This this this. Show me a conservative that a) can understand that different people are affected by different things at different times, b) that people in government need to accept (a), and c) that they aren’t the main character, and I’ll show you Half Life 3.

They literally control all the government. And they still couldn’t govern.

If the roles were reversed, I can’t even imagine the right wing media backlash.

And here I’ve just been shutting the power off for years!

(That’s on me, I should have put a /s by my pun above)

I wouldn’t say like, I just don’t know how to quit it.

Most times I listen to records.

For digital music, I have a local collection. I copy chunks of it to my phone periodically for remote listening.

Making people pay over and over again for the same product is the greatest trick businesses ever pulled.

I’ll take cherrypicking for $500, Alex

Yeah, this needs to get regulated away right quick. But it won’t.

Remember when “reaping the rewards” required “taking the risk”?

Clearly he’s saying “Trump stop”, another crazy lefty /s

I agree with you that it’s slow – and yet, it is one of the very few games I actually finished. That’s highly unusual for me. And then I went back and played it again.

It’s a game designed to be sipped, not gulped.

Something tells me it ended up in the hands of the people who coined “kompromat”.

I mean. It does make me feel better knowing I’m not actually alone.

This is part of the reason why so many on the right are labeling any use of “fascism” as dangerous rhetoric – to remove the ability to discuss current happenings in a more meaningful way.

Once shareholders feel entitled to endless increases in profit, the writing is on the wall. You cannot squeeze blood from a stone.

I’m sure this will only bolster his popularity.

Ah yes, of course, Donald Trump, president of Israel

This. All of these problems are solved by people not giving money. But often it seems difficult for people to actually stand behind principle when the time comes – convenience is a helluva drug.

And? Laws don’t matter to these people.

When there are consequences for a law being broken by these folks, report that.

In linguistics this is called “code switching”, and it is extremely common among native bilinguals.

That is altogether too damn sensible to be accepted by anyone.

This is one thing that those supporting runaway capitalism don’t seem to understand. Money ultimately flows up. It relies on a bunch of people closer to the bottom to start that flow. The more people taking part, the better. Each consumer can put in a little if the number of consumers is high.

If market prices go up so far that the people at the bottom can’t initiate that flow, then the system fails. Money doesn’t flow at all, and those at the top start taking losses. Dominoes fall. The system needs consumers to be able to afford goods. It’s one reason why prices cannot just go up until the end of time. You can’t squeeze blood from a stone.

But so many of these rich folks now are under the impression that money just flows in without understanding from where. Prices just go up, as if it were an infinite money glitch. These people will eventually have an awakening.