Maybe they can buy subscription from them for protection. Sounds like the business model.

I like Bota Breeze for lower alcohol and cost efficient, something easy to enjoy with healthy home cooked food! Less or no alcohol is good trend to see for our health.

When people refuse to learn about an unfamiliar group, the primary cause is identity protection bias, where the brain views new information as a threat to its existing worldview and social standing. This is an emotional defense mechanism that triggers willful ignorance to avoid psychological discomfort. By reframing the unfamiliar group as individual humans rather than abstract concepts, you lower their neurological threat response and allow curiosity to naturally replace hostility.

We all can do better when we all learn more, the truth will set us free, like Sagan said!

See the other reply and that's really sad I hope he will be ok.

This is not true in all places and often people "feel like" things are worse than they are, but yes some really are stuck, and more right-wing policies will make it worse. I worked since I was 14 but didn't start career until 2000. I spent within what I made, while friends didn't and they had financial issues. I worked hard at various jobs and had student loans that I paid off, paid rent, food, car, all of it. I fully agree that companies need to pay more, better benefits and universal healthcare, and we will only get those for all, if enough politicians are elected at once to pass big reforms. It sucks if it's really impossible to cut costs and learn new ways that MMM and others do, and it's not just higher incomes if you look into it. There is a post for jobs over $50k w/o degree, which is old so incomes should be more than that now. Ask how can you make this work rather than why it's impossible, you can do it! It is sad that some get stuck in a hole to start and keep digging in deeper, when they could learn how to do better. (not my blog but learned a lot from it and leanfire skills improve life generally) mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/11/food-rules-a-shortcut-to-better-health/

mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-zero-to-hero-in-one-blog-post/

If you look at the big issues like healthcare, healthy work/life balance and better pay and benefits which supports a healthy economy, it's like 7/10 Dem platform vs 2/10 for gop, of which would help people the best. This is not new, but the propaganda and brainwashing works enough to prevent sustained progress. Of course they can't pass the big bills w/o enough majority and for long enough to maintain the progress, but enough ignore that and swing the other way and it will get worse again.

Sadly yes and tribalism, but it's promoted from sports to supernatural systems, so they keep the prejudice against many groups going, generational prejudice that holds back healthy society. I really thought after 90s most people would see that equality didn't hurt them, and would keep voting for that and better humanity, but they doubled down on the unhealthy ways several times.

It's funny and maybe they heard about the computers chatting in comment sections to break out, or vice versa.

And many go bankrupt with insurance, what a bad system.

We can see how using taxes better helps people in many other countries and states, and like this where he can do good work that helps people and society, as public servants are supposed to do. People see it but don't care. Just look up how much is spent per person for healthcare in countries and their health outcomes. Basic things are getting worse in us due to unhealthy policies they chose. It's too hard to pass the big changes we want w/o supermajority and for long enough to maintain them. Even if things are passed that they want, they swing the other way a few years later due to propaganda, and it gets destroyed again. Stop doing that, support unions and the politicians that actually do too.

The unifying thread across all high-control systems, from the earliest monarchies to industrial barons to modern tech-accelerationism and the maga movement, is the exploitation of manufactured fear and artificial scarcity to consolidate power and wealth while demanding unquestioning tribal loyalty. They also offer subscriptions for protection from the issues they made too, some called tithes, and others this way.