That entire situation… anyone with a shred of brainpower put the blame on the helicopter. They have a lot more accurate equipment in their direct control compared to a commercial airliner or ATC. Not to mention they are much more maneuverable.

That will only deal with the SEC portion… it won’t do anything for the civil suit at least.

Looks like Canada gets an Ivy league teaching staff for basically nothing.

They’d have to convince states like Texas, or Florida to arrest him first since that’s where he is for most of his businesses.

If there is anything even this Supreme Court is consistent with, it is maintaining their power.

This assumes he intends to have another election. Remember when he said they’d never have to vote again?

No one told him because there was no point. They know he doesn’t give a shit. He’s said as much before. It would have been a waste of time and energy to tell him. And he’s the kind of guy that would have fired them for wasting his time.

Literally a net negative for everyone to bother letting the current President of the United States know what is going on.

Let’s get that full quoted sentence instead of the two worda out of context that let you post the link you wanted.

And if we look at nature in general, non-monogamous breeding across all species is the most common.

Didn’t even need the whole sentence, just the word before those… “Across all species”.

There’s kind of my point. It is a societal construct, one largely tied to religion and thus easily mapped to religious expansion across the globe.

“Normal” for things like this is meaningless, because it is entirely based in arbitrary beliefs, not anything inherent in being human. It is based entirely on fake limits we’ve imposed on ourselves as a culture, nothing more.

This is really only “abnormal” in a traditional, Christianity-based modern societal culture, and that’s nowhere near the entire world.

I think the fact you have to point out that we’re the only species that has developed drugs, in order to exclude every other species kind of proves it though.

By what definition of “normal”? Polygamy is a central part of several religions for instance. And if we look at nature in general, non-monogamous breeding across all species is the most common.

You do realize that the Model 3 has been available brand new for like $37k for 4 years now, and used ones obviously cheaper than that. That’s not exactly cheap, but it’s where the vast majority of EV prices are targeted, not the high end anymore.

Tesla is no longer an exclusively $80k+ luxury brand despite what so many people online seem to think still. The vast majority of Tesla vehicles ever made aren’t the Model S or X, they are the Model 3 and Y in just the last few years. Hell, half of Toyota’s current vehicle lineup is $40k or more.

That’s why they made sure they owned the media, that way they control the narrative. Conservatives learned after Watergate that the media has the actual power, so we got Fox News.

No one gave a shit about Watergate until the media started reporting about it and educated the public instead of just glossing over the event. You don’t need to be competent or popular if the majority of the public never hears about your stupidity and shitty decisions.

who may not even be able to afford a smartphone, or even Internet access.

I agree generally… However, at least currently until this fascist takeover gets to it, those same individuals would qualify for service through the Lifeline Program (Obama phones).

https://www.fcc.gov/general/lifeline-program-low-income-consumers

The digital requirement is a negative for everyone on general, but that specific reason doesn’t really apply with other current social support programs in place covering that scenario as well.

That’s handled largely by the lack of ability to take time off. And then there’s wage stagnation. It not only means increased company profits, but on the national scale it helps ensure any people do not make enough money to build up any savings.

They’ve created a very effective system where most don’t have the paid time off from work, can’t afford to call in, and also don’t have the savings to afford the time to find a new job.

Actual 90% of Americans: I’m busy trying to survive daily life working essentially paycheck to paycheck, maybe working two or three jobs and a side gig to make ends meet, commuting over an hour each way to work, being overly stressed from work, having to pay for some of the most expensive healthcare on the planet even with work provided insurance, and never able to afford to take a real vacation or even time to sit back and look at anything not directly part of my daily struggles to survive in current society. When I do look around, half of politics is telling me I’m lazy and the other half is talking about things that don’t affect my daily struggles.

Meanwhile both of the groups say the other is lying all the time and I don’t have the time or energy to look into it before I have to get to bed so I can get up and do it all over again tomorrow. And in the morning, my car breaks down again, and repairing it wipes out the little savings I did manage to have for a while. Now I’m worried that I might be fired because I am late to work again because of car trouble and lack of good public transit options.

Our society has been manufactured over the last 100 years to get people to the point we don’t have the free time or enough money to effectively see what’s happening and fight back without having to completely destroy our lives in the process.

Elon was a dipshit in 2018 yes… So are 90% of CEOs, and 100% of modern “Republicans”. Most just aren’t as publicly vocal because they don’t make themselves the face of their brands. The Republican party hasn’t actually supported their stated viewpoints in decades, and few members of the general public have noticed. They just take what they’re told and allowed the shift.

Being a dipshit is different from actively supporting a fascist takeover of the government. Regardless of what you might want to claim, there is a shift there. You’re an idiot if you can’t see the public shift in the last few years. He may always have been this way,but he wasn’t as vocally and publicly supportive of it. It used to just be shit takes on events for publicity, not the active lead of the country’s destruction.

Nothing lost. McDonald’s lost sight of their place in the fast food wars.

They mistakenly started to believe they could charge the same as places like Five Guys while still producing the same crap product. They forgot the reason they got so big was because they were cheap, not because they were a better option.

And/or destabilizing the country’s economy and political power worldwide so our enemies like Russia can do whatever they want without the US interfering. The complete destruction of US soft power via things like USAID and the blatant attempts to destroy any collaboration with our allies seems to point more in that direction.

A few years ago I would have said there was no fucking way the situation as reported happened. That this side of the story is clearly being hyperbolic and making some stuff up to make it sound worse than it was for the lawsuit.

But given recent events with ICE and CBP… This now seems entirely plausible, which is a ridiculous situation for the country to be in.

An it is United after all. They have a corporate history that definitely lends itself to this being a reasonable story from them.