Meanwhile, Republicans are driving hard at reverting back to the originalist ‘voting rights’ — that is, voting was only for white, wealthy, landing-owning men — and their voters cheer at everything they do towards that goal. An unholy alliance of the corrupt and the stupid.

Yes, but this shifts the focus of the playerbase’s frustrations away from the devs directly and onto the this powerless player council. Other players get to act as a buffer and blame-catcher, while Blizzard gets to look ‘better’ for being more ‘receptive’ to player feedback (which they will still summarily dismiss,…

The entire population of North America (600m) and Europe (700m) combined is almost equal to China’s. But that’s dozens of countries across two continents. There’s a reason why so many companies and corporations bend over backwards to appease China’s governmental whims and demands.

It’s not so much that they should be locked at a specific figure so much as it should be based on what the *lowest* paid employee or contracted laborer for the company is making. To wit, I would cap salaries at 10x the lowest paid laborer or contractor. That would also include overseas contract labor. Adios, outsourcin…

“But all that was in the distant past!” — racists

Monuments to iconic or socially significant black people: defaced and vandalized repeatedly and often.
Monuments to white people who have done monstrous things: left alone for decades, even centuries.

Staffed by some of the same people who caused all the problems that has given Activision Blizzard serious legal headaches now. Yeah, that’s cause for concern, because it illustrates that nothing was learned and nothing has changed — it will be the same kind of harassing, discriminatory workplace as before, just under…

If we’re being honest, the entire Biden administration, Harris included, is being set up to fail. Thanks to some backstabbing democrat ‘centrists’ and the unhinged GOP blockade, everything the rest of the Democratic party, from the White House down, is trying to do is being undermined and sabotaged.

Just because they *FAILED* to overthrow a legitimately elected government because of their incompetence doesn’t mean they shouldn’t all be thrown in prison for the rest of their lives. Failure is not a defense of intent and actions. They intended to seize control. They tried to seize control. Just like an attempted…

But then they’re not slaving away for the Corporate America meat grinder! What about Quarterly Earnings reports! Profit margins! Won’t someone think of the billionaires?!

Admittedly unions in other sectors probably don’t have the same sorts of liability, but if you make it so that unions that defend people who steal money or embezzle are liable to repay that money, it would have a chilling effect on the power of unions to protect people from wrongful terminations.

Yup. That could have easily gotten someone killed, and anyone who has been paying attention to law enforcement ‘priorities’ over the last decade (at least) knows exactly which ‘someone’ it would have been — the innocent black man.

Again, until the cost of defending these ‘officers’ comes out of *UNION* coffers, the incentive structure is completely misaligned with good public service. Fired officers don’t pay union dues anymore. Hired ones do. The incentive is to keep every officer working, no matter how awful they are, because the awful ones…

“What if there’s a problem?”

So ‘black’ being the only thing he had in common with the description given to the officers was is totally good enough to arrest and detain someone for nearly a month.

There are two things that are a good gage to just how screwed up the government of a country (or state or city) is — the scope of its homeless and impoverished populations. If they can’t address issues that simple, then there’s an iceberg of other issues going unaddressed as well, because the focus is not on serving…

Having worked in exactly that kind of situation, I can confirm it routinely goes haywire when people in critical roles go on vacation for more than a day or two (ie long weekends). And whenever I went on vacation, nobody else could do what I did, so all the work that came in while I was away was waiting for me when I…

Because the people ‘at the top’ almost never got there by being good, smart, ethical people. They got there by being selfish, self-centered assholes. And since they’re still getting their fat paychecks, the ‘problem’ is somebody else’s.

Poking fun at a social issue respectfully? Okay, sure. Making fun of a social issue after it’s been resolved? Sure, whatever. Being foul and crass about a social issue that’s killing people on a daily basis? Not. Okay. Not ever. Just like it’s not ‘okay’ or ‘funny’ to point and laugh as cops beat and kill an unarmed…

“Those who do not learn from history...” and all that.