Dispatches from the Middle Circle

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One of the best letters I’ve ever seen just popped up on my Facebook memories. Still makes me laugh.

Also conservatives: If an unidentified agent of the state stands in front of your car, he should be allowed to shoot you to death

Also conservatives: You must at all times obey the State or die.

Massive boos for Trump at the World Cup. The comedic timing of the zoomed out shot of the stadium during the boos is killing me.

> The Iranian official spoke to Drop Site on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly. In the message, according to the official, Iran conveyed to Vance that the pair were more interested in exploiting insider knowledge of the negotiations to profit in financial markets than they were in reaching a deal.

“At the end of the day, this shirt, to me, is very clear that I think bombing kids is wrong ... regardless if you're Palestinian or if you're from Mobile, Alabama," he said.”

so the point is not to say that employees are "not allowed" to work in unsafe conditions for sub-par pay if they want to, but rather, that if someone feels that their economic situation has been taken advantage of to force them to accept unsafe working conditions and sub-par pay when they didn't want to, then they have more legal recourse available to them than just quitting- given that someone in this situation likely does not have the savings to navigate a change in employment.

The point isnt that it should be legal to offer nothing for hellish work. Its that you shouldnt be forced to offer everything for easy work. Let the employer make an offer and the employees pick the best one.

the thing is, this only works of *everyone* agrees to not accept poverty wages (like some kind of organized labor) because if you decide to stay homeless until they learn to pay a living wage, and someone else decides to accept a poverty wage, then you'll be waiting (and staying homeless) forever because they'll never learn anything.

but your average libertarian doesn’t see themselves as the worker in this scenario, so appealing to reason is pointless

the average red state is closer to Sharia Law than Zohran’s NYC

“The election must have been rigged because the people rigging it for us didn’t succeed.”

this scandal alone is 10x worse than watergate was. ain’t even on the radar.

But I know it's going to get twisted and everyone's just gonna make fun of the idea as General-Ripper-esque paranoia.

the media have grown less tolerant of Trump's bullshit at least

CNN spells it out for those still in denial.

It is banned in 60 nations. But Alex Jones, oaf that he is, said something ridiculous about it. So most people assumed it was just baseless nonsense and developed an aversion to the whole matter of the second most-used pesticide in the US being an endocrine-disrupting carcinogen.