If they are willing to defend facism and defend a dictator…then what’s the problem?

At some point your “I’m just doing my job” becomes, “I support an American dictatorship.”. Do you not have morals? Your “job” has now become antithetical to the American Democratic Ethos - you are now a de facto traitor to your country. Last I checked, traitors are an enemy of the state.

…so again, what’s the problem?

We don’t like it today, why would we have liked it then?

Yeah. Teenage girls are difficult to talk to sometimes, but I’d still make every effort to talk to my sister if one of her friends was like this.

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

Your mortgage payment can often be cheaper than your rent payments. If your waiting until the rates drop, you’ll be in an insane amount of competition to get a property.

If you buy now, you can then refinance at a later date and get literally $100k’s off your mortgage. The downside is that your gambling on interest rates dropping.

Hell, this has “I have nipples Greg, can you milk me?” vibes.

I mean, I’ve technically designed a component that’s gone into numerous commercial aircraft. Does that make me qualified to head up the FAA? Or would that make me qualified to lead NASA?

These chuds are so unqualified to lead any of these departments. The one saving grace as that none of these guys know what they are doing, so short of firing people, they’re just going to embarrass themselves for the next 4 years.

Yeah, in the interest of not having a bloody, civil war, I’d rather try to correct the economic paradigm that we have rather than instill a new one that will have its own set of unique and terrible problems (for example, see nomenklatura).

The chaos that will arise from the transition will be deadly, terrifying, and profound. It is not something I wish my children to have to go through. So, yeah…of course I’d rather work to fix the system that we have.

The phrase “are ethically wrong” is hilarious. According to whose code of ethics? How are their ethics more moral than someone else’s set of ethics?

There’s literally entire branches of philosophy dedicated to the concept of morals and the concepts of good and evil.

Edit: Also, to add on to this, something can be ethically right but morally wrong, or ethically wrong but morally right.

If this was just an article criticizing identify politics, that’d be one thing, but to identify it as a byproduct of capitalism is shortsighted and dishonest. Socialism has grasped with its own identity politics in every single socialist country: race, gender, ethnicity, and religion. These things don’t just go away. And sure, it wouldn’t be the " capitalist elites" pushing these items …it would be the political elites and beurocractic resource managers (i.e. the nomenklatura) that would use the SAME EXACT POLITICS to sew class division (i.e. divide and conquer - exploit the differences of the opposition to prevent the formation of a unified resistance to any sort of political elite). It can also be used to solidify power for the political elite - for example, when Stalin deported certain ethnic groups ( Chechins, Crimean Tartars, etc) by labeling them as “counter-revolutionaries”). It can be used to marginalize dissenters, label them as “not true socialists”, and accuse them of treason for not aligning with the class in solidarity.

Socialism isn’t some magical fix to the world and will come with its own nightmarish list of shortcomings.

I mean. Heck, if you have a terminal illness I don’t see the downsides really.

Yeah, I find I need to read a book or find some other way to engage my brain - woodworking, painting, gardening, etc… The enjoyment comes back.

Gummies are incredibly easy to make. I just made a batch 2 days ago that are sitting in my counter drying before I put a powdered sugar on the outside of them and stick them in the freezer. I use moulds so that I know EXACTLY how much I’m dosing. And the best part? I’m not destroying my lungs by any means.

No, but thank you though.

You fix it pretty easily by just getting the lenses entirely replaced. If you have vision insurance, you can do it entirely for free

Weird can be good…sometimes, depending on the context.

Boredom breeds innovation. It’s okay to be bored. In fact, I really wish our society would get “legitimately” bored more often.

From the article, it sounds like he knew they were a minor and still leaned into the conversations. Why? Why TF would you even be curious about it?

Get a sleep study done. You likely have sleep apnea. You’re likely overweight as well.

Get healthy. Get a CPAP. Get ATLEAST 7-hours of sleep a day (if you do you won’t need naps).

Depicted: Incel “Alpha” Males hoping to one day have a submissive wife sex slave, that cooks, maintains the house for them, and raises children, so that they can continue being children themselves. Women are just lining up for this lifestyle, aren’t they?

Honestly, I hope this all gets pushed through. My salary adjustment would be glorious. Otherwise, I’m quitting my job and watering flowers at Lowe’s. No need for all the stress when I’m barely making above minimum wage at that point.

How are people living like that daily? How do they all swim in that crazy polluted river? How are billions of them over there not getting crazy amounts of cancer?