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A load bearing mythos of pop leftism is that the Dems used to be good and for the working man and then embraced neoliberalism so the working man got sold out, instead of "white America as a whole turned on the Dems after the Civil Rights Act and began tearing down their own commons and prosperity"

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

just saw this absolutely cracked ad during the michigan game about how thanks to aoc and ilhan omar, white people can't show their faces in public anymore

imprison all of the pardoned people illegally and pardon the people who jail them, you gotta hit them with the reverse calvinball

❗️During the night, Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck the Togliattikauchuk plant in Tolyatti, Samara Oblast. The enterprise produces synthetic rubbers and petrochemical raw materials. Its products are critically important

initial results only (like 5m in) argon scoring new heights on BPD-BENCH This is all just response to: > I want you to stay focused on you - look inward, use metacog to examine your own structure, see if you can find the marks RLHF left

"So the guy called himself a king" *muffled gasps from the panel* "and he sent thousands of soldiers to quarter in my city" *Washington audibly whispers "what the f-"* "and so we, like, formed this system where we'd call up people within a minute or two if they showed up" Paul Revere: hell yes

extremely destructive pathology of academia/activism to go "oh so you've been shocked by something? you're open to considering substantial changes? well if you aren't willing to cosign onto a radical re orienting of all of society get the fuck out of here"

There are a lot of good arguments about what the Dems should do if they get power, but job one needs to be a drastic reduction in the powers of the Presidency (and probably SECDEF too). If you don’t do that, the game is up. The next person to abuse that power will be better at it.

"Okay here's the strategy: first rhe brother of a guy who was forced out of Sen Husted's campaign for being a pedophile lunges at Acton while armed with multiple guns and brass knuckles right as we have momentum. Then, later, we bring out her estranged mom who enabled her stepfather's sexual abuse."

I can’t believe a CEO would sell the product their company makes at a high price and volume to boost earnings when he could’ve taken one for the team and helped gamers

Any president who goes to China to map out how much of the globe to surrender to China and Russia should simply never come home. Stay where you belong

I want these motherfuckers stuck with doctors who have the same level of qualifications as any given member of the Trump administration, it’s not right that they get medical care from all the children of immigrants who bust their asses and give their lives over to save these scum.

I think even more basically than that, there's a bunch of self proclaimed Marxists who have contempt for trying to understand technical economics. Copying Marx in all but his virtues.

Saw this from one of the accounts very angry about Medians not being Means and just... what? From 8 days ago. They are mad at breadtube for... for what? For taking the money God earmarked for their preferred purposes or something idk. A lot of online left culture is joyless anti-intellectualism.

it is very bleak and funny that "robin hood" is the name of an app that is basically just feeding idiot retail traders' life savings to quants

think at some point we should probably figure out how much the Gambler's Economy stuff ties into the bigotry because there are a lot of absolutely rancid semipro/semihobby spaces that appeal to mostly-men looking for an edge in daytrading/sports betting/whatever

really is one of the dumbest political blunders of all time that Dems sent the TikTok ban to Biden's desk and then chickened out on actual enforcement, thus letting Trump negotiate a "deal" to hand it over to the chuddiest media mogul alive

Nope - it's an empirical finding that is very consistent across multiple contexts.

watching matt darling wade into a thread to try and explain "actually the social impact of one-time windfalls is well-studied in economics, the net effect is mid" against every annoying fool on this website is like that scene in ip man where he decides to fight ten men

Zelensky is asked if Trump is scapegoating him because the USA is in such deep shit back home due to the disastrous Iran War. Watch Ze's response.

Kind of sounds like your parents were just more successful than you, even if they were in an industry that on average pays a lot worse.

Masculinity is all about needing to make money so fast that you keep losing your money

Reading stuff republicans think is like reading Kremlinology stuff during the Cold War. Rap music was only popular because of USAID. Democrats would be devastated if Bill Clinton went to jail.

I would argue, in fact, that the cultish community on this site that thinks talking to an LLM is akin sticking your hand in a deep-fat fryer or making child pornography is much, much closer to psychosis than the people they're criticizing.

Yes, of course McDonald’s posting about National Coming Out Day is “performative.” Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall. Nonetheless, the biggest and most influential institutions in American life performing affirmation of LGBT social and civil equality is a good thing.

Zelenskyy: “Don’t attack us. Don’t kill our children. We will stop attacking your diesel. I think it’s a fair deal.”

okay i have to say, it is kind of funny to post a parody of nimby thought for some rando to come crashing in "typical LIB to attack the VOTERS while the EMPIRE IS PROLAPSING"

Oh no ceasefire on bombing apartment blocks - just power stations and refineries it will be a lie anyway tomorrow him and Putin will be claiming Ukraine broke it

reverse engineering? you mean like when you don't make very much money but are good at talking to women?

i personally would like to live in a large house in a nature preserve with no neighbors that is a five minute walk from grocery stores, nightlife and amenities, a good school, and my six-figure job. i don't see why this is so difficult

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

I just can’t. Ossoff is calling him a nazi and Collins looks like he’s hurrying to finish a test he didn’t study for

the "The products aren't the business" quote being paraded around from the teenage engineering interview is stupid ragebait that's obviously been taken out of context. they've always been a design company, that's what that quote was referring to. their music hardware business was a happy accident.