Donโt worry about the plague outbreak in Russia. We have a heroin addict who eats roadkill and hates scientists in charge of a defunded CDC, so Iโm sure everything is under control.
The Cornell rapists are not "young men with bright futures who made a mistake."
They are the next generation of wealthy, privileged men being taught that their money and status mean they won't have to answer for their actions.
When Republicans talk about "deregulation," here's what that means in practice:
Companies are allowed to cut corners on food safety to increase their profits and our food becomes unsafe to eat, and shortages drive up prices for consumers.
The Nazis also sought to purge society of the "unfit," and "undesirable." By the end, more than a quarter million German citizens with physical disabilities or mental illnesses were systematically murdered.
The first steps down that road looked exactly like this.
NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN:
"...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."