The problem is reprisal of whatever family the deserting solder has at home.

The amount of control that the North Korean government has over the lives of everyday citizens is something that Trump and the alt right masturbate to.

He makes everything sound interesting.

Ftfy

The problem is lack of consent.

If I'm buying less chips than the last time, I should be informed, not in fine print, but in obvious terms.

A few companies tried to pawn off their shrinkflation by going the health route. A journalist then asked, "Why, then, are you not advertising the health benefits of this new size?"

I wish I could find the interview because the spokesperson simply gaffed and showed that it was not about health. It was about money.

We really don't have much say in it. Sure we vote but there's an entire segment of the country that's afraid of immigrants whose influence is very disproportional to the percentage of the population.

These idiots will believe absolutely anything, and it doesn't need to be even remotely anchored to reality.

That's not quite true. They believe it because it appeals to their already preconceived prejudices. In the case of litter boxes, it was their incorrect understanding of how teachers were asking for pronouns (wokeness).

For the gender reassignment surgery, it's their incorrect understanding of how liberal schools are indoctrinating children about their genitals.

It's effective because it reaches into their lizard brain about some latent fear and makes them believe something even worse is happening.

Haitians are immigrating here, is true. The racism is that they are "eating" our resources. But they aren't eating our pets.

It "feels" true because other things they believe about it are true to them.

Eh... Republicans don't care. He's the right color

The main reason why it exists is to provide jobs. The number of people who work at the TSA at every airport in every state...no representative wants to cut those jobs.

The name isn't to point out his efforts but a way to signal to conservatives that, because he cares about tampons, he cares about girls in a way that is "unnatural".

The goal is to try to label him, put him in a box that the right can point at and say, "SeE?! He MuSt Be A PeDoFiLe!1"

The people who are building the narrative are trying to paint him as worse than "Hide your sofa" Vance, which is a tough sell right now.

I'm actually sort of proud of the Democrats right now. They have, effectively, pulled the mic from the hands of Trump and Fox, name called them to the point that the Republicans are scrambling, actually panicking, about the election.

There was a Jordan Klepper interview with MAGAhats and, I kid you not, someone said a version of this. One sentence after the other.

The cognitive dissonance was just unbelievable.

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;

Calling it right now...the GOP is going to be using this wording to mean only Republicans can be in government.

Yes. Republicans know how much their constituents actually like the benefits. They hate "Obamacare" but love the Affordable Care Act.

It's kind of like Social Security. All of the Republicans say they hate it but they aren't going to touch it with a 10-foot pole.

You forgot the government bailout after step 1.