Patrick

Process fundamentalists and leftist lawyers stand athwart shouting “stop”. Continuing multi decade tradition.

Me. Slipped them one of my Adderall. Did what it needed to do.

Liquidated everything with Interactive Brokers, wire transfer going out tomorrow morning.

Congratulations - from someone else just as happily married!

At a certain point you gotta be willing to just say these are basically crazy people that nothing you can do will make happy, man. Like I’m sorry but if you’re protesting Mamdani over this people should just ignore you.

Unfortunately, possibly true. Wonder if on election night you’ll see a muted performance in blue states along with wins in places Dems normally aren’t competitive.

If you'll pardon the use of a Bush 2 quote because it actually works this discourse is largely the "soft bigotry of low expectations" because a lot of people genuinely do not believe that Arabs can independently formulate (schizo) geopolitical ideologies, truly believe them, and act on them

9/11 in middle school, on live television, felt like the world stood still that day.

RIP to the finest pair of Big Naturals, attached to the most wonderful person, to ever do it

I’m sure raising prices will help working people.

Cenk’s motto seemingly is once a Republican, always a Republican.

Rod Dreher? Possibly providing an extensive irrelevant tangent about his psychosexual issues.

My observation now that I've been active here for a few months, and as someone with a foot on each site, is that twitter has a vastly greater number of outright scammers, but I feel bsky has a disproportionally higher number of people who seem to genuinely be unwell.

I'm picturing a surge of hundreds of diplomats being sent across no-man's land towards the Russian lines...

'lots of middle aged men are taking gear' very underrated explanation for what's going on in the world right now

Should also look to how much of it, especially in early controversies, may have been “office politics by other means” in fields with blocked pathways of promotion.

If only there was a sign, like a well documented history of illegal and unethical behavior from his business career. With recurring failures from incompetence.

Said the same thing after visiting Naples. Consider yourself warned, as I’m getting ready to pull a shot.

the Gordian knot of the 'everything is expensive' thing is that some of the main cost drivers are the spiraling cost of healthcare, education, & housing, which are genuinely squeezing the middle class to some extent. guess what two sectors large swathes of them work in, and how they build wealth?

Not everyone thinks likes a Marxist-Lennist nor fo Marxist-Lenninists have a monopoly on political theory.

Really wish this was more salient in our discourse. Says a lot that it’s not.

one thing that I hate about ADHD is that I need to be hyper interested, extremely stressed, etc. to really get into something. no gears beyond locked in or kinda listless. this isn't a quirk chungus so wacky thing, it's a character flaw that makes my life worse.

Least misogynistic guntuber

Executive non compliance? At least in some respects also seems plausible.

Won’t predict how this ends, but feel comfortable predicting that executive non compliance is more likely than not as the first step in the next Democratic administration.

Happy Bobby Bonilla Deferral Day: Bonilla is set to collect another $1.193 million from the New York Mets today, as he will each July 1st through the year 2035. Original post

im Jewish, Italian, and a lawyer--kind of no way around it

"This is a basic good government thing California should get better at" and "the conspiracy theories and denialism are bullshit and they'd be saying it all regardless" are both true.

He never misses.

Brb heading over to X the everything app to see HitlerEnjoyer1488 add his thought provoking insight about this exchange.

When you definitely know what you’re talking about

Many will current socialists are future libertarians. Mutual aid obsession - recreating Reaganism from first principles - and their glorification of antisocial behavior like fare evasion, yeah. They’d fit right in with the libertarians in NH.

OTD in 2003 the USA invaded Iraq. It's good they elected a president determined to end forever wars that start for made up reasons & end up as a quagmire they can't win.

Wonder what the audience for this message should expect concretely. Or do. Not vote for him, again? Divorce his wife?

See this is why, despite believing that low birth rates are a sociotropically bad thing, I get why pro-natalism shit sets off people’s alarms a lot of the time. The people super into it often give off extremely bad vibes!

Post Vietnam we got a stab in the back myth, without the antisemitism - it was the protesters fault. Post Iraq it looks like we are going to just get the antisemitism.

I don’t see why a 15-second sliding context window with the working memory of a goldfish and fake l/t memories should not be subject to short-term capital gains taxes on everything (including unrealized gains) and a 100% inheritance tax.