AIPAC is American money.
https://readsludge.com/2024/03/04/whos-funding-aipacs-political-spending-barrage/
$5 million from WhatsApp, $2m from Home Depot, half a million from Kraft.
AIPAC is American money.
https://readsludge.com/2024/03/04/whos-funding-aipacs-political-spending-barrage/
$5 million from WhatsApp, $2m from Home Depot, half a million from Kraft.
It’s tiered pricing. All the chains are doing it now. Jump through hoops or pay double.
A friend’s kid brought home Covid and they didn’t catch it because they masked up for a few days in their house.
I had actually bought masks in 2018 because I was tired of getting sick every third flight. And then chickened out and didn’t wear them because it just wasn’t done at the time, at least outside of Asia.
Ended up donating that box to my primary care when supplies were short at the beginning of Covid.
It does both. Others more than you, yes, but it does help both ways.
I was traveling recently and got so many dirty looks for wearing a mask, only one at O’Hare.
And then I didn’t wear it enough and caught covid for the first time. (I should have known better in cramped tourists spots). Then I had a reason to wear it, especially while temporarily homeless.
Just because of the whole murder thing? It was legal!
Yes, The DNC famously doesn’t care how maybe Republicans are in Congress.
Remember the name of this commenter, because he constantly posts the same shit.
I have to say, “you’ve been unpardoned” would be a great line.
Maybe they should take it to Russia with them, instead of trying to bring Russia here.
Turns out journalists still need to eat, though.
WaPo got bought out and just ran quite a brave article on how they’re about to be hollowed out.
I saved the authors names for when they get fired. Maybe I can follow them wherever they end up.
There are different types. The “financial duty” of corporations is generally overblown, however that is more or less what happened with Twitter. Elon made such a dumb offer that they had to put it to their shareholders. There’s some mechanism where shareholders can vote as a whole to sell, and if the vote passes then you don’t get a choice.
But generally corporations absolutely aren’t required to do whatever makes the most money. They’re allowed to put other values above pure profit, as long as they can justify it being in the shareholders’ interests. The shareholders may disagree and vote them out because of it, but as long as it was plausible, it’s legal. For instance, I believe the board of an Oil company could decide to shut down their wells and fully pivot to renewables, and I don’t think the courts would hold them accountable. Preventing climate change is easily arguable as in the shareholders’ interest, even at the cost of significant money. However that board would likely quickly be voted out. (And it’s unlikely they would have gotten there if they didn’t love oil money.)
If you own 51% of shares, public or not, you can’t be forced to sell afaik. And if you’re private, you’d have to do some pretty big illegal defamation or something to be forced to sell your property. Or you could die and your descendents could decide to sell.
One issue is that we’ve set up our tax system to encourage cashing out asap. For the most part in the US, you’re going to be taxed at 37% whether you sell now or whether you have the company pay you out for the next twenty years. So why not get out while the gettin’ is good? In the past, with a 90% top marginal rate at a higher income, it was often better to keep your money in the company and in the reputation, and just have it pay you out at a medium tax bracket for the next fifty years. All you really need to do as your job is make sure the company stays stable anyway. You can do that while spending four days on the golf course.
And how do we think that’d work out?
If we really did get to rip up the Constitution and start over, who do you think would get to write it? You think Bernie Sanders is just going to stroll up with a pen and start setting things straight?
Oh, sorry. In English we have this stuff called punctuation. It goes between your sentences.
Were you as good in English as you were in math?
J’apprécie votre perspicacité, merci.
Did they “fuck up” though? Or did they intentionally fire their best people in order to save money, knowing the consequences would be cheaper than the profit made.
I’d be quite impressed if Macron sacrificed his position to fight the fascists.
I didn’t think he had it in him. (And it seems he doesn’t.)
It’d help if we had more than the very slimmest of majorities.