Why were they making a movie about Donald Regan?
quicklime
joined 2 years ago
Thing is, yeah they're fucking stupid but they're also voters who the Dems could have persuaded and hardly tried. Repeatedly spamming "vote for us or you get Trumped again" doesn't count as persuasion.
it's not even remotely close to half of the city burning down. But given the damage estimates are running somewhere around $150 billion, it's bad enough
Can I fully agree with you about them doing that, while also maintaining that in the long run insurance of all kinds will be unsustainable in light of the ongoing (and really just beginning at this point) climate catastrophe, not to mention the whole rest of the polycrisis facing humanity
I can't help feeling that the real bad news is not that online platforms have been ruined, but that people have been and remain dependent on them.
I suspect the answer to that might be the same as to the classic question, "Can the markets stay completely insane and irrational longer than I can remain solvent?"
no, he'll block federal aid and claim that Palisades residents didn't rake their yards well enough.
something something Melon Husk and Rare-Earth Mining
Yes -- surely the eligible pool is tiny at best. And the pull to use skills of deception for profit instead is widespread.
Right? And meanwhile the alternatives also cost more than they ought to if our whole system weren't so fully captured by profit seeking.
It seems our species as a whole has deep problems of greed, corruption, nepotism... we're fundamentally, maybe even genetically, not very close to systemically social and selfless behavior. We turn any system of government and economy and social structure to the benefit of an elite few eventually.
We / our society need many more like that guy, but I wouldn't wish that level of stress on anyone. I'll bet he gave two years off his eventual lifespan for every year undercover. On the other hand, lifespan would be worth so little in a white-supremacist christofascism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Regan