Do they mean “buying” instead of “owning”?

Should I not be calling it “trans”?

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/37394/why-do-some-words-have-x-as-a-substitute

None were leftist, and only one got as far as violence.

You may be right, but it seems to me that sleeper cells need direction. Otherwise, they’ll interpret their ideology divergently. They may block progress pretty effectively, but it’ll be hard for them to make gains in a shared direction.

This is all true, but there’s not clear line of succession after Trump, so they’ll splinter. Redirecting the fervor to some new dear leader will take a long time. The Trump thralls are entirely invested in him alone.

It’s literally impossible to fully boycott Amazon, I’ve been trying for years. Even if you buy elsewhere, often you’ll find out after the fact that Amazon does the shipping or payment processing.

We should nationalize their monopoly or break it up.

So it sounds like you don’t believe progressive taxation works. I guess that’s an understandable viewpoint. But if you think complexity is the problem, I have a hard time accepting your assessment of me as naïve. People that want simple solutions to complex problems are showing the lack of sophistication that defines naïvety.

When did they last get their way via shutdown? Usually it costs Republicans politically.

Correct, they are different. But if you accept that evaluating a person’s wealth happens successfully for taxation, there’s no reason why the same metric can’t be used for fines.

So you don’t think progressive taxation is possible?

Maybe there’s some precedent, but I can’t see why equally proportionate punishment should be unconstitutional.

His communications director who?

Saw this on Mastodon:

Did it? I didn’t bother with the article, and only shared a screenshot of a post about the headline.

I’m in!

On top of the likelihood that a ban would be very politically expensive, distracting, and watered down to pointlessness.

The pouches seem like less plastic.

Skill issue 😉

All true. I feel like the Arlington scandal has legs, though.

Especially EVs, or especially Teslas?