Because we promised to help them, and Ukraine deserves independence.
We supply Saudi Arabia with missiles that hit school busses, we should at least also help protect a democracy from being re-colonized.
Putin’s Russia is cruel and exploitative. The best thing we can do as a world leader is help a smaller country stand up for itself.
That’s what Lincoln said! America’s enemies point to slavery and use it to call the ideals of liberty lies.
Did you know, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s only mandate is to ensure the safety of nuclear power, not to promote its implementation. Many regulatory bodies have a dual mandate to stop them from just shutting down what they’re supposed to regulate.
Best-case scenario? The ACLU picks up your case
While all that is true, not letting people leave is involuntary servitude, and only the government can do it, and even then only through due process. You have a right to leave your job right now. You can talk to your manager of you want to, but you don’t have to do any more work for them.
Yeah. Raising the bar on how profitable a company has to be is the middle step here that connects raising interest rates to shittier stuff for us.
Before, in the era of free money, you just had to be good at looking shiny to stay afloat, and companies that didn’t look shiny got left behind. Now you have to be actually functional.
We’ve arrived at the future we were borrowing from for the last 15 years.