I’m gonna be really shallow and judgmental and just say her picture is creepy, too. What a bizarre pose and expression.

Yep, it will be free for California residents in need, and much cheaper for everyone else. Pharma corps have been running amok raising insulin costs insane amounts. California can make their own and provide it directly to residents for far less money than they spend buying it from the companies.

They want to stop a certain type of population from declining. Can’t let them be replaced, y’know! Of course, the planet’s human population is exploding… unless you don’t consider some people to be human.

No, correlation does not mean there is a relationship. That’s the whole point behind “correlation does not equal causation.”

Read some of the ludicrous correlations people trot out to illustrate it. Two things occurring at the same time do not have to be related.

And no, I couldn’t use that meaningless population statistic to make the argument that oligarchs (lower case “o”) are destroying everyone else’s ability to have a family. Arguments require data, not correlations.

people who live longer take longer to pass on their house to their children; the older generation have also used housing as an investment vehicle and/or purchased second/holiday homes; and the elderly are typically the most likely to object to new housing developments, blocking their construction.

I don’t know anyone who inherited a house.

I don’t know anyone whose parents own more than one house.

I personally have objected to a large condo building that was planned on an unstable hillside with only a steep alley for access - cuz that shit was stupid in so many ways and a disaster waiting to happen.

Where is this huge population of wealthy old people who own multiple houses, and where are all these young people who are inheriting houses?

Just maybe we should be getting pissed at job insecurity, ruinous healthcare being used to chain workers, and falling wages for the source of wealth inequality…. Pretty hard to buy a house when your boss makes 500x what you do. (He’s making all that delicious money off you).

Nice to see that Divide And Conquer propaganda tactics are still going strong. Aleksandr Dugin would be so proud.

“Ok, fellow kids! Let’s all blame our own parents and grandparents, not that tiny population of oligarchs!”

I always feel my heart sink when someone maligns “welfare queens.” There is only one person among my friends who was ever on public assistance; and it was me. During months of chemo and surgeries I couldn’t work, and I was sucking off the government teat.

Red eyes and make-up wiped off his nose like he’s been crying, and a sulky expression…

Not at all tough. More like a young child who had a temper tantrum and is pouting.

He knew he’d get motorboated, though…

A tried-and-true tactic used by people everywhere through-out history.

Another example: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/ron-desantis-florida-rosa-parks-textbook

The word “privilege” breaks down into the roots for “private” and “law.”

Washington and California are doing well with it. Hopeful that more states will do the same.

Beehaw is an old instance (two years, so “old” is relative). They have their own thing going on, and didn’t want to change their groove for the influx of redditors.

Aleksandr Dugin dancing with joy: “It worked, Vlad, it worked! It actually worked!”

I read Ryan Newman’s definition and was all, “yup. I’m woke, baybeeeee.”

Edit: replied to the wrong post, sorry

I mean, the guy has a private plane and properties in foreign counties and friends in places out of the US’s reach. Certainly more of a flight risk than most folks…

Kind of an aside, but didn’t the dudes who figured out insulin refuse to patent it because they thought it would be immoral to profit off something people need to survive?

Wasn’t all this just part of the overall plan outlined in Aleksandr Dugin’s “Foundation of Geopolitics”?

Then you have underhanded stuff with for-profit health insurance companies buying up clinics. United Healthcare using its Optum arm to own clinics, for example. They own your insurance and they own your doctor - how screwed are you?!?

Voting is supposed to do all this for us, it is the check/balance.

Problem is that more than half of Americans who should vote, don’t vote.