Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
Actual farmers are usually held hostage by the agro-giants who buy their product. In most markets there’s a Monoposony - like a monopoly but a single buyer who can set prices and terms, rather than a single seller.
Industry behavior is driven by these companies who have all the power. They leave farmers with all of the risk and take all the profit for themselves.
have come under fire
Oh, prime example of the weasel-passive.
IDF shoots at Irish peacekeepers is the correct headline.
I just can’t imagine why any of those things rule out sleeping unburdened by clothes.
I suppose I understand if you’re sleeping in the same room as 2 people you’re not dating. But not if you have a separate room in an apartment or have sex with the other person in the bed.
Is this one of those weird American prudishness things?
OMG I was staring thinking this for so long.
No flint, no chert, no ccs of any kind, nothing that even looks like a projectile point or a flint scraper. That’s not even a good way to hold stone for knapping. What the heck is the connection to flint?
I’m guessing that’s what fruity pebbles look like?
When he gets belly rubs he often raises his arms above his head in a “hands up don’t shoot” pose, and he always looks scared. I don’t have a photo of it cause I’m always too focused on getting that belly.
But here’s a picture of him saying hello:
Prosecuting and jailing fascists for the crimes they commit is a requirement for fighting fascism. Here in the US I’m just not convinced yet that Dems are willing to break the taboo on jailing the rich.
Sometimes I miss australia.
This plan is part of our fascist regime’s ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. Send non whites to death camps and bring in more white supremacists.
sin is religious bullshit anyway
Yep, that’s why I used the word.
Suggesting that “people are idiots” actually explains behavior is just like believing in sin - it’s just giving up on understanding reality. It makes as much sense as a right wing christian trying explain away their opponents as sinners.
Anything that isn’t designed to overwhelming benefit the rich is gonna go. That way if you want anything in this world, you have to be born rich or beg the rich for it.
Be too useless to merit a doppelganger. To paraphrase zhuangzi, few know the usefulness of uselessness.
Australia has compulsory voting, parties with only minority support can’t win by suppressing turnout.
Sin is never a sufficient explanation for human behavior. Meaning anytime we think “it’s because they are bad”, we’re missing something big.
All behavior is an attempt to meet needs. Any correct explanation of behavior identifies the need and how the behavior is believed to meet it.
They may not be smart, on average as a group. But that’s not why they keep doing this.
Identities with more rigorous behavior requirements often persist longer. It seems counter-intuitive but the greater the buy-in required, the more appealing the identity seems to be.
In some weird and deeply human way, displaying your devotion to these doomed and unreasonable defenses probably increases the individual’s status among their sovereign peers. That’s the payoff that we don’t see when we only look at the financial and legal costs.
“Proto” usually implies that it’s a stage that may develop into the thing, not yet the thing. Whereas “early” implies it’s recently become the thing. Or at least that’s how I usually hear them used, and what I meant.
Do you know how hard it is to go broke when you have that much money? If we pretend his estimated net worth is all cash and earns 5% annually, that over $40m a day from doing nothing.
His wealth needs to be taken from him, for the good of the world.
Republicans have ruled for half of the current century, but only legitimately won the election after 9/11. I don’t think it’s fair to describe US elections as functional, even arguably.
This is what fascist states look like at this stage of their life cycle. I think the most generous description of the US is an early fascist state. If we really want to argue about whether a spade is a shovel.
When I look at the quality of prominent Americans who went to ivy league schools, I don’t think cheating your way through college will make much difference.
Pete hegseth graduated from princeton without the use of AI and he is one dumb fucking cunt, for example
Yeah I thought it was monopsony but my autocorrect gave me that incorrect spelling and I didn’t bother to double check.