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Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to fight back against sugar taxes in Pennsylvania. We first identified the most influential African American pastors in the state. Coke then (confidentially) donated millions of dollars to them. The pastors then held press conferences, saying sugar taxes were racist. The media covered it, racial tensions flared, and Coke defeated the taxes. This is emblematic of the playbook that pharma and food companies use daily to protect that status quo. "Personal choice" arguments on food and health used to carry a lot of resonance with me:

"People like to drink Coke and eat fast food. We can't infringe on their freedom."
"Curbing sugar attacks personal choice."
"Patients are going to make bad choices. The Medical system stands ready to clean up the mess."
"People getting fat is a matter of personal responsibility."

But a crucial fact altered my thinking: You can't have a free market when the current market is rigged. Healthcare and food companies have co-opted free market thinking. They have lobbied more than any other industry to rig the system and then cry that anyone who questions that system is "anti-free market." Sadly, even some of the most intelligent conservatives I know fall into this trap.

25% of teenagers having pre-diabetes is not a result of "personal choice" - it is because of a rigged system that is decimating human capital. The undermining of our brains and bodies on a systemic scale is a first-order issue to almost any other public policy challenge.

The science is clear: if we want to keep people healthy and improve our human capital in America - we need to do three things:

Limit sugar
Limit omega-6 fats (seed oils)
Limit processed grains

We don't need to consider bans or taxes. We can start by repealing two of the most destructive crony capitalism policies in America: The fact that these items are subsidized tens of billions of dollars. The fact that these items can be bought with SNAP benefits, a government nutrition program 15% of the country relies on.

- Calley Means

Onvacation says

bad

Who made these? I admire their audacity.

Patrick says

Who made these? I admire their audacity.

Well, I think it's a compilation of Saturday Night Live. The one with Norm McDonald definitely is. I don't know for certain with the black and white guy, because I hate television.

Patrick says

Who made these? I admire their audacity.

I think Booger had a hand in it.

"In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"If the professor is not capable of giving a class without preparation, don't attend. People should only teach what they have learned organically, through experience and curiosity or get another job." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes (I used to see my tenure track advisor at LSU preparing for lectures a couple of hours before the start of teaching)

This J Group are serious Open Borderites, opering dozens of facilities in Central America and paying to transport illegals to the US-Mex Border.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxIsX_ASNrs

gabbar says

"If the professor is not capable of giving a class without preparation, don't attend.

I taught at Hampton University. Prep is not about what the professor already knows, prep is about teaching to students at the appropriate level for what the students know. The professor needs to cover what is appropriate for say, Lesson 5 of Microeconomics, and to have materials like vis-aids and boardwork to enhance learning and make the class somewhat interesting. That author you quoted must think a class is just an episode of Jeopardy.

Apple roared into the TV game with The Morning Show, a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China. Well, you say you're woke but the companies you work for in China — unbelievable. Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service you'd call your agent, wouldn't you?

So if you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.

So if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent, and your God and fuck off, OK?

richwicks says

I think it's a compilation of Saturday Night Live.

I can't believe that, because SNL has been submerged in the slime pit of wokeness for years now, and some of the clips are very based.

richwicks says

Well, I think it's a compilation of Saturday Night Live

Even the black guy was laughing at the racist jokes!

Patrick says

richwicks says

I think it's a compilation of Saturday Night Live.

I can't believe that, because SNL has been submerged in the slime pit of wokeness for years now, and some of the clips are very based.

It IS Satuday Night Live. The white guy (other than Norm McDonald) is Colin Jost.

https://www.thewrap.com/snl-weekend-update-host-colin-jost-white-house-basically-just-dead-mall-hometown-point-video/

Didn't bother to find out who the black guy is. But it's SNL.

I agree the show is mostly garbage, but there's accidents here and there.

Booger says

Muslim

With politicians like this.....but this is consistent with the skills needed to be the US Secretary.

https://empirenews.net/police-officer-in-australia-was-beaten-and-raped-by-a-wild-kangaroo/

Sounds like urban legend, but funny anyway.

Booger says

https://empirenews.net/police-officer-in-australia-was-beaten-and-raped-by-a-wild-kangaroo/

In further news, the officer was a diversity pick, and he is pregnant from the kangaroo.

Booger says

https://empirenews.net/police-officer-in-australia-was-beaten-and-raped-by-a-wild-kangaroo/

When he was lying unconscious on the ground, it was dark and I thought his head was covered in blood. Thankfully, it was mostly kangaroo sperm,” Constable Turnbull told reporters in relief.

OK, that is freakin hilarious!

I don't get that one.

Patrick says

I don't get that one.

????

https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-does-a-new-florida-curriculum-teach-that-enslaved-people-benefited-from-slavery/20971401/

Commentator: "Whooping his ass" LOL. Not the first time, Sikhs have done this. Have seen them whooping some Muslims.

gabbar says

Commentator: "Whooping his ass" LOL. Not the first time, Sikhs have done this. Have seen them whooping some Muslims.

Staged

Trollhole says

Staged

The shoplifter was arrested and charged.