Diesel had been optimized in the past, and was capable of insane efficiency, but regulations prevented it from ever becoming mass produced. Elon, you need another side hustle? For those of us that could use a significantly more efficient motor to pull our RVs without buying a Tesla Semi? What about a simplified Cybertruck focused on towing capacity instead with a 3500-4500 level suspension?
It’s merely a money laundering scheme, or grift, where money is taken from the people and passed through to NGO CEOs.
This is why the government has no business in charity. Every time it engages in this way it’s riddled with fraud.
If our representatives wont represent the interests of their constituents, then its time for a revolution… not one of violence but one of a political nature
You’re a fucking idiot!
Big chain grocery stores operate on very thin net profit margins, typically in the 1–3% range. Industry benchmarks from the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) put the average net profit margin for food retailers at 1.7% in 2024 and 2.1% in 2025.
So where’s the other 27% in “savings“ coming from? subsidies? Which means what? They’re using your tax dollars to reduce the cost of the groceries, so you’re still paying for it indirectly…
This isn’t a MAGA thing! It’s fucking accounting!
@GavinNewsom Shamin Newscum is delusional.
It makes voting harder for:
- homeless
- undocumented immigrants
For everyone else they have to prove citizenship ONCE. That’s not difficult for 95% of Americans, it’s an inconvenience. That inconvenience is worth securing our elections!!
The truth is that capitalism can be manipulated by bad actors and connected insiders to widen the gap between the extremely wealthy and everyone else. We can fix much of what is happening by changing or repealing the laws and regulations that were written or twisted to create exactly this outcome. Under communism or heavy central planning, however, we would have zero real power to change it. Citizens end up stuck with whatever the ruling elite decides.
Capitalism itself is not the problem. The core issue is the cronyism and expanding government interventions that elites from both sides have pushed for the past hundred years. They layered in more rules, subsidies, bailouts, and controls one small slice at a time so most people would not notice the slow shift away from open competition. Now we see the results clearly in stagnant mobility for many and concentrated gains at the top. But those same networks of influence own much of our politicians through donations, lobbying, and revolving doors. They use media, propaganda, and culture wars to keep us divided and distracted.
Until we wake up from the red versus blue psyop and demand simple rules, real competition, and accountability across the board, they have effectively captured too much control of the system.
@AndrewYang That will simply increase costs, that passes to humans… everywhere you tax, the result is a tax on humans… why not focus on the actual problem and get government spending under control. The government doesn’t need more money to spend frivolously.
Stop the endless handouts. Enforce real accountability. Watch how fast the poverty numbers drop once people confront the clear choice: get to work or face the real risk of ending up homeless.
This perspective, that unconditional cash assistance can foster dependency while tying aid to work requirements and time limits creates powerful incentives for self-reliance, has been tested in practice. The clearest evidence comes from the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which replaced the open-ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). TANF imposed strict work requirements and lifetime time limits.
Welfare caseloads fell by 50 to 60 percent, from roughly 5 million families in 1994 to about 2.1 to 2.6 million in the early 2000s. Employment among low-income single mothers rose from 58 percent in 1993 to nearly 75 percent by 2000; for never-married mothers the rate jumped from 44 percent to 66 percent. Child poverty declined every year to 16.2 percent in 2000, the lowest level since 1978, with record lows for Black children. Single-mother family poverty also fell sharply. Brookings Institution analyses and multiple studies confirm that most adults leaving welfare found jobs and that the reforms drove these gains in employment and reduced dependency.
The strong economy and Earned Income Tax Credit expansions amplified the results, yet econometric research attributes a substantial share of the employment surge and caseload collapse directly to the shift away from unconditional aid. This large-scale experiment shows that ending open-ended handouts and enforcing work requirements can rapidly improve poverty statistics by restoring the link between effort and self-sufficiency.
Implemented during the Clinton administration by the way…