The more interesting question is why various stodgy bankers gave him the other 28B.
Because that’s how the system works.
If you have $5,000 and owe 15,000, you’re in debt and most likely have to work a shitload of hours in a dead end job for the rest of your life in a futile attempt to make ends meet.
If you have 3 billion dollars and owe 30 billion, you’re a billionaire and get to do whatever you want consequence free, including breaking all of the laws.
As it is now, employees carry a hell of a lot more risk than founders of a business and get none of the gain from its success.
Sure, the founders risk their capital investment if the business fails completely, but the vast majority of them will still have plenty of resources left to live off of and/or able to get loans or debt forgiveness to cover at least some of the loss.
Workers, though? They’re constantly one bad quarter from the risk of losing their only means of income and most aren’t even making ends meet as it is and have no savings.
When the company’s doing well, workers don’t benefit from it and STILL risk being laid off because some MBAsshole wants to show everybody how “lean” (read: barebones) the company can be.
With worker ownership, the risks and rewards are for everyone and everyone is motivated to make the company successful.
The cruelty and destruction is the point.
True, but in the US, the song has been overplayed so much that people tend to hate it more than much worse songs.
Same thing happened to Wham’s Last Christmas (which was a worse song to begin with) in Scandinavia, Germany, and probably elsewhere too.
She already gets a gigantic one every year, owing to her being one of the few popular musicians who actually own the rights to their music (the vast majority of popular music being owned by just 3 conglomerates), but still she keeps going.
She even calls the excruciatingly extended Christmas period “Mariah SZN” 🤮🤬
Same here in Denmark. I likes me some careless whispers and being woken up before you go go, but Last Christmas can fuck right off forever.
And by “temporary”, he means “until the premature demise of the human race”.
Or he would if he wasn’t a shortsighted and opportunistic greed monster with no regard for or even understanding of anything except for how to increase his own dragon’s hoard of riches.
Kinda sad that the Presidential election is riding on the coattails of other issues, but that’s the nature of today’s politics.
I’d actually argue the opposite: the nature of today’s politics has far too much focus on the horse race popularity aspect and election strategy of candidates and not anywhere near enough on the actual issues that can shape or even end the lives of the people.
I for one would much rather have someone with the absolutely zero charisma who won’t sell people’s lives for support from special interest groups than the most charming motherfucker ever promising the moon and barely giving the Fresh Kills Landfill.
Granted, neither of those combinations are on the presidential ballot, so I’m just gonna cross everything except the streams hoping that the establishment candidate not likely to significantly improve much beats the fascist guaranteed to make everything much worse if given the chance.
Kåre Häkkinen O’Leary
That’s Danish/Norwegian, Finnish, and Irish combined.
That’s a person so white they’d need to put on sun block to go outside when there’s a full moon
It’s the anonymity that’s the problem. Everyone should just have one account. You could still post anonymously, but you can’t get any clout for it.
Grab em by the work permit?
We don’t want Ted Cruz.
I need integrity.
Carrying water for a fascist apartheid regime committing genocide is indicative of a lot of things. Integrity isn’t one of them. Same goes for repeating whatever cops tell them to say.
I also respect a bad take far more than silence and cowardice in the face of adversity
There’s honest bad takes and there’s spreading deceptive misinformation. When it comes to Israel, cops, and other things that the establishment likes much more than the population in general, the NYT is constantly doing the latter at refusing to issue corrections.
He was elected by all the locally based media conducting a counterfactual campaign of manufacturing a violent crime crisis and convincing the people of New York that only a cop or a vigilante could save them.
Given that it worked and Sliwa is an absolute maniac and a Republican in a New York election, the fascist cop (but I repeat myself) would have won regardless of the type of voting.
Hopefully the people of New York will be less credulous the next time the billionaire owned media tries to wag the dog, but I doubt it.
To be fair, the fact that he was born in Canada was only relevant when he ran for president.
To be more fair, though, Ted Cruz is an abomination that should not be in any position of public trust given that he can only be trusted to be the absolute WORST at any given moment.
This is why I cancelled my subscription and switched to NYT. I need to be able to trust my news source
Guess you’re ignoring their genocide apologia and their constant pro-cop propaganda, then…
Congratulations! What are you going to spend your winnings on?
Ohio is a magical land. It can be whatever you don’t want it to be.
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Do it, you cowards!