I would hope, perhaps foolishly, that those appointments would not be confirmed.

This is true of like all mergers and acquisitions.

Alito is a disgrace. I hope he's removed from power soon

Republicans are conservatives, authoritarians, the most important thing for them is adherence to the group. If they valued anything else more, they wouldn't be Republicans.

I don't enjoy fireworks. Maybe if it was like the year 1600 and I'd never seen color and light it'd be really cool. But we have high definition Tv now.

No, I was agreeing with you. People don't want to acknowledge the truth (ie: their car is too big to be safe, they voted for a dangerous felon). It feels bad emotionally. Most people resolve the cognitive dissonance between "I'm a good person" and stuff like "I'm probably going to kill a kid with my car" by lashing out or making up excuses.

acknowledging the truth is immensely disruptive emotionally.

Yeah that's a common problem for a lot of people. Cowardice and complete refusal to admit their own shortcomings. Most people would rather double down than admit they fucked up

I wasn't imagining something that just makes decisions that are handed down. They collate and evaluate the decisions and input from below.

Everyone who supported this bill is a climate criminal and should have a punishment proportional to poisoning every living person on the planet.

Why not local communities that feed up into larger representation groups?

Her father said two of the three drinks she was accused of “stealing” were about to be thrown out.

Too many places throw out perfectly good food and that should be a crime.

There's an app "too good to go" that lets you buy some discounted food at EOD, and there's probably other similar things out there.

Where I used to work at a supermarket, I made friends with the deli guy and got a lot of food before it was thrown out. Management didn't like it, of course.

You don't need central management. You just need to have workers keep the proceeds of their labor instead of uninvolved shareholders and "owners".