After iconic actor Lance Reddick died, leaving the central role of Zavala vacant in Destiny 2, there were fears that Bungie would try this, or kill the character off.

Fortunately they hired another excellent actor with a similarly interesting voice, dodging yet another ethical bullet (so they can carry on with addictive reinforcement channelling into microtransactions and subscription-rentier value extraction, but eh whatever).

Most of that is just 'don't be an asshole'. A bit of it is stupid over correction. The rest is a loss of privilege that triggers a sense of entitlement.

Remember that the Blackshirts were famous for their slogan hinting at the ever present disdain and trolling underlaid with violence: "me ne frego", or 'it's nothing to me, your opinion doesn't count' --or 'get fucked' as it was used.

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If people don't want to be called fascist, they should stop quacking like one.

Ethnicity, culture, nationality, language are all useful and somewhat neutral distinctions. Race is a bullshit term that only makes sense in the context of historical abuses that it was used to justify, like slavery or disenfranchisement.

So no, that isn't the question, unless you believe that race isn't a bullshit term... and then you should ask, which side am I on, humanists or racists?

Maybe rephrase the question with non-bullshit terms and go from there.

Yes, more energy in a weather system means more: more heat, more moisture, more movement leading to more cold and or arid as the energy concentrates elsewhere. Expect the formerly unexpected, like 49.8C in Canada where a town then immediately burns down.

It's a well-developed fascist strategy of destabilization.

Here's a choice excerpt from "Elon Musk's Machine for Fascism: A Tale of Three Elections" recently published on emptywheel.net:

From trial testimony, regarding hashtag hijacking....

"Itâ(TM)s like if you have a hashtag â" back then like a Hillary Clinton hashtag called âoeIâ(TM)m with her,â then what that would be is I would say, okay, letâ(TM)s take âoeIâ(TM)m with herâ hashtag, because thatâ(TM)s what Hillary Clinton voters are going to be looking at, because thatâ(TM)s their hashtag, and then I would tweet out thousands of â" of tweets of â" well, for example, old videos of Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton talking about, you know, immigration policy for back in the â(TM)90s where they said: You know, we should shut down borders, kick out people from the USA. Anything that was disparaging of Hillary Clinton would be injected into that â" into those tweets with that hashtag, so that would overflow to her voters and theyâ(TM)d see it and be shocked by it."

"In the 2016 election, this methodology served to take memes directly from the Daily Stormer, launder them through 4Chan, then use Twitter to inject them into mainstream discourse. Thatâ(TM)s the methodology the far right still uses, including Trump when he baits people to make his Truth Social tweets go viral on Twitter."

Yes, well, that's capitalism for you.

Most Americans have no choice in insurer. And their choices are controlled by a powerful cartel that colludes to keep prices high. There is no competition in the health insurance field.

No American gives a rats ass about the "choice" of insurer. They want a choice of doctors and services, but really, and I can not stress this enough, REALLY hate all insurance companies. More than they hate the government even!

And yet, taxes have been cut again and again and again. How do you reconcile that fact with your statement that "Because the people raising taxes will never reach a point when they say "the government has enough money now, let's cut taxes"."

Seems that it's very, very easy for the government to cut taxes, at least for the rich. Why are you afraid of "the people who want to raise taxes" when those people have never actually done so? Seems you are imagining a scenario that is not just unlikely, but counter factual.

No, people want to pay for things with their taxes. The are not, in fact, idiots. They don't want predatory capitalists taking a cut, and figure, correctly, that government is more trustworthy than a man with a profit motive and no morals.

People recognize that certain endeavors are just not well served by a capitalist free market. Health care is a primary one that simply doesn't work unless heavily regulated or run by the government. You do not know what is wrong with you. You do not know how to fix it. You can not shop around for a new liver.

As it is, we are basically running health care like a for profit government, and we are getting the worst of both the public and private worlds. Health insurance amounts to a system of taxation that forces the healthy to pay for the sick, and lets a third party take a huge cut. Replace health insurance with actual government taxation and what have you lost, except for the greedy bastard trying to mark up your heart medications? Nothing.

You showed no proof of anything.

You assholes have no problem with kids reading those same types of sex scenes if it's straight. Just ask Beverly Cleary. Most YA novels have sex scenes. Doesn't make them pornographic or unsuitable for kids.

You aren't American so stop talking as if you know us or our culture, asshole.

You don't know shit then. Stop talking like you know America if you aren't from here, asshole.

We need to raise taxes on the rich back to what they were in the good old days Republicans pine for. Marginal tax rate of 90%. "Oh!" you whine, "Nobody paid that!" Yes, but they paid more than they do now and that's the point. Raise taxes on capital gains, raise corporate taxes, lower taxes for the middle class and boom! Deficit fixed.

Normal people are not lazy, they just don't want to be taken advantage of. The real drag on our economy is billionaires and other tax cheats.