Quoting your other comment:

China is the largest economy in the world and has brought nearly a billion people out of poverty. Within a single lifetime, the USSR went from peasant farmers experiencing regular famine to putting people in space. And then capitalism brought back famine in the 90s. Cuba has a longer life expectancy than America.

If it talks like a tankie and quacks like a tankie…

When rural voters overwhelmingly voted for you, making it harder for them to vote seems like a great way to shoot yourself in the foot.

They united the people against them. That’s living up to half the name, I guess.

I don’t think he would make it to trial. The wealthy don’t appreciate those who unite the public against them, and they certainly wouldn’t want him to send another message by having the chance to explain his motives.

I’ll admit, you had me in the first half.

For anyone genuinely considering jury nullification, it’s also probably not a good idea to bring it up before deliberation. Lawyers typically try to get jurors dismissed when they’re aware that it’s actually an option.

Then we change the laws

Not to rain on your parade, but how do we do that when they’re the ones “lobbying” (aka paying) for the laws to be changed? Money speaks, and they can spend a ridiculously large quantity of it without worrying about making ends meet.

If you seriously think he’s going to be given a fair trial and not executed by the police during arrest, you’re either way too optimistic or way too naive.

He sent a message that brought the public together against an institution that abuses them instead of driving them to fight amongst themselves. The rich and powerful are not going to let him send another one.

he had the potential to accomplish so much

No, not really. Everything he promises is either overhyped and underbaked, “ready in 3 years” every year, only viable in fiction, or some combination of all of them.

The people he pays had and still have the potential to do so much, though.

Fallon accused Rowe, who was standing directly behind Biden and Kamala Harris in [a photo from a commemoration of the 9/11 attacks], of taking the place of the special agent in charge that day and endangering the president’s security for the sake of a photo op.

Call me crazy, but I doubt that a Texas Republican actually cares much about the safety of politicians in the opposing party.

The ironic part is that it’s not bad as an index. Ignore the garbage generative output and go straight to cited sources and somehow get more useful links than an actual search engine.

Who do you think pays the campaign bills? It’s not the people who would benefit from removing the middleman, that’s for sure…

In the words of UnitedHealth: claim denied.

Sick would be rejecting over a third of the people who expected their coverage to do what it says on the box— cover them. Sick would be letting people suffer and die in the name of profits.

Who says it can’t be?

In an internal video statement sent to employees, CEO of UnitedHealth Group (UnitedHealthcare’s parent company) Andrew Witty said, “Brian was a truly extraordinary person who touched the lives of countless people throughout our organization and beyond.”

Absolutely, undeniably so.

Extraordinarily selfish, being investigated for insider trading and taking massive bonuses as the people under him are overworked.

And touching the lives of countless people by cutting them short in the name of profits.

[Opinion] That Will Never Happen

Maybe a third party will be viable again some day…

I wouldn’t put it past some asshole like Elon to buy GoFundMe and close its doors just to stop that from happening.

Something something “kill the billionaires… in minecraft” /s

There are an alarming number of comments that are actively encouraging murder and the amount of upvotes that even the worst of those comments receive is sickening.

Can you really blame people, though? The poor and middle class been screwed and driven against each other by ultra-rich assholes for decades. Murder might not be the most ethical solution from a moral purist standpoint, but at least it has people talking and agreeing about the underlying problem.

Not may, will. Power mods hate it when you pitch alternatives they have no control over.

Oh, yay. I can’t wait until Netflix starts requiring users to temporarily disable <insert video calling app> because it supports screen sharing. Can never have too many layers of user inconvenience assurance for rightsholders, you know?

It’ll be neither. Now that the upper class is affected, they’ll be lobbying hard for strict gun control. But hey, archery still exists…