They’ll sue to shut the barn door after the barn’s already empty.
Texas is going to be devastated politically, culturally and with its citizens’ lives due to their own right-wing lunatic policies, but they have never signaled that there’s the slightest chance these things will stop without a revolution. I know people from Texas–good, bright, strong people who are fleeing authoritarian oppression of every kind to a place where their politics will be accepted. They’re doing what they have to to survive, but every Texas refugee who leaves only strengthens the right wing there.
so many of these behaviors are in so many animals but we can't say with any degree of confidence till a study is done. I have seen squirrels strategize.
I’m going to lay a bit of the prices on consumers. Anecdotal, I know, but I don’t have to pay outrageous prices.
We have several grocery stores within 10 miles. The new Publix, by far the most costly option, is packed out everyday. Those same customers could go 1-mile down the road to Winn Dixie for far lower prices. Or, go a few more miles and hit Walmart for even lower prices.
Hell, if you went that far, you already passed Aldi FFS, and they’re hilariously cheap. And on the same trip, you would have passed two old, raggedy grocery stores that are as low or lower than Aldi. Just tried another place a little farther along and my beer is 22% cheaper. Everything was cheaper. We packed a grocery cart full of goods, including 3 cases of beer and plenty of meats, for $130. I can put $130 in a Publix hand basket.
Yet the cheap stores are empty in comparison to Publix and Winn Dixie. Guess people are willing to pay double for a modern, brightly lit store instead of going in the “poor people” groceries? Not my problem, let 'em pay for their snobbery.
And before anyone assumes I have 7 choices by living in a big city, my town and the town next door total 36,000, and that covers a lot of square miles out in the countryside. It’s anything but urban around here.
The people truly getting fucked are the ones for whom a Dollar General is the only reasonably close store, along with the people who can’t afford a car and have to walk to one. While I’m a big fan of them serving (if unserved) rural communities, grocery shopping there is a hella bill.
I know a lot of people at my local Publix shop there primarily for the BOGOs. In my region, you don’t actually need to get two. The product just rings up as half price at the register. (Apparently, in some regions, you actually need to get two for the BOGO to work. That’s not the case in my region, though.)
You usually get BOGO for half price in my experience. The trick is that you walk in for that BOGO and buy a bunch of extra shit.
Maybe I’m privileged in that I grew up with a Depression area mom. That woman had no idea dad made real money and shopped her ass off. Only one or two stores on grocery day, but I saw her cut a bill in half with coupons. 2-3 times a week she’s get a rebate check for a buck or three (in 80s money!). And nothing was bought at full price.
I joke, but having the time to whittle the bills like that truly is a privilege.
You usually get BOGO for half price in my experience.
Not necessarily. In my area, most stores actually require that you get two. Publix is the exception.
Only one or two stores on grocery day, but I saw her cut a bill in half with coupons.
I used to work in a grocery store (not Publix). I once saw someone use so many coupons that the store owed her money. I have never seen that happen since. It blew my mind at the time that that even happened. It still kinda does.
Nah dude, you’re just incredibly lucky to live in a place near so many lower priced options. I live in a very urban area, and the only nearby grocery stores are Kroger, Meijer, and Fresh Market, and the prices are all basically the same. The nearest Aldi’s is like 25-30 minutes away.
Also, I guarantee you that prices have been increasing at a similar rate even at the cheap stores.
Lucky?! I think I pointed out that I’m Hicksville, USA. And yes, Aldi is 25-minutes from me as well. Can’t be assed to drive that far to save $50? Not my problem.
There literally isn’t enough time in the day. I can’t spend an hour commuting, plus another hour driving to and from Aldi’s, if I want to actually cook any of the groceries I buy there. Putting blame on consumers is asinine when grocery stores have seen more profit than ever these last couple years.
NIAAS, National Incorporation As A Service, fee is the difference between highest paid employee and lowest each year. What they receive, not what some outsourcer charges for a limpeza.
Alternative is full incorporation required in each state operated in.
I don’t know if you understand, but every ethnic minority in every part of the world have problems. USA now is involved in at least two ethnic conflicts ( gaza and ukraine/dombass ). What do you american don’t understand is that a country without an ethnic majority is unstable. See jugoslavia of austro-hungary empire. I think that usa enemies are really happy about a balkanisation of the usa. Your comment should be make chinese happy. You start to talk like a balkan ethnicity.
I guess this is one of the few times American Exceptionalism actually proves right. We’ve always been a melting pot of cultures. That includes many different “white” cultures for a good few centuries, but go ahead and ask the Irish and Italian immigrants if they didn’t feel like minorities as they were coming off the boats to Ellis Island. Even next to the oppression and brutality both Native and Black Americans faced, their contributions to our society are innumerable and invaluable. The new immigrants coming from Latin America are just being played for political gain while we appreciate and depend on their willingness to work our farms and construction sites. Their kids are just as adapted to American culture as mine are, just as every second generation of immigrants turns out to be. We stress a huge amount about racism (and yes we still have a long way to go, as Trump shows) but when you really compare us to other countries, we seem to be doing alright. The melting pot will keep going, even once us white people are under 50% of the population.
I think that you overextimate the american exceptionalism. In the xx century the europe was destroyed in the ww leaving the usa as the only state not touched by the wars. The rest of the world was lagging techlogicaly. Now the situation is different. Usa is a young country and it is not different from any other.
11 aircraft carriers, the dollar being the fiat currency of the world, and our cultural dominance pretty much seals the hegemony win for the US since the '90s, but ok, sure dude. We’re no different than other countries…
white people aren’t even close to becoming a minority, we’re just approaching a point that no race is the majority. there will still be more white people than any other race here for a long long time, and when that changes it’s only going to be because of racial mixing and a loss of racial identity or the birth of a new one. white people will not be a minority just because they become less than 50% of the population. they will lose some of the privilege they have and that may feel like oppression to them, but they will not become a minority.
So “federal regulators lack the authority” to order a cleanup, even though feds made the orders that led to environmental damage in the first place. Riiiiight.
This is nothing. Wait until you see what the corporations will do when they’re told to stop polluting say the water source of a major city and they say fuck you to the EPA
It’s gonna get so so so much worse
"Millions leave Chicago because Dow Chemical poisons the water table. When asked for comment a DOW chemical PR representative said: ‘Yeah, suck a dick losers’ "
The EPA can still take them to court with a jury over things like this, but they won’t have the resources to take everyone to court.
So you still gotta be smart about it and not do something like completely wreck the water source for Chicago, because they’ll use their limited resources to go after them.
But some small town no one cares about? Probably much easier.
You’re talking about the same companies that own entire local governments. That get to choose the rules they play under in normal situations.
This is like nothing any human currently alive in America has experienced. It’s worse than 1800s robber Baron America. It’s the same attitude and people with (and I means this literally) million of times greater resources than the government.
The 44 years of dismantling and disrupting any power the government had is starting to pay off in spades.
The reality is, we’ll look at my original comment and laugh at how naive and quaint it was. Like people saying “Trump will never win” then "How bad could he fuck it up really?.. and then…
He keeps on repeating the lie that the election was stolen without any consequences at all. Fox lies to their viewers every night without any consequences at all.
When will we stop letting these fascist assholes lie to Americans and brainwash them into thinking the lies are true? It’s obviously damaging to America and they’re just allowed to fucking damage America without anyone stopping them or them receiving any consequences. It’s fucking ridiculous. It needs to stop otherwise America will never recover from the fascist bullshit.
When we reform campaign finance laws so that corporate media can no longer buy policy positions, things can change. Until then it’s not happening, because this exact thing resulted in the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine during Reagan’s presidency in 1987.
You should get kicked off the force for this level of incompetence. Instead, you get docked vacay days and later run for office.
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“The incident speaks for itself,” New York Democratic Chair Jay Jacobs said in an interview. “It’s great to have a lot to say [about crime], but when you make mistakes like that and are sloppy like that it speaks volumes for the seriousness that you take your job. I would just say it’s certainly not something that helps her argument.”
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