"See, it's different from the Chinese social credit system. That one is based upon doing things that are good for society. This one is around doing things that are good for shareholders/capitalism. That makes this one okay."
And then the restaurant down the street that doesn't give two shits takes the soup and uses it to make their own stock and serve it to you without the warning. And when the other three restaurants and the soup kitchen see THAT restaurant taking it, they ignore the sign that says "contains piss" because surely, if that first guy was using it it can't be that bad, and even it it is, well, they can't get us ALL if we ALL do it, right?
This is actually a post about artificial sweeteners.
Yes, I know the numbers look bad, but look on the bright side...
In exchange for those higher prices, we also lost the rule of law, the climate, any remaining functional elements in our economy, even token lip-service to the idea of human dignity, and the illusion that America understood ANY of the ideals it spent half a century espousing.
Nobody will ever hold him responsible. The moment he won the election in 2024, it ceased to be a possibility. The only thing that could possibly punish him now is incurable disease.
The worst part is this stupid asshole won't acknowledge that everyone else is right and has been all along - it's "You just happened to be right, but MY special conclusion now, happening now, is the only logical way to have concluded this."
Only Scout believed in himself.