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[โ€“] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (23 children)

Selling life-saving drugs at large multiples of the cost to manufacture + distribute. The most obvious example being insulin.

Switching political party in the same term that you were elected to office.

CEOs making 100x the median worker at the same company.

Assault rifles and other automatic or military-grade weapons. They have no practical purpose in the hands of a citizen. Pistols, shotguns, and hunting rifles should be sufficient for hunting and self defense.

Generic finance bro bullshit. Frivolous use of bank credit for speculative investment. Predatory lending. Credit default swaps. It's just a spectrum of Ponzi Schemes. Let's reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act.

Non-disclosure of expensive gifts to Supreme Court judges. Looking at you, Clarence.

Military recruiting at high schools.

Junk mail. You literally have to pay a company to stop sending it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What the fuck? You have to pay to stop getting junk mail? We in Australia just put a little sign on our letterbox saying 'no junk mail' and we stop getting it. That's insane. Same thing with the insulin comment and some of the stuff other people said like forced arbitration. America is crazy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You think thats bad, we have active shooter drills and safe rooms because nothing is done about our gun nut problem.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup I paid the fee to stop getting marketing junk mail. Then when I started an LLC, they started sending all of that mail again addressed to the LLC. You can't fucking win.

[โ€“] emergencyfood 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Free paper is free paper. You can also mess with them by signing them up for each other and/or sending them stones (if there's a return envelope; they'll be charged for it).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Lol @ just filling return envelopes with worthless dead weight

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