In The Wealth of Nations, the general gist is that it is the labor of the people that creates the wealth of the State.

So this gets interpreted by the oligarchs as: Humans only have value if they are able to provide labor we can exploit. Once they can no longer provide labor, they have no value.

The British crown placing tariffs on tea was tyranny. This is authoritarian fascism.

But higher rates of doomscrolling and despair.

Sometimes there’s shit on the outside of the torlet

It’s not a democracy unless the official name of the country includes the word “democratic”.

STOP GIVING HIM IDEAS, ONION!!

If I’m being honest, this helps me understand and visualize the leg muscles.

Serpico

Whiskey with grenadine (cherry) and orange? That’s a varient on the classic Old Fashioned.

The 1/3 drilling holes in the boat are doing so because the boat is taking on water and obviously they need to drill holes so it will drain.

No amount of evidence, facts, logic, etc will convince them that their “common sense” is not only wrong, but actively making things worse.

Unions? You think we have unions in the US? Most have been systematically destroyed by republicans since Reagan.

It never really worked for me. I don’t recall ever being able to successfully use a cassette tape as a software storage medium.

I, for one, welcome our new Cthulhu overlord.

Wouldn’t need to stick exactly to the current state boundaries. Trim off the eastern parts of some of those states on the west coast. And get enough territory to fully encircle the Great Lakes, extended enough to include Minneapolis, Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, all of Michigan, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and parts of upstate New York.

The sane ones of us who live in those states are desperate. Soory

Washington, Oregon, and California as Canada’s 12th province. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and the northern 20% of Illinois and Indiana as the 13th.

The founders original intent was only landowners could vote.

And only white men could own land.

The gravity gun in HL2 was a lot of fun

As a 50something American, it has never been weirder. While I saw this building during most of my life, I didn’t think I would actually live to see Americans voting to get rid of democracy.

But here we are - no longer a functioning democratic republic.

Bring it