Well, wood is a good option if the power goes out somehow.

It should also be pointed out that a wood-burning stove may be a cheaper option to heat the house for poorer people.

It’s just going to be the ol’ ‘women aren’t allowed to go to school’ schtick again.

The biggest argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Or something like that.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

-Wilhoit’s Law

They actually are quite logical and unswerving in their beliefs. They believe the above quote is how the world should be, and that they should be in the first group, because obviously they are special.

If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

-Lyndon B. Johnson

Oh dear. Any way to get him to watch BBC at least?

Maybe you should get him subscribed to that Mastadon News Front Page account

This is the same generation that gave us ‘participation trophies’ so their feelings and their kids’ feelings didn’t ‘get hurt’.

I’m not quite sure where this plague of ‘treat my feelings with kid gloves, otherwise I might die’ got started, but we really need to do something about it.

Little coward is probably afraid of getting the Brock Allen Turner treatment.

I think you might need to brush up on your reading comprehension, and maybe your empathy. You’re coming off a bit condescending her. e

It’s actually down in most areas.

Broader claims about trends in retail theft have not panned out. Walgreens, for example, cited spikes in shoplifting as an explanation for falling profits and store closures. The claim has since been retracted. Target blamed theft for a rash of store closures. But an analysis by researcher Jeff Asher showed that, according to the limited data available, the stores Target closed in Portland and Seattle had less crime than stores that were not closing. Reporting by CNBC in September 2023 also cast doubt on retailer claims about the impact of theft, noting that “certain retailers” have “pulled back” from blaming organized theft as “a primary cause of losses.” In fact, to the extent it can be relied upon, industry data cuts against the idea of a recent national spike in retail theft.

Nothing like being treated like a criminal when I go into a store to give them money.

Do you rub their noses in it at all? Because I know I would.

Hahahaha I’d forgotten about that! Man, and people unironically call him a genius still.

They plan to import workers with visas and then hold those visas over their heads to force them to work for peanuts.

I mean, they do this small-scale already.

Pretty sure you’re too old to be this stupid, dude.

I’m just saying that’s what they think. Of course it’s going to fuck everything else over, but the people supporting this in the hallowed halls of congress seem to be in one of two camps lately.

They want the economy to crash.

One side because they like to crash businesses and then walk away with all the money, and they figure a country is no different.

And the other side will let them, because they want people to stop playing those degenerate evil video games. That it does great damage to the country is simply a just punishment for allowing such degeneracy in the first place, in their minds.

Well that’s a bit alarming.

Protecting them from what now? Exactly what are we protecting them from in a ‘secular world’?

Ball Pythons (unless you’re in Europe; they usually call them Royal Pythons).