Via @chrisp, a quote from Grover Cleveland, the last guy to win two non-consecutive terms as President:
“the communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil.“
https://chrispeel.net/2024/11/15/the-great-tax-wars/
they call it x because it’s all of our ex.
the murderer is scandalized.
“do you see? do you see? do you see what i am up against? *they mean to hang me!*”
“it is i, it is me, who is the true victim here.”
hypocrisy is a mark of status, as consistency is only enforced on those of low status.
It breaks my heart when my kid is sick.
“The selection of Gaetz just rips the mask off. With it, Trump is trolling not just his defeated opponents but many of his craven establishment supporters. It’s like Caligula trying to make his horse a consul.” #MichelleGoldberg https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/opinion/i-cant-wait-for-matt-gaetzs-confirmation-hearings.html
a parasitic worm that infects the brain, drives its host to take over his nation’s public health service, then drops larvae into the raw milk the population is now forced to imbibe.
the twitter files was pretty lame, but i am looking forward to the x files.
“(You may notice that straightforward ideas like ‘fire everyone in Democratic Party leadership positions automatically after a national election loss’ do not appear to be on the table.)” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/so-what-does-that-mean-in-practice ht @costrike
the only qualification is the favor of the king.
as long as there still is a Department of Education, shouldn't it be a creationist?
plutocrats are only wealthy because we collectively enforce the existence of their wealth. they should think about that more. so should we.
“Il Douche” is kind of an amazing nickname, from @charvaka
second time as farce, but it isn’t funny. https://hivemind.plus/@charvaka/113482843333712282
a talent of the worst people is to shitpost until even angels look like the worst people.
Eastern European income-tax rates tend to be "flat", but layered onto high, capped, payroll taxes that render them very regressive. Kind of an artifact of governments set up at the peak of neoliberalism / post-Cold-War triumphalism.
@chrisp offers a deep dive, comparing Ukraine's to US Federal taxes. https://chrispeel.net/2024/11/10/ukrainian-income-taxes/
Democrats mocked how at the Republican Convention, past President George W Bush didn't show. But maybe Presidents Clinton and Obama and even Biden ought not to have been invited to the Democratic convention.
Change means change, man. (It sure doesn't mean giving Rahm Emmanuel a new role.)
Institutional continuity is no virtue when it's institutions you feel have screwed you.
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“And just like family members, our brands regard one another with mutual suspicion and malice.” https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/ ht @andrewducker
my gee-i’m-clever word coinage of the day: “sclerocracy”.
pretty self-explanatory i think. in conversation with / inspired by @kentwillard and @phillmv