That’s an impressive bit of false equivalence you’ve got there. Amazon is a private company, censoring one of its global properties according to local custom in order to minimize risk of brand-damaging (and therefore costly) negative publicity, and following the contract they signed with the producers of said…

I thought as much :).

Wife used to work as engineer for auto company in socal, FF were poaching a LOT of top talent all over town last year with top salaries and promises of future profit sharing; MANY ppl thought it was actually Apple behind the scenes early on since the money and ambition seemed to be endless.

3. High rates of unionization which drove working class wages higher and made the dream of a better life possible.

How dare you come here with facts!!!! This is internet; Dumb here only!

I worked on one of the early prototypes when I interned at Honda R&D in Ohio a few years back. Ohio is in America.

Awe! People like you that don’t understand international commerce are cute. Why don’t you weave a nice tall tale about the return of factory jobs while you’re at it. 

If a Ridgeline is built in Alabama, and Ram is built in Mexico, which one is more Murican?

Obviously someone got an 11 killstreak.

The truth is painful sometimes. You are probably old enough to know this.

Jesus Christ, you’re right. Each successive day is met with such staggering levels of corruption and ineptitude that I practically don’t even care anymore.

We’re fucking doomed, so what.

It may have been better if he used the money to buy income producing hard assets held under numbered companies registered in Bermuda or some similar tax haven type locale.

When someone like this uses non-violent means to exploit a fuck-up by the bank, he faces jail. Yet, when banks blatantly & fraudulently steal trillions from average people & taxpayers, none of them even get arrested.

Well no, because you can be traced.

I see you have thought this through. :)

Dumb shit

Most people don’t give two shits about the planet. They’ll burn it up if it means they keep their job or get a pay raise with minimal effort.

I wonder if, in later years (should we survive this administration) folks will speak of the Trump Baby Bust in contradistinction to the Baby Boom. You are only one of many many people I’ve heard say they are now reconsidering having children.

My husband has major baby-fever, and there was a super cute kid at the place where we had dinner last night. You start to think, “What if ...”

And then you read shit like this. Nevermind.