InexplicableLunchFiend [he/him]

The nearly indigent “free lunch fiend” was a recognized social type. An 1872 New York Times story about “loafers and free-lunch men” who “toil not, neither do they spin, yet they ‘get along’”, visiting saloons, trying to bum drinks from strangers: "Should this inexplicable lunch-fiend not happen to be called to drink, he devours whatever he can, and, while the bartender is occupied, tries to escape unnoticed.

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Cake day: December 13th, 2025

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  • They already censor whatever the US government requests!

    Ok so they’re already upholding their end of the bargain. Why would they be upset about the government making their monopolies permanent and official and upholding the governments end of the deal?

    You’re assuming the courts will entertain lawsuits or press charges against the big 5. Why not just give them de facto immunity like they already do with cops, military, banks, etc. where they don’t really bother ever enforcing anything? Laws exist to bind one group of people and protect another group of people. The Big 5 will simply be in the protected category that is not subject to law.

    Corporations break laws all the time, constantly. They’re enforced maybe 1% of the time against them, and usually when another rich person is negatively impacted in some way. Look the the CFPB, they had hundreds of thousands of open cases of corporations breaking consumer protection laws that were all gutted and shut down by the Trump admin 1st term. Nobody is enforcing that stuff anymore. They laws still exist, they didn’t go away.