Tom Wolfe would call those retail middle management positions “gray lard” jobs. Good people, such as yourself, intelligent or humane, move on, so those who are left are the B-Ark material. It’s no wonder those places inevitably go under.

What kind of human is such a lickspittle, such a company man, that he would sell his fellow humans down the road for...what? An extra 3% raise?

I assume Whole Foods did treat their employees pretty well. But as usual, management will always sell out, given enough money. Perhaps antitrust regulators could decide that it’s not in the citizenry’s best interest for Amazon to control everything, no? Bueller?

Worker support was eroded by the brainwashing of the working class by the Republican message machine, the most successful and prolonged propaganda campaign in history. It’s the American blue collar worker who is suspicious of unions these days. Observe the automatic charges of corruption against them, while Wall…

No. Unions won when their struggle gained political recognition, when politicians were forced by public sentiment to support them, over their corporate masters. This won’t change in our age while the Republican message machine so completely hoodwinks the lower class into voting against its own interests.

That is neither here nor there when it comes to the necessity of unions. We obviously didn’t close down Wall Street banks after their corruption and incompetence almost bankrupted the country. Whelp, that’s it for capitalism... Do you set your car on fire when a CV joint breaks?

What a bunch of horseshit. That’s not why unions existed. What planet were you on in the 20th century? My grandmother unionized the auto industry with Walter Reuther. I grew up in Detroit. There were tens of thousands of middle class black families, sending the first generation of black kids to college, all because of…

Hey, you read NT Greek. Cool. Homer has a lot of useful things to say along these lines, as well.

Rein. As in horses.

Mother of pearl is not ivory.

Keister has been in the English language for a long ass time. Read a book, bro.

Sarcasm, dumbass.

The thing is, such people, psychopaths, people on power trips, narcissists, are precisely those who are drawn to become cops. And police departments no longer do psychological screening to weed those people out. And they turn away more educated applicants, when more education almost always equals more tolerance. Once…

Yep. It sucks that the rectification of injustice awaits a pretty white girl. People, when they see or read about a tragedy, are always making comparisons to themselves. Guy dies of lung cancer? He smoked, right, so I’m off the hook? Kid involved in armed robbery? He’s from a broken home, so I don’t have to worry my…

Black-on-black crime is an epidemic. Whites committing 85% of white homicides? Oh, that’s not a thing. What’s the problem?

Yeah. It’s like saying “there are whites out there who are glad mostly-black parishes in LA were swamped during Katrina.” Well, not most whites, just the mother of the president of the United States.

Punk, or prog-rock, band name?

Remember how Hillary’s emails were somehow daily headlines while Trump was confessing to serial felony sexual assault on videotape? America’s journalists are just terrible hacks (for the most part). Are they all millennials who grew up on fast-edit movies, and can’t take five minutes to think through something, or…

So they basically put the life of this very decent religious leader in jeopardy for yuks. Did they not realize that dudes who assaulted a Washington pizza place, with guns drawn, because they fell for a “Hillary child prostitution ring” story are NOT going to spray bullets at every mosque in Texas at this point?

You’re forgetting that Seoul is within artillery range of NK. A city of (Jesus, just looked it up) 22.5 million people, holding the vast majority of SK’s infrastructure and manufacturing, could be wiped out with conventional weapons and overrun by the world’s largest army before the US could usefully respond.