Part of the purpose of debate is to find the holes in an argument so you can fix them. If you don’t understand your weaknesses, you can’t guard against them. That is why people play devil’s advocate.
Especially when your argument is as full of holes as ‘some corporations do horrible things, so clearly making implications about an evil corporation, no matter how wrong, is the right thing to do’.
You picked a side
Yeah. They picked truth and honesty over sensationalism.
Spreading lies about corporations doesn’t help. They’re bad enough anyways; we don’t need to make up stories about them to paint them in a bad light, they’re perfectly capable of painting themselves.
That depends on if they’re reporting LESS money than they actually made, or are reporting MORE money than the shop itself actually took in.
If everything is in cash, you can inflate it pretty easily without raising eyebrows.
I dropped Reddit when it was announced that you could be banned for upvoting something.
Luigi is also, in all probability, innocent.
Which means the Claims Adjuster is still at large.
Turns out giving him free reign with something that actually has a bigger impact than his own companies had consequences he doesn’t like.
Her.
edit: Ah, I see you’ve already been called out for this. Admittedly that’s why I tend to default to ‘they’ on the interwebs.
I mean… it wasn’t.
Communism means all things held in common. Theft wouldn’t be a thing because everyone owns all property together. Ownership is meaningless.
Every one of those societies only paid lip service to communism - partly because it only works when everyone in the commune knows everyone else and holds each other responsible. It doesn’t work at scale. What those societies really were was “The state owns everything and if you complain about it you get disappeared.”
Nah, dissidents are just going to get disappeared to El Salvador. That way they can still be used for slave labor!
Honestly, it’s old tech. There were guide-by-wire missiles for a long time before this.
75 years later, lesbians still dress this way…
The right-wing propaganda machine has gotten very good at blasting “The Democrats are DESTROYING THE NATION” across every channel they have whenever there’s a non-Republican in power. Anyone who listens to it will never vote D, no matter what - because they believe that everything Democrats do are aimed at stripping rights from citizens and taking money from their paychecks. That propaganda machine is getting a broader and broader foothold as moneyed interests continue to gain ground.
Well, as it turns out, America’s status as an economic juggernaut has always been dependent on keeping our occupied territory as shitholes that are terrible for the people who live there, so we can exploit their labor and resources. We learned well from the British Empire. The shitholeness is just being turned against a larger swath of our population now.
Well you see, there’s a simple explanation for this. When we do it, it’s good, and when you do it, it’s bad.
Everyone except for the people who get sent to El Salvador…
It’s possible to have a poor opinion of the Chinese government without having a bigoted opinion about the Chinese people.
Yup! Totally plausible - just more expensive and less repeatable. And harder to use against moving targets.
Although you are correct, this destroys the engine.
A good, efficient fusion engine just needs to point the exhaust end towards the enemy and the hyper-accelerated particles will punch a hole through the target for you. And then you point at the next target, etc. etc.
Also, it’s a butchered quote from Larry Niven’s Known Space books, referred to as the “Kzinti Lesson” - because the Kzinti thought humanity was unarmed and helpless until they discovered that humans are really good at improvising weapons.
If you think that’ll stop them, I have a bridge to sell you. In case you hadn’t noticed, the law doesn’t mean anything any more to the people in power.