As if the database can ever be shutdown when everyone obediently lines up to photographed ("don't smile, computers don't like it")

Could call it a "passenger's license", of course the government is not going to allow you the freedom of movement without reserving it's "right" to revoke it, along with keeping your biometrics updated in the surveillance database.

She's an opportunist, would fit in as a Communist commissar, Goldman Sachs executive, or even better, royalty. Most Party operatives are the same kind of grifter. That a housewife inheriting a position is supposed to be an icon of female accomplishment demonstrates that the ideology itself is a scam.

There is no way to verify "permission"=all nudity is banned, might as well close the internet.

He can probably double the offer. Nah, as usual the government is rewarding cowardly tattletales or criminal rivals

They are going for the Revolution, not for Allah. Charlie Manson is still recruiting women

And soon you're locking up people for invisibility rings. OK, a "your money or your life" robbery using a banana is worse than pickpocketing, but it's more like 1% worse despite the "emotional damage" drama, while deploying an actual deadly weapon is substantial escalation. But it's not even as severe as a beat-down robbery. Typical trumped up charges from a legal system that endorses police routinely pointing their guns at citizens for minor suspicious.

You assume she's not lying.

oh, sorry, is probably just dementia

At least you'll still buy, while inflation means you can't afford to buy ever again.

Stop paying your taxes and tell us which one it is after you get out of the hospital.

Less convenient card usage is "better"? You foreigners do have an upside-down perspective on life.

Maybe because Americans carry 10 cards? How the fuck are they supposed to remember which PIN goes with which, not very secure to set the PIN the same for all them

What good is contraception when you can be forced to pay for children not related to you or simply banned from getting a paternity test? Biology is not the problem, the law is; fixing it will require crushing the Vietnam era "liberation" movement you admire so much, which is really a protracted Soviet-engineered insurgency.

Probably making the semantic point that it's "negligence". Though it's true it's a matter of degree, the cop in that elevator was doing some strange shit with his gun