charonn0

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Because no one would want to loan them money after that.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kind of OT, but it's funny they liken it to straightening the Tower of Pisa. The Tower's tilt was partially reversed and stabilized about 20 years ago.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago

Fucking spam has ruined another communications medium.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

July 21, 2022

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

The Bible condones slavery. And many slave holders invoked the Bible to justify slavery.

From Frederick Douglas' first autobiography:

Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to that enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me. For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you would say with irony, I say with conviction.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Full blown de jure chattel slavery? Yes, I would be surprised.

Slavery didn't end because people realized it was bad. They always knew that. It ended because of the industrial revolution.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

A decent person would be ashamed of themselves.

(Hint: he's not)

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 166 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Congress has no oversight of state prosecutors. Jordan is using his position of power and trust to pervert the course of justice. This is blatant obstruction of justice.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. Blackstone's private equity business has been one of the largest investors in leveraged buyouts in the last three decades, while its real estate business has actively acquired commercial real estate. Blackstone is also active in credit, infrastructure, hedge funds, insurance, secondaries, and growth equity. As of June 2023, the company's total assets under management were approximately US$1 trillion, making it the largest alternative investment firm globally

Yeah, I'm going to suggest that this oligarch keep his mouth shut, ere the revolution eats him alive.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

Which one to shatter my delusions of an alien mental hospital?

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