So I guess the next question is: How long before city-dwellers seek to disenfranchise people out in the country who simply will not vote the way they are directed to by their betters?
There's any number of ways to do it, down to simply shutting polling stations in the country in the name of efficiency.
Also, my family's not so rabidly elitist as yours (my mum's side are from Wales, my grandfather was firmly working-class) but I do see an awful lot of middle-class people telling working-class people what they should think rather than simply asking them.
Bear in mind, though, the UK is considerably more class-conscious than the US, which seems to have decided to have similar fault lines along a racial basis instead.
We have a labor shortage in the US and employer bargaining power is at an all-time low.
Is that not why companies are pulling shady shit like this?
They're completely out of legitimate options to retain staff - they can't afford to pay competitive wages, they've too much work on to be flexible. So, the remaining option - start punishing your staff if they leave.
Ahh, but you are thinking of the efficiency of providing goods and services.
I suspect they are thinking of the efficiency of installing their own brand of feudalism and the creation of a perpetually-consuming class of serfs.
Reminds me of the times when I would "accidentally" try to stick my dick in a girl's ass, then if she freaked out "oops, silly me, I got mixed up".
I suppose if we're following the analogy through, did you at any point "accidentally" hire a chinese guy to stick his dick in your girlfriend's ass? ;)
OK, as someone who used to ride a bike - and sometimes be quite aggressive (not screaming at people or smacking cars, more being quite assertive in regard to road positioning) about it - sometimes you have to be. The number of times I've been forced to stop because somebody somehow believes they can fit their van past me on a road that simply is not wide enough to do so, yeah, if I can hear somebody behind me preparing to be a dick about things, I do ride defensively.
Just being an asshole for no reason is itself a dick move, but sometimes on a bike you do need to claim your place on the road because some car and van drivers simply will not give it to you.
Globalists are all about the fundamental idea that they, as enlightened beings, are far more efficient than market supply and demand.
They know this because every free market they've entered has ground to a halt once they've burdened it down with their moral imperatives!
Depends on how hard you lean into the "complexly evil" bit, I guess. It'd be interesting to see how the Maiar Mairon became Sauron the great deceiver.
But like I said, I don't think this bunch have the capability to write a screenplay capable of showing that properly.
And the mainstream media insists Putin blew up his own pipeline, accusing people who don't believe it of being "conspiracy theorists."
Have they actually promulgated any reason why when, being the Russian leader, he can just give an order and have it switched off?
Hehehe, yeah, my lot are quite fond of the genealogy stuff, too, although weirdly, quite a bit of the controversy is on the Italian side for my lot, rather than the Welsh. That merely had people drinking inherited fortunes away, the Italian lot left Italy because they didn't get along with the local government ... the local government built a road through their land and even though it had done that it still didn't give my ancestors the right to be highwaymen, though they didn't see it that way at the time...