The fundamental basis of conservatism is that freedom means having power over other people. Therefore they believe that any attempt to extend freedom to others means taking it away from them.

“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

Eradication =/= extermination. The latter means zero left alive on the whole planet. The fact that the US stopped at clearing screworms from only North America while leaving them alive in the south (and Cuba) always left the possibility of this happening.

This is really bad. The US should have put in the funds to exterminate this thing while we still had a functioning government. I dislike the article’s focus on prices as the main consequence here. Screwworms are fucking horrifying, and they can affect humans, too.

Wait, has Ben & Jerry’s always been this based?

Shocked Pikachu face

Socialism is when the government helps people with a different skin color than me.

Well, you could just change all the names and remove all explicit references to the original and then sell it. I was just looking at the new game Tempest Rising, which is extremely obvious about copying the plot and design of Command and Conquer, but it’s been changed just enough to avoid copyright.

What do you mean? He bought that title fair and square!

The market may question the extent to which a sufficiently structured planning process for major economic decisions is taking place," Saravelos said.

This is a joke, right? There very clearly is no planning process at all other than Cheeto Benito’s unhinged whims.

Silver lining, the fact that the child of such a terrible person can turn out okay gives me some hope.

Good thing the Democrats already gave up all their leverage for the next six months, or else they might be expected to do something to capitalize on this.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5178797-texas-measles-outbreak-kennedy-vaccines/

Kennedy has begun promoting the use of vitamin A, cod liver oil and the steroid budesonide as a way of treating measles

Elon truly is a genius businessman. Letting him run the government is clearly a great idea.

Agreed.

Cybertruck owners, though, they’re a different story.

“That’s too insane for him to actually do” is exactly the sort of complacency that got us into this mess.

There’s a simple explanation for that: they’re more committed to fascism than to their own self-interests.

It’s important to remember that the only reason he can get away with everything is because lots of other powerful people are going along with it.

It’s pretty impressive just how thorough Trump and Elon are being about destroying every single thing that used to be good about the USA.

The YouTube channel Throttle House did a road trip with the cybertruck and they found that a lot of people actually were curious about it.

https://youtu.be/xNE-NyaYBcg?si=1CS2DxHsocEYc0b- (around 24:15)

For all it’s flaws, you can’t deny it looks different from all the other cars around, and most people aren’t online enough to have an opinion about Musk and his bullshit, so to them it’s just an interesting looking car.