This amazing website, called "Worse on Purpose," is cataloguing all the ways companies are deliberately and secretively degrading their own products
As usual, in most cases the culprit is private equity extracting enormous sums while everyone else is left worse off.
I decided to do a little historical research to understand exactly why the United States consistently votes "NO" to making food a basic, non-negotiable human right at the United Nations. What I discovered was truly shocking and highly revealing.
It appears that the entire American legal system is built almost exclusively on the cold, individualistic concept of "negative rights": which are mere freedoms from direct government interference, such as the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the right to bear arms, and protection against unlawful search and seizure.
A "right to food", on the other hand, is a positive right, meaning it legally, structurally requires the government to actively provide a material service, a life-saving commodity, or survival resources to its citizens. Now it becomes glaringly clear why the US government has historically resisted codifying any positive economic, social, or cultural rights, such as the rights to universal healthcare, affordable housing, clean drinking water, or basic food, into law.
They claim that these survival needs are merely "policy goals" to be debated and legislated democratically, rather than fundamental, non-negotiable constitutional rights.
The US Mission to Geneva has explicitly admitted that if the right to food were formally recognized as a legally binding, international human right, the US government deeply fears it would face massive, endless domestic lawsuits from its own impoverished citizens over systemic poverty, structural food insecurity, and widespread malnutrition. Furthermore, Washington fiercely opposes the legal concept of extraterritorial obligations: the revolutionary idea that wealthy, imperialist nations have a binding legal duty to provide aid, agricultural resources, financial assistance, or food to the starving citizens of other countries that they have spent centuries exploiting, plundering, and destabilizing.
This stark contrast between the US government’s fierce opposition to a legally binding "right to food" and its absolute willingness to instantly intervene with trillions of dollars to bail out failing private corporations, massive banks, and corporate monopolies is the ultimate double standard. It can only be described as the classic, brutal reality of "socialism for the rich and cutthroat capitalism for the poor."
Indeed, we always see that America proudly, eagerly guarantees an ironclad financial safety net for bloated corporate entities, massive defense contractors, and Wall Street venture capitalists to prevent market failures, bankruptcies, and bad investments. Yet, they flatly, ironically decline to guarantee even a basic safety net for human lives to prevent widespread nutritional failures.
My therapist once told me: Imagine being bitten by a snake and, instead of treating the bite, you waste time chasing the snake to understand why it bit you and prove you didn't deserve it.
very cool that the state dept is talking about blacklists, "pre-crime" & reimplementing the mccarthy trials while liberals on this website have joined hands with ted cruz & the entire gop to freak out about a chinese suit i wore! they're putting all of us in the camps dumbasses!
Former DNC chair Jamie Harrison on primary night said: "If you hate the Democratic Party, then please don't run for our nomination."
Mayor Mamdani responded:
"The question that I come back to is 'What is the Democratic Party if not its voters?'"
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Reporter: "Are you serious about arresting Netanyahu?"
Mamdani: "100%. Yes."
Reporter: "Trump said he won’t."
Mamdani: "He has a warrant for war crimes. Trump may protect him. I won't."
It turns out Flock Safety Cameras love and demand privacy, but only for themselves and their employees
- Flock business location says you can’t film
- Flock moved locations but they instructed the old building to not give out their location to anyone asking
- Security guard at Flock building says he doesn’t consent to being filmed and he doesn’t want to be “under surveillance”
Here’s where it gets really crazy
- The new flock building is identified but they won’t put their name on the building, or on any of the building signs
- Security won’t confirm Flock is in the building
- No one is allowed to film, no one is even allowed to access any floors in the building
Flock demands extremely privacy, but only for themselves
Americans must be under surveillance but for them, you can’t even film outside an old building…. Amazing….
Yesterday it was reported that Hakeem Jeffries got mad at Bernie for endorsing against a Black House incumbent.
Today Jeffries is endorsing a cartoonish South Asian con man over Donovan McKinney, a Black state rep born and raised in Detroit.
Erin Brockovich: When I put this map out, in the first 72 hours, the map crashed twice, and I woke up on day 3 going, oh my God, it's not one town and one data center, it's the entire country. They had no idea. They woke up to this construction. They weren't informed. City council didn't tell them anything. Because these big tech groups came in and put these city council members under NDAs.