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Old 02-09-2021, 02:57 PM   #22651 (permalink)
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Nevada governor touts proposal to allow tech companies to create local governments

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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 02-09-2021, 03:16 PM   #22652 (permalink)
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Might as well put that in the Second Civil War thread

and quite frankly the Class Warfare thread too
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Old 02-09-2021, 04:49 PM   #22653 (permalink)
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Company Towns in the U.S. 1880s to 1935
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That **** was ****ed up. Those coal towns had stores that only took coupons distributed by the corporation. If you didn’t work you couldn’t eat. The miners had to resort to violence to finally get that **** changed.
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Old 02-09-2021, 05:43 PM   #22655 (permalink)
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As terrifying as a return to company towns is if it's just tech startup dudebros high on grind culture I think it'll be fun to see it finally descend into a madness of cocain-fuelled riots and insurgencies.
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As terrifying as a return to company towns is if it's just tech startup dudebros high on grind culture I think it'll be fun to see it finally descend into a madness of cocain-fuelled riots and insurgencies.
Or it just takes our apartheid style gated communities to the next level.

The Republicans will support it because rich people are always right. And they’re not stupid. They’ll hire some blacks (they’re great at basketball) and put up rainbows and BLM propaganda. That way they can buy off the liberals at no cost whatsoever. That’s what they did in San Francisco. Rinse and repeat.
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Old 02-09-2021, 06:09 PM   #22657 (permalink)
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Or it just takes our apartheid style gated communities to the next level.

The Republicans will support it because rich people are always right. And they’re not stupid. They’ll hire some blacks (they’re great at basketball) and put up rainbows and BLM propaganda. That way they can buy off the liberals at no cost whatsoever. That’s what they did in San Francisco. Rinse and repeat.
Obviously but the immediate context is that of Silicon Valley tech companies and if Nevada has a bunch of tech startup company towns the dystopian employee cultures that already exist in those corporations devolving to their logical horrifying conclusions would be novel and potentially hilarious.
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I hope so.

Hey did you hear two capitol police offed themselves since the Great Insurrection? I wonder why they’re so sad.
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Old 02-09-2021, 06:34 PM   #22659 (permalink)
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I know of the one. I don't know if it's disillusionment with the right after being subjected to all that or if they were just people prone to suicide and this was just traumatic in general.
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Springsteen got a DUI.

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The Asbury Park Press reported Springsteen’s blood-alcohol content was 0.02 — just a quarter of New Jersey’s legal limit — when he was arrested.
Next time someone wonders why people don’t cooperate with this police. If you were a poor nobody this would damn near destroy your life.
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