Perfect malicious compliance opportunity: the price tag stays the same, but add an itemized Trump Tax for the difference.

Capitalism in its current form has existed for the last 2% of human civilization. 5% if you count mercantilism as a form of capitalism. For the vast majority of history, people owned their own means of production.

Modi is just as much of a fascist pig.

Even the most oppressive tyrants in history understood the concept of bread and circuses. Most people will stay complacent when their fundamental rights are being taken away as long as they have their distractions. Taking away the distractions is something you only do after you’ve fully consolidated your power. They’re so obsessed with projecting an aura of oppressiveness that they’ve forgotten how to hold power.

Hell, you can give away 990 million of it, buy a house, put what’s left in a high yield savings account, and live comfortably on the interest alone for the rest of your life.

Is there anything morally different between pretending to be ICE to break into people’s homes to rob them and actually being ICE and breaking into people’s homes to rob them?

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Only suspected to be. Bukele himself concedes a roughly 20% error rate and it’s probably much worse than that.

“Oh but we used to live in fear of gangs!” You still do, you just traded one gang for a different, state-sanctioned one.

He also does it to ensure all his kids are XY because he’s a raging sexist, which explains why he’s such a shitheel to Vivian.

I prefer Great Value Goebbels.

Unless the government collapses in the next 20 years and can’t pay it.

“Why do we eat the fungi that taste good and not the ones that give you explosive diarrhea?”

He’ll probably be allowed to run, but just enough of his votes would mysteriously disappear to swing the election.

My conspiracy theory is it was chosen to deliberately harm the optics of environmentalists. Something with minimal useful impact and maximum inconvenience would turn people against the whole idea of environmentally friendly alternatives.

That’s not how that works. It’s not a DnD sphere of annihilation, it’s an infinitely dense point of matter.

Hopefully we get to see the end of the movie.

He never intended to build the Hyperloop. From the start, it was a lie to shut down a proposed project to build a west coast high speed rail line.

The wound predates Reagan and goes back to the Civil War. Sherman had the chance to cauterize it, but he held back and let it fester, and here we are.

So it’s a perfect analogy for conservatives.

The lethality is 52%. If it rips through the population, we’re looking at total collapse well before the vaccine is available.