Reminder that West Virginia exists exclusively because of slavery. Especially that part of Appalachia was a HUGE haven for self emancipated people and free black people alike, because if you get deep enough into the mountains, you basically cease to exist as a legal entity unless people want to put a significant amount of effort into reaching you and the same amount in extricating you.
Somehow one of them still invents Tombstone.
Pretty much this. Ever wonder how so many people got killed and mangled during the Industrial Revolution? You’re about to find out.
This is the final play of the segregationists. The real, hidden heart of the argument from a lot of people against the DoEd is “the schools aren’t allowed to be segregated anymore and that’s wrong.”
Mark my words, you’ll see schools rapidly segregated by race and gender soon enough. Fathers and mothers, I hope you’re prepared to teach your daughters how to read and write, because all they’ll likely be getting within the next 5 years is home-ec and how to be a submissive wife - and that’s even if your state allows them to attend school.
Also where a lot of washouts from the military wind up, often for the same reasons.
Yeah, remember Trump telling those Christians “we’ll fix it so you don’t have to vote anymore”. They don’t need their voters when every position down to your city council is directly appointed by your local Lord (Governor).
Yup, same shit as Putin. The only measure of the Tsar is how much land they can add to the kingdom during their reign, and Trump is OBSESSED with this idea that he’s a master negotiator. Negotiating the purchase of an entire sovereign nation would be the masterstroke.
I often think there should be one boardmember whose entire reason for being there is to say “hey that sounds like something a supervillain would do/say” when shit like this gets proposed.
Plus you guys have a lot more First Nations up there for America’s favorite historical pastime: genociding indigenous peoples.
OSHA has been pretty toothless for a long time at the federal and state levels both. It takes months, years sometimes to take enforcement actions because a single regulator might have ten or more cases working at any one time, and the courts that are supposed to handle enforcement are deliberately understaffed and overworked.
A TOASTER IS JUST A DEATH RAY WITH A SMALLER POWER SUPPLY!
You don’t know that they aren’t conducting zero-g battles.
Remember, the enemy’s gate is down.
They do, though. Tons of flood insurers and fire insurance companies mysteriously pulled out over hurricane and fire season in Florida and across the West Coast last year. It was a huge thing.
It’s not sad, but there’s a lot of anxiety inducing moments.
The job market isn’t really geared to handle hundreds of thousands of people needing new work all at once. Even without any other resultant cuts, a huge amount of unemployed people is going to be incredibly bad for the economy, and for social stability as a whole.
It’s not just the recognizable smell they add it for, it’s the fact that it’s an odorant that’s detectable at an INCREDIBLY small concentration (humans can smell it at 1 part per BILLION).
I love how none of them ever had grandparents that got “divorced” before no-fault. You know what you did a lot of the time before no-fault if you wanted out? Killed your husband. Wives, when they were forced with a situation where they couldn’t simply leave the state/country, would just poison their spouse. In the early 1900s, when your wife was often the one who was at home all the time, preparing all your meals, it was INCREDIBLY easy to do in a way that looked like “oh well he just kept getting sicker and sicker”.
The POINT is to break the government. It’s a lot easier to convince people to privatize things that way.
I’m reminded of that one time the entire Polish government was killed in a plane crash in Smolensk.
Awful nice automotive industry you got here. Be a damn shame if a training accident dropped some bombs on your factory. A real shame, it’d be.