@Phil the ballroom is funded by bribes, yes. Republicans control the government, all three branches. you are deeply mistaken if you think America’s problems result from too much generosity to “moochers”.
@curtosis our current leaders have imagined, perhaps quite mistakenly, that “second amendment people” will always be on their side.
Stein’s Law needs a corollary. The law is, what cannot go on forever will stop. The corollary is, before the fall, people will extrapolate its continuance to long past the time that it will stop.
building a giant golden ballroom while cutting SNAP has very Marie Antoinette vibes.
until you take down all your scurrilous posts that are not praising me, i hereby impose a 10% surcharge on your toots.
americans decided they would test the proposition “nothing matters.”
though i understand how the evidence for the proposition sometimes appears considerable, i remain skeptical it will ultimately prove correct.
an automated system demands your urgent attention.
i don’t think this plan
to force a divorce between yin and yang
is going to work out very well.
virtue shames our leaders and is therefore a crime against the state.
i agree the gilded age analogies are overwrought. the era we are living through is much worse than the gilded age.
We know better than this, but we’re doing it anyway.
@admitsWrongIfProven “intellectual capital” is one of those words. interpret it as you see fit!
what would an intellectual capital strike look like?
one great thing about the full Reagan speech is that he emphasized the anticompetitive / tariff-protected-industries-make-low-quality-high-price-goods aspect of tariffs.
x.com has democratized the car wreck you can’t look away from.
Since China increasingly owns the global automobile industry, maybe we can revise our built environment so we are not isolated and helpless without constant access to that product.
I mean we should have anyway, but maybe declining domestic lobbying clout and geopolitical exigency will help.
the Wayback Machine as a very personal, very fragmentary, time machine. https://web.archive.org/web/19970419013806/http://boo.media.mit.edu/
why is it a “legitimate interest” to give me RSI?