Mercenaries--I remember when I was a kid back in the late 1970s some of my older classmates were really into Soldier of Fortune magazine. My mother's BFF's husband also really got into it. He also sent his wife to the hospital a few times before she left him. I am not a fan of that mindset. Just a bunch of disposable creeps. I hope the Wagner merc's next of kin receive nothing.

They aren't concerned about shit other than their own power. If the marks keep them in power by hating on trans people then they will pass laws discriminating against trans people. If the marks are hating Mexicans then they will pass discriminatory immigration laws. If the marks are hating on Arabs etc. . . . The only people in the GOP who really actually give a fuck about this bullshit are the useful idiots like MTG and their cabal of drooling Chri$tian fuckery. The (perhaps unintended but, I think not) consequence of using this rhetoric is it attracts the Nazis. (I don't use neo- because it trivializes the danger that these folks pose.) Once the Nazis get in control, the folks they are passing discriminatory laws about now could become 'lamp-shades or wallets' to quote a screed I read on Stormfront. Don't think that it can't happen here.

Hrm. So if you are in less pain you walk more and your joints wear out faster. Seems more like correlation than causation to me. YMMV.

Time for some more austerity for the poors.

Sometimes people just burst into flames. Cause of death: natural causes. /Repo Man