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Its a billions of dollars per year kind of cost

There are very different levels of responsibility for different people. Dude who started shooting is going to prison. Folks who showed up dressed in black but had no idea what was coming should not.

I think they'd be happy do deport all the brown people and use people from southern Europe as slaves

There is a range of ways to run an economy and a society which can all work reasonably well. Conservative doesn’t have to be fascist. Its more that Republicans purged the non-fascist conservatives from any position of power

I think they call them gratuities now for the tax break and legal protection from the Supreme Court

I'd be writing a letter to the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners if things were that unreliable.

And yeah, nothing built before the 1970s energy crisis in California has insulation. Stuff built after that tends to be well-insulated.

Yeah, a huge chunk of the California electric bill is paying for houses burned down after sparks from transmission started fires, and paying to power the risk of that happening again

The author of the piece is a former Republican. They actually flipped sides on the hate thing a few decades ago, but it took a while to get to the point where open Nazism instead of dog whistling was ok

For the author, pretty much. He's been spending his time on BlueSky arguing that what we are seeing isn't really fascism.

I think it's more like Thiel looking for any reason whatsoever to take down Gawker.

During the KKK era, the Democrats were the ones in favor of hate, while the Republicans were not. The parties radically flipped after the passage of the Civil Rights act as a direct result of Nixon making a decision to support the hate to win elections, though the full flip took decades to play out. We're hitting the end of that now.

Republicans were not always Nazis. The article tries to look at how the change happened