I know. It was a reference to China being the new scary monster Russia once was

Because China is the new Russia Commie menace

The USA pretends to care about espionage but has zero trouble allowing all of its manufacturing to flee there. As long as the big boys are making money, it’s worth every risk, amiright?

See? Literally, this behaviour is why we can’t have nice things

If the “different direction” to sue everyone who liked them before?!

It’s worth realizing some people do not want to be cheered up.

I get that 100% and, although I am sure I made the mistake before, I am trying hard to understand and respect these boundaries

I am just saying I believe wearing such a pin to avoid people would have a noticeable cobra effect

But even if money does not exchange hands… if I have a million dollars to organize a group of lawyers, PR experts, propagandists, etc. I can still generate and undue impact in legislation that would be hard to match by any regular family voicing their opinion on their own accord

I agree with the first amendment but I think funding a full think tank and funneling “my voice” through a paid army is twisting the goal of the first commandment… and that is before the open bribery that we do see nowadays

That’s not enough… not just because nobody would read it but because there is a LONG tradition of marketing funded junk science so they could very easily come up with some shitty paper that backs whatever they are saying.

The tobacco industry was famous for this and for years they produced studies that showed smoking was good for you

100% - specially in the USA, it is 100% legalized, coordinated bribery

“influencers” should not exist in their form today. If you are to peddle a brand, you get to be responsible (as in legally liable) for the claims made

You don’t think people would go “aww how come you are down? Let me cheer you up”?

You’d just be drawing more attention to yourself… Or inviting a challenge

Because their god emperor TruMp likes those elementary school names and so they must follow

Anything by Brandon Sanderson is a pretty safe bet!

Currently half way through the last of the 4 (Rise of Endymion) … fantastic series!

But WHy dON’t YoUNg poPLE wANT tO sTarT a FaMILy?!?!

Well the problem is that you are viewing it from a “normal person” vantage… you need to think of your employees as indentured servants, basically slaves you don’t get to actually whip.

Once you get the proper Capitalist vantage point, you realize you can use this “benefit” to squeeze the life out of your employees, specially any of them with Chronic conditions or just a family, as they are hostages to the Health Care you provide!

They just decided he should be paid $56 billion dollars for his contribution… So, not anytime soon

I found this sub entertaining for like 2 days after I found it…

Later it was clear it was full of people fishing for praise, people rage baiting or just assholes

In any case, like 99.9% of Reddit, it was clearly not good use of anyone’s time

Charity can also be used as a tax avoidance scheme and weaponized for political purposes; this is why the rich love it, through charity they are able to help themselves even further

it’s a preemptive attempt to counter arguments that Danny helped Max.

That’s all it was. It means literally nothing for Ricciardo’s record or even RB since the point won’t be awarded anyway