Bringing stock buybacks up as a policy issue would be fantastic.

As a reminder, up until 1982 with the Reagan era introduction of Rule 10b-18, stock buybacks were often just illegal market manipulation. Most buybacks were explicitly made illegal before that by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 because they artificially inflate stock prices allowing for bubbles, rug pulls, general instability and shenanigans.

Now companies do this nonstop to manipulate their stock prices and get off scott free due to the 10b-18 safe harbor provision.

Bribes from competitors? Protection racket? Yeah. There’s gotta be an angle somewhere in there.

Wow, texas AG office actually doing its job? Paxton must really be worried about the primary

Yeah fair point. Pretty much exactly like that. Though, I think that with so many republicans being rural and poor, their feet are disproportionately shot despite them doing the shooting.

Idk lol i think a lot of people imagined this. And warned the rest of the people very loudly & frequently.

“Hey don’t shoot that loaded gun at your foot. If you shoot yourself in the foot, it’ll hurt a lot and make walking difficult”

shoots self in foot “OW MY FOOT ^take ^that ^libtards”

“Yeah it was a bad idea, right?”

shoots self in foot again “I HAVE DIMINISHED MY FOOT IN UNIMAGINABLE WAYS”

Sure they will be. They’ll look at the poll results, throw them in the garbage, and run Newsom like they were already planning to

Regarding ballistics evidence, I am talking about one very specific thing that they have explicitly refused to comment on: whether he actually shot that guy. Even in the charging documents, about him discharging a firearm in the commission of a violent attmepted crime or whatever it’s called, they dtill don’t say that he discharged it at the ss officer.

I take your point, but I am not wildly speculating. Them witholding evidence in a very specific way is itself evidence as it implies a possibility (that the shotgun was not fired at the ss officer).

I’m not yet saying that certainly didn’t happen, just that we’re hearing different things from different sources who were present, the charging docs, etc. that do not line up in the way you expect.

That opens the door for questions around what really went down. Nothing definitive, but it raises questions.

I don’t “know” for certain yet. But they have been really cagey about even answering whether Allen fired any shots. And the one guy they originally reported him as having shot with buckshot to the chest, now they can’t determine whether that was actually friendly fire.

These guys were all packing pistols. Iirc from photos there were some guys with ARs.

Do you think you could easily identify the effects of a shotgun firing buckshot at relatively close range from that of a pistol? I bet you could. It’s really easy. Bunch of little holes creating 1 really big hole if close enough? Shotgun. 1 small hole? Pistol/rifle.

I’m not usually in on conspiracies, but this one really doesn’t add up. Seems reeeeal weird to say the least.

Apparently they don’t actually have any proof the guy fired a gun (there was a spent shell in the shotgun, but the admin has said the shot ss officer was possibly friendly fire? You’d think they could tell a shotgun in bulletproof plate from 9mm impact…)

We don’t have a name on the ss officer that was shot or any evidence he was shot at all.

Coordinated “tHiS iS wHy We NeEd tHe BaLlRoOm” campaign by grifters

Response to move trump was real slow despite having had 2 prior assassination attempts made.

Yeah. Anywhere would basically be like this if you have enough money to retire luxuriously in that country. And anywhere you do that, poorer people will be making that lifestyle possible with their labor.

While I don’t doubt that the average urban Chinese citizen has a higher standard of living than the average urban US citizen, saying that moving to a poorer country where you are rich by comparison is “the american dream” is pretty wild when you’re just taking advantage of economic disparities caused by capitalism.

It’s irresponsible to move somewhere permanently when you don’t plan on really trying to integrate & instead just want to live cheaply as an expat.

Disliking AI is fine and good. But that is a really dumb argument.

“60 employees who can’t be productive without the internet? And this is progress?”

“60 employees who can’t be productive without computers? And this is progress?”

“60 scribes who can’t be productive without clay tablets? And this is progress?”

Etc.

Edit: LLMs/AI are going to change some things. They are going to make (shitty) coding and various automations much more accessible. They are probably not a revolutionary technology like computers/internet, but that they could be a core part of some people’s workflow is absolutely not unthinkable. It has been shown that there have not, so far, been major boons to productivity on the whole, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have some use cases.

Kobo is pretty good. I like mine. Is it as nice and user friendly as Kindle? Probably not. Do I own it, not rent it, am not served ads, and don’t have to deal with shitty DRM? Yes. Zero regrets. Got one for my sister and my wife, too. They also really like them.

Yeah Thomas has done about as much harm to black people as anybody living. He’s incompetent and undeserving of his appointment.

All it takes to be a Democratic elected official is to run as a party member and get elected. He did those things. He’s a Democrat. The Democratic party is just a lot more right wing at its extremes (and overall) than folks like to admit.

Too many hitlers these days smh

Extra stupid because, even if he doesn’t care about the retail price of gasoline for normal people, gas prices drive inflation by increasing the cost to produce basically everything.

Big الْمَسِيحُ الدَّجَّالُ energy

But… but… the DOW

Well… you see… 25% of the game is 100% human made!

Ya don’t say…