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Frustrating when I talk about lost productivity from depression and somebody says it’s a metric capitalism uses to keep us down. What if there are things I am good at and it is frustrating not being able to do them or things I want to be good at I can’t practice or want to give back to society?

submitted 6 hours ago • 21 comments

i think that the real proof that abundance discourse is just streamer drama people with postgrads is that it went off the rails basically immediately, like when adam tooze not so subtly implied that ezra klein was in a polycule as part of his criticism of the book

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

the evolution of crypto use cases over the years: * buying drugs * scams * scams involving monkey jpgs * open bribery

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

I think it's a bunch of things: voters worldwide hated their governments, inflation was high, he didn't make things 'normal' again, he 'promised' to be a one term president and broke that promise, the media had it in for him, being a popular president takes work and he wasn't up to it anymore

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I think it's really important to remember how much time FDR put into managing public perception and building narratives. Overseeing significant economic change while barely being able to talk will destroy your popularity 100% of the time

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Cuomo and his team are already setting up the excuses he’ll (continue) to use when he sexually harasses City Hall staff. He hasn’t learned a fucking thing, and he doesn’t care. Don’t let him get away with it.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

Fundamentally, no one believes the Dem base will truly get violent, and if they do, the cops will put them down, whereas everyone believes the GOP base will get violent, and when they do the cops won’t stand in their way. Foucault: “Politics is war by other means.”

submitted 63 days ago • 9 comments

somehow reading this made me even more persuaded that this is more about the resentments and ax grinding of professional commentators than an honest electoral analysis www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 1 day ago • 518 comments

Wall Street read the Ways and Means IRA language and thought it was "better than feared": tax credits still only phased out intead of being cancelled immediately. Some clean energy stocks even went up. Then they realized the langauge would kneecap the storage industry heatmap.news/economy/wall...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

We live in an age of wonders. And those wonders are exactly what our lunatic regime is trying to destroy--if RFK Jr had his way, this baby would be dead.

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What the Horus Heresy taught me about b2b SaaS sales 🧵: -The Emperor built a galactic empire through vision and leadership. But it all fell apart when communication broke down with his most trusted general. The #1 lesson for SaaS sales? Never lose touch with your key accounts.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The fact that this has happened twice suggests that this isn't sundowning, he literally thinks "groceries" is no longer in the vernacular

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The actual truth is the establishment of a Labor focused third-party would probably be to the right of the current Democratic Party, while also losing every election

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I cannot stress enough how this was always a show created by two self-described Republicans to launder their reactionary bullshit as edgy gen-x nihilism.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

It would be nice if the Dem party avatar for the "Trump is corrupt" message wasn't currently jamming through pro-crypto legislation after they bought his seat for him.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Bribery is generally a state crime. For the rest, we have The Hague

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Chin-scratching your way into laundering the profit-hoarding stance of 1980s labels and studios who tried to curb the secondhand market sure is of a piece with the fucking NYT

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

submitted 2 days ago • 236 comments

Both sides of Dem infighting are the same; moderates go "the woke left cares more about pronouns than working families" and the progressives go "we shouldn't focus on culture war but on working class issues" but they agree that the American people care only about money, not the suffering of others.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

How do these people keep getting progressively more awful

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Democrats having 27% approval is not inconsistent with them leading on the generic ballot

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

this is not an approval poll! i disapprove of the Democrats and will vote for any Democrat.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

"i disapprove of the Democrats because they are not doing Reverse January 6th to the White House" is a position which maybe a quarter of the citizens of the United States hold and no politician holds

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

it's absolutely wild that the solicitor general is out here saying you'll likely never be able to have a universal rule of citizenship if they win, and they might nonetheless win

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

The fact that the people clutching their pearls about maybe Biden didn’t recognize an actor are totally ignoring this stuff makes me doubt some of the sincerity of their concerns about presidential cognition, if I’m being honest

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

my last thought on this is that i remember very clearly how republicans handled george w. bush, a world-historically terrible president who was the object of a mild cult of personality for nearly a decade — they just pretended like he didn't exist! and it worked!

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

hot take: when you publicly play footsie with pseudo-science intended to rebut the idea of human equality - ideas like “men are more likely to be brilliant than women” or “Black people are more likely to be criminals than Asian people” - you have irrevocably forfeited any & all moral authority

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I recently became aware of the engineering design tradeoffs inherent in making a high-heeled shoe and it blew my mind. The world is such a rich and deep place, I just don't understand how its possible to be bored in life consistently

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

And as soon as Democrats stopped flying to the gulag and everyone stopped talking about it, Trump’s immigration numbers started climbing back up

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

cable news host who ran more 2024 segments on trumps claim that kamala harris isnt really Black than segments on what due process would look like for trumps mass deportation: “ive taken time to reflect and im sorry i didnt say joe biden was old more”

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Are these "other democrats" in the room with us now?

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

the narrative with ‘white genocide’ lately isn’t an accident, this is an intentional effort to continue pushing the overton window as far as they can to completely reverse all social progress. these people are genuinely sad aparteid ended

submitted 2 days ago • 158 comments

Republicans have had tremendous success over the last 20 years leaving timebombs for Dems to defuse and then blame them if they can't rustle up the votes to do so.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments