It’s not regional branding or genericide which is the term for what your talking about where a brand name becomes the generic usage for a product in place of the generic name (i.e. Kleenex instead of facial tissue, Velcro instead of hook and loop etc.)

Flavor Aid and Kool Aid are two distinctly branded products made by two different companies. When I have more time I’ll see if I can dig up the interesting write up I read about this from the Kool Aid company perspective at the time and post it in an edit.

most Democrats not being armed or proficient with firearms.

Is this based on hard data or hyperbole?

I’m guessing I’d fit your definition of a Democrat but also your definition of anti-2FA.

I own exactly one firearm, but I used to own more. I don’t think I’ve ever told any of my friends that I own a gun, even our neighbor who’s mentioned his own multiple times. It’s just not something I feel compelled to talk about unless I’m actually going to shoot it.

After the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings it made me sick to my stomach looking at the semiautomatic military style rifle I had. I got rid of it and all my other firearms, only keeping the first one I ever bought, because it was a gun I had always wanted.

That gun has sat in the safe for the last five years, with a barrel lock, unused. I pulled it out last week, stripped it, checked, cleaned it and lubed it. It’s back in the safe now alongside two magazines loaded with .45 hollow points and six of FMJs.

I’ve even been looking at shotguns recently but I’m not ready to believe we’re there yet.

Here’s the thing though, most of the people I know from growing up are like me. We’re all pretty liberal still these days, we grew up around firearms, learned how to use them properly in gun safety training. Some kids hunted regularly, others would target shoot on the family farm when visiting or at the cabin.

I’m a Xennial though. Maybe our generation beat the Armalite crazy wave. We were all about the .30-06 and distance.

They drank Flavor Aid at Jonestown. Kool Aid just got all the bad? good? PR because it was misidentified by investigators and witnesses in testimony.

Gotcha. That makes sense why the phones always seemed to work in every power outage. I wanted to mention the 48 volts DC setup because I’m not sure if that’s common or standard outside of the US.

In the US, telephone land lines actually carry their own DC electrical charge which is provided by the telephone central office and travels through copper wires to each phone.

This is why, during a power outage in the US, a land line phone will typically continue to work. The exception being if the outage is large enough to also take out the central phone office.

And you can (continue to) shut down the more “minor” conversational shit that normalizes and perpetuates that mindset.

I don’t think their intention was to shut anything down and or about not believing women.

It seemed like the user your responding to was expressing frustration over the portion of the excerpt that implies it’s the fault of all men for not calling this out when there’s a lot of men who don’t ever encounter this directly to call it out like that.

Do you (or anyone who might know the actual numbers) think this would do anything? The people in the US would boycott Amazon by not shopping on it, cancelling Prime etc. but that’s not really where Amazon as a company makes their money.

AWS is Amazon’s primary revenue generator now as I understand it and the retail portion of the business is more akin to a side gig in terms of numbers. Anybody with a better grasp wanna chime in?

Wisconsin Supreme Court. Nobody actually lives in Wyoming.

Hmm, if farmers had actually listened to any educated people

This really comes across like you think farmers are not educated people. Benefit of the doubt that this is not what you intended but you may want to re-write this.

Dude there are so many better ways to attack Musk than risking terrible optics/precedent to close five Tesla dealerships.

Flimsy attempts to shut down a few dealerships that will have little to no impact on his life does nothing to solve the above.

You feel the need to keep making statements like “my desire to see the same exact result they’re going for here” yet the above quotes are yours. Who are you trying to convince?

You try and accuse me of personal attacks then do the same I have no mental image of you, I’m only responding to the nonsense you’ve been putting out.

Capitulating to fascists usually isn’t productive.

You’re conflating ethics and legal issues.

No, I’m not. The article is about state lawmakers. Senators. The same people who gave Tesla a special exemption to sell directly to consumers rather than going through third party dealerships. If the bill passes and the Governor signs it then it becomes law. They gave Tesla a waiver, they can take it away.

That is not tolerance of Musk and insisting I am tolerant of him won’t make it true. I am not.

I at no point insisted you were tolerant of Musk and if that was your takeaway then I’d suggest re-reading my comment or work on your reading comprehension. I stated that you seem to be stuck in the paradox of tolerance, it seems like you expect the state of New York to meet Musk, and more specifically Tesla, with tolerance to their intolerance.

I know what that is and it’s not relevant.

I disagree and think that it is. By explicitly stating that they are targeting Tesla within New York because of Elon Musk and his connection to the company there is a statement being made that they will no longer tolerate that behavior and the attempts to harm the country and the democracy by Elon Musk and that they will defend against his intolerance with whatever means they can.

When you’ve tried to use reason, when you’ve tried to work within the systems that are in place to deal with a bully and those systems have failed you and the bully is refusing to listen to reason then you reach a point where you just have to punch them in the nose.

Yes, that’s what the paradox of intolerance is all about.

I think you’re trapped by the Paradox of tolerance.

The Fifth and Fourteenth amendments of the United States Constitution are the ones that contain the due process clauses. That little bit that says no one shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”

The fact that you cherry picked the Constitutional part but cut the bit about ICE being in violation of the courts and the laws is kind of telling. They all go hand in hand.

I’m not sure why you’re arguing in bad faith but I won’t engage with you further and I’d encourage anyone else do the same.

You’re literally arguing that we should separate child and mother

I think the point you’re missing from the judge and by most people who are outraged by what’s been going on with the recent actions taken by ICE is the lack of due process and illegal removal of non-citizens.

If the current administration and ICE weren’t in direct violation of the Constitution, the courts and the laws of the US then this situation doesn’t occur.

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FYI, SONY is a Japanese multinational corporation.

Betteridge’s Law gang!

Just block and move on. The doomerism is just another form of trolling but you can block the user and it’s like their doomed attitude got sent to El Salvador.