Racially, he’s pretty cool.

I just have a vision of trump realizing some rally goer is in trouble and asking his rally attendees to sell him some bottled water at three times the price.

Why do you think they are anti police? Are you possibly not understanding the, admittedly poorly named, defund the police group?

Those monsters! Donating to a group that… provides legal aid to low income citizens. If those pesky poors would only stop trying to have their rights being defended.

I asked a hypothetical question you silly Billy, feel free to answer it.

Or to be honest and just say “hey, if people who make more money get hospitalized, boo hoo to them.” (Even though globally, we’re probably in the 1% of wealth etc but pesky reality don’t matter none.)

Edit: Alternatively, how about you be a woman in a nice business suit walking alone through Main and Hastings after dark and after a day of defending the poor in court? Do that a few dozen times and let me know how safe you feel. (Don’t worry, if anything does happen, I will have a sympathetic “oh noes” for you too!)

So, say someone were hospitalized after being attacked for being gay and the gay community asked the city to step up and increase community safety, would you also think it’s pretty gross the lgbtq community thought they were special as opposed to the rest of the plebs?

Your response to someone being hospitalized for going to work is “Oh noes” ? That’s pretty gross.

It’s icky and among any social group of mine, seems close to exile.

But that’s the fight trump wants to have. He wants to be crude, insensitive to power dynamics and general ugh so that we get angry and loud at it so that he can appeal to all the Tim Walz style uncles, dads and grandpa’s and talk about how the radical left gets upset with him flirting etc (and progressively flirting as she is, as trump.might say, a BLACK!!!)

But a capitalism where workers’ wages/suffering etc were included in how people considered the price would also be lovely. (Ie, people actually get upset about sweatshop labour so the price of sweatshop goods increases yo offset that disgust) would also be lovely.

There’s a huge gap between theory/hope and reality.

I’d jabbar her gom…?

I’d share my water all over her…?

(Okay, not the best but I haven’t read that book in ages.)

30 years seems reasonable. On an unrelated note, Audrey Hepburn died 31 years ago.

MerXNT Dad, I’m a MerXNT!

The Irish potato famine was more an exogenous factor (a blight) not the direct result of mismanagement, which is generally a feature of communism. So that’s a pretty poor comparison.

Bengal was a mostly agrarian state so not really an advanced capitalist society. Again, not a particularly good comparison.

“There’s something so human about taking something great and ruining it a little so you can have more of it.” - The Good Place

Lotta people are saying he wasn’t even born here. All I’m asking is if he IS a real American, why haven’t we seen his birth certificate? Just asking questions here…

I’m sure some lawyers would like to be away from the poor but at least one lawyer was hospitalized after being assaulted leaving the court.

How many trivia nights do you know that rock 10 grand a night prizes?

I getchya but also, you should see what happened to the “men die early” thread on twoX. It’s a LOT of guys complaining, kind of drowning out any women making points and throwing downvotes at them pretty hard.

OP didn’t wash their mouth out at any point before the hospital? Red flag and mouth right there.

Not really.

The lottery is paid for by those who all have an equal chance of winning that prize. Also, the profits from lotteries are usually spent on social funds etc.

I feel more conflicted about thr fact that it preys on addiction and those who buy the most lottery tickets are often those who can least afford them. I find that much more grotesque than a random person getting very lucky, but to each their own.