Yes, and I’m not being hyperbolic. If you read early American caselaw explaining the rationale of sovereign immunity, the logic is that in monarchies it drives from the divine right of the sovereign. When we became independent we kept that legal concept, but the judges said that it derived from the will of the electorate rather than the divine right of the sovereign. Of course, the functional outcome was the same…

“Immunity” being the immunity of the sovereign. I do not understand how we can embrace this concept as a country 250 years after breaking free of monarchy.

Yeah my annoyance at having to pay more is totally from the business’s perspective you dumb piece of shit

Ahhhh gotcha, didn’t realize that, my mistake!

You can just say you’re from NJ lol, it’s not like any other state has an employment scam where you’re legally required to hire people to perform the simple, relatively safe act of pumping gas. At least not since WA finally trusted people to pump their own gas a few years back.

Edit: Sorry, OR not WA

A lot of people still buy into trickle down economics despite consistently not working for the several decades we have tried it and reflexively support tax cuts for the wealthy. A lot of those same people also think that kicking people off of what they consider to be “welfare” will somehow magically result in those people quickly becoming employed, thinking that the reason they aren’t employed is because they aren’t facing serious enough consequences for unemployment.

Listen guy, þere are dozens of us. DOZENS!

Death in service of the Emperor is it’s own reward. (Going from memory here, probably paraphrasing.)