Everyone except dumbasses with no critical thinking skills understands that in order to pay people a living wage, prices have to adjust accordingly

Except not really. Businesses have much wider profit margins than they pretend to.

For example, in Denmark the McDonald’s entry-level wage is the equivalent of $22 and a Big Mac costs LESS than in most of the US.

If McDonald’s couldn’t make a profit doing that, they’d simply stop doing business in Denmark. They don’t.

Restaurants run on thin margins.

Not anywhere near as thin as you think. The official numbers are AFTER artificially deflating their profits for tax avoidance reasons.

he gives up every penny of that to make payroll.

Ridiculously unrealistic.

An employee pocketing $20 probably costs his employer $40

What have you been smoking?? In the real world, workers produce a hell of a lot more value than they’re given in return. That’s how companies profit.

he’s trying to tighten up, keep those people on the payroll.

No, he’s trying to recoup the profits lost from paying his workers a living wage by making it less livable for them. He’s protecting his profits, not workers.

And gets demonized for it.

And rightly so. He’s acting like the put upon victim when in reality he’s complaining about having to pull other exploitation levers now that one is fixed at a lower setting.

Yup. I’ve mentioned it a couple of times, but most people seem to think or at least pretend that the Houthi terrorists came out of nowhere for no reason and suggesting otherwise gets you downvoted a lot.

A pinky swear is better than nothing when arguing intent, even if a bunch of justices signed it because there is no explicit enforcement

Not really, since that’s what almost precisely what they already did separately when they were sworn in.

To go through the trouble of affirming what you’ve already affirmed while insisting on no enforcement or consequences in response to a public demand for enforcement and consequences is borderline suspicious behavior…

It’s the most Republican thing you can do with a car, except maybe driving into protesters.

The joint statement that they didn’t want any enforceable ethics rules was signed by all of them.

That means that, while not anywhere near as obviously corrupt and otherwise awful as the Federalist Society ones, the rest of the court is also against transparency and being held to a higher standard than a pinky swear, which isn’t a great sign…

First things first: make planned obsolescence illegal.

The vast majority of consumer products are designed to fail earlier than they have to, leading to a shitload of needless waste over which consumers have no real control.

Also, continue to limit single use plastics. Single use anything, but especially plastics.

And of course, phase out all uses of fossil fuel and derived products as viable alternative materials and processes become ready.

Poor guy! Suffering the consequences of his own actions like some non-rich person!

And you seem to be forgetting about the Saudi-led proxy war between them and Iran with the Houthis caught in the middle. The one that most people not working in Congress or the White House agree is an abominable atrocity.

Iran bad ≠ Saudi-led atrocities good

Yeah, many people would literally die and millions if not tens of millions would suffer the consequences for the rest of their lives.

After seizing control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas National Guard units deployed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott have prevented Border Patrol agents from entering the area

So fascist-occupied Texas is just invading federal territory by official order now? Isn’t that tantamount to a declaration of war against the US government?

Sustainable energy is a competitor to their main income source, fossil gas.

Yeah, there probably wouldn’t even BE any Houthi terrorist attacks if not for the US-backed atrocities in Yemen and Gaza…

The only things that come from fighting terrorism via warfare is a lot of dead people (mostly civilians) and MORE terrorism.

Yeah, it’s probably both tbh…

Nope. Saying “I don’t approve of it but it’s not genocide” when it’s clearly genocide is denying and thereby excusing genocide, no matter how much you scowl at it.

First off, please read my fucking comments,

I read your fucking comments. You start out by saying you don’t condone the atrocities and then you rattle off a bunch of long disproved Israeli government propaganda in defense of the actions you supposedly don’t approve of and in an attempt to say that it’s not genocide.

That’s not “things being more complicated”, that’s tired “both sides are bad so this one isn’t that bad” bullshit that hinges on a shitload of false premises.

You’re having an emotional response because I’m showing this situation is more complicated.

You’re halfway right: I’m reacting with annoyance and disgust at your pathetic attempts to muddy the waters of what is the worst genocide the world has seen since the Balkan wars of the 90s.

Regardless of anything else going on, the most important questions have simple yes and no answers:

1. does it fulfill all but one of the 5 characteristics of genocide? Yes.

2)Does that make it genocide? Yes.

3. is genocide ever acceptable, under any circumstances? No.

You need this thing called evidence. Give me a whistle blower, give me documents. Don’t give me one or two crazy people

Dude, the least reliable source of the 4 I gave was Newsweek. The others were Huffington Post, CNN and Haaretz (THE most trusted newspaper in Israel) citing sources within the Israeli government itself.

In what fucking world is that “one or two crazy people”??

As for the rest of your ramblings, they’re so off base and unhinged that I’m not going to waste any time and effort addressing them.

Have the day you deserve.

Gaza is very small and very densely populated.

Which is why everyone knows that you can’t carpet bomb it without genocidal consequences.

They’ve known this for decades and still they keep doing it. Your bad faith excuses for genocide are more stale than Alexander Fleming’s bread.

Hamas is not an ethnic group

True, but they’re only PART of the target group. The target group is all Palestinians, over half of whom are innocent women and children.

Israel warns or attempts to move civilian populations away from bombing targets

They don’t. In fact, they order civiliansTO bombing sites

Israel has done those measures the entire conflict.

No they haven’t. Stop lying.

Because genocide requires intent

For which there is ample fucking evidence!

Ok, I’ll start: Only SOME of the rivers are on fire SOME of the time…