That rack looks ineffective as shit, there is no ratchet so the torturers have to maintain tension by standing on the bars. Hope they don't slip and get a taste of the pain.
If my company fired people for trade show cock-ups we would change the entire staff every couple months. There is a lot of stuff being moved in a short time period, shit is stressfull and you're working at a diminished capacity at least a week aferwards. As long as the stand is not on fire during the show, all is good.
Fascists are always trying to enforce their idiotic worldview as a display of power - it also has a bonus of distracting people from their disasterous economic policies.
Years of "we're no. 1" and "leader of the free world" propaganda has made Americans delulu to the point where they think their leaders are god-kings that can throw out edicts that will go unopposed. A lot of thus influence was soft power and reliance on allies for re-supplying and repairs, which is currently being dismantled.
This has been a long process, starting with browbeating military allies into the ironically named "coalition of the willing" during the second Iraq war. Now an openly fascist leader has been elected as a US president and is threatening wars of expansion. Interesting times ahead, I guess.
As the saying goes, money can't buy you happiness but a lack of money can buy you a lot of misery. Enough money for a comfortable lifestyle, anything over that and we enter ego validation territory.
Don't you understand, an actual person (him) is experiencing consequences! He's said all the right words and hated the correct kind of human, this should not be happening to him!
A billionare wormtongued his way into becoming a defacto shadow president of a nuclear armed superpower and you blame random leftists on lemmy? Go back to Reddit, you'll fit right in with the rest of the herd.
Fascists value compliance and ideological fervor over competency, so naturally all fascist led faction experience a competency crisis sooner or later.May this happen more often.
That rack looks ineffective as shit, there is no ratchet so the torturers have to maintain tension by standing on the bars. Hope they don't slip and get a taste of the pain.