Access to a means tested state marketplace where courier services compete for ....
Going Postal is a Terry Pratchett novel about rebuilding the failed postal service by restoring the public institution, over private interests that want to keep it dead. decent book, fairly funny.
And the alternative that supplanted the postal service is not-so-subtly supposed to be the Internet. The best part is that it champions both utilities even though they directly compete with one another, the only real bad actor in the book is the ISP analogue that ran the clacks.
I was just reading about his family.
Father was a novelist and screenwriter who wrote this brave piece on believing sexual assault victims while also jumping at the opportunity to work with their abusers. He's effectively saying "I believe you, I can empathize because I've had a similar experience, I just have too much to gain personally by neglecting your demands for justice".
Grandmother also a novelist, wrote for the Daily Worker and then left the Communist Party in '52
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/yglesias-helen
Grandfather also a novelist, also a CPUSA member, attended a Deweyite college, worked as an executive in a pharmaceutical company for ten years (starting around the time he and his wife presumably left the party).
“I believe you, I can empathize because I’ve had a similar experience, I just have too much to gain personally by neglecting your demands for justice”.
his cognition dissonance is earth-shattering. he literally points out the protective shield around famous rapists and then just doesn't acknowledge what he's doing by working for Polanski in full knowledge of the fact that he's a rapist.
Make me supreme ruler and I'll have the post office undercut the private mail industry so much that they'll collapse in a year or two.
lmao if i were president id call for a general strike, use executive orders to broadcast it, and follow up by giving all strikers federal backpay guarantees
then id just ram whatever i wanted through congress. probably do all this during a session downtime too for maximum effect.
oh and of course, purge all the alphabet agencies and place socialists in charge by first hiring a ton of socialists and then firing the war criminals piecemeal
Oh, the Senate is taking recess.
Time to put 8 new Justices and a new Co-Chief Justice on the Supreme Court.
Oh shit the senators are trying to fly back to Washington it'd be a shame if they got put on the no fly list by mistake.
How'd that SAM get into the hands of the terrorists organization ANTIFA?
I forget where I saw it, who am I kidding it had to be cth, but there is a video game called something like Russian SAM simulator that is apparently the most realistic simulator of all time. Like If you got this game off steam and got good you could absolutely operate a Soviet era SAM battery effectively.
Just nationalize all essential industries. The President has the power.
It's time we paid more money for a worse service because I want the freedom to decide who will lose my mail.
Honest question: The USPS is established in the Constitution, right? How could they possibly privatize it without an amendment?
Constitution is a spook.
Even if something is unconstitutional, someone has to care, and sue, and the courts have to agree.
If the ruling class agrees on something, it literally doesn't matter.
It's Drumpf-Lib territory somewhat but Trump violated the emoluments clause from day one which is blatantly unconstitutional and even when they impeached him they didn't bring it up. Cuz they're all grifters and they don't want to bring attention to that.
I believe Congress has THE POWER to establish post offices, but isn't required to
"Going postal" used to mean that a person was about to perform a mass redacting, typically at their workplace.
If Matty Y meant this title in that context, critical support for him.
