George Carlin: "Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. Israeli murderers are called commandos. Arab commandos are called terrorists."
@paulrpotts@RantonBad@inthesamedevice Ah, well, now that I know that solutions involving time machines are viable, I can see how limited my thinking has become.
You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man.
There is one thing that Christ and all the Christian saints have said with a sort of savage monotony. They have said simply that to be rich is to be in peculiar danger of moral wreck.
@inthesamedevice@paulrpotts Don't ask me why we have a system where Biden became the only candidate who could beat Trump, but that was the reality in 2020. And switching horses now would get us Trump for sure. So keep on complaining, but only if you think Trump is preferable.
Now assured there will be no intervention from the civilized world, Russians are now free to slowly destroy any Ukrainian city they choose.
Overnight, the residential areas of the beautiful and historic city of Odesa were targeted with Iranian Kamikaze drones.
Reports say LA Times is losing $40 million a year. Its owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, has an estimated net worth of about $5 billion. Even if he never makes another penny he could cover those losses every year for a century and still have more than $1 billion left over in the bank.