And if they choose not to obey the state’s courts, what exactly are the consequences? They get everything wanted anyway — a complete elimination of democracy, where the only votes that matter are the ones the Republicans choose to allow. The perfect sham. Sure, they have to play the game more often, but if they’re…

This is one of several of McConnell’s key reasons for stacking the SCOTUS with conservative sycophants, the ultimate goal being to completely eradicate the rule of law and legitimate democracy. Something about still being butthurt about losing the Civil War and the elimination of slavery.

A fine idea saddled by the sad, sad realities of lousy internet for the vast majority of their intended audience. At some point, the major publishers and tech platforms need to gang up and lobby incumbent, sloth ISPs like AT&T and Comcast into submission. Because there’s literally no other way to get them to do…

Inequality is the leading cause of death for nations and empires. The next runner up is so far behind, if it were a race, inequality would have *lapped* it.

Sure but are weapons still made of wet tissue paper? Because I’ve had enough of that bullshit.

There are lots of converging technologies that have the potential to make something like this absolutely amazing. This, however, is definitely *NONE* of those things.

While you’re not wrong that there are people on both sides attacking unions at the behest of the ultra-wealthy corporate owners, the overwhelming majority of those attacks are being done by Republicans. So yes, on a technicality. But only if you don’t look at the full picture. Like saying the fascist crazies aren’t…

Remember when businesses taking actions against unions or unionizing efforts was legally actionable, when the DOJ went after businesses which tried to undermine or attack unions or unionization efforts? I do. Anyone else notice the deterioration of labor relations with businesses in the US that just happens to be in…

It is indeed an interesting hypocrisy to hear people call themselves ‘patriots’ and then bend of backwards in praise of some corrupt foreign superpower once money gets involved.

Yeah, there’s that, too. But you give that a *PROFIT* motive, and things achieve a whole new level of inhumanity.

It’s the for-profit prison mill system — prisoners who better themselves are less likely to return to prison, which reduces prison populations (for-profit prisons generate their profits off of prison population numbers) and reduces the number of inmates available for incarcerated labor (also where for-profit prisons…

There’s probably more than a grain of truth to that. Getting paid to just *look* like you’re doing stuff is certainly a lot easier than actually *DOING* anything. And, of course, all the rich-people shmoozing they do for personal gains would be negatively impacted by not bending over backwards to satisfying the…

I’m disappointed in his first year, but it has little to do with Biden and more to do with how many Democrats have assisted the GOP in sabotaging legitimate legislation and undermining any chance they will have next year in keep the GOP from taking over congress.

Mergers are usually like that regardless. It’s just temporary. They don’t *SAY* that it’s temporary, but it almost always is.

Honestly? Not likely. With the sole exception of small, grass-roots efforts, Democrats can’t stop tripping over themselves when it comes to doing just about anything (except for the things they’re in lockstep with Republicans over, like keeping the poor poor and the rich rich). But that’s a product of a political…

“You don’t own your body. You’re just license it from Omnicorp...for a ‘reasonable’ monthly fee.”

The gospel of middle and upper management types whose entire profession is predicated onmanhandling and intimidating employees into ‘maximized’ ‘productivity.’ In other words, a whole lot of bullshit and empty fluff talk to distract from the fact that the vast majority of them are dead weight, and they know it.

There are some logistical, technical, and security hurdles with a WFH model, certainly. But none of them are insurmountable either. What’s kept the larger industry from adopting it has more to do with general inertia — doing things the way they’ve always been done — that has already proven to be a self-inflicted…

This is the new normal, bub. The world-wide antivaxx crowd, not just those in the US, and nationalist greed has given Covid a fertile breeding ground to become an unstoppable mutating force of nature. It is *NEVER* going away. It’s a more contagious, more deadly ‘flu’ that has no ‘seasonal’ component to it. The only…

One does not, no matter how drugged up, spout racist shit without first being a racist shitbag at their core. The only thing the drugs did was remove her ‘social awareness’ filter from the things coming out of her mouth, so she’d say what she *REALLY* thought. You know, the ‘whole quiet part being spoken aloud’ deal.