Protection racket

Oh, oh, do my state too, please!

Maybe it’s you and me - we are supposed to check then balance

How about taxing owners of unoccupied homes?

Colonialism coming back to the home country.

IDF kompromat on Fetterman, could explain a lot.

Couldn’t be!

In the Vietnam war, fragging the officers had a big impact.

There is a brutal man with a gun, controlling and threatening a group of good citizens with consciences. He’s going to do terrible things to them, and make them do terrible things themselves.

They have him outnumbered, but he has the gun. If they rush him, they can easily defeat him. But, the first one or two or three or four people to move forward will be shot and probably die painfully. Going first is going to cost a terrible price and you don’t know for sure that anyone else will follow you, that your sacrifice will be for anything at all.

You feel a little paralyzed and at the same time ashamed you are just standing there.

What happens next?

I love running Libby on my Boox

Just reading a history of Capitalism by Sven Beckert, and it turns out the first stage of capitalism… also war.

Is Anna’s Archive something people pay for?

Saw this at the drive in as a young kid. Still think about it a lot.

It’s like the movie Brazil

I saw he had a later book, “Critique of Patriarchal Reason” that sounds kind of interesting. Have you read that one?

Wow, just read the whole thing (on Internet Archive). Very powerful.

Thanks for sharing.

The timing and pacing of each scene, and dialogue delivery seem off to me

She forgot to be a billionaire

That was incredible. New holiday tradition…

Used to be that mentally ill and addicted people could still afford cheap (flop) housing.

The problem of homelessness is caused by property owners, investors and government policy - not by its victims.

Involuntary addiction treatment can be helpful at times - sometimes required of physicians, and pilots with substance use problems with great success.

But punishing the poor is just a distraction from the fact that we have homelessness just so landlords can keep raising your rent.