"Don't you think those will follow the tech workers where ever they go (and vote)?"

I do, and I don't understand why.

When I moved to the city from out in the sticks, I didn't think to myself "God, I hate the sticks so much, how about I vote Republican now that I'm in the city so it will be more like the sticks?"

So in some respects, maybe I get it but at the same time I also believe that if you don't like an area or its politics then don't fucking move there. That goes for interstate or international migration. Christian and don't like the sin and vice of the city? Don't move there. Muslim and hate the sin and vice of a liberal democracy? Don't move there. Look down on the people who look different from you in the area you're thinking of moving to? Don't move there.

With violent riots up approx 1000% in the first 6 months, that's a surprisingly small increase. Guess they aren't funded well enough to catch up to the increase.

By year's end, with riots up 100000%, I'd be surprised if the amount of requests also weren't up again.

It was doing great if you consider great to be a scenario in which a wealthy CEO approaches an intern and says

"Check out this new Lambo I just bought, look at how rich you are!"

The stonks market was very high, and property values were up due to chinese buyers and easy lending, but most jobs were not nearly keeping pace with housing or food. Individuals were not necessarily seeing any kind of increase in living standards, and were falling farther behind aside from a select set of people, many of whom are this website's target demographic: upper middle class techies.

Trump's handling of the economy also included sowing the seeds of another big CDO bubble under a different name, so just wait : there's another speculative housing crash on the way. People drone on and on about "tax cuts being bad for the economy" but that's as nonsensical as it sounds on its face. A lot of people felt valuable relief from those. The real land mine is straight ahead and buried under your house, figuratively speaking.

The people saying that cancel culture isn't real, then who say it isn't a big deal once you prove it's real, are the very same people who have spent decades talking about one of the evils of the Capitalist system being that you are ultimately a slave to your employer and must conform in all ways to their tastes or else you are essentially sentenced to death.

So either their opinions on the capitalist system have changed, which it doesn't appear that it has outside of the above mentioned gaslighting.

Or they retain their old beliefs and understand that they are potentially sentencing someone to prolonged death over their thoughts and opinions.

So in other words, there was not and never will be any reason to think that Trump was ever going to roll in the tanks and play at being a dictator? It seems like you're agreeing with me that the risk of this is basically zero, and that everyone who has been so worried about this was yanking our chains the whole time.

For the last 4 years I've watched people wring their hands, expecting that Trump would take the first opportunity to suspend the rule of law and roll tanks into cities to quell all dissent.

If CHAZ, a literal insurrection, isn't enough to get him to invoke the insurrection act; if a nation full of violent riots and murder isn't enough to get him to send in the tanks, then what in the world do you think he's waiting for?

Surely by now he'd have ripped off the mask and revealed the Adolph moustache?

Why should we not look at all of this talk of the dictatorial facist Trump as hysterical alarmism?

Max has been bowing to them for years and years. As if he thought that would save him.

Maybe I can immigrate to Japan. If I'm going to end up discriminated based on my race then at least I want to be in a country where I'm exotic instead of reviled.

More than two people. At least four at this point, over the course of 3 days.

Summer. Of. Love. I think these hippies have managed to end more black lives in Seattle than the police did the entire first 5 months of the year.

Mass murder? Are we still pretending to care about COVID in here or something?

I guess the rioters and protesters are committing mass murder too... don't their lives matter as much as the Trump supporter's lives? Why aren't you speaking out for their safety?

I think there is a more fitting analogy : Witch trials. Especially the ones in Salem MA. They were driven by the tales of bored girls with nothing better to do than to gossip and get each other in trouble. It then developed into an opportunity for the adults to level accusations at rivals and enemies in an attempt to make a grab for their land and their wealth. It's very similar to the whole "invert the pyramid" ethos, and the demand for people who have worked hard to get what they have to hand it over... or else.

The similarities don't end there. The witch trials were kangaroo courts in which proving your innocence was impossible. Admit your guilt? Death. Deny your guilt? That's just what a witch would do. Death. Come up with an airtight alibi? Your enemy will just get a little girl to start raising hell in the court room and claim that you're "spiritually attacking her" right then and there. Death.

If you're telling this to a Finn as though this is some kind of slam dunk on how awful their ancestors are, then you might be interested to know that the Finns weren't vikings.

The real reason he deserved to be fired was because he invented the abomination known as Javascript.

Why? The performers don't get paid on commission.

They made their money prior to publishing. Unless the performer is also the CEO of the company, there's not a leg to stand on with this.

"One of *those* racists?" As in : Not a racist? Yeah, outing one's self as not a racist is indeed a dangerous thing these days.

Oh, you mean "racist" like people in Salem meant "witch." A person you irrationally hate and whose power and property you want to seize. Yeah, maybe a lot of folk do look like witches to hateful people.