At this point, I’m amazed he hasn’t simply had Obama’s award confiscated

They’ll pivot to being the world’s largest RAM re-saler and clean up.

what happens when your profile starts to match up with someone who commits crimes?

I’d dismiss this as fanciful ten years ago. But we’ve got ICE agents staking out grocery stores and flea markets looking for anyone passably “illegal”. Palantir seems to have made a trillion dollar business model out of promising an idiot president the ability to Minority Report crime. And then you’ve got the Israeli’s Lavendar AI and “Where’s Daddy” programs, intended to facilitate murdering suspects by bombing the households of relatives.

I guess it wouldn’t hurt to be a little bit more paranoid.

We’ve got emails between him and dozens of billionaires. Larry Summers chat logs where he’s asking for advice while cheating on his wife. My Brother in Christ we have his Quora search history.

How many more files do you feel like you need to see? Nobody else is going to jail for this shit.

Only an anti-Semite would believe otherwise.

Democrats can’t do anything. They don’t have the capacity to accomplish anything useful. They’re absolutely powerless.

That’s why you should vote for them.

It means that do-gooders have to handle each and every one of the released

Wait, where are the do-gooders?

Another 30% have a “pending criminal charge” which can be anything from a moving violation to vagrancy.

Cops are so fucking good at finding an excuse to press charges. That they aren’t bothering anymore illustrates how perfunctory these arrests have become.

You really think companies in America with monoplies would lower prices just because their costs went down?

So, theoretically, there’s a point at which induced demand through lower prices can raise profits. Having a monopoly on an elastic good only benefits you when you’re onboarding new clients at an escalating pace. Private energy companies looking to increase energy consumption overall may well take an upfront haircut on the retail price in order to encourage more people to adopt hardware that consumes the commodity.

But - over the long term - sure, the incentive is to capture more revenue in pursuit of higher profit. And that means raising prices faster than inflation.

That said, a public investment, could be pursued as a loss-leader. Public money invested in publicly owned utilities raises the availability of low-cost energy for private consumption. This is spent in pursuit of higher overall economic growth.

Our utility bills would be cheaper if the government invested

So much of the price of a thing is bound up in the administrative overhead and profit extracted at every step of the delivery process. You can pull a kwh of energy out of the ground, in the form of a lump of coal or a liter of gas, for pennies on the dollar when it is eventually sold retail. And that’s before we consider the pricing impact of artificial scarcity that occurs under the ERCOT model of wholesale electricity auctions.

By contrast, the TVA system has kept prices below (often far below) the national market rate simply by operating at-cost as a public enterprise. Energy companies in socialist states - from Sweden to Iran to China - can even retail electricity at subsidized rates (below cost of production) as a loss leader intended to spur high value domestic energy-hungry industries like steel manufacturing and chip fabrication.

Getting to green energy now that the global economy is flush with dirt-cheap high yield solar panels and market-competitive lithium batteries definitely cuts the raw labor / machine costs of fossil fuel extraction. And they defer the tail costs of fuel waste pollution management as well as the associated ecological and human health knock-on effects. But even sticking to the old fossil fuel economy is cheaper under a public system when the costs of operation aren’t inflated by the demands of private administrators and investors.

Internet in 2005: “Don’t trust anything you read in the newspaper, watch on TV, or hear on the radio. The real truth is here.”

Internet in 2015: “You can now read the newspaper, watch TV, and listen to the radio on the Internet! The real truth is here.”

Internet in 2025: “AI gibberish”

Texas knows it’s impossible to actually enforce these laws

It isn’t impossible. But by commodifying the act of enforcement they can effectively send kick backs to their private sector allies.

This isn’t a system for finding and punishing violators, it’s a system for shaking down “liberal” business interests and extorting them via civil courts.

The only citizens who get to play this game are those that already signed up for TPUSA or joined the Heritage Foundation or Federalist Society or are otherwise a foot soldier in the culture wars

Fool! This is the only folding phone any true man could need

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Same reason Gillette gave us that third razor

In both instances, so much of what you believe is dictated by your media diet. The right wing media circuit has been turnt to 11 on fentanyl since the Obama administration. Just getting this shit blasted into your brains 24/7/365 is going to change your perspective and credulity.

Combine that with the virulent hatred aimed at anyone born south of the border - with a special hate-on for Venezuelans building since the failed Bush Era coup in 2002 - and you get folks who are simply looking for an excuse to kill, kill, kill.

Fentanyl is the modern conservative version of 9/11. It terminates further analysis and demands you pick a side.