“The whole thing hinted at collective action from inside Starbucks HQ.”

That’s actually a long, long way from the headline, “Starbucks HQ Might Unionize,” but the Stranger’s writers have never ending support for workers (in offices which are not the Stranger’s) doing the arduous work of unionizing.

@1: Nicely done! Gold star, sir.

What people pretend Law and Order means: Everyone is equally judged by and/or protected by the law, ensuring a safe, productive, and civil society.

What Law and Order really means: We want to shoot shoplifters and protestors.

Japan could start taking more immigrants.

Maybe some Republics would pony up for Central Americans refugees to fly over there? Or Japan could take a million or so Rohingas from Bangladesh? Displaced Ukrainians? Conscription-fleeing Russians?

that sounds way wOkE FLA!

Read the linked article re the landlord’s hunger strike. This ids not the average complaint about eviction moratoria. The deadbeat tenants owe $120k and he can’t get rid of them. Might be time to burn the place down so they have to leave.

@9 --bbq the miscreants?
a seemingly Novel approach

giving said landlord
ample time for composing 'Sug-
gestions From a [former] Landlord'
from their Safe Space at The Big House.

re Corporate Profiteering
(outrageous insulin prices)
vs We the Peeps:

While President Biden has stated he has a program to reduce the cost of insulin, why hasn't the media, in any capacity, investigated why drug prices have escalated over the last 20, 30, 40 years, especially drugs that have been on the market for years?

If the price of milk had increased 600% in 20 years people (and the media) would be ready to storm the corporate barricades. But not drugs, especially life saving drugs.

In 1972 insulin cost $9.00 a vial. In 2017 it was $275. It is now the 6th most expensive liquid in the world at $26,000 per liter.

Why? Has mainstream media not asked that question, or delved into the why's and therefor's? Nope? Big Pharma greed is non-issue to the media.

The lack of in-depth coverage into this issue, and rampant greed to line the pockets of investors and executive management, is irresponsible, especially when compared to drug pricing outside of the US. R&D expenses can't be used as an excuse by Big Pharma because much of those costs come from NIH, i.e. the federal government, who gets little return on its investment.

Mainstream media, and Congress, has been negligent in hammering Big Pharma.
--Jim; WDC

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/business/insulin-price-cap-eli-lilly.html#commentsContainer

hear fucking Here
but what else might we
Expect from corporate media?

@14 to that point there was a video making the rounds yesterday on Twitter of someone literally executing a homeless guy on the streets of St Louis. I won't post a link but you can find it if you want. It was definitely one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen and speaks to the sheer lawlessness that is out there. I'd love to hear Nikkita Oliver and her cabal make a case for why that guy shouldn't be in jail with the key thrown away.

@14 -- "At least they are facing
the cost openly and transparently and
realizing their is no easy out like taxing the rich..."

gosh.
if only the
Cap on Social Security
didn't End once one's Income
reaches a rather Paltry $150K approx.
then Social Security's Solvent for Decades

if not for Infinity.

oh what to DO
What to DO?

@18: you left Liz Hokoana off your list.

@12- I was more thinking that the miscreants would NOT be in the house. Eviction \= murder. No matter what Kshama says.

@25
thnx! for
the Clarity.

One missing detail in the Japan story is that Japan is also notoriously anti-immigration, and really big on ethnic purity. I don't want to make any undue associations, but Japan's attitude towards non-Japanese settling in Japan makes Mississippi's Bill 56 look like a declaration of an official We Love Immigrants Day.

If Japan continues to ostracize non-Japanese from Japan, literally all they have left to keep their numbers up is their own screwing.

BOO, eXp Realty! Close up shop, and get the fuck out of Bellingham, STAT.
Here's to those rapist assholes getting locked up and cornholed in General Population.

WTF is WRONG with Ron De Santis's grossly mismanaged RepubliKKKan neofascist blood red state of confusion?
Just when I thought the Sunshine State couldn't possibly get any Flor-i-dumber......

@3 skidmark and @20 PrincessAngeline#2: Wow--thanks for the John Keister and Ross Shafer memories of Almost Live! That show rocked. We really do need a much needed Almost Live! revival.

@5 Insane MAGA transplant: If we yell "Beetlegeuse!" three times, will that make you disappear?

@31 - visit any internet cafe in Tokyo. The Japanese are more then adequately interested in screwing.

@7 and @11 are sadly correct.

According to Wikipedia:

The first prominent American politician to use the term in this era was Alabama governor George Wallace, who used the phrase as a political slogan and racial dog whistle in his 1968 presidential campaign.[4] Other leading proponents were two Republicans, the governor of California Ronald Reagan and presidential candidate Richard Nixon. Nixon used the term to appeal to various demographic groups, including working class White ethnics in northern cities.

So it was first started by a segregationist, then used by Nixon, who used racism to hold onto power (https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional). So basically two racist/fascist leaders used it first. Eventually Reagan got into the game and of course, now Trump.

Keep in mind, the folks touting "law and order" are not looking at cities overseas, with much lower crime rates. They don't point to Denmark or Taiwan, and say "we should be like them". Nope. They are looking to bash some fucking heads. Get back to the way we used to do it. They either have an overly simplified view of the criminal justice system (all we need is more cops) or they are somewhere on the fascist end of the spectrum that included Nixon and Wallace.

@35 -- I forgot to cite the Wikipedia article, but it is pretty obvious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_order

@35 and @36 Ross: Further proof that RepubliKKKans are horrible excuses for people.