As with most things, "free market" is what they demand when they don't get have access to the market or can't command the whole market.

Once they have access or enough of a percentage to set the prices, suddenly the best thing is high barriers to entry and whatever else will help them maintain inelastic demand.

Some countries make their penalties a percentage of income. Makes the sting equal for everyone.

No one is giving hormones to children.

But plenty of people will verbally and emotionally abuse children of they wear the wrong color or play with the wrong toy.

Straight cis people are quite literally the worst about shoving their lifestyle onto others.

This isn't an accident.

It's to give plausible deniability to racists who don't want to deal with EEOC violations as often.

Nah, if mittens were a republican, they'd try to marry the baby.

Ignoring that ancient mathematicians were able to calculate the size of the earth with pretty good results, considering their "world spanning empires" are what we'd consider regional now.

Also that you can literally watch a ship come over the horizon, seeing it's sails first before the body actually moves into view. If the earth were flat the entire thing would be visible the entire time.

You can't reason people out of positions they didn't reason themselves into.

This. Trump is the main culprit and threat, so he's priority.

But taking down a corrupt former mayor? That's a feather in anyone's cap too.

This. I can't solve this, and neither can any other individual person.

It will take a wide spread implosion, but they've got a resilient ecosystem that will just switch messianic figures out once Trump is no longer able to hold public sway.

So they admitted they wouldn't be able to honor a child's care plan and that their opinion on that particular matter would weigh more than....the kid themselves, their family of origin, their doctor and psychologist and any other medical team member...

Yeah, they shouldn't even have fundie kids, because who the fuck is to say that the kid's fundamentalism would like up with their own.

Also keep in mind they announced it at the same exact time that they wanted people to stop talking about them and Taiwan. And all the sexual harassment at Blizzard.

They had no details about it at the time. They just wanted something the mainstream press could run instead. And tanked a game to keep it from cementing on their face. Idiots.

Not so much at the moment.

He borrowed 44 bn to buy Twitter and has a 1.5 bn payment coming up.

He is of course more liquid than any of us, but the fact that he keeps not paying various bills seems to indicate that he's having cash flow problems and is having to scrounge for his loan payment.

This is just one of many multi million dollar payments that musk and/or Twitter are fighting.

The thing about dictators is that they want more. For themselves. If gutting 100m worth services or taxes gets them $10,000 that they themselves can personally use, they'll do it.

Everyone should read the dictator's handbook, or some other explanation of selectorate theory.