Yes I would, tampering is dangerous shit even when you think you’re being benign about it.

Not to mention the implicit overstepping of boundaries and violation of knowing consent.

It actually is, there’s a legal concept for fighting words that basically acknowledges you can’t prosecute someone for getting provoked when the other guy was very obviously trying to provoke them.

Honestly it just sounds like the president intentionally ordered the flight to take off when the weather wouldn’t have been clear for it and the pilot would in any other circumstances with any other passengers have been able to cancel it outright.

They’re probably much safer when you don’t buy them from Boeing

If you want to experience what modern zeppelining would be like hire a hot air balloon. That’s all they’d exist as, a luxury curiosity like the horse drawn carriage that’s been long since passed as a viable competitor in the transit market.

Jet aircraft basically destroyed every economical case you could possibly make for Zeppelins as anything but an alternative way to do balloon tours.

Helium is twice as heavy as Hydrogen, much harder to find on earth (it’s literally named Helium because until recently it was believed to only exist on the Sun)

So more expensive and you gotta use a lot more of it for the same lifting power, also Hydrogen can be used for this safely, the Nazis just were cutting corners to not have to give any credit to the Americans who at the time had a monopoly on the resources that would have let them go with helium or that would have let them coat the ship safely.

Ok but the driver ain’t getting charged for that shit right? Sounds like self defense but the “racist slurs” part has me worried bro’s gonna get profiled

Good intentions, implementation, and results here, but seriously folks, think VERY carefully about what you’re doing when you tamper with something someone’s putting in their body.

Do not try at home to the nth degree.

Castro and Ho Chi Minh as well, Castro was actually receiving American support initially before he got cut off, IIRC either because he was being a bit “too” revolutionary for his backers’ liking or because Bautista negotiated his way back into America’s good graces.

Ho Chi Minh had petitioned the US for diplomatic assistance with France, and the US might have been persuaded to provide it until France declared they would switch sides to the Warsaw pact if the US breathed a word of it to them and didn’t help them shut it all down (this was after the US had absolutely humiliated them in the Suez crisis and Marshall plan conditioning), before proceeding to shrug and leave the US holding the bag for the mess they made anyways.

tl;dr, God Damn The French!

As opposed to the 55 they pay for the same “socialist” services at a worse quality of the services rendered?

Might be the best in the world for the folks who can afford world class service, but the US medical system costs the US taxpayer far more than their counterparts even in a “socialist” 45% top bracket tax country, for a far lower quality of service rendered.

Way it ought to be,

Separate incomes out by the percentile,

Assign the bracket boundaries at the thresholds of the 20th percentile, 40th percentile, 60th percentile, 80th percentile, 95th percentile, and 99th percentile.

Incomes in the 0-20 bracket are untaxed,

Incomes in the 20-40 bracket are taxed at a rate equal to the share of national wealth controlled by households who top out in this bracket,

Incomes in the 40-60 bracket are taxed at a rate equal to the share of national wealth controlled by households who top out in this bracket,

Incomes in the 60-80 bracket are taxed at a rate equal to the share of national wealth controlled by households who top out in this bracket,

Incomes in the 80-95 bracket are taxed at a rate equal to twice the share of national wealth controlled by households who top out in this bracket,

Incomes in the 85-99 bracket are taxed at a rate equal to twice the share of national wealth controlled by households who top out in this bracket,

Incomes in the 99+ bracket are taxed at a rate equal to three times the share of national wealth controlled by households (just for some perspective, this would top out at 91.8% with 30.6% of the national wealth controlled by the 1%) who top out in this bracket, individuals in a household that top out in this bracket are also barred from elected, hired, or appointed public office for ten years after the last time they top in this bracket.

Also, for every 20th multiple of the median income in the 0-20 bracket you cross over, you pay an additional 4% increase to your nominal tax rate

Also also, loans collateralized on capital assets (except for a primary residence mortgage or primary vehicle car loan) are considered salary income for tax purposes.

I think Sex work offers some pretty valuable work in today’s age of social isolation

These are people who’s literal jobs are to understand healthy social connections as a science to be able to provide it to people who have to go without for whatever reason.

Everything’s about sex but the sex itself, pretty much every provider I’ve met has felt like the sex was just the fun part of all the intimacy and deep conversation they put in the work for around the sex.

I mean you could argue an end goal is every person having the effective wealth of a billionaire in terms of being able to have what they need right when they need it and being able to enrich their lives without worry for losing money that might be needed for an emergency later, but that specific stretch point is so far into a post scarcity future it is only a slight exaggeration to say it’s literally the “Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism” meme but as an actual civilization.

“I know how I’ll support the anti-imperial cause! By supporting one of the longest imperial projects of human history predating even the civilization that gave us the etymological root of imperialism!”

Sun Yat Sen is actually known to have also came to the conclusion that Lincoln was some degree of Proto/Para Socialist leader, his map for the Republic of China was based in part off that impression of Lincoln and his political theories and policies.

Still fuck the CIA tho.

Fuckin’ Henry Kissenger brainrotted to the core

We know what happens when the CIA tries to home grow a movement against a dictator from scratch

It was called the bay of pigs, and it was such a disaster it’s why the CIA started exclusively using the tactic of attaching themselves to already existent movements.

It’s really weird how narratives alone can change the direction of nations,

We used to say we are the arsenal of democracy to justify all the right wing coups we sponsored against socialist leaders, even if they were democratically elected, and now a major US party’s establishment has zero qualms helping socialists if the socialists are the ones who are going to the defense of the global democratic society, because “we’re the defenders of democracy.”

The joking innuendo became a legitimate foreign policy planck!

I think this is part of an overall tone shift in the US’ culture, a rise of Radical Sincerity. Everyone is so burnt out of wink and nod cynicism after decades of it being the norm in one iteration or another, that the punkish backlash to the status quo cynicism and fake smiles is to play what was once made fun of as childish delusion completely straight.

Sincere fantasy stories, abandonment of lampshading tropes, exhaustion with wink and nod fourth wall breaks, shift to a sincere insistence on following through on the values we were told to aspire to, through religious upbringing or through the narrative of national history we were taught.

Someone who remembers the other guy handed that genocidal ethnostate apartheid regime the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights?

"Any amount of genocide is bad, that’s why I’m willing to support even more genocide happening if it means those nasty wasty establishment democrats finally l E a R n T h E i R l E s S o N ! ! !"

You’re being a vote karen, you’re threatening the actually vulnerable to fall in line with what you want and to bring you the party’s manager. You’re Anne Frank’s neighbor if the reason they turned her in was because her parents weren’t anti-nazi enough to their liking.

Is it? Being the cookediest part doesn’t seem like something that’d inherently draw the nutrients into it

Who gets upset about cutting the crust off? It’s just the part of the bread that was most directly exposed to the heat