“Killing people is profit, son. Our shareholders demand it!”

“I heard a thing that justifies my bigotry, therefore it must be true, because if it isn’t true I’m not a good person.”

The birth rate is low because right-wing politics make people not want to have children. But I can see how people invested in right-wing politics would be motivated to ignore that.

The birth rate is low because right-wing politics make people not want to have children.

Thought process might well have been: “This is an uppity black man, we’d better show these types a lesson.”

“A black person annoyed them. Of course a cop can’t put up with that!”

…Hill was disrespectful and non-compliant.

When the police came round, repeatedly, to my childhood house, after being called by my mother because my father was raping and beating her, the police laughed.

Maybe the police, as a collective, will deserve respect in some hypothetical future where they don’t often harm the innocent, and don’t often make the world worse.

People who tell their own government to stop killing innocent people make the world better.

“I’m a white man with status and power, and I experience the world as great. As these women who don’t make as much money as me are just whining.”

Some people think they’re progressive and caring because they are involved in pro-Dem politics, when the Democrat party is centre-right.

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Gonna call “hinky” on this.

Thanks for defending a human world which has been purposefully designed to harm other humans.

As the article states:

The harms of drug testing fall disproportionately on low-income, Black, Hispanic, and Native American women, who studies have found are more likely to be tested when they give birth, more likely to be investigated, and less likely to reunite with their children after they’ve been removed.

These are people about whom you do not really care, I suppose, so wishful thinking about how ‘isn’t the world great?’ is more important than compassion for other living beings, in this circumstance.

He’s writing a strongly worded letter!!!

You’re right: budgeting is good. For example, I can budget my time by not talking to people who are overwhelmingly obtuse.

Large-scale, privatized healthcare appears unable to provide actual healthcare.

Being paid to not provide any useful service is, indeed, most profitable.

I always support professionals making more money.

As a teacher, I couldn’t give a toss about whether I’m seen as a member of a profession or not. I support people who do important work in a place - cleaning, maintaining, driving public transport, delivering food and other items - to be able to live reasonably near their place of work.

Everyone should have a decent life, no matter what their job, and no matter whether they are deemed to be professional or not.

Either way, if you’re in this situation, please make a budget before it gets to this point.

It’s hard for all Americans to budget when so many are forced to live paycheck to paycheck in an economic system which profits off the exploitation caused by forced inequality. A quick check gives me results of 65-78% of Americans reporting that they live like this. And yes, you could tell me about some people you know who successfully manage to live in X city on Y income. That’s great. But that isn’t an answer, because other people are doing it.

Some people have survived being shot in the head. When I come across people who have been shot in the head, I don’t say “be more like those people who survived”. I call an ambulance.

Asking for censorship seems to be coming at this from the wrong angle.

The intended angle is to block expressions of sympathy, because that runs counter to the propaganda that Palestinian civilians are living beings that deserve compassion.

Glorifying failure always has a cost. The trick is to fool someone else into paying those costs.

Letting students mark their own homework always works!

I’d like to see everyone have reasonable consequences applied to their actions, thank you.

I guess this is what it’s like talking to a bad generative AI.