where 'asked' == 'ordered'. WTF BBC.

Perhaps no amount of money can adequately compensate for 44 years of misery humiliation and horror, I’d say more money is certainly better than less.

Booze advertising should be banned. We banned tobacco advertising. It actually helped reduce smoking.

The 5G bullshit started because Huawei was ahead of everyone else in 5G tech. First the Obama administration, then Trump, then Biden all attempted to cripple Huawei's ability to produce 5g commodities in order to protect the development of domestic production.

What is remarkable is how quickly the US discarded the 'free trade' pillar of its neoliberal ideology as a competitive threat to a critical technology emerged. The actual ideological principal is hegemony, not 'free trade'.

We are raised in families where we are ordered around. We are sent to schools where we are trained to be obedient. We go to work in authoritarian organizations. We don’t understand democracy or cooperative organization. Nobody knows why.

Boomer here. We are not all the same.

I like to watch train wrecks, but I don’t want to be in a train wreck.

A system based on perpetual growth has reached the limits of that growth and is now actively and manifestly shredding the planetary ecosystem., This isn't a question of anything other than the survival of human civilization. Your political views are irrelevant. The system is at its terminal point. In some other timeline we reformed the postmodern capitalist system and regulated it to prevent ecocide. That is not this timeline. That's because, concurrent to the shredding of the ecosystem, the culture of end stage capitalism, a culture evolved to make us all obedient consumer-workers, has further evolved to make us delusional, psychotic, fascist, it has shredded the collective unconsciousness of humanity and resurrected fascism as a way to defend the system as it self-destructs.

That might be true, but in my experience many religious people get personally offended by any criticism of their religion. For example, discussing the idiotic contradictory ethically challenged or obviously false sections of holy texts is very offensive.

Enshittification is not just for social media platforms.

I mean just look at all the scandals Biden is embroiled in, all the indictments of people in his administration. When you find them, let me know.

There are a lot of very stupid angry white people.