I mean he’s literally being charged with murder and the last event like this was back around 2005, but do go on about how it’s basically the same as a country where police murdering citizens and not getting charged at all is the norm.

Dude! She isn’t even dead yet!

He’s a neoliberal which is an economic stance that promotes deregulation of the markets and support of free trade along with government austerity.

Well you need to start with a bunch of billions and some billionaire friends.

Liberal in economics and Liberal in US politics mean two very distinct and different things. It’s like the way a ‘runner’ in a race is different to a ‘runner’ in a restaurant. They’re not the same things at all.

Economic liberalism means free trade and deregulation. If it makes money, it’s good. Neoliberalism is also referred to as ‘hypercapitalism’.

‘Liberal’ in US politics means ‘left of the GOP’ and is its own unique thing. It bears no relation to economic liberalism at all. The two may coincide but they’re independent of one another.

My choices now are

Mastodon
Lemmy
Kbin
Actually edit the novel

For the chess rule, you may need an x before and a + after.

We’re just along for the ride. The people profiting from this have all the money and aren’t going to change their mind because they think they can buy a solution for just themselves.

So, like the knowledge that we all die one day no matter what happens, it just has to be something you live with. Until you don’t.

I think from Gen X onwards it just gets more and more common.

Also, people will say “I don’t play computer/video games” and then spend hours on Candy Crush or whatever.