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And the dead

Not only pennies do melt, they are more valuable once molten. It's just illegal to do it.

Ah yes, the 15th standard we've been waiting for!

Because not doing genocide is not on the menu. You have a little less genocide or a lot more genocide. That's your lot

If you refuse to choose because you don't like either, you end up with the one you like the least.

You could do a "this is worthless" meme with this comment right here.

But he has a penis, which is the most deciding factor for a sizeable part of the US voter base.

Alabama went from +28 Trump to +25 or something.

Plenty of them already died, by eating horsepaste during a respiratory virus pandemic. The survivors didn't care.

... again.

So everybody should be a contractor? I have done both and I honestly appreciate the benefits of a salary without all the risks and overhead of contracting. Or founding and managing a cooperative.

I always wanted to ask this so might as well now, feel free to answer if you want: what are the means of production? In $cureent_year, that is.

We are not in 1870 Germany. We don't all work in huge factories owned by Rockefellers. I work in IT. My means of production is a laptop. I do own a few. I sell my labor to whoever needs IT services. Am I a capitalist or a communist? In the past I work for a big company and used their laptop. Was I being exploited?

The painter that is coming to fix my walls owns his ladder and spraygun. I assume he bought the paint with his own money. I don't know about the van, he might own it too. He sells his labor to me, who don't own anything of his. Is he a capitalist?

Well, it's the price of not being dependent on billionaires.

On the other hand, if the hundreds of thousands of subscribers go to a some publication (I've seen propublica recommended earlier in the comments, for instance) they will be able to pay a decent salary to a bunch of those journalists.