Someone who is tired of your bullshit, that’s who.

“Cheap place to live” is just another way of saying “I figured out how to pass my costs on to others.”

I feel this so hard, and it extends to people who still support him (which is thankfully very few in my day to day life.)

It still surprises me someone with that complete of a lack of self awareness manages to get dressed without injuring themselves.

Yeah, nobody “broke” signal to make this happen. What they did was the equivalent of grabbing a random person from a White House tour group and bringing them into a SCIF, then discussing classified information.

“Hold on, who’s this ‘Tulsi Gabbard’ person who just added me?”

The point is that if you stand up to stop it now, hopefully we don’t have to do the violence part.

Because there isn’t any.

/c/savedyouaclick.

I know this violates “norms” but honestly it seems like small potatoes. Like, maybe being a former holder of public office shouldn’t grant you access to secure information. Why does GW Bush, or Bill Clinton, or Biden, or Obama, or Harris need a security clearance as private citizens?

It’s all about financialization. Money people don’t care about product fundamentals anymore, they care about line go up.

Craft beer looked like a perfect investment because it was already a premium product with social caché (that incidentally was also addictive). But as the above comment notes, there isn’t an endless appetite for overpriced beer, especially when the market is flooded with shitty imitations from mass market beer companies.

The way to disincentivize it would be to let interest rates skyrocket (financialization only works if the cost of borrowing is effectively zero) but that would hurt regular people first and worst.

We could also vote in a socialist government who was willing to do things like seize corporate-owned housing and piss on the corpse of companies like Blackrock as their portfolios lose a significant percentage of their value but that seems remarkably unlikely.

Time to push pearled barley in soups and stews, I guess!

The French government under the nazis in WWII was the Vichy government, who collaborated with the nazi German government.

2. A nominal opposition party that is lead by Nazi collaborators.

Vichy America, here we come.

Damn, I wish there was a…more involved explanation.

Fascism is not a “diverse political opinion,” it is a commitment to domination of the many by the privileged few.

With the current crop of lunatics in office, it will almost immediately be turned into a problem for the rest of the world. Even in the best of times, the US has made its problems everyone else’s, these days it would only be worse.

I see your point but keep in mind this is a microcosm of the entire US agricultural industry. We’ve drastically overbalanced to a knowledge economy, and if US agriculture collapses, that’s bad for the world.

A big part of grocery prices is labor for harvesting. Mushrooms (to keep with the subject of the article) are ~$5.99 a quart at Costco. Assume that we’re talking about doubling the wages of the workers, that means nearly doubling the price of the product, if not more than doubling because retailers are insisting on a set profit margin. If someone even a little bit competent was in the White House, and if congress had even a slight interest in making life better for the average American, this situation might lead to a push for diversifying the ag sector and breaking up the giant corporations who are responsible for 90% of America’s farms. Instead who knows what happens.

Start offering mushroom picking experiences: for every 50 buckets you fill, you get a free bucket of mushrooms.

Reactionary means reverting to previous norms rather than “conserving” the status quo. Name a historical period where punishment of crime was less harsh than now. The death penalty used to be given for much less severe crimes, and enacted with a full complement of torture. People were given effective life sentences for minor infractions.

Or, not every reason is “good”.

It’s like things being legal. Being legal doesn’t make it right.