Sounds like it's hard to prosecute this monopoly because ... they are abusing their monopolistic powers.
Best solution is to organize the employees of the shuttered stores to take them over and run them as co-ops until CVS plays ball.
I am shocked, shocked to find capitalism isn't benefitting consumers.
There are broadly two types of people:
1. People who are worried about killing children.
2. People who are worried about oil tankers.
Recently, we have discovered a 3rd type:
3. People who don't give a shit about either.
this is also my ongoing frustration. you can not run for office on "democracy is under threat" and then lose and go "oh well, nice game everyone"
they put us in a constant state of hypervigilance & terror begging for our last $5 to save the country and then they do the joint softball game.
The officer who killed Ruben Ray Martinez has been identified as Homeland Security Investigations agent Jack Stevens.
It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.
If you could politely ask authoritarianism or fascism to stop, or walk into a ballot booth to vote it away, or annoy it until it gave up and went home, IT WOULDN'T BLOODY WELL BE AUTHORITARIANISM, NOW WOULD IT
Okay so getting my mirror sites all set, which means updating Pathways and finally uploading Fates Errant to Webtoons (UGH) but if you're there and read stuff there, drop it a like, follow it, maybe a comment?
Or read chapter 1 if you haven't yet! ^_^
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Soon, you, too, will be able to place such bets from the comfort of your own phone.
Truly, we have realized the utopian future we were promised. We don't need to burn this motherfucker to the ground. The United States is a blessed country, and you can be proud to be an American.
Or maybe not.
(Thankfully, Minnesota is Canada.)
Exactly. We've hit another one of those technological plateaus that makes war expensive, indecisive, and yet incredibly deadly.
The obvious conclusion is "don't do a war right now," but some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.
“Slurs filled a chat” is a beaut
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Oh yes okay come with me new people on this horrible journey into Porn Wars Theory
This will be a thread and an extremely bleak one
I forgot to share the finished piece!
#escaflowne // #art
Kids are property for US conservatives.
my dad as an angry cartoon wolf with a shirt that says 'PROUD ANGLOPHOBIC IRISH FATHER' watching the tv saying 'bush will start a fookin war' as the twin towers are smoldering on the television and there is a glowing american flag and the 'FUCK NEWS ticker says 'FUCK' over and over. my fursona as a 9/10 year old child is playing gameboy and saying 'how do i evolve eevee into umbreon'
when people ask me if i remember 9/11 i'm just gonna send them this
"I've asked God to forgive me, which he has."
That's odd. I asked God, too, and he said he never spoke to you.
anti-trans Dems ate shit last night
stores have no idea how much shoplifting takes place, they only know when stock doesn't match records. how much is due to human error, incorrect shipments, breakage, and theft is a guess. literally cannot know if shoplifting is on the rise.
this was a radicalizing discovery for me.
“Guy Debord Vindicated Again” is not a sentence you ever want to be typing and yet I feel like I’m doing it maybe two dozen times a week at this point
Featured story: The annual cost of Ken Paxton's security detail clocked in at an average of $245,000 a year—but the costs have steadily ticked up in recent years. At the peak, in 2024, it cost DPS nearly $500,000 to accompany Paxton on his travels.
They're calling her the goat, the greatest to ever do it, the genius of the 21st century, the most vindicated bitch who ever lived, her haters in shambles her doubters in tears she's loosed the faithful lightning of her terrible swift sword, HER TRUTH IS MARCHING ON
MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED
I think you just invented the idea of noble titles
Post DOGE I think of redistributive taxation far less in terms of redistribution itself than in terms of taking away social-political nuclear launch codes from people who can’t be trusted with them.
yeah why would we want our anti-air systems protecting a country that ISN'T in the process of committing genocide?
Operation Ajax. There are entertaining podcasts on this, including one by The Dollop. Learn the context. Because the Trump administration certainly hasn't.
if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE
it will result in dead trans people
and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing
you see the pipeline right?
we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die
WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS
