.....meanwhile,several large drones have been spotted flying around areas in New Jersey and no one knows anything about them!
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He made a supressor, AFAICT he didn’t test it, and he’s lucky it didn’t blow up in his face.
I think you’re going to see factory suppressed firearms available in the United States in the near future. It’s because our supreme court is finally trying to get rid of some unconstitutional laws.
I think you’re going to see factory suppressed firearms available in the United States in the near future. It’s because our supreme court is finally trying to get rid of some unconstitutional laws.
Go watch Tech Ingredients on YouTube. They’re building a laser today that can shoot down a drone.
Hello; Had a thought. Likely not new or unique. I now see a lot of support for the guy who shot the UHC exec in NY. Begins to fit if the rhetoric of the last few years is considered. That being our punishing inflation is caused by "greedy corporations". I do not buy into that hype as corporations did not suddenly become extra greedy just a few short years ago when inflation bloomed. I lay the inflation on other things. But if some have bought into the greedy corporate types of stories it follows, they will be against a corporate officer
The media here are now referring to him as "the hot assassin", whatever next?
I think big greedy corporations are taking advantage of inflation though. If inflation causes costs to rise by say 5% they will add an extra 2% or so to get a little extra profit and blame it all on inflation. I sell cable for a living and when the copper price goes up our costs do too but the bosses are always pushing for that little bit more margin on top of the copper price increase.
Its also the gap between rich and poor is growing wide and fast. The guy that got shot was on $15 million a year. Obviously he shouldnt be shot down on the street just for being rich and successful but i can see why such things could push someone over the edge.
A corporation is a legal thing. Not a physical thing.
By saying “evil corporations” you are buying into the popular fiction that it’s not just evil people doing the crime.
It is.
Millions of decent people work for corporations run by crooks. Why must they share the blame? Why blame a non-human thing?
The popular media people sling around these terms as if saying them out loud makes them true.
They voice the words on TV, and the Beelzebub of mob activism is suddenly summoned to shame any “unbelievers.”
Modern people are expected to “believe.” Rationality of thought has been weaned from them. They are taught to believe in green aliens from outer space, drugs to cure problems created by drugs, and evil corporations.
99% of people who work for corporations are not evil people. They are just workers and wage earners.
Why does the corporate media promote this fiction?
It’s how the evil people in charge of things avoid shouldering all the blame when people are hurt.
By saying “evil corporations” you are buying into the popular fiction that it’s not just evil people doing the crime.
It is.
Millions of decent people work for corporations run by crooks. Why must they share the blame? Why blame a non-human thing?
The popular media people sling around these terms as if saying them out loud makes them true.
They voice the words on TV, and the Beelzebub of mob activism is suddenly summoned to shame any “unbelievers.”
Modern people are expected to “believe.” Rationality of thought has been weaned from them. They are taught to believe in green aliens from outer space, drugs to cure problems created by drugs, and evil corporations.
99% of people who work for corporations are not evil people. They are just workers and wage earners.
Why does the corporate media promote this fiction?
It’s how the evil people in charge of things avoid shouldering all the blame when people are hurt.
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
When a drunk driver kills someone while DUI...it's the fault of the vehicle and the alcohol. When a junkie commits a crime because he needs his next hit...it's the fault of the drugs. When a career criminal who is ""known to police" gets arrested for the umpteenth time...well, he/she is disadvantaged and has been failed by society. When a company makes money for its shareholders...well, there must be some nefarious secret behind the profit, but of course if the company fails to make money (or enough money...) for its shareholders then It is secretly screwing them somehow. People are shot by guns that load/aim/fire themselves; they are stabbed by knives that leap into action of their own volition.
Cynical a-holes who cannot quite grasp these self-evident truths, and instead naively believe that people are selfish, greedy, stupid beings who reap what they sow and deserve what they get...well, they're the absolute worst. If you squint a bit and hold your mouth just right, you can usually find a way to pin the blame for anything bad that happens on them! I mean, come on...anybody who believes in quaint and antiquated ideas like personal responsibility and accountability, and who never wails about how life "isn't fair"...well, you just know they're up to no good and can't be trusted!
When a drunk driver kills someone while DUI...it's the fault of the vehicle and the alcohol. When a junkie commits a crime because he needs his next hit...it's the fault of the drugs. When a career criminal who is ""known to police" gets arrested for the umpteenth time...well, he/she is disadvantaged and has been failed by society. When a company makes money for its shareholders...well, there must be some nefarious secret behind the profit, but of course if the company fails to make money (or enough money...) for its shareholders then It is secretly screwing them somehow. People are shot by guns that load/aim/fire themselves; they are stabbed by knives that leap into action of their own volition.
Cynical a-holes who cannot quite grasp these self-evident truths, and instead naively believe that people are selfish, greedy, stupid beings who reap what they sow and deserve what they get...well, they're the absolute worst. If you squint a bit and hold your mouth just right, you can usually find a way to pin the blame for anything bad that happens on them! I mean, come on...anybody who believes in quaint and antiquated ideas like personal responsibility and accountability, and who never wails about how life "isn't fair"...well, you just know they're up to no good and can't be trusted!
Hello; I do not completely buy into this scenario. In a capitalistic economy run fairly the company that gouges an extra 2% will be at a disadvantage as some other company can sell the same product for 2% less. Of course, they can try to blame inflation or contend their product is 2% better and hope consumers do not catch on. After all I know folks, whose cars are made to run on 87 octane who will pay extra for 91 octane gasoline. In my area the price difference is 70 cents per gallon currently.
However my point was also about the timing of the rhetoric just a year or three ago. We were supposed to believe back in 2021 that corporations suddenly became extra greedy and that caused the new inflation which ballooned at the time. Believe what you wish but I contend corporations did not fundamentally change at that time. My contention being corporations were no more or less greedy in 2018, 2019, 2020 that they were in 2021 or 2022.
I believe the time frame your talking about coincides with another event. Covid didn't cause the inflation but 6 months of shutdowns and no production did, especially when Trump started handing out stimulus checks and Biden continued it for motnhs. When half the country isn't working but their still getting paid and spending money it causes inflation. You can't hand out free money for half a year and expect it not to impact the economy.
Hello; I do not know for sure if you are responding to my post, but if you are, your comments support my view. We have had corporations for a very long time. We did have a glut of excess spending and economically disastrous shut & lockdowns during the reaction to the Covid disease. A case where the "cure" was indeed worse than the disease, at least economically. (Some questions have arisen as to if the lockdowns and all did much good in terms of disease impacts but that is for another time and may not be allowed on here.)
Sadly, additional excess spending continued after Covid to the tune of trillions. Described as printing money out of the air by some. My take is this is the root of the huge inflation hole we are now in. In addition to the spending was added an increase in the cost of transportation fuels. While my vehicle travel costs went up, the cost of diesel for over the road trucks made everything we buy cost more. In particular food was a big inflation hit. I can and did cut back on some personal trips. I could not however avoid buying food.
To tie this back into the UHC exec shooting which apparently kicked off the discussion, an attempt has been made to lay inflation on greedy corporations. It also appears a great number of folks are having problems with major health insurance carriers. I do not know many details at this point, but it seems the shooter is become something of a folk hero to some. An irony may be that the particular UHC exec who was shot was one of the few who was working to correct those sorts of problems. Guess we may find out.
