The DNC has literally argued, successfully, in court, that is has every right to rig its own primaries.
Voting in primaries is pointless unless that changes.
That has little to do with whatever political machinations are occurring and more to do with housing and necessities inflation driving labor pressure as a lagging inflation indicator.
Think of it as a tectonic/landscape thing rather than the stupid games people happen to be playing on the landscape.
Of course if any of them had their heads out of their own asses, or the asses of their owners, they might recognize this and start adapting...
They didn't have to swallow and blindly vote for the propaganda they were immersed in, and at any time they could have collectively decided it was the wrong direction to be going.
Instead, they willfully and gladly kept voting for the same conservative policies and didn't make the connection as to why their lives and their kids' lives were getting worse. That was a choice.
Billionaires should pay 100% tax over $999,999.99 of personal wealth.
Some people still get to be wealthy. Problem solved.
afaik, it's more naturally generated opoids on the level of morphine.
Someone tell that to NY state's gov.
This is the sugar thing all over again.
It shouldn't need to be said as a matter of common decency, but:
Making people unnecessarily miserable has negative health outcomes
For the same reason a human in a bad automobile crash may be conscious and yet be immobile - the brain releases its own mix of painkillers along with other chemicals such as adrenalin when your body gets badly damaged.
That's sometimes why you can get a big gash in your arm running or fighting or even moving furniture around, and might not immediately notice until you move into a lower state of excitement and those chemicals clear out of your blood stream.
Someone can be very badly injured, but since they're in shock they might not be able to tell how badly they are hurt until the local environment changes.
They are making money off a literal public good. EVERYTHING they produce, including the profits, is public property.
The sun will start increasing in luminosity within a billion years, at which point it will be intense enough to cause rocks to begin soaking up CO2 to a point where photosynthesis will become difficult, and the planetary food chain will collapse.
The hour is much later than we think. Maybe another supercontinent cycle or so?
Remember when one of the OWS agent provocateurs got outed by riding his motorcycle like a dick a few months afterwards?