Administration: "Okay, potato... err... Spud. Here's our suggestion: Don't support murder and internment of minority groups. Especially publicly. It's likely to make people angry at you and may be dangerous."
The fundamental flaw that these "centrists", conservatives, and fascists fall prey to is the human tendency to rely entirely on vibes - or rather the weakness of allowing your beliefs to be formed through vague concepts rather than facts.
The people making the arguments that these people parrot back say that fascism either has no meaning or means ONLY Nazi Germany (typically not even Fascist Italy... where the term comes from).
So, when Trump calls Harris or Biden fascist it's just a meaningless cudgel to signal that to be in the in-group you should dislike them (he's accidentally a little correct on the facts, but that's beside the point). This is their understanding of the term and how they think others use it.
When we call modern Fascists fascists, we are talking about specific beliefs and behaviors that align them with the ideology of Fascism.
The conservative mind literally cannot comprehend this - largely because they have a strong belief that no one can actually be fascist. It's a combination of willful ignorance and a strong reliance on tribalism while still accepting that being a fascist is a bad thing only because of its connotations, not because of what being a fascist actually means: because, for them, it doesn't have meaning.
That is a misleading title. All Rep. Lieu said is that they contain allegations of him raping children.
That is still really bad, obviously, but he did not say that it "shows" Trump doing that. I think it's important to make that distinction because it is very different from the claim that was actually made.
We're saying the same thing. "Keep them guessing" is a colloquialism meaning something like "to foment doubt". Not literally to initiate an infinite loop of guessing.
Especially because this is a touchy policy issue on which the US is deliberately vague. The US intentionally avoids answering questions on the topic of military intervention in Taiwan to keep China guessing as to what its response would be to an attack. No one would've been able to give a satisfying answer.
I think Milei is a true believer. He's devoted his life to the study of ridiculous AnCap economics. I think he thinks that making his & his buddies' wallets fatter is how you fix the Argentinian economy. He's wrong and stupid, but I think he's good faith.
I mean, in some ways it helped initially. It's true that inflation needed to be dramatically curbed, and austerity & currency devaluation helped with that (while massively spiking poverty rates). Inflation is now largely under control, which is great, and they avoided dollarization while largely aligning the exchange rate with the black market "blue" rate. It's a problem that spending couldn't solve, and it made sense to try to make Argentina a more competitive exporter, etc. etc.
BUT many of the changes he made could have (in my view: will have) seriously negative long-term effects: mass privitization of public sector agencies/programs, destroying unions and pro-worker regulations, massive deregulation, and elimating the country's ability to regulate business in the future, massively increased wealth inequality. Also, massive currency devaluation could cause an affordability crisis in Argentina, and paradoxically higher inflation or even an inflationary spiral.
Also, the things that worked to curb inflation will only continue to work if their economy keeps growing, spending stays responsible, they maintain a fiscal surplus, etc. So far, that hasn't been the case - they had to rely on a massive US bailout (IMF + currency swap), poverty has remained high, and the long-term outlook for working-class Argentinians is extremely tenuous.
People believed them. That's why there are documents detailing various agencies' research into Epstein & co.
If no one believed them, no one would have looked into it.
Now, the Trump admin and captured agencies are trying to cover it up, redact abusers names, release victims names/info/pictures, cover the whole thing up, etc. But that's a different story.
That is from the loyalty section. Shareholders best interests are achieved by balancing the various duties, as I said.
That is why I said that it isn't about short term profits necessarily. The best interest of the shareholders is not short term profit seeking that destroys the business. It is long term profits and a company that can continue to generate them.
It would be very difficult to argue that decisions damaging profitability in the long term are in shareholders best interests.
In this case, union busting, clearly executives think union busting is in the best interests of shareholders. If that isn't because of profitability, why is it not in their intersts?
They owe a fiduciary duty of loyalty to shareholders - they (named executives) must act in the best interests of shareholders. So that doesn't necessarily mean doing everything possible at all times to maximize profits/share price in the short term, it does mean they need to attempt to do that in the long term while balancing that duty against other duties they owe (like to act lawfuĺly).
It also depends on the state the company is incorporated in, but yeah that's true.
And it is a duty to the corporation (legal entity), notably not to the workers themselves; so while the interests of workers and the corporation may align sometimes - you don't have to do what's best for the workers if it isn't best for the company.
You still need to operate lawfully, and you can't pay so little that you can't hire/retain anyone, and you need to pay enough that you can hire people skilled enough to do the job, but you need to pay (ideally) only that amount and no more. Anything else takes away from profits and, you could say, makes the company less likely to succeed - if the company doesn't succeed, then no one would have jobs. Or so they'd argue.
The same as for goods, the price of labor is treated by employers as "what the market will bear". For goods, that means higher prices, for labor it means lower prices.
The pizza part is an old 4chan thing, and we know Epstein was involved with 4chan and its creator, Moot. "Cheese Pizza" = cp aka csam. It's why they started the pizzagate conspiracy - it was a joke referencing this.
I assume grape soda is code for black children because of the racial association and pizza is white children - could mean girls/women of any age, though.
They also talk about slicing pizzas. I assume that means taking their virginity, but it could be worse than that.
Administration: "Okay, potato... err... Spud. Here's our suggestion: Don't support murder and internment of minority groups. Especially publicly. It's likely to make people angry at you and may be dangerous."
Potato: "No that's my only hobby"