Russia wants to pit the US and China against each other to distract and destabilize them both. So all of this is great for Russia's bottom line.
Pandemanium
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I was thinking a kevlar vest might be a better investment. They may or may not shoot at us, but we can't be the ones to shoot first.
I grew up with people who talked like this. It's all "just a joke" until suddenly it isn't.
Democrats have to cater to like three different and mostly separate agendas to win. Republicans only have to cater to one. I think the problem is we've been expecting Dems to pull off what is essentially impossible.
Corps have been complaining for years already that people aren't buying enough. Millenials are killing this industry and that industry because we don't consume enough - "enough" being whatever level they've decided we should consume. They feel entitled to our dollars, whether or not their product or service is any good.
If they were smart, companies would lower prices to be more competitive and incentivize people to buy more. Instead they've doubled down and posted armed guards at the store exits to intimidate the customers they have left. They've slipped data collection into every interaction. It's pretty obvious they're not playing the long game anymore.
I first read that as "sheep medication" and... wasn't even that surprised.
There's a bit of a sugar replacement movement, which isn't necessarily healthier. Most of the sugar replacements have been linked with stuff like dementia if consumed regularly for a long period. And most of them taste a bit off. The other part of the problem is that when you eat something sweet, your body expects sugar. When it doesn't get the sugar it's expecting, it will feel like you are still hungry even though you just ate something.
JubilantJaguar was telling you how it is, not how it should be. They didn't say any of it was good or right or that they were happy about it in any way. You jumped to thinking they agreed with the poli-sci academics who said the parties were too democratic.
That's why you flash your lights on and off at them, to get them to unfreeze before you get too close.
I hate to break it to you but almost every major corporation has a person whose entire job is to translate corporate copy into easy-to-parse, casual, friendly "conversation," because they do want you to think of the brand as your trusted friend. They're trying to manipulate us at every level, every interaction.
At 1.2 million, it's overpriced. They've likely priced it that way because it's now an Airbnb - "look at all the income you'll make by buying this property!" But what really changed in the two years they owned it? Did they remodel the whole place? Possibly, but probably not enough to warrant adding $550k to the price. This house is now an investment, not a place to live.
I have noticed a particular attitude with a lot of sellers, though. They think because other sellers have been having great windfalls that they can just list for any high amount and it'll work for them too. Those are the ones that sit, and they're usually priced at 1m or more.
The homes flying off the shelves, so to speak, are the starter homes. You have both younger and older generations fighting for the same small affordable homes, and developers generally aren't building as many of those.
I don't want us to leave individually, because that way we are just handing them our country. They get everything. I want us to leave collectively, and at least take back a piece of what's rightfully ours.