Not even just income, health insurance and future job prospects as well 🙃

I have the money to quit and wander the world for a year or two, but I would be abandoning my health insurance and it would be a huge black mark on my resume assuming I didn’t concoct some lie to cover it.

If you work a 9-5 in America like I do, you tied to your labor on much the same way serfs were, you are just better compensated and can switch masters if you find someone to take you on

A single congressional district within that state elected Marjorie Taylor Greene lol

Come on dog this is literally just ‘yeah well what if we imagine a hypothetical world where MY argument is right, how about that?’

Plus starmer’s gov would probably do something similar lol the man is a red Tory through and through

Tell me the world isn’t a better place if elon is sent to work in a lithium mine for the next decade

All comment karma tells you is who was first to a thread basically in my experience, and I had over 500k of it lol it’s nothing though I could go troll for days before making a dent in the 10k you get from an obvious joke on the new tab and then the thread takes off

Take a few billi off the top, route it back to policy makers through lobbyists, and you got a stew going 👌

It’s nice to reflect on how as a little kid I went and saw episodes 2 and 3 in theaters and thought the Jedi were so freaking cool man - then coming back to the series 20 years later having developed politics and realize the Jedi are pretty blatantly a corrupt, listless, doomed-by-its-own-inadequacy organization starting at the top.

Palpatine/fascism are the bad guys but the Jedi are certainly not the good guys, in a way that went ten miles over my head at the time lol

Is that the one who has seven wives or whatever even though that’s supposed to be not allowed?

You can see him struggling with the “they touch you, but not the other way around” rule 😅

Don’t worry if they did invent this, it would never be made available to me or you