I keep my bank transactions to a bare minimum. They charge me to hold my money so they can invest it and make themselves interest, and they charge me to remove my money. Only rich people get those fees waived. And I am way less likely to go below my balance an incur other surprise fees. Credit card is the only way. Or cash, but that requires making large withdrawals once or twice a month and carrying it around.

Must be noted that credit card purchases not actually free, just the cost is borne by the merchant and returned in an averaged-out, invisible way.

I agree with your top comment. There is a lot of very verifiable information in there. drop site news has done some actual journalism based on these document dumps. This one is just too attractive to low effort social media content producers. Too salacious.

I haven’t been digging through these documents. Could be others which are related. This is the one that’s being circulated in my bubble. It isn’t clear if this person is claiming she was also present for the infanticide but at the very least she is is saying she gave birth then the baby was no more so (if the story is real) something bad must have happened because a private citizen cannot just remove a child from its parent’s care.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251223055820if_/https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 8/EFTA00025010.pdf (clicking the link won’t work because of the spaces, have to select copy paste) dated 08/03/2020.

The linked page auto playing audio after it was opened, I can’t even find where on the page it is coming from. No matter how hard I try to disable options for this they always change or make new ones.

FYI turn down your volume if in public.

All media make editorial decisions.

You are being down voted because you didn’t answer the question you just complained about a conspiracy you’ve imagined.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/measles-does-long-term-damage-immune-system-studies-show

Clinicians and epidemiologists have long known that measles infection increases childhood morbidity and mortality for as long as 5 years after illness, and measles in the pre-vaccination era was likely associated with at least half of all childhood deaths from infectious diseases.

The tax on non Muslims (jizyah) was in a way beneficial to creating a heterogenous environment. Anybody who tried to expel members of different faiths suffered an immediate loss of income and soon saw the err of their ways. And the more prosperous non-muslims are, the more tax they can pay, so it also gives a reason to take special care of them and help them to prosper.

I don’t think it was really such a big deal back then beyond your kind of baseline drama and conflict humans always get up to. But not much special aminosity between these two groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_under_Muslim_rule

Christians tend towards higher than average belligerence but don’t over generalize from them.

everyone driving around with these dash cams and other devices, why can’t other drivers take pics of these people and submit them to have them fined?

each photo from a different perspective is and additional ticket. the more people you annoy the more it costs.

(better would be automatic cameras at intersections)

trade war has nothing to do with it?

re the students, has the actual number of students attending school declined so much? I didn’t follow that story too closely. If the number of students is similar, shouldn’t the housing needs remain constant?

This is the argument you are defending:

Private Property seems like a natural extension of Animal Territory ( animals fight over boundaries and expressed need for an area to roam )

How much roaming territory does a magpie express?

Silly argument.

fuck look how rich you can get being a hate monger. he has dumped piles of cash into that place. cash he got by bigotting all over the place.

can someone book a tour and piss in his closet?

the 90s/2000s antivax is now in the second generation

Conservative religious groups, and Mennonites are part of that, already have a strong distrust of government.

that’s not true. many governments around the world are substantially controlled by people who are members of conservative religions. and lots of conservative religious organizations are well integrated into their relevant governments. to the point of theocracies, which don’t tend towards being extremely progressive.

If you hear about a place that the Catholic Church is controlling party of the government, you don’t think “Oh I bet it’s some wild Liberation Theology situation where the women are free and there are land reforms to redistribute the land equally”. You know it’ll be some regressive, repressive backwards ass shit show.

there were Amish people (a related group) who were charged for not getting a covid vaccine passport

Where? Where has a “vaccine passport” even been implemented?

That’s a very rudimentary anarchistic concept but power is so inherent to human relationships that anyone would either quickly abandon it or find themselves very frustrated.

If you are interested in a short and easy to read article that goes through the whole idea of “no powerful people”, look up Freeman’s Tyranny of Structurelessness. A classic text particularly among anarchists.

I mean I believe you because obviously something unusual has happened.

But which crow is the owner

Really? Interesting. Do you have more info?

These conflicts are irreconcilable because it is the nature of the relationship. This is the concept of “class war”. It is inherently violent.

People who are pro capitalist are not on the left.

They might be liberals. Liberalism is not a left wing project.

Far from being no-true leftists, there are many millions of leftists globally. Every one of them works in their way for the abolition of capital.

Whether you agree with the ideas or not is no issue here. The question is where they are characteristics of the Left. If you disagree with the ideas, you are not on the left.

Certain breeds of dogs have been intentionally made to be that way by humans. The comment I responded to was regard to an unqualified statement about animals in general and as a whole. That there is some inherent sense of “ownership” present to all animals. The argument being best backed up by a domesticated animal shows how silly it is.