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Naked greed has a way of making even the orangest turd seem to sparkle like gold.

Is this a game to you? Do you see the dead-serious commitment on this man’s face?

Make no mistake, I see it as very likely that this problem doesn’t get solved without significant violence.

Great, now I’m Team Old-Testament-God

The high road is gone.

Republicans reshaped their party from the inside via the Tea Party dorks. We’re all worse off for that, but - at this point, the only path forward is for Democrats to do the same, reshape the party by going hard left, vehemently attack the corporate Democrats (almost all of them).

E: typos

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Seriously. There’s no reasonable argument that they should have been allowed to continue to exist after that.

I really wish we’d start prosecuting and imprisoning leadership boards for really anything the company does wrong. It’s really amazing the way we let companies just get away with every single thing, I mean how much more predictable could the slide to shittiness be?

thousand acre welfare queens

Holy shit lol

Right? Most corrupt fuckin cop, there strictly for his own photo op of course, escorting a political-divide-spanning legitimate American folk hero. Seems like a pretty predictable response to me.

Couldn’t agree more. There is no solution to this exploitative pattern that doesn’t involve drastically curtailing the profits made by participating in the pattern. The details matter obviously, but the situation is really that simple. There’s no solution for us that doesn’t require ending the rewards of this behavior for them.

Great insight, and really this is emblematic of the idiotic hyper-focus on growth, as much and as quickly as possible. It’s always better for society and broader stakeholders if growth happens organically. Growth should happen to satisfy growing demand, it should not be forced to go as fast as possible because there’s ridiculous money to be made by getting in early and inflating demand.

Every damn thing “investors” get a fuckin whiff of they ruin this way, housing being probably the worst (repeat!) offender. We have to figure out how to disincentivize this behavior. It guarantees toxic trash for industries in their wake and just further enriches the worst among us.

Edit: clarity

This has long been a litmus test for me of an individual’s psyche or perspective - are you more concerned about the people freeloading, or about the people who need help and can’t get it? Which is the bigger problem?

So many other opinions seem almost downstream of the answer to that question, in my experience.

Pareto principle for ya, eh? Diminishing returns be diminishing.

Listen nerd, that was a lotta words. Nothing that matters takes that many words to say.

You can tell Vitamin A is good cuz it’s the first one. We need to get back to basics in this country. You ever heard of a kid getting too many A’s?

Git yer fiddly science outta my child-rearin!

So you’re saying kids these days are published with a buncha DLC and microtransactions?!

I almost wonder if it’s the same mechanism as the sunk cost fallacy, where a losing situation is irrationally maintained because of how unpleasant we find loss.

Edit to add: def no disagreement about refusing accountability though, that’s such a pattern with that kind of personality. And not to give them TOO much grace but frankly I’m not sure I myself would act defensibly or even sanely right after losing a child.

That would be wild lol. Trump has a storied history of turning on people who expend their usefulness to him, and often viciously. Many of the things that prop Musk up now can switch and work against him.

The really gross part is this prick is patting himself on the back for being so high-minded and principled. He might feel even better about his choice now, if sacrifice is the measure of commitment to a cause.

“I may disagree with the leopard that’s eating my face, but there sure needs to be a lotta face eating and I can support that despite what I’m going through”, he said smugly, looking up from the boot he’s licking.