window-lickers

I have no idea what this phrase means but immediately knew who you were talking about.

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

- Goodhart’s law

If anyone has the capital (both political and monetary) and the ability to execute, Narcos certainly do. Assuming they aren’t obsessed with greed, if they made some sort of public announcement saying that they are patriots and would not only boycott US markets but would engage with other producers to stop their own shipments, I would love to see the fall out. I suspect it wouldn’t be visible. After all, I suspect that most cocaine drug users in the US aren’t the most reliable voting contingent.

But it would be fun to see how Trump reacts to it.

It’s almost as if someone figured out that conservatives, in an effort to feel the need to play the victim, will react negatively and thus be more engaged when presented with non-conforming news.

A sort of dissonance…that happens cognitively.

Wouldn’t it be SACO? Sinclair Always Chickens Out?

The problem is that sovereign citizens try to do this in the wrong way. They often appear pro se in court with little to no research on how to actually argue their case.

I’m not an attorney but based on my understanding of current jurisprudence, here’s what you need to do to avoid taxes:

• Be rich. Like obscenely rich.
• Hire accountants and attorneys to align your income and assets into corporations.
• borrow against those assets, listing them as part of your collateral, and then use the money to live your life.
• if you get into trouble, say that it was the corporation, not you, making those decisions. Remember that corporations are people.
• if the corporation gets charged, bankrupt the corporation until it has negative assets and the shutter it.

That’s it.

I would argue that corporations actually have more rights than citizens or even religious organizations. The only thing they can’t do is vote. Companies can literally murder people and pay a fine.

I’m okay with the death penalty in cases like treason or insurrection.

When it’s clear that they committed the crimes.

In broad daylight.

For everyone to see.

On live television.

With absolutely no doubt that they are guilty.

It’s only treason if he gets punished for it.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

That’s often my reply. “well we haven’t tried it yet. We’ve tried trickle down economics for almost 4 decades. Why don’t we try a wealth tax for 20 years? You know, for science? Just to see how it works. THEN if it doesn’t work, we can roll it back. How does that sound?”

Yeah that’s my preferred app now.

There is this repeating ad on Sync for Lemmy which pisses me off to no end. They are for various women’s jewelry and the angle of the pictures make the image look very different than what it actually is.

Stopped using it recently just now because of this.

I’m not saying they should silence themselves. I’m suggesting that they should remove their assets, e.g. in the case of late night hosts, no longer producing content.

The problem with just speaking out is that their corporate overlords still have a product to sell and so long as that exists, they are allowing those overlords who support this fascist asshole to hold power.

Fortunately it doesn’t federate

Ftfy.

Anyone with influence need to go on strike. Across every network and every venue. One last video that says, “We are in fascism times. We are going to go off air until democracy is restored, either through the resignation or convicted impeachment of Donald Trump or through Democratic bodies across the United States begin resisting the federal administration.”

We don’t need any more celebrities blowing hot air and being Pikachu faced. We need people who have something to lose being willing to lose it all and standing next to people who already have.

But votes and supports conservative and is a bit of a trumper.

He wants to benefit from everything society gives him but doesn’t want to provide that same benefit to others.

Because he thinks he deserves it while others are stealing it from him.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

The main principle of conservatism is that they deserve everything while at the same time everyone else deserves nothing.

The only thing that companies and politicians reacting the wrong way about Charlie did right was to finally show you who are the Nazis.

Anyone defending Charlie is a Nazi. I don’t care how they did it.

“Oh you shouldn’t kill people because of political differences.” Nazi because they didn’t say shit when liberals have been murdered.

I bought guns when I was a conservative because I wanted to fight what I perceived as a tyrannical government.

I retain those same guns as a progressive because I fear the government has now become tyrannical and will need to fight it in my life time.

Like most businesses, they’ve done the math.

Whatever PR value they lose is nowhere near the amount of value they think they will retain.