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Just throwing it out there, I live in a swing state and I have no qualms selling my vote for money.

building a centrally planned economy, but instead of being expertly managed by technocrats working towards the public good, its just ultraconsumerist know-nothings with fear in their hearts.

Obama: no, I'm hornier for a progressive Muslim running in a highly visible election Trump: No, I AM hornier for a progressive Muslim running in a highly visible election

It's the leftwing version of this same phenomenon:

Well well well. Not so easy to have an ecosystem that doesn't suck shit now is it. -- typescript

On the one hand I don't support the trump administration. On the other hand I do support beating all the"student loan forgiveness" people with hammers.

The number of times I've seen people say that the Democrats ran on only "Orange Man Bad", when that shows me they just didn't pay attention to anything else that was being said.

"In their view, high prices are not market failures but moral ones, the result of greed and corruption, which can be vanquished with the right intention. The ideal state is a kind of Lake Wobegon, where every price is below average."

dirtbag leftists really desperately want to be the majority because their entire ideology relies on them being “the people” but the fact is they are very much not the people

Cato does suck, so when they can dunk on a chart you know its a shitty chart. The data is from the exact same source as the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal rag chart you cited.

every time someone tries to say that there's an alternative, it inevitably emerges that one of two things is true: -they're talking about charts but calling it something else -their answer to 'what if subjective experiences differ' is 'listen to the people I like better'

I will vote for any candidate and pray to any God that can make the labor market tight again

Deprivation is thin soil for socialism. The way to socialism is to make liberalism progressive, equitable, and prosperous

Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up!

“Voters don’t want to hear this” isn’t the same as “this isn’t true.”

he got him. he finally fucking got him

Claude elevated errors this morning, quick someone please help me remember what buttons make the code.

You can't run away from what you are. And you have to dance with the one who brought you. For Democrats, this means being liberal and cosmopolitan.

Most recent The Rest is Politics mentions Aella and it was like ice water flowing into my heart. "Now Rory, I'd like to just read this passage from the Necronomicon very quickly"

anti-idpol dipshit leftists think it's something they can ally with but the relationship's less mutual symbiosis and more like those zombie mushroom ants

This shit rules, I am ecstatic

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? danluu.com/zitron/

Bsky discover tab is like if you made up the twitter for you feed solely of people who post leftist minion memes on facebook

you are allowed to tell me that voting doesn't matter only if you have killed a person for political reasons

So I think the current data center buildout spree is different from what's been going on in the past and people are right to be concerned but also there's too many people that think this

Yes. People don't even think 2008 was that bad. They say "Sure, it was tough, but it's equally tough now, in a different way" which is beyond ridiculous. It's not remotely comparable.

"this sounds like white man's burden" maybe you can't make all your decisions based on a list of things they have to be able to not sound like

every new doohickey guy in 2025: all right. I'll do it. AI waifu Jodie Foster with H cups: I love you, onii-san

There's literally no need for any streaming service other than Tubi

There is a certain type of person on here who absolutely does not believe that communication ever requires modulation if that modulation involves facially compromising with your critics. And sometimes I think about the brittleness of that position and get... wistful. Whimsical. Imagining.

Seeing this more and more and torn between: A) Lazy signage = bad cooking? B) I generally associate low quality signage with good non-chain food

Bragging about having "seven nines of uptime" is demonic. It should be 85.7% at the very most. The LORD commanded us to keep the Sabbath holy and having your Web site available during the day of rest is an affront

People who lose to the Ds 99.99% of the time: we are better at politics than the Ds

the robots don't have feelings. it's people finding a socially acceptable way to perform bigotry for fun, which seems bad

There is and it is explicitly how young men are slowly seduced into being more and more racist. It is functionally adopting how the right indoctrinates young men through escalating acts of transgression.

Part of what this discourse is getting at, I think, is that bigotry is, in some respects, fun for the bigot, which means engaging in the patterns of bigotry without targeting actual humans gives you access to a type of fun that's normally socially unacceptable (at least in left-leaning circles).

FWIW: it’s very likely that what’s going on here is a proxy war in defense of a specific academic theory that has been propagated within sociology and other “soft” disciplines in an effort to, in effect, portray the kind of military history Bret does as fundamentally misguided