logicbomb

I would also like an answer.

The only one I've thought of is to change to a constitutional monarchy like the UK and put me in charge. (Obviously, it would be me because I am the one waving the wand.) The king would have absolute power to resolve constitutional crises, and would otherwise just have a ceremonial role.

I suspect that it's a mental error to imagine that there's one ideal ideology to start with.

For example, I think the founding fathers of America envisioned that the federal government would be smaller than the state governments. It's not completely insane to imagine supporting true libertarians for a federal government and a progressive left wing party for a state government.

But people aren't that mentally flexible. If they vote right wing for federal government, they will never vote left wing for state government. And so, despite the fact that capitalism can solve certain problems quite efficiently, the fact that it's utterly unsuited to solve our most common problems like making sure people have basic essentials means that libertarianism is a bit of a dead end, unless people can actually learn to think flexibly.

This is one of the basic reasons why Political Compass Memes is such a bad idea. It encourages people to lock in their political identity, rather than remain flexible, and centrism isn't the answer, either. We should be trying to use the right tool for the right job.

Or alcoholics anonymous anonymouses.

The copyright date on the comic is 1990, and the web page for that store says it is 30 years old, so the comic is older than the store.

To me, the odds are that both the store owner and Larson independently came up with the same joke, especially because Lawrence of La Brea is also a different pun. But it could also be that the store partially got its name from this comic. Either way, the person who thought up the store name obviously has a good sense of humor.

I think that's right. Of course, the standard was for people who have a shred of conscience....

I have many good memories of my childhood sitting on Saturday morning watching cartoons while eating cereal.

But I don't know how Calvin could do that all day. The good cartoons were on Saturday mornings. If they had any cartoons in the afternoon, I don't remember them being very good.

There's a Wikipedia article about the proverb.

Speech is silver, silence is golden

Beyond what it says in the article, silence is a popular tactic in negotiations to this day. If you're negotiating a price, it's more difficult for the party who mentions a price first. Also, the need to speak during silence often puts the speaker at a disadvantage in negotiations.

Nobody with a shred of a conscience wants to work for a boss who does Nazi salutes in public.

That's why Musk loves H1B visas, because you can treat them like slaves and it's very hard for them to take an ethical stand.

But he and Johnson are also facing blunt political reality: They need Trump and MAGA-aligned lawmakers to get the GOP’s legislative agenda through their chambers, and there are few advantages to breaking with him.

That's a strange way of saying that they are weak sycophants who, despite being ineffective at their leadership positions, would still rather cling to their worthless jobs rather than defend the Constitution, as they swore to do.

I know you said 2020, which was the year Brexit occurred, but I think many people thinking of 2020 would think of the pandemic. The thing is, though, that Brexit is the example from 2020, because just like our current situation, the conservative politicians lied that they were going to help the average person. Then, they convinced the UK to leave the EU, which tanked the British economy.

The average person suffered. Small businesses went bankrupt. Meanwhile, the ultra wealthy used the time to purchase whatever they wanted at cheap prices, predicting that eventually the economy would recover. They were fine because of their vast resources, so this gives them the chance to steal all of the future profits from people of lower classes.

Ultra wealthy people become ultra wealthy by stealing money from other people. Their employees bring much, much more value than they are compensated. They receive government subsidies which are largely funded by average people. And this is just one more example. They intentionally tank the economy so that they can steal from people who get into short term binds. They steal all of their future profits.

I didn't know anything about this situation. The article presents two sides:

In 2022, the Animal Advisory Commission issued a vote of no confidence in Bland, citing his failure to provide accurate data, mismanagement of the stray-hold ordinance, misleading reports and strained relations with partner organizations.

In a recent memorandum, City Manager T.C. Broadnax recognized Bland for his leadership in creating the city’s first strategic plan for Animal Services, achieving a 96.81% live outcome rate and securing contracts for affordable veterinary care. Broadnax also noted Bland’s work on microchipping ordinances and launching the Finder to Foster program to help animals find permanent homes.

Who would've ever guessed that simply doing multiple Nazi salutes and then firing tons of people without cause could ever come back to bite him?