in the GDR

Yes, but that’s Evil Communism. Didn’t you see the movie “The Dryers of Others”?

He just TACO’d.

Why would a hospital pay a US physician 200K a year when they can get a doctor from Pakistan to do the same work for 50K a year?

Liability to the hospital if a remote doctor fucks up? Just for starters.

It’s also very difficult to manage remote workers. As a result, that $50k Pakistani doctor needs another $50k Pakistani contract manager and a Pakistani HR manager and a nurse who can communicate fluently with both patient and doctor and software that an IT firm needs to maintain and a lawyer to sort out all the messy details of licensing and practice.

At the end of the day, it isn’t nearly the cost savings you’re promised.

Every outsourcing gambit plays out this way. Which makes it more of a negotiating ploy against local workers. Threatening to outsource is far more profitable than actual outsourcing.

Also there was a time where companies actually cared.

:-/

Planned Obselence was pioneered nearly a century ago. You might have individual service reps or salesman with a soul. But no company has ever carried about more than profits.

Would possibly work worse than when Biden was swapped for Harris.

Fascists do love using lack of citizenship to legitimize violence.

its nominal allies in the EU and the democratic West

Orban has been a cuck for Silicon Valley and the Western plutocrats longer than he’s been a Putin stan.

Given that there’s a straight line between America’s fascists and Russia’s fascists, that shouldn’t come as a surprise.

But liberals keep insisting Putin is a regionalized phenomenon contained East of Ukraine. Not a model for modern fascist politicians the world over.

Tom of Finland could not have produced someone more masculine

The biggest American fairy tale is the Legend of the Moderate Republican.

for a lot of people, participating in a democracy rarely goes beyond voting every cycle

The modern political system doesn’t offer many opportunities to interact with the government outside of the electoral cycle.

But that doesn’t constrain your politics, because people routinely organize outside the scope of government anyway.

Section 4: Declaration by vice president and cabinet members of president’s inability

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

So, in an absolute best-case scenario, we’re asking for a schism between Vance and Trump wide enough such that Vance secures a majority of support among executive departments (a thing that is never going to happen) which only endures until Trump tweets “Nuh uh, I’m fine”. At which point, the issue is deflected to Congress, a body that is fully in the tank for Donald Trump.

Y’all are choking to death on Copium if this is what you’re all waiting for.

FFS, half the Democrats in Congress tacitly endorse Trump’s Iran War. The only real objection they’ve made is that Trump didn’t ask nicely for their blessing before the bombing began. Schumer, Jeffries, and the rest abhor the IRGC and are all in favor of bombing them into a fine powder. The bulk of the DC liberal establishment had no problem funding this war via the NDAA, which passed with a majority of Democrats in favor. They have no problem with killing civilians, as evidenced by their fixation on war costs over human casualties. They have no problem with the high price of energy, as evidenced by blue state governments’ refusal to impose rationing or fast-track alternative energy infrastructure. The liberals are not going to save you.

The “moderate” Republicans in Trump’s own cabinet certainly aren’t going to save you. Mitt Romney is not coming to the rescue. John McCain is fuckin’ dead, bitch. Lindsey Graham is currently in the Boy Tent absolutely flogging himself in ecstasy over this war. Howard Lutnick and Scott Bessent are making eight figure bets on polymarket with his insider info. Linda McMahon is in the cuck chair watching her husband sodomize an intern. Sean Duffy is off finding new train lines to cut because they’re Woke. These are your rational moderates who are supposed to check Trump’s war.

It’s not happening.

The US isn’t the only audience for this defiant display.

Which to be fair, is kind of the case for a majority of the population

It’s clearly not. I don’t sit in a box until election day. I’ve got a household to tend to, friends to support, family to care for, and an economy to participate in. All of these actions have political implications and consequences.

People need to recognize that caring for an ailing parent, holding down a job at a convenience store, opening up your house to a roommate (or renting that unit for a profit), driving a car versus riding a bike, calling the cops, littering - these all carry political weight. How you spend the majority of your waking hours is still a consequence of your ideology even in constrained circumstances.

Both-sidesism isn’t anarchism.

When neither side is an anarchist position? It’s not two sides. It’s one side with two faces.

hedonistic nihilism

Wtf are you talking about?

But saying he caved to the NYPD is delusional.

Maybe “caved” is the wrong word. But he’s been very non-confrontational. Maybe that’s a strategy. Maybe that’s just a fight he doesn’t think he can win. Maybe he’s legitimately intimidated by the NYPD after how they roughed up de Blasio’s daughter. Idk.

But keeping Tisch around when he could have appointed his own Chief, especially after the scandals Tisch has covered up, is a concession to the NYPD that plenty of people consider a mistake.

Boo hoo, a country doesn’t let a fascist in.

It does let them in. The UK has no problem with fascists, just so long as they’re British Fascists.

Long COVID was actually just me turning 40 and losing track of the years.

Although, I’ll say that your perceptions can re-normalize when you have a little guy in your life. Like, people tell you “your kids will grow up so fast” but I’m feeling every single day of the Terrible Twos.

most people probably rapidly lose interest having beyond more than 5 apple.

Like, doing this to a board member is worse???

Doing this to some random student is gross.

Doing this to another board member is also gross. But it signifies a kind of structural disrespect that undermines the office as well as the individual. It’s symptomatic of a general institutional disgust for student involvement in school affairs.

Like Bush Jr doing the creepy shoulder rub on Angela Merkel or - in a more extreme example - UN staffers who were “approached, accosted and raped” by fellow officials and dignitaries. It isn’t merely a personal transgression. It undermines the entire function of the representative body.

West, who is legally known as Ye, made an application to travel to the UK via an Electronic Travel Authorisation on Monday but it has been blocked by officials.

Listen, he’s a loser and a POS. I don’t particularly like the guy. All is current music sucks.

But this whole UK fascist turn wrt to Israel is not the way. Straight up blocking people from entering your country, because someone in the Home Secretary’s office as beef, is a bleak way to run a country.

The number of Musicians, Politicians, and Religious Leaders on this list really leaves the impression that it’s arbitrary and personal, especially when you consider who is coming and going through the UK at will.