I think it's just missing a bit of specificity.
Building more bike lanes will reduce traffic. Building more bus lanes will reduce traffic. Building more tram lines will reduce traffic. Building more car lanes will ~~reduce~~ induce traffic.
Not perfect, but solid logic within reason (Building 100 more bus lanes will reduce traffic).
I knew an HR manager who pushed their own MLM scheme onto a large corporation as a way of rewarding employees for meeting certain milestones. We would get gift cards/points that could only be used through fucking Amway or some shithead company and when they finally called her on it (years later) she got a slap on the wrist and the entire program was just cancelled.
I think your theory checks out.
By "infected" I mean they have latent TB. Once you have TB, it never actually goes away, it just becomes "dormant" and will opportunistically become an active infection again later.
So you could say up to 1/3 are carriers, but I don't really like that term, as it implies they are carriers like they carry a certain gene, when with TB, your immune cells basically just clump around TB to quarantine it. If your immune system gets weak or that clump of cells gets disrupted, boom! You have active TB.
It takes an incredibly low amount of exposure to transmit TB to someone else too.
Oprah - "...and you get a sanction! And you get a sanction! And YOU get a sanction!"
I totally agree. This seems like an "uh, oh, we fucked up. How do we reverse this?" kind of decision after posting their polling results on Twitter.
It's just the worst one.
This isn't an attack on your comment, which gave quality information, but I think it's relevant to the conversations linked in your comment.
Their definition of authoritarian is a contradiction to their actions and used subjectively. "I hate authoritarianism, so we should defederate to keep out the authoritarians." This statement is supportive of a fundamentally authoritarian action.
This is also why people who use the term "tankies" seriously are themselves deeply unserious. Their understanding of the topic is superficial at best and colored only by Western biases rooted in anti-communist propaganda. The concept of authoritarianism was itself a product of propaganda.
Saying "no" is authoritarian. Holding elections is authoritarian. Authority itself doesn't matter, what matters is who is in power and how they use their power to influence the world.
Some people recognize and accept this reality and then openly support the power that best aligns with their own benefit.
Anger at tankies is usually just a lack of class consciousness and ignorance based on a term that changes based on who you support and who you do not.
...did you read anything any of us have given you?
Lol, you know liberals choose not to read. I'd poke fun by saying they can't read, but that would be giving them too much credit.
Makes shitty coffee, busts unions, supports genocide...all things people have told them they would boycott them for.
Starbucks ignores them and people stop buying their shitty coffee.
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I love you and how you take the time to call out all of these comments.
Ignoring everything else the US needs, I'd love to see the US gain a public-facing union rep like Mick Lynch (UK). Someone who won't put up with the media's nonsense and is straightforward in their goals and methods for representing their union's values.
As much as hero worship can be a problem, I think such people help improve the class consciousness of the US working class and could help them realize, "Hey, we actually CAN do something to change and improve our government. Here's how."
I guess it just depends on what your metric is.
Unfortunately one of its leading metrics is its contributions to human suffering. It certainly is the best system in the world at spreading suffering.