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I don't affirm shit, you leftoid racist.

And I feel like an alien every time I encounter this sort of thing, because it's so antithetical to any kind of logic or self-consistent ethical framework I can wrap my brain around. It's taking the genuine virtues of mercy and valuing human life and blowing them out of proportion into grotesque parodies of themselves. The victim here is not the one responsible for the ultimate outcome.

Does that mean that we should approach everything with infinite escalation forever? Hell no! But that doesn't change that almost all 'disproportionate' escalation the victim performs is dwarfed by the act of trying to harm an innocent victim in the first place! If I take the 'total violence' of a situation from a 1 to a 3, I've tripled it, but if I take a previously non-violent situation and amp it up from 0.00000000001 to 1, I've scaled it by an insane degree that makes that factor of three look minuscule despite technically being a lesser net increase.

I'm right 99% of thr time.

They often convince legislators of their point of view and to enact their neurosis as law.

They become judges and apply their neurosis to making bad rulings in what should be open and shut self defense cases.

Step 1 - get the best interest rate you can on that 10 million

Cool. My government sells bonds that mature in six months. The interest rate isn't great, but it's better than nothing and it minimizes the chance that I'm going to dip into the ten million in a moment of weakness.

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.

Not really this day in history, but a fun read from November 2020. An excerpt:

In 1927, as the end of his term approached, Coolidge announced his intention to retire from the presidency. His statement to the press was simple: “I do not choose to run for president in 1928.” The people were very unhappy! But Coolidge was determined. He did not think it was possible to stay in office for too long without losing perspective.

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett faced backlash over remarks made during her podcast “Clock It with Crockett,” where she discussed the high-profile murder case involving Texas teenager Karmelo Anthony and the fatal stabbing of high school athlete Austin Metcalf.

Crockett did not directly announce intent to commit violence, but made comments in the context of a hypothetical self-defense scenario that implied she would have responded with stabbing if placed in a similar situation.

The episode spread online, with clips fueling accusations that the congresswoman had misrepresented key facts of the case.

‘Not limited to fists’ remark draws scrutiny

During the podcast, Crockett questioned details surrounding the weapon used in the case and the circumstances of the confrontation that led to Metcalf’s death.

At one point, she said, “Well, I would argue the size of it alone, you wouldn’t even think it’s a deadly weapon,” while discussing the knife described in court records.

She also added in a hypothetical framing: “If a 300-pound man is beating me… I’m not limited to fists.”

The remarks were interpreted by critics as suggesting she was justifying escalation to deadly force in a similar scenario, though supporters argue she was speaking generally about self-defense limits rather than the specific crime.

There’s even more but tumblr is being difficult about adding them here.

Like I don’t care if you’re anti small business (although that makes absolutely no sense what are you people smoking) but to support robbery in any instance is objectively stupid.

This jewelry store is a small business whether you guys like it or not and it is highly unlikely the owners are billionaires (it wouldn’t be classified as a small business at that point) so anyone using this to project their irrational hatred of billionaires is especially ignorant.

You all clearly have no idea what kind of impacts crimes like this have on the local areas where they occur and the economy. Clearly, you guys are under the impression that it only impacts the store and hurts the owner of the company but that’s not the case.

Hating people for succeeding with their businesses is absurd and supporting criminals who target them is evil and wrong.

If you support crime your political views are fucked up and you shouldn’t be allowed to have any say in how society functions.

Ain’t this the third or fourth time he’s been shot at? I think he might know how to keep a level head at this point. Also some people are just terrible shots.

When Trump actually got shot the first thing he did was stand up, get out of Secret Service cover as much as he could, raise his fist to the air and yell "Fight! Fight! Fight!"