It’s not regional branding or genericide which is the term for what your talking about where a brand name becomes the generic usage for a product in place of the generic name (i.e. Kleenex instead of facial tissue, Velcro instead of hook and loop etc.)

Flavor Aid and Kool Aid are two distinctly branded products made by two different companies. When I have more time I’ll see if I can dig up the interesting write up I read about this from the Kool Aid company perspective at the time and post it in an edit.

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most Democrats not being armed or proficient with firearms.

Is this based on hard data or hyperbole?

I’m guessing I’d fit your definition of a Democrat but also your definition of anti-2FA.

I own exactly one firearm, but I used to own more. I don’t think I’ve ever told any of my friends that I own a gun, even our neighbor who’s mentioned his own multiple times. It’s just not something I feel compelled to talk about unless I’m actually going to shoot it.

After the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings it made me sick to my stomach looking at the semiautomatic military style rifle I had. I got rid of it and all my other firearms, only keeping the first one I ever bought, because it was a gun I had always wanted.

That gun has sat in the safe for the last five years, with a barrel lock, unused. I pulled it out last week, stripped it, checked, cleaned it and lubed it. It’s back in the safe now alongside two magazines loaded with .45 hollow points and six of FMJs.

I’ve even been looking at shotguns recently but I’m not ready to believe we’re there yet.

Here’s the thing though, most of the people I know from growing up are like me. We’re all pretty liberal still these days, we grew up around firearms, learned how to use them properly in gun safety training. Some kids hunted regularly, others would target shoot on the family farm when visiting or at the cabin.

I’m a Xennial though. Maybe our generation beat the Armalite crazy wave. We were all about the .30-06 and distance.

They drank Flavor Aid at Jonestown. Kool Aid just got all the bad? good? PR because it was misidentified by investigators and witnesses in testimony.

Gotcha. That makes sense why the phones always seemed to work in every power outage. I wanted to mention the 48 volts DC setup because I’m not sure if that’s common or standard outside of the US.

In the US, telephone land lines actually carry their own DC electrical charge which is provided by the telephone central office and travels through copper wires to each phone.

This is why, during a power outage in the US, a land line phone will typically continue to work. The exception being if the outage is large enough to also take out the central phone office.

And you can (continue to) shut down the more “minor” conversational shit that normalizes and perpetuates that mindset.

I don’t think their intention was to shut anything down and or about not believing women.

It seemed like the user your responding to was expressing frustration over the portion of the excerpt that implies it’s the fault of all men for not calling this out when there’s a lot of men who don’t ever encounter this directly to call it out like that.

Realistically any “bring back manufacturing” plan canwork it just takes a long time

I thought I read somewhere that it really can’t, recently. The theory was basically that America “outgrew” being a manufacturing economy and grew into a service economy.

The way it was posed made it seem like even if the huge investment was made to build manufacturing in Deerdick, Alabama to take advantage of cheep land and unskilled labor, that won’t last. That serves as a stepping stone for advancement for each group that comes behind because those poor, unskilled locals with no options aren’t oppressed anymore.

He did and I’d say that was emblematic of what’s happening now on a smaller scale.

The charges were dropped in that case because the Judicial system is still hanging on on the US.

Meanwhile, the police, part of the broken Executive, harassed and targeted him when they were the ones who violated their duty of care.

Meanwhile the Legislative is off in the corner eating paint chips or some bullshit.

Jacket? Have you tried a hammer?

Do you (or anyone who might know the actual numbers) think this would do anything? The people in the US would boycott Amazon by not shopping on it, cancelling Prime etc. but that’s not really where Amazon as a company makes their money.

AWS is Amazon’s primary revenue generator now as I understand it and the retail portion of the business is more akin to a side gig in terms of numbers. Anybody with a better grasp wanna chime in?

I didn’t realize I was giving legal advice. I was pointing out their duty of care based on the training and education I received while pursuing a bachelors degree for law enforcement.

Was there something specific you’re taking issue with or did you just want to snark?

If there was, I didn’t see it but as the Executive will find out if there was, it’s not up to them, it’s up to the Judicial.

The person currently occupying the White House is not a king. Much as he might like to believe otherwise.

I’m a law abiding citizen of the United States. If someone breaks into my home have every reason to believe they’re hostile and won’t hesitate to use deadly force to protect myself and my family.

Law enforcement officers have a duty of care. If they execute a no knock warrant at an address that is no longer valid and get shot in the process it is likely there would be no criminal culpability for the homeowner if it’s in a castle doctrine state.

This is the correct explanation right here. Minnesota born and raised and I always heard as steer into your skid but it’s the same principle. When the back end kicks out you steer into the direction the back end swung out to.

In my much younger years during the winter we stopped turning on corners in the neighborhoods and just e-braked around them to “practice” driving in a skid.

Wisconsin Supreme Court. Nobody actually lives in Wyoming.

I wouldn’t consider this a common product in the United States but I wouldn’t say it would be out of place either.

Peanut butter is most common, and Nutella became really prominent in recent history in the US but we also have cookie butter, marshmallow fluff, Cookies and cream spreads and S’mores spreads.

It was Andrew Johnson who reversed Special Field Orders No. 15. The man who became president upon Lincoln’s death and was from North Carolina, so not exactly a northerner. He also holds the distinction of being one of only 3 US presidents who has been impeached.

Has it been swept aside?