"I'm being paid the same now, when I make 500 shirts a day, as I did when I made 50 shirts a day. Where the fuck is the money going?"

The popular idea of luddites is entirely due to generations of capitalists trying their damnedest to obscure what is a very simple issue.

1725: Why the fuck did I lose my left hand for the same wages I earned while being 10x more productive than last year? Who the fuck is benefiting here?

2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?

No, the USPS is no longer accepting mail DESTINED for those nations because they don't have a way to safely get the mail to those nations. So it *is* a suspension of *sending* mail. It's not saying it won't deliver mail *from* those nations.

Yeah, with MAGA, the cruelty is the point.

Well, they did fail to indict a Subway sandwich.

But we're not at war, so that doesn't apply, right?

Conversely, the law is whatever Trump says it is. Remember, more lethality, less law.

They're exposed to that through the James prosecution, too. I think the explanation is even simpler: they're just trying to inflict as much pain on Comey as possible, and they think getting this back in court with a new indictment will be more painful than the appeal.

The whole idea that Hegseth thinks the commander has the authority to give an illegal order is just as problematic as giving the order himself.

More embarrassing than failing to indict?