For-profit medical care.
Piggybacking for-profit prisons.
Public transport too. It really seems like every time a public service is privatised it goes to shit, almost as if for-profit motives aren’t aligned to public interest.
Profit.
For profit education
For-profit anything-necessary-for-survival
Tax exemption for religious organisations.
Could be worse, I guess. I live in a “secular” democracy that essentially collects members fees for the Catholic and Lutheran churches (and only those two!) via the federal income tax.
Knew it was DE before I saw the instance domain.
Or better yet, religious organizations.
Taxing religious organizations gives them official representation in government affairs which is just as bad, if not worse.
Definitely not how that works. All companies are taxed and they don’t get any special representation outside lobbying that they were going to do either way and churches do in fact put a lot of the money they should have payed in taxes into lobbying.
You don’t think certain companies get favorable treatment via tax code and lobbying?
I think certain companies don’t pay any taxes at all.
companies don’t get any special representation
Lmao
Their paying taxes is not what gets them special treatment.
To some degree, agreed, but your original assertion is still wrong. Unless you count all the devoutly religious people in Congress, and they already have that representation.
Not taxing them hasn’t kept their fingers out of the American government.
Far from it.
Hell, the current speaker is trying to convince everyone that the government was always intended to be based on religious dogma.
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Please elaborate…
Like, do you think McDonald’s as a corporation gets to vote?
Do you think priests and preachers don’t get to vote now?
I’m guessing the way its suppose to work is tax exemption means you should apolitical like a think tank lol
corporations given constitutional rights in the us like living people.
Like people but without also being subject to incarceration…
Billionaires
Since it wasn’t said yet, nukes. No one needs them.
Who’s gonna stop the whales?
gotta nuke somethin’
¯\ _ (ツ) _ /¯
What if I’m in my own home minding my own business and an attacker named Enola comes and waltzes right in my door and how do I protect my property then?? Some people smh
A lot of these are things that we can improve
Here’s one we can’t: giraffes 🦒
an old meme:
Man I think the unbelievable part stays in the fact that that horse fucking flyies …
Pegasus != Unicorn
Also, Pegasus was just the name of that particular flying horse. Not the name of the species.
The original baby Yoda
Wait wait what am I missing here ? Do unicorn fly ?
50,000 Square Foot Mansions. Such a waste.
I agree. How are you gonna make a mansion with just a square foot? Let alone 50,000 of them.
Billionaires
Depends on the currency, though…
Disagree.
I bet you’d have quite a different opinion if someone gave you a couple billion
I’ll bet you’re incorrect.
- If billionaires didn’t exist nobody could do that
- They wouldn’t anyway
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The U.S. Geological Survey’s most recent water use data for Utah shows the state uses about 38 million gallons of water on golf courses per day.
PER FUCKING DAY.
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it’s a waste of land which BTW we can’t make more of
Japan and the UAE have entered the chat
UAE is cheating since they outsourced it to the Netherlands to do their sea reclaiming for them.
Well the waste of land part doesn’t really matter much cause if we ever did need that land for other things, it’s still there. It’s not as though building a golf course makes that patch of land into an irradiated wasteland that can never be used for anything else again.
Golf is equivalent to licking an entire countryside so nobody else can use it. The only activity in human history that used more space for less people were the Apollo moon landings.
TikTok
elon musk
These Boston dynamics robot dogs
But in reality, military aerial drones are much more terrifying. It sounds like a sci-fi dystopia that a billionaire could type your name, press a kill button, and within a few minutes a drone locates and bombs you. But this tech has already existed for over a decade, and is being used by the US in the Middle East and North Africa.
I don’t think you just type a name and set it to go. Someone is remotely piloting that drone.
For now, anyway.
Not me! Wikipedia lists 14 people with my first and just name just in the category of American politicians.
Billionaires and Guinea Worm.
The good news is we are on the verge of eradicating Guinea Worm.
I’d like to add botflies. The whole removal process is nightmare fuel.
I had a professor in college who intentionally got infected by a bot fly to see what it was like. That’s dedication.
I hope he got some kind of credit for it.
every tropical disease
The 1%
spez