Pffft, glowing things can't be dangerous! I snorted the glowing powder that was in my negative ion bracelet and I feel fine!
Wait, that's just slavery with extra steps!
I grew up there. Honestly, you're not wrong. Napoleon Dynamite is honestly only a mild exaggeration.
I'm just starting to become aware of a lot of the abuse in my past too. Things that I used to think were normal that are not ok.
The thing is that most voters would be in favor of such a thing. Which is why those policies rarely find their way to polls. We don't live in a direct democracy. We live in an oligarchy.
Edit: Talking about the US here.
They HAVE to pay the peasants or they won't work! Pay the oligarchs and it will eventually trickle down
Or Anthropology. Right now, we have realized that New Caledonian crows have entered an equivalent to the early stone age in humans. Therefore, we can gain a lot of insight both about the nature of technological progression and of the very nature of intelligence (and the differences between mammalian and avian intelligence) by doing these studies.
Ah yes projecting. Imagine this, but swap "transing" for Christianity and infant baptism and declaring "hey, look at our new Christian boy! We've modified his genitals to our liking". Conservatives wouldn't even bat an eye.
It's more like... Having an extra layer or two stashed at convenient locations like a chipmunk.
I see two signs. I like to imagine someone seeing a sign that said "hole", who then decided "meh. I'm sure it's fine" before immediately breaking an axle and adding "BIG ASS" to the sign so that nobody else would make that mistake.
Cities: We expect them to get help! Just not from us. We can't lower property values like that.
I think the fear is that the higher courts also don't want death threats, so everyone and their mother is gonna keep trying to pass this around. Which is what Trump wants to happen until he can try to get re-elected in 2024 and then pardon himself.