what if prime is the new blue checkmark?
Jeff Bezos is frightened of Donald Trump.
I have been debunked. You are hearing voices.
i’m being frequently notified that some application i can’t identity is generating funny-sounding notifications. i love to stay informed.
some people vote for Trump because they think he can overthrow the “deep state”. but i bet at least as many do so because they think he can’t, so whatever bullshit he spouts he can’t do much harm, and they want to protest just that situation.
(i think they are badly wrong about the putative impotence of elected Presidents. but these people are lost in a shrug of cynicism, our flawed democracy is not a democracy at all, no better than any autocracy you might name.)
"Jeff Bezos just forced the Democrats to see that economic power is political power." @matthewstoller https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-jeff-bezos-and
there are important distinctions between very bad and much, much worse.
people who own the media are capable of manufacturing vibes of despondency about the candidate they disfavor.
fuck them. even though they are unfuckable. everyday miracles.
“after all, if there is no god, there are billion dollar valuations.” https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113377194084638747
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from #EdithOlmsted https://newrepublic.com/post/187537/kamala-harris-donald-trump-stunning-endorsement
Text: The letter urges that after the election, they can hold Harris accountable with “every nonviolent tool of democracy.” Such tools would likely not be available under Trump, who has vowed to deport pro-Palestinian protesters and threatened to turn the military against his own citizens.
the false familiarity of political solicitations makes me want to vomit.
“Steve, it's Aly, and I need to have a quick ❤️ to ❤️ with you”
i don’t know Aly. you are not Aly, just some fundraising flack using her name. it’s a campaign i support, have already given money to. why do you treat me like a mark?
I am grateful that Israel seems to have chosen a cautious, calibrated response to Iran’s prior salvo. Frankly, it is not what I expected, and I am very glad to have been proven wrong.
i’m getting pretty tired of Jeff Bezos’ cancel culture.
@IzzyChambers maybe “poop” and “turd” for short. “i just pooped about last night’s debate.” or “i dropped/stepped in a turd about that.”
since there’s no longer any website called “twitter”, i think “tweet” should become a site-neutral term for a microblog post on any site, or for posting one. i am tweeting this on Mastodon.
“Musk has all the money in the world. He has the ability to be one of the best informed people in the world. And he’s built for himself a snowglobe of confirmation bias, making sure that a randomly floating combination of grifters and morons continue to feed him the dumbest shit imaginable, rather than take the slightest effort to actually inform himself of reality.” @mmasnick https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/25/lies-damned-lies-and-elon-musk/
Chicken: She started it!
Egg: No he did!
“I wouldn’t completely write off a Harris win in the Electoral College even if Mr. Trump narrowly won the popular vote.” #NateCohn https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/upshot/poll-trump-harris-election.html ht #JoshBarro
// on the bright side, this would be the event that could rid of us of the electoral college.