Sinonatrix [comrade/them]

At least half of this money is going straight to stock buybacks

I wonder if they have TV ads with sad coal miners paid for by their version of Koch Industries?

Just kidding. I know they don’t.

Seems like it got… Railroaded.

Absolutely baited

And I’m not sure where you are pulling the “if you are that powerful” from.

(The preceding comment was a parody of Great Man ideology)

I would demand a medium sized enterprise or two from the privatization website in exchange for defection

I’m going to have to ask you to place your dot on one of four quadrants so I can hurry up and assume everything else you’ve got to say

State subsidization has also dived off a cliff. Why would they when they know people will take out loans to make it up? (Neoliberal answers only!)

For one, you can have a second screen and Google the answers. It’s a little bit harder in person.

I’d really like to see a system of online learning where extension offices are built out into testing center networks. This still disenfranchises people sadly, but staves off some existential questions about what passing an exam even means now.

Anything can be learned online, with enough drive and determination

But if you’re that powerful: why bother learning from others? You could simply leave and create your own community called name’s Gulch.

My only experience with this is the bootloader is just as locked down as the OS. It’s been a while, but I’d sooner buy a x86 netbook instead.

The problem is you legally don’t have the right to “terminate for any reason” when it comes to a number of protected classes, but these laws make it so we have to rely on you being stupid enough to create a massive trail of evidence (easy part with small business tyrants), but also litigate it for potentially years on end - harder

Every cold war era fear over sleeper agents has been realized with COVID-addled losers having their brainworms activated by rainbows and self-destructing their meaningless lives with nonsensical violence

I’m sorry but this is definitely shit you only say when you’re very far from the action. Would you want your grandpa drafted and sent into a minefield to “dissuade the aggressor”? Grandma and the children too apparently, better dead than governed by another neighboring authoritarian shithole?

I think I’d rather just flee with my family to a country right next door that has a nuclear deterrent and NATO membership. Literally why would “they need to all fight to the death instead” be your first thought? I can’t imagine it coming from a position where you think Ukrainians are as human as you are.

I have to imagine direct intervention would’ve happened already if it was going to. Why let the Ukrainians get shoved into a meat grinder first? If you’re America: it’s good business and sells more guns. If you’re actually reliant on the buffer zone then it’s really not a game, as you say.

If you want a picture, imagine a spicy op-ed stamping on a trotskyist newspaper forever

That’s because they’ve been brainwashed by a consistently rising standard of living, they don’t have free press like us to tell them how they should really feel about things