“Democracy dies in cowardice and greed”

I like that quote, because it’s so accurate!

Think of it as supporting your neighbors.

There is value in keeping money within your own community, instead of giving all the profit to Bezos.

My favorite place in LA back when I lived there in the 90s was Broadway in downtown.

It was an older downtown made for walking, with gallery arcades of immigrant mom-and-pop shops, and Clifton’s Brookdale cafeteria (now some kind of nightclub).

Gen X here. I still use my eMule client! Because you just share whole directory structures, it’s great for finding and sharing older obscure stuff.

Elon Musk giving $75 million to elect Trump, vs this tells you all that the money is in the wrong hands.

Income inequality…

If you read the trolley’s brochure on the manufacturer’s website, it says it was designed by George McGinnis, the last of the Imagineers hired by Walt Disney.

I’ve always found Super Video Converter to be very useful and easy to use for video conversion.

https://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Clearly they hadn’t reached O’Brien’s status in the Party.

Don’t let this lull you into a false sense of security.

VOTE! Particularly if you live in a swing state.

This reminds me of the shift in Florida’s demographics towards Republicans because of all the MAGAts who moved down there to bask in DeSantis’ anti-wokeness and Rs taking over the state legislative bodies.

Enjoy your state, guys.

AI helps the Jewish space lasers control weather and spread COVID more efficiently, thereby speeding up the Great Replacement and the kidnapping and consumption of your dogs and cats.

/s, obviously, unless I’m not.

That’s okay, Gov. DeSantis says there’s no such thing as climate change, so this is all normal.

It’s not like the S&P500 committee is going to make wild and crazy decisions based on a hunch. It’s still very much based on replacing older shrinking companies with newer more vigorous representatives in the same industry.

Mathematics.

This is why you shouldn’t put your money into human-managed mutual funds.

Humans make idiotic decisions like helping Musk buy Twitter.

When they get their orders and talking points directly from Russia’s FSB, they don’t have to hire legislative staff to work for their constituents, do research on issues, and solve problems.

They can use the money for political campaigning instead. No wonder they’re successful!

Good thinking! /s

That depends on state and county law.

If a recall is possible, the same would dictate what the procedure for a recall is.

In the US, sheriffs are elected officials, i.e. they can’t be fired.

When you need to escape bad conditions by migrating to Syria, things must really be bad.