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Only if you are super poor enough to qualify, and have time and the capacity to jump through all the hoops to get one, and you live somewhere that there is a provider that has coverage, and ect, ect., then you can get a discount on your cell plan. For some people who are "lucky enough" to be super poor enough, the discount can actually be enough to make the phone essentially $0.

I once had it explained to me in a way that finally clicked:

What if beings from the 42nd dimension wanted to observe life on our planet? The problem is that they're from the 42nd dimension, so they can't just sit and "watch" us in our basic four-dimensional world. However, what they can do is stir up electrons in our atmosphere until they start a lightning storm. Then they can "observe" the lightning. It turns out that they can learn a lot from the lightning itself, but at the same time it may have some effect on life here on Earth.

Wait, you think the Saudis buying EA have anything to do with profit? EAs profits and earnings are meaningless to them.

If you are white, around 11 months. If you're not white... Well, haha... Funny thing that.. Umm, let me uhh, ya..

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As if CO~2~ wasn't bad enough already? Now I have to deal with it making snarky comments about what I wore to work today?

I like to act like they just reminded me that she asked me to talk to them about it and then start talking about some really bizarre fetish stuff that she can't deal with anymore.

One of my favorite ones actually got gagging noises from another person in the room. 'Look, she asked me to talk to you about the diaper thing. Hold on. Don't get upset... she's fine with you wearing them, and even fine with you "soiling" them, but she can't deal with you bringing them in "pre-soiled" anymore. It's not like it happens every time you put on a different one, but even if only 1 out 10 has an issue with cough "leakage", that's still at least 2 times per night that she has to stop and clean it up or else the smell just like never leaves the room... and anyway, she says that really kills the mood.'

This isn't 2016 anymore. These people voted for him a 3rd time well after he made it very clear what he stood for. Racism is his defining feature.

Oh, I don't doubt you are correct about that. I'm not trying to say that there isn't any coordination. The GOP is definitely and completely overrun with extremists that openly work together to implement plans like project 2025. But we are also at the terminal stages of this disease and the patient is on life support.
Project 2025 is a perfect example of what I am talking about. It was supposed to be a secret agenda that flopped right out into the open almost as soon as they are done writing it. In a healthy society it would have been attacked and overwhelmed from multiple directions in the same uncoordinated way that a virus or bacteria would be dealt with. But instead, the infection has reached a point where 1/3 of the nation decided that it wasn't their problem, and another 1/3 was actively helping the infection. We are at that point in the covid infection where the body is now harming itself.

I don’t think you need some big coordinated Illuminati-type group to explain what’s going on. It’s way more realistic to see bad actors as behaving like bacteria or viruses. They don’t sit in secret meetings plotting everything. They just act independently in ways that benefit themselves, and the harmful effects add up on their own.  Bacteria don’t plan. They find weaknesses, take advantage of them, multiply, and adapt when something stops them. They’re not masterminds. They’re just opportunistic. One person finds a loophole, another copies it, someone else builds on it, and suddenly you have a whole system bending in a bad direction without anyone actually coordinating it.

And this is where billionaires fit in. Realistically the traits that get you to billionaire status are usually closer to aggressive mutations in an ecosystem. Not kindness or wisdom, more like: ruthlessness, willingness to exploit gaps, willingness to push harm outward while collecting gains.

Once someone becomes a billionaire, their resources act like a multiplier. A normal bad actor is one germ. A billionaire is the same germ with unlimited food, a weakened immune system around them, and the ability to reshape the environment to favor their own growth.

And then you get a feedback loop. The more safeguards and regulations get weakened, the easier it is for aggressive “strains” like this to emerge. Those new billionaires then use their wealth to weaken safeguards even more. Each round speeds up the next. It’s basically the same dynamic as a compromised immune system getting overwhelmed by infections that would normally be manageable.  

But most of all, there's no way you're going to get that many extreme narcissists to work together nicely and follow some long term plan.

But what if I hated Elon before he was involved in politics?

Well one of them did... We'll never know for sure...

The really fucked up part is that a 6 year old shot his teacher and I never even fucking heard about it. School shootings have become so commonplace here that the only thing that made this "newsworthy" was the $10 million.