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Is it the poor/working classes' responsibility to keep the economy moving, or the rich, bloated oligarchs that desperately need tax money paid by the 99% of taxpayers to be socially redistributed to the billionaire class to create more jobs? It hasn't worked for 44 fucking years.

It's a perfect encapsulation of where the right is at intellectually these days that Elon's favorite data person is like 'I'm sorry, I tried to process 60k rows of data and my computer exploded'

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Never forget that Exxon built their own climate model in the 1970s that correctly predicted climate change from the burning of fossil fuels

"The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 33 percent of the Earth's soils are already degraded and more than 90 percent could become degraded by 2050." www.newsweek.com/grocery-pric...

Voter: I'm tired of being kicked in the nuts Pollster: Are you in favor of or do you oppose nut kicking Voter: in Favor of Pollster: um ok Do you think it will hurt Voter: oh yeah

We're giving them weapons to defend themselves so...

This is unfolding fast yet hardly any national media coverage. Health officials are now advising individuals who attended the Mililani Pet Fair on November 2, 2024, and had contact with ducks or geese to monitor for symptoms of influenza-like illness or conjunctivitis. www.khon2.com/local-news/h...

“It’s been all hands on deck. Here, it is coming from all over the country. However, we are definitely seeing more calls coming from red states, though it’s not a huge amount more than blue states. The fear is from all over the country. It is all ages.”

Based off of Jake Paul's entrance, we are looking forward to either the most scripted match or a monster boxer rip someone's head off.

My son texted this to me after he made an impassioned argument during dinner last night about how Kenny G was the musical equivalent of the Joker - an agent of chaos who employs smooth jazz as aural tinder to let the world burn.