Has *anyone* in US media done any reckoning or self-reflection about the fact that they got caught up in a bogus moral panic driven by big retailers? Will anyone do anything differently the next time around?
Politicians and the press bought into the panic over organized shoplifting, but the source of the alarming statistic now admits that it was a lie.
You can say Substack should host Nazis, but don't pretend there's some "free speech" principle to it. Substack has a strict ban on pornography. Welcoming Nazis while banning sex workers isn't a principled stand, it's a choice, an expression that you like the former and dislike the latter.
What idiot called that little narc Elf on the Shelf and not Police Navidad?
This is actually a decent analogy because the drivers have all the power and the numbers and sometimes just straight up murder them but still whine about how theyâre the victims
in case you've never seen it, here is the original reddit thread where a dude posts looking for legal advice bc he thinks his landlord is breaking in and leaving post it notes everywhere, and someone in the comments saves his life by correctly diagnosing him with carbon monoxide poisoning
Did someone say something about the migration of imperial violence from the periphery to the metropole www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/u...
The site was built for the military, but commercial sales are booming with little public accountability. Rounds have been bought by murderers, antigovernment groups and others.
we fixed acid rain! we fixed the ozone layer! we beat polio! weâve rescued scores of species from the brink of extinction! the despair many of us feel about climate change isnât that itâs too big to fix. itâs that we know it is fixable but weâre being thwarted by greedy ghouls at every turn.