The problem with fascism isn’t the economic system underpinning it but the authoritarianism that leads to oppression. A Marxist one party state would result in the same oppression, and makes this meme pretty disingenuous.

The sweet spot where any form of government is strong enough enforce fairness without turning to oppression is, as it turns out, pretty hard for us to figure out.

I think you’re giving her too much credit, I think it was merely pragmatism. “Someone is gonna go down for this, may as well not be me.”

5 dollars in 1988 was roughly* one mortgage payment.

(*I did not look up an inflation calculator)

It also protects the screen.

You’re always going to be judged. If you base your own happiness on the collective opinion of society about you, you will never be happy. You can’t control how other people feel, so you need to focus your mental energy on controlling your own feelings.

Does Hashimoto’s disease actually cause obesity? Feels like a lot of people blame thyroid diseases for issues that are actually mostly under their control.

In the grand scheme of things, weight is a physics problem. I seriously doubt that outside of extreme cases that someone would be obese solely from hyperthyroidism.