That’s the idea. His job is institutional and economic sabotage.

That’s nice. I’m booking another holiday in Spain, throw a bit of my money in their direction.

Why do leeches continue to suck blood when they’re already fat?

They must have gone to the trophy shop and got him some chintzy awards.

“BEST CHOMO EVER!”

That sort of thing.

Putin doesn’t want peace, so there’s nothing to start. And the Europeans also know that, even if they started talks with Putin, if Trump’s not involved, he’ll swoop in at the last minute and fuck everything up. So there’s no urgency.

Trump: Beware the Ides of July.

Better yet, don’t.

And vermut.

And the evidentiary value of those assertions is diddly-squat.

Good start. Now for the other half.

I’m a senior IT person and not only am I in a union, but the union actually does worthwhile things for its membership. I’m not in the US, though.

Yeah, and they never actually negotiate anything because of the massive power imbalance. I’d call them useful idiots, if they were actually useful.

Professional certification bodies work best in industries with slow pace of change, e.g., civil engineering. In IT it’s an obstacle. We’d all be taking exams on COBOL or CORBA, and that would be just more unaccountable gatekeeping.

The article seems to equate the sociopathic owning class with the industry.

Yeah… fuck that.

“I’m so proud! Of all the kids there, he chose to rape mine!”

Do they really think making the environment intolerable for educated people who experience empathy, will lead to those people “converting” to their views?

No, they want people like that to be killed off.

What even is this comment.

Part of the political and legal struggle now is resisting Republicans who are trying to restrict who’s allowed to vote.

Minimum age of 130 should be fine.

Lobster populations are declining, but there are more and more billionaires…

They’re not mistakes. They’re deliberate sabotage of the constitution and the rule of law.

Good thing fascists can’t get along for any length of time.