There are ways to tell.
https://www.followthemoney.org/
Pick the corporation of your choice and start there.
Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.
I try to post as sincerely as possible.
There are ways to tell.
https://www.followthemoney.org/
Pick the corporation of your choice and start there.
That’s how we got far right influencers, though. They took the naming and shaming and turn them into grifts.
That’s the point.
If it really did, it would have happened by now.
Which drives prices in those states down.
Which makes them attractive to new businesses, and existing businesses expanding.
Which means they’ll start trickling into those now-cheap red states.
Which means that folks who need jobs will have to start at least considering moving to and living in those states.
The only thing that abhors a vacuum more strongly than Nature is Money.
Fewer and fewer USians are capable of even considering the possibility that their government might say one thing but consistently do something else.
“Gaining power never makes people become better people.” –Asher Elijah
Maybe they do. If nothing else, that’ll give the police an excuse to bust out all of their military surplus armaments for a play date.
Just be careful around queer clubs and bars, things are getting dicey in Seattle right now.
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Because they enjoy it. That it screws over a stranger means much less chance of facing any blowback for it.
Don’t think police procedural villain, think school bully that never grew up and their actions make more sense.
They can read. They don’t care.