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The actual tragedy of the commons was the enclosures and evictions that dispossessed free people and destroyed the commons as their economic base.

Thousands of missiles were launched from Gaza last week with zero reports of any of them turning around and striking Gaza.

Actually it was very smooth.

I rode the maglev to the shanghai airport, it was awesome. The newer version in Beijing is significantly faster. But yeah super expensive to build.

Crime is down, despite the determined and successful efforts to convince us otherwise. Also some states have stepped back from the stunningly huge mandatory sentencing policies imposed during the 80s and 90s.

The US is a failed experiment in neoliberal governance. We are a state in the process of collapsing. All of our institutions are corrupt and dysfunctional. Our infrastructure is falling apart due to underinvestment.

frequently. Although most of the well known conspiracy trials pre-dated rico. For example: the Chicago 7. Throughout the turmoil of the 60's and early 70s people were getting charged with almost invariably bogus conspiracy offenses, (and also getting assassinated as in Fred Hampton.) More recently more than 100 people were charged with conspiracy offenses over the Standing Rock protests.

or the server version. But it is difficult and/or expensive for ordinary users to use any of the unbloated versions.

‘Activist Russel Brand’ - they misspelled opportunistic shithead.

Agree that this is a fact. Now ask how it is relevant.

Cmon, that’s easy. When inflation is up: we need us some austerity. Then when inflation is down, obviously that is when austerity is called for. If you are confused, please see: when do the rich need tax cuts.

I’m fine with poor kids getting a really shitty meal but why are we paying for rich kids to get decent meals? I think this program needs a bureaucracy that investigates and qualifies each child to make sure their circumstances are dire enough to qualify for a substandard shitty lunch. Also there should be drug testing to make sure the qualified families aren’t getting high.