Shirk blame, hoard the benefits — Corporate Suits in a nutshell. It’s always someone else’s fault if something goes wrong, but I’m solely responsible for things going well.

Except if she had been properly tested then, she would have been disqualified and never been allowed to participate in the Olympics in the first place. She cheated to get to where she is. The fact that she’s not cheating now is immaterial. And she’s not a child. In fact, in some countries, she’s a legal adult. She…

It’s almost as if systems that reward selfishness and greed produce progressively more selfish and greedy people.

The only way this setting could get more gruesome is if Kirby occasionally belched up partially digested human bones. I mean, the remorseless, bottomless pit that he is, it only makes sense where all the humans went...and I can’t say we wouldn’t have deserved it either.

First, the court doesn’t have the authority to draw district lines. They have even less authority than the existing legislature has to draw the offending unconstitutional one. Which, the state’s court has called unconstitutional, but that would have to go before SCOTUS to get the final answer. In the meantime...

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…