Not when the goal is to use the casinos to commit fraud and hide the money before running it to the ground. It’s much easier to run a business for a few years, over evaluate everything, pay employees like shit, not pay the contractors, funnel and siphon the money somewhere else, then eventually declare bankruptcy, making it nearly impossible for everyone he’s owing money to get paid. And you do the same thing with another casino/business/building.

Maybe I’m giving him too much credit. Maybe he’s really really a moron, but grifting seems to be the only type of work he’s ever done.

That’s the scary part to me. Even though lots of conservatives are currently shitting on Trump, they still like the underlying policies and vote for politicians like Pierre Poilievre, Doug Ford, or François Legault. It’s not just a Trump thing. People can hate him for multiple reasons, but where I live, they still vote for politicians that are shitting on immigrants, say they want to help the poor but favour the rich, are being protectionist, nationalist, and promise pretty much the same shit than Trump. And it’s spreading worldwide.

The Democrats, left? As someone not living in the US, to me, Democrats are just a light right wing party. At best they might be considered centrists, but left?! Sorry for your “choices”.

I go touch grass regularly. Actually I went bike touring and camping this very week. And the week before. Want some pictures?

And no. Just like life, I’m gonna stay here, be a thorn, and point out the obvious to the boot lickers. Otherwise I would have killed myself a long time ago.

Just a job by participating in the murder and torture of innocent people that happens to be living in the wrong place at the wrong time.

At least he doesn’t shoot you down literally.

Yeah, he should be waterboarded by one of your heroes torturing America’s ennemies in Guantanamo Bay, then he would have more respect.

They call it collateral damage. Or is it casualties?! A few hundred thousand in Iraq. Plus a few tens of thousand in Afghanistan. And maybe some torture here and there.

And I doubt this person is old enough to have fought literal fascists.

All heroes for participating in the glorious defence of capitalism democracy.

But don’t most MAGA do that during interviews? A reporter will ask a perfectly tame question and they will start accusing them of being woke antifa working for the Democrats.

Good if they are finally calling out that BS.

Yeah, they are “just following orders”.

The country illegally invades other countries, torture its citizens, in the name of finding WMDs and bringing democracy. Their infrastructure is destroyed and thousands of civilians are killed as collateral damage.

Yet some people sign up to do that job and expect the very same government that disregard human lives and rights in other countries to treat them like heroes.

They are serving the interests of capitalism and the rich, and are surprised when the very same system that they thought were defending turns on them?! How fucking naive can a person be?

The US could send its “veterans” in a meat grinder once they are used for corporations’ benefit and people would still sign up for it.

Anything but blaming the ultra rich.

My handicapped neighbour was at one point complaining that the government was cutting paratransit and her financial help, and was blaming it on the number of refugees we were taking.

Like, oh dear… if you think the government will cut social programs to give the money to other poor people, and that a choice has to be made between them and you, you’ve been had.

Poor against poor. Don’t look at the rich bastards.

Live streamed is kind of a stretch when Israel was openly targeting and killing journalists for attempting to show the world what is really going on.

All the Western and foreign journalists fled Palestine and Gaza when they realized that Israel would kill them. Then they killed the remaining Palestinian journalists that couldn’t leave.

Indeed. They are absolutely right to whine and should in fact do much more than just that. In a way it’s what makes it easy to be cynical about the situation.

At least so far your heroes haven’t cut power, water, and destroyed civilian infrastructure. Although apparently destroying schools wouldn’t change much in terms of education.

But still. You aren’t all shitty. Of course. It’s just that the good people will still let this happen and even participate if you give them a reason. I’m old enough to remember the Freedom Fries. I’m old enough to remember people protesting the illegal invasion of another country by the US. See its civilians tortured and described as “collateral damage”. And the people that participated in this are heroes. Veterans. Commenting here. Saying that no, the US will not invade Canada, or Mexico, or Greenland, because the population, and even the troops, wouldn’t allow it. English is not my native language and I struggle to describe how fucking naive, gullible, and wrong that is.

I could easily be stuck in the US but the “lottery of life” made me born 200 km North of its borders. We don’t choose where we live, or get bombed by a US missile. Some people in the US certainly also know that. I’m just sorry there isn’t more of them/you.

Nineteen eighty-four is in a weird limbo where some people think its about the evils of totalitarianism, while others think it’s about the “evils of communism”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21337504

It’s also ironic to see some Americans whine about the military invasion of their cities while they’ve been doing much much worse in other countries, against international laws. It’s only appropriate to surround a building with helicopters in the middle of the night, invade their homes, force whole families outside and treat them like animals when it’s done by heroes finding WMDs in a country full of terrorists, not in American cities.

Yeah. American heroes only do that to other people in other countries when they bring them democracy. How dare they do it to their own people.

It can have a limited impact on the short term but I agree that it won’t do much. I don’t recall a “boycott giant corporations movements” that changed anything recently. Money comes first, and a mega merger to become even more monopolistic is much more important than a handful of angry customers. We’re at the age of enshittification and fascism. See Reddit as an example. Or Imgur. Now the same thing is happening but with another giant media.

It’s like people boycotting oil companies because gas prices are too high. They inevitably fail because there’s still plenty of people addicted to oil and gas willing to pay anything to get it.

Hell, in the current climate, cancelling or boycotting over this could put you on a list of people disagreeing with the government, and get you harassed or imprisoned.

I’m Canadian and don’t really wish it because it would be a very messy thing, but in a way, I’m thinking, if the US is stuck in a civil war, at least the chances of it invading my country should be much lower.

Like, it would be shitty, but at least countries that are now threatened to be annexed or invaded by the US could maybe breathe a little easier, and see Americans killing Americans for once, instead of people in other countries.

Conservatives in Canada with Stephen Harper tried that in 2015.

https://canadatalksisraelpalestine.ca/2015/05/05/ok-mr-harper-i-give-up-i-will-stop-singling-out-israel-for-special-criticism/