KelvarCherry [They/Them]

There’s more to the case than that. Sole presence in a market does not make you a de-facto monopoly.

What makes [Ticketmaster+Live Nation] a monopoly is its mass-acquisition of venues, which are rented out with contracts that stipulate that the event must sell admission through Ticketmaster. This is why performers like Taylor Swift call out Ticketmaster publicly, while still selling tickets through them. For most stadium events; if you don’t use Ticketmaster, you don’t have a place to perform.

I agree all of those are terrible, and I hope it’s clear I didn’t ever even remotely consider voting for the guy; but you realize why none of those things really matter to the average American who is struggling to get by every day, right?

Like: mocking leaders’ deaths, mocking people with disabilities, having affairs with porn stars… – those are all terrible, inhumane, and “un-professional” things for the person to do; but when you’re desperate for some change and lost faith in the other party, it makes sense that voters would be willing to ignore those. Perhaps these aspects are indicators of what the guy would do in office; but most people in this country don’t think that deep into anything.

The involvement in Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring is a powerful point because it hits just about every group with disgust. For the rest of this, I’d just focus more on Trump’s ties to Big Tech and Big Finance; because that’s the avenue that people feel the effect of. That and this country’s shitty Medical system.

What kind of idiot? A bunch of morons on TikTok who make content either harassing strangers and setting people up for legal and social issues, or who post creep shots of women for their TikTok baby followers.

This is a valid and essential role. Remember when the corporate media was spamming out all those articles on “quiet quitting”? This is exactly what they fear. If you show up to work, clock in, do nothing of value, and clock out, you’re costing your workplace money AND denying them that role.

If I could, I’d do the same. Apply to be some office grunt at Meta or Amazon, sweet talk my manager, do a bunch of meaningless work like configuring things on the PC and taking inventory of random shit, and then clock out. Gamify metrics. Plan stupid projects with the corpo chatbot. Burn money and time. It’s one of those “death by 1000 cuts” actions, and it benefits each individual person because you still get paid. Win-win.

ohhhh fuuuuck the “troubled teen industry”. This is a nightmare of a can to crack open and the more you learn about it, the more you’ll hate the medical and legal systems in this country. Reader beware.

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Sounds like we have the same observations and feel the same frustrations about them. I look forward to being branded an agitator :')

Okay this is great that she’s free and all, but can we stop for a second and think about what happened here? A woman was grabbed off the street, beaten and brutalized (I’ve seen the arrest footage), and ripped out of her life, while being 100% peaceful and obedient.

I’m so sick of the one-sided violence, while we’re told to obey and be peaceful and whatever else.

A dozen will be an understatement. The tournament games span over a week. I think 100 is a closer figure, if FIFA doesn’t get their wish of ICE going on ‘vacation’.

I really hope fear of a terrorist attack shuts the event down. Not an actual terrorist attack—I don’t want ordinary civilians to die—but if Iran purposely “leaks” plans to bomb the stadium to the media, I hope that might wreck the World Cup attendance; or even better, get teams to pull out.

Probably 99% of the people who go to the World Cup will be fine.

Brazil has a huge Football (USA Soccer) scene and makes up a large percentage of World Cup tourism. Being dark-skinned Hispanics, they are exactly who ICE targets.

To be fair, a few teens rocked his shit. That aside, I’d copy your sentiment for every one of these murderous CEOs, politicians, and oligarchs. I’ll note that some brave souls do seem to be fighting back.