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Sad story - I once loved the Seattle of the past. But it's a very old story told many times. Socialism is, in fact, working in Seattle and will continue to do so. This phase of the transition is the shattering of the old "oppressive" societal structure that precedes the rise of a new one that never comes. The egg-breaking that must take place before the omelet may be made, only there's no omelet, just broken eggs.

This is what that looks like. The pattern of socialism moves from here to authoritarianism - recall that Marx's "from each according to his ability to each according to his needs" was changed by Stalin in 1936 to "from each according to his ability to each according to his work", a change enshrined in the Soviet constitution. That formula does not include homeless, jobless drug addicts supported at state expense. In application it's "produce or die". You die anyway.

Socialism's pretty promise of abundance for all through theft actually does provide plenty for some:

"And because they are constantly fueling the people who are running Homeless, Inc. and these nonprofit organizations are making an excess of six-figure salaries, these massive huge salaries, there's no incentive for it to end," Hoffman added.

It's a grift. It always was a grift. It always will be a grift.

After a search of the suspects’ homes, detectives discovered a bear costume complete with what appeared to be a stainless steel meat shredder claw used to mimic the bear attack.

I don't think that's quite what "the right to bear arms" means, but what the heck do I know?

Warships good only if there’s no war. Nice deal if you can get it.

Splash!

15 minutes to splashdown. Thanks for the thread!

Some people may read what I have to say as the musings of a neoliberal bubble-inhabiting princess...

Well...OK...

Thing is, somebody has to clean up the mess. The Park authority made some namby-pamby call that dissolving corpses are bad for tourism. I say live-stream it on TikTok and make a fortune.

“Sorry, Yer Honor, but that gator was the only one of us sober enough to drive.”

Mostly an optics issue, IMHO, but under the circumstances a large and entirely avoidable one. Giving a fulsome Eid speech and then nothing for Easter was ham-handed to say the very least, and the Brits I follow on social media are very thin on patience of late. The palace PR people used to be better than this.

Ah, now there’s a blast from the past! Gus has been taking water-skiing lessons on the Lake Of Fire since 2000 but he could still vote for her.

We won’t know for sure until alternate candidates start dropping dead like they did in Mexico.

FReepers are intelligent enough not to need that silly affectation. Well, most of them.

Wait a minute - if the interpreter is fingering the wrong chord the deaf audience is going to think it sounds different.

Is “filthy wogs” generic enough to slide by?

Huh. The American College of Cardiology’s a bunch of winos. Prove me wrong.

I've been following this one. I must have a strong masochistic streak but I can't turn my eyes away. It's sort of a Karen And The Kommies Vacation In Cuba comic book, chanting slogans and singing "Guantanamera" like something out of a very bad 60's movie.

Bribing hungry children with treats to get them to dance for a propaganda video is whale-poop low even for geriatric lefties and Code Pink zombies. It'd be a real shame if their return buses made a long stop at Guantanamo Bay.

Hope they check her for rabies.

If Iran really wanted to see the UK government heads explode they’d drone some of the migrant hotels.

“You’re really a girl and would be happier if you let us cut your genitalia off” sounds like a pretty clear message to me. Can’t imagine why young men aren’t listening.

“Clearly deranged and incredibly irresponsible.” Mark Felton has a way with words. It’s almost as if the government wants Britain to be vulnerable to an amphibious landing or something.