What's interesting, or frustrating, is that, on the flip side, American progressives had to endure years of Democrats telling them how things couldn't be done because they didn't have enough support for Republicans.

...and then Trump just does things.

We've been using "bribe developers" to fill the gap since we stopped building public housing almost fifty years ago. It's never worked, and it isn't going to start now

Maybe, and hear me out, here, maybe governments should just build homes directly instead of bribing developers to do it?

The market has no interest in solutions whent there's very good money to be made on the problem.

Tell me again how both sides are the same?

Because Google was so focused and strategic before the pandemic rollseyes.

The issue is Google’s broken governance and incentive system, which gives product owners and executives incentives for new products and actively disincentivizes maintaining and improving existing products...and that was a thing from well before the pandemic hit.

It's why Google launched three pay systems and had five messaging systems at the same time.

And, finally, this is all because of the strategy set by senior leaders.

Next time, don’t depose a democratically elected president at the behest British Petroleum, just because said president is too left wing and would rather like to keep his country’s oil wealth.

Also, don’t install an unpopular monarch in that left wing president’s place.

Finally, don’t continue to support said monarch such that his unpopularity inspires a fundamentalist counterrevolution.

The market has solved it.

You just don't realize what the market has solved for. It didn't solve the problem of expensive healthcare, it solved the problem of how to maximize profits for the wealthy.

That's what people don't understand about "the market". What you think it's doing isn't what it's actually doing.

Step 1: Vote for Biden now. Step 2: Vote for every Democrat. Do this until the Republican party is a smoking crater. Step 3:Then primary the fuck out of the AIPAC and oil-backed Democrats once you get past Step 2.

It's important to let the Democratic Party think they've got the levers of power, then shift the sands beneath them.

And of it doesn't work, at least you didn't get Trump, because no matter how bad the Democrats are, Trump and the Republican Party are so much worse.

To be honest, the people who actually run LL Bean have written open letters distancing them and the company from Linda and her views.

They are (were) stuck with her earning dividends, but she didn't have actual support from or much influence on the company.

She mostly just took dividends, hocked her lobster rolls and created a PR problem for the company.

When fucking Fortune magazine is calling out late-stage capitalism, you know we're in trouble.

How about we go back to the one where we applied a marginal tax rate of 90% to the rich?

This stuff should ring alarm bells for anyone who studied history, because these are 1920s/1930s Germany-style micro movements.

Naziism didn't start with the Final Solution. It didn't start with work camps. It didn't even start with the beer Hall putsch. It started with things like this.

So now that microplastics are the new hotness, industry is going to run the same plays they did when climate change became critical: blaming and shaming us for their mistakes, and trying to sell us more stuff to work around the problem they created.

I'd love a new washer and dryer, but I live in an apartment and don't get a choice and I can't buy a house because housing is now an investment vehicle. I'd love to hang out my clothes to dry, but because we've gutted healthcare, social services and housing, they get stolen by homeless and/or addicts. I'd love to not have to wash clothes as often, but I have to go into the office and look "presentable" because we can't have commercial real estate lose value by having people work from home.

How about we stop shaming people and bust the proverbial balls of capitalism instead?