The local government sees $$$ (or gets out-and-out bribed) and so they sign off on it. After all, why should they care if some plebeians have their electric bill go up?
To be fair, several local governments have shot these down. One in Arizona just voted 7-0 to not let one in. But they’re so sneaky and so free with money a lot of governments just let them slide in without residents even knowing.
They’re making fun of the fact that the Right completely lost their minds at Obama wearing a tan suit but ignore or applaud Trump pulling bullshit like this.
What you’re talking about is actually a whole different conversation. One that should be had, yes, but not related to how the Right gives a massive pass to anything a Rich White Male does.
Yup. Had a great-uncle who was the ‘black sheep’ for this same reason.
Of course, back in those days you didn’t report it, you just made sure to not let the kids around them and ostracized them from most social events, because reporting it was ‘airing the dirty laundry in public’.
This one seems a bit better than most—in that they’ve tested it on mice and it seems to work—but there’s still a big gap between mice and humans. Plus we don’t entirely understand the mechanism behind it yet.
I remember Oprah mentioning once that one of her neighbors was complaining about ‘black people’ or something like that, and she was like, ‘um…’ and the guy no joke said to her ‘but you’re not black!’
For them, ‘rich’ is indeed a totally different species, one they view as superior.
(And yes, I know Oprah is an ass, but I still found that conversation she related to be amusing.)
Dude, didn’t you see their instance? They’re a tankie. They were never ‘refusing to vote for genocide’. They were always holding their vote in the hope that the evil US would destroy itself so Generous China and Glorious Mother Russia could take their place as the true and noble world leaders.
.world is a bit touchy about it because they’re based in a country that considers that ‘violent speech’ and could conceivably shut them down over it. But the admins also don’t like Nazis so they tend to look the other way as long as people aren’t too aggressive about it.
The local government sees $$$ (or gets out-and-out bribed) and so they sign off on it. After all, why should they care if some plebeians have their electric bill go up?
To be fair, several local governments have shot these down. One in Arizona just voted 7-0 to not let one in. But they’re so sneaky and so free with money a lot of governments just let them slide in without residents even knowing.