Most city Americans have little understanding of the lives, attitudes and behaviors of rural Americans (such as supporters of the troll).

If people stop using cash, how can street performers, musicians, food carts etc. survive?

Of course, digital payments oppress those who use them, because they track everything. I don't use my credit card except with airline tickets and fees, and car rental. For the rest, it's cash or nothing, and if I business doesn't accept cash, I don't buy there.

You can help defend privacy every day simply by firmly telling businesses "cash or no sale, and no you may not have my name."

Meryl Streep, accepting an award before a large audience, rebuked the troll for publicly mocking a disabled reporter.

The troll responded with an irrelevant personal insult, then proceeded to try to distort and deny the visible facts.

But why was the loser attacking that disabled reporter? Because the loser had misrepresented his reporting about Sep 11, 2001, to try to justify an major campaign lie. The reported objected to this and pointed to his real text, so the troll mocked him.

Streep's speech treated the troll's offensiveness as a performance and condemned it as one — which may really rile him.

Mnuchin's bank repeatedly broke California's foreclosure laws.

Businesses create or take over NGOs to use as front groups, even in the UN.

For instance, CORE, the Congress On Racial Equality, which was a real and important civil rights group in the 1960s, has been turned into a puppet.

Even groups that are not puppets can be co-opted on a side issue by businesses that in exchange offer some support for the cause. This happened to the NAACP.