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Lolnoemailneeded -3 points ago +1 / -4

The reason is because labor you are underpaying for is a hard thing to let go of? Illegal migrants are great for a capitalist system like ours, because they allow corporations to increase margins and thus their production of capital by paying under market price for labor. Meanwhile, in states with sales tax (most states), these same illegal migrants pay into the tax pot the rest of us benefit from with every purchase they make. To say nothing of helping to pay property taxes via paying rent on apartments, etc.

Illegal migrants only represent a drain on the system if you take a narrow view on some portions of the governmental budget. For corporations, illegal migrants are great. If you'll allow me to extend the metaphor, the monetary incentive to "stop the bleeding" might be there for the paramedics with the ability to use gauze and tourniquets, but not for the people who produce, supply, and ultimately fund the paramedics.

You see, the paramedics are the politicians/government employees in this metaphor

Maybe the metaphor thing was a mistake

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Lolnoemailneeded 1 point ago +2 / -1

The blue field the 50 stars rest on, of course

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Lolnoemailneeded -1 points ago +2 / -3

Maybe forcing people to be parents does not guarantee a good quality of life for the child? So, what's the alternative? Set up some official adoption scheme where unwanted children can be adopted by a family that wants a child, with the original genetic donors paying some form of monthly child support?

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Lolnoemailneeded -1 points ago +2 / -3

Welp, username checks out

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Lolnoemailneeded 2 points ago +4 / -2

I think it's more that three is the minimum number of objects required to make a series, and minimalist logos are still all the rage (will be interesting to see if AI cements this or flips it). So, three stripes and three stars to evoke the American flag without using all 64 visual elements of the flag.

I don't think we should give up one of the most natural and obvious ways to incorporate our patriotism into easily-digested designs just because a version of a foreign government that was replaced by an actually effective governing ideology 50 years ago used a common number of a common visual element in a common color 70 years ago.

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Lolnoemailneeded 5 points ago +6 / -1

January 4th is when the judge will begin decisions on the Trump indictment, specifically on his inevitable motion to dismiss. That's two days after Bean Dad, two days before Jan 6. Coincidence?

So, no real indictment until almost the precise beginning of an election year, when it will suddenly be front and center again. However, also keep an eye out for a different indictment in August. The Fulton County DA has requested that judges not schedule new trials for that time period, and has instructed her staff to get to prepare for two plus weeks of WFH at that time. Sounds a lot like they're getting ready for a series of Zoom showdowns...

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Lolnoemailneeded 1 point ago +1 / -0

...no? They aren't pretending to be in dire straits to stay relevant? They are in dire straits?

Straits they've been in before, of course, but those were different times in different versions of the world.

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Lolnoemailneeded 1 point ago +1 / -0

Do you actually dislike the concept of sustainability as a principle, or is it more your fear at what "sustainability" could be being used as a smokescreen for?

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Lolnoemailneeded 3 points ago +3 / -0

Bottle deposit gets added on. Even if they were a penny a 24 pack, you would lose money

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Lolnoemailneeded 2 points ago +2 / -0

Trickle-up economics atomized society into complete disconnection, because that's an easier populace to sell to. People who are connected share more and buy less, and engage in less consumption therapy.

And to be clear, when I say "because", I don't mean shadowy people cackled and made decisions and pulled levers - that's just the inevitable maths of that kind of economy.

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Lolnoemailneeded 5 points ago +5 / -0

Fixing elections is what the CIA does. And colonialism always comes home to roost. This phenomenon was first explicitly catalogued after the Boer Wars, when British tactics used against guerillas and their families trickled down into the domestic legal system.

This is how neoliberalism works. You do some foreign adventuring, you test your limits in regards to population control, and then you liberalize the corners down into something your domestic populace will accept being placed upon them, with your country's newfound capital from all that colonialism serving as the spoonfuls of sugar.

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Lolnoemailneeded 1 point ago +1 / -0

That is the funniest drawing of a woman I have seen in quite a while

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