It’s fascinating that this isn’t something that is always thrown back in the so called “pro life” person’s face. They’re only pro birth. They don’t care if the baby that comes out is fed, clothed, housed, eventually educated, etc. Or at least, they don’t believe there’s any collective responsibility to take care of that baby.
Stopping some guys who are Definitely Not Team Rocket from harassing and capturing some creatures that are Definitely Not Pokemon.
If I thought the people who run for profit hospitals and insurance companies had human souls, I’d say they should be made to do this work so they could maybe see that it shouldn’t be about profit.
But then I remembered they’re all non-human garbage who should be first up against the wall in the revolution.
Doctors should be left out of this. It’s not their fault America (and probably some third world countries) allow profit driven medicine.
I’m betting it’s not experienced as “yay we’re free from want!” so much as “oh god I think I can breathe again” after decades of being slowly strangled by our wage enslavers.
So, not great but better than it’s been.
Maybe a good analogy is that we’ve been getting punched hard in the face every day for 40+ years but today it was “only” an open hand slap.
What’s frustrating to me as a person who’s generally against violence is that Israel has a pretty elite secret police force and pretty elite special forces that they (apparently) haven’t used at all to deal with the actual perpetrators of the October 7th massacre & kidnapping.
They just started bombing thousands of civilians to kill dozens, maybe hundreds of Hamas militants.
Like, surely they could have cut the head off the Hamas Snake with surgical strike teams infiltrating Gaza, probably the West Bank, and international locations in Qatar or wherever the leadership is.
Reasonable people could conclude that Israel had to respond to Oct 7th, and that the best target would be Hamas. I can’t fathom how any reasonable people could conclude that bombing groups of people with 90% or more innocent civilians and the rest possible militants is a good response.
I can imagine that UNreasonable people might conclude that all Palestinians are guilty by association (because Hamas is their Netanyahu-supported elected government) and they’re all militants (even the babies). Or those unreasonable people might believe that Palestinians aren’t people worthy of protection.
So goddamned frustrating.
The First Peoples of North America definitely didn’t have such sharp, well defined border lines. It’s not as of they had a bunch of written treaties establishing hard borders.
You’re exspecially not supposed to fart in front of girls!
The labels are out of order to the headline dates, comrade.
You’re kind of arguing against the foundation of human society. If we’re all required to “do our own research” about things, where does that requirement end? How can I buy food if I have to do my own research on what’s healthy or what’s dangerous? What about my tap water? How can I put gas in my car? Use electricity? A computer? A phone?
Somewhere along the way you have to trust the systems that have been built by the people before us to function, and for people who work in those fields who are experts to use their expertise.
Obviously oversight & verification is also important. It’s important that people earn trust and work to maintain that trust and get booted if they violate that trust.
But it’s foolish to just stop trusting experts out of nowhere. It’s extra foolish to stop trusting experts specifically because they say things you don’t like to hear. As far as I can tell, that’s been the accelerating project of the Republican Party since at least the talk radio explosion following the demise of the Fairness Doctrine. Maybe longer if you go back to Moon landing deniers and their ilk.
Wow
So wait I’m confused, is this celebrating two men using the wealth they’ve stolen from their citizens to enjoy a lavish dinner while many of their people suffer and die, or is it celebrating the other two men exemplifying frugality with their people’s money to enjoy a low cost snack?
I have this sinking feeling that it’s the former, where pro autocrat morons are wowed by the glitz and glamour of the Russian leader’s pilfered wealth and denigrating the US Secretary of State eating McDonald’s. “Bring back Peter III,” I bet they mumble during their wet dreams.
The primary function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
I like the Action Lab guy going through the explanation for this https://youtu.be/ezUmSO_OAxY
The door on the closet this guy is trapped in is shaking on its hinges…