coverage, of course!

One of the locations closing is in Union Station in DC. And that whole place has become a major shitshow since the start of the pandemic. And yes, I do blame the local politicians who have no plan for dealing with the homeless crisis beyond handing out tents and then sending the police to raid and dismantle…

Okay, but when I worked at a Starbucks in Santa Cruz like 20 years ago there were homeless people shitting on the floor of the bathroom and washing their clothes in the toilet. Guess who had to clean that up? The employees. Guess who successfully lobbied to close the bathroom to the public? The employees. Does that…

“It has shocked me that one of the primary concerns that our retail partners have is their own personal safety,”

He’s not wrong. Look at the recent number of drugstores closing. Why bother to try and run a business when your ‘patrons’ are either assaulting your employees or robbing you blind and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it. The cops won’t even show up.

The “cop sucking” morons are full of shit, just look at Jan 6th for the truth.

The corrupt Aurora Police seem like a perfect unit to defund. Same with the seditious Secret Service by the way.