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How will my cotton business survive without slave labor?

Lol honor system omg I'm dying

Heh. Meat ball

This is America. We're obsessed with preventing adolescents from fapping.

I'm not the person you are replying to, but I take your point and agree with you in principle. However, you didn't really address their point that $42k is the median household income in her area. So at least half the households (not just individuals) are trying it. But I don't know how it's working out for them.

Perhaps that region is quite affordable or has a low cost of living or is crime ridden, idk.

This makes me a bit excited to see a court rule that a sitting president is immune. If that happens (it won't), I would expect Biden to immediately take full advantage of his newfound powers and publicly announce a dead or alive bounty for a whole slew of right-wing fascists currently holding or running for public office. That particular ruling could really solve this little Nazi problem that's been developing here in the US.

"Good news, Mr Trump! You're off the hook since one of those obviously illegal things you did were crimes because you had presidential immunity. Hey, while I have you...."

"Opposing beliefs" is often just coded language for extremely offensive, factually inaccurate, demonstrably dangerous, and often indefensible speech. Social media companies aren't obligated to keep posts about Jewish space lasers, Holocaust denialism, and pro-fascist ideologies on their servers.

Social media advertisers don't want their product advertisements appearing adjacent to batshit, nonsensical, conspiratorial, alt-right bullshit.

Having a Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or Instagram account isn't a right and having it taken away doesn't make you a victim. Nobody owes anyone else a platform to spew toxicity to the masses.

I'm using the royal "you" btw. I'm not saying you, specifically, are a Trump supporting crybaby.

One of the many, many reasons*

Yup. These "free market" folks conveniently forget that competition is bolstered when there's a floor. An impartial referee to call balls, strikes, and fouls. A set of rules everyone has to play by, or they don't get to play at all.

Also known as regulation.

The cloth masks were supposed to be a simple thing society could all agree to do for a while until better, medically proven masks were readily available. While they probably provide a benefit by reducing transmission, even if only by a small amount, they certainly don't hurt. This was all that was available at a time of overflowing hospitals, supply shortages, and rapidly increasing infection rates.

Republicans, a club of mostly white guys who have publicly declared themselves the nemesis of science, immediately embraced obviously false claims arriving in their AOL email inboxes that the masks were actually harmful and that by wearing them, they were endorsing an impending government takeover by a new world order run by black antifa Jews... or some shit, I mean Jesus fuck you guys will believe anything. So anyway, those same Republicans loudly shouted "oppression" and to this day they won't stop talking about it even though the rest of the world can't stop thinking about just how batshit crazy these people went in the early days of the pandemic.

Entire international medical community : "While we really prefer if you would just stay home for a bit and cut down on social gatherings, we know you're still going to go out. But if you could please at least wear this. It's cheap, readily available, and we're desperate to do anything to slow this thing down. We think they probably help in certain circumstances like if you're infected but don't know it yet. If we all work together and exercise basic precau..."

Republicans: "This is literal slavery. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late to church."

Specifically during the Bush administration. How could he?