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‘Effectively canceling?’ Is Bill Burr silenced somehow?

Ironically, he is being silenced - the contracts he signed in order to perform prohibit badmouthing the Saudi regime and its policies


In terms of negative outcomes - suicidality, etc. - problem gambling is roughly equivalent to an opioid abuse or meth.

Petty theft nets up to a year in jail, which is far more extreme than - relatively speaking - than handing out lifetime sentences for the damage being discussed here.

> In my local market we literally got a scan for 2k where the hospital we'd usually go to wanted 10k.

That’s still 4-6x what it would cost at a private clinic in Canada.


> Cremieux

Aka Jordan Lasker, whose reputation in this space is bad enough that even obvious calls like this one should be checked thoroughly.


Could you kindly support that statement and explain why you feel that way.


I googled the name, and there exists a Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Lasker

What on earth are you talking about?


Using one egregious example to illustrate how those who ID as “anti-fascist” love imperial coercion, totalitarian speech controls, and the state’s destruction of families and bodies when it suits their particular perversion. Everyone loves centralized power when it promulgates and protects what they actually care about.


The aggregate harm of these measures vastly exceeds, say, a violent assault. Amazon has double the rate of serious injuries compared to rival companies.


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