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VERY concerned there are too many geriatric dems in congress who think rolling over to avoid a shutdown is "doing right" by the public rather than actually fighting back. Make
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The chef's kiss is that they are all simultaneously terrified of being primaried by him. So all they can do is try to pander and sidestep, which only makes the mob angrier. Pass the popcorn please!
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NYT v Sullivan is partly how they made their brand for 40 years till they trashed it. You don't come respected by being a coward.
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A good recession will help with the crime figures too, especially as local budgets buckle under grant and Medicaid cuts.
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Is there a clear counter yet that all these ads are because the candidate is a bought and paid for Elon drone? Feels like with 10% the budget you could flip it all around that "Every ad you see flood the market is a sign of how deeply X candidate is bought by the billionaire wrecking our country"
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Markets seem to be really digging this, with futures showing another 2% drop on Monday possibly. And we don't even know what madness will come out tomorrow! Soon the recession fly wheel will start to be able to run on its own even if they stop the worst of the crazy.
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When the oligarchs asked for deregulation they didn't really expect to win the lottery and get full anarchy, but if deregulation is good for them why not everyone? Last week market sell off will be just the beginning as chaos builds.
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That is exactly why we have juries, it just takes one juror to send a very clear message to all oligarchs.
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Pretty simple guidepost that ANYTHING againt citizens in the US is unlawful and damn near anything in N. America is as well. The day those lines are crossed everything falls apart.
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People accepted every other lie they were told. Really not fair to expect a GOP congressman to know what to do when people actually don't just roll over. I mean how dare people no longer just blindly accept talking points, that isn't how democracy is supposed to work!
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Would be curious what portion of the software dev team is relatively new and soon to be vastly underwater on stock comp. That should release the golden handcuffs on the hopefully large portion that is done working for a nazi. Slow all the vaporware down while car sales crash and burn like...a Telsa
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Tesla and SpaceX were the perfect companies bc other people cared about the cause and were willing to do the work as long as the PayPal money kept things going. I wish the companies could survive without him, but as long as he has control they need to die off.
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Incompetence in DOGE, not in any actual congressionally authorized legitimate parts of the government. But NPR's headline wouldn't want to make that clear.
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We get the strategic benefits of a source not controlled by China simply by helping Ukraine win, and if we are lucky watching Russia implode at the same time. We don't need to extort an ally that will be eagerly looking for foreign investment after the war is over.
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I think it is still 80/20 that the oligarchs end up eaten by 2030, and democracy is still standing. But that feels very much like an either or scenario, which likely drives the angst.
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That is what makes the cowardly acts of the media and advertisers in the face of these shakedowns so appalling. Fight back and win when MAGA goons make these claims. Savy companies can build a lot of consumer goodwill here, with the legal fees being well worth the good free press they will generate.
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How though? It isn't like the dictator has detailed files on all the people on the jury and their families, including their individual tax returns to blackmail them with...oh wait...
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The same will likely also happen in the various civil suit shakedowns as well. Whoever has the "big balls" to stand up to this nonsense is going to make the clowns run this past a jury (if not dismissed sooner) where it will all crash and burn. And that brand will get a Costco like bounce.
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That is the problem that Musk is driving right into. People say they want to burn it all down, but with the expectation that the 80% they do like will somehow still survive and then be better. They want a down to the studs remodeling, but not an actual raging arsonist.
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My issue ended up being the opposite on FB, everyone I was interested in was also posting less and the feed was full of garbage promoted posts. It is the same network effect that make FB great, but in reverse. Hope the same happens to Twitter.
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Both were fully enshitified, When you don't use them for a week or two it becomes easy to forget they exist.
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When you are hungry and desperate I hear the rich taste like chicken. Not sure how Bezos or Zuck ever thought this would be good for stock price, but they cast their dies with Musk. An evenly split nation won't ever just accept a king, but we might get a civil war.
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When recession hits and the mob decides the rich taste like chicken, the MAGA weekend warriors in their khakis will be nowhere to be seen.
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Need to have protests at Spacex and Tesla offices. Won't get to all of them, but a lot of the actual brains in those offices probably don't really want to be known as a bunch of fascist enablers. Most products are vaporware, but ideally nothing makes it to market while sales and cash flow plummet.
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Yes, a LOT of what is happening now is being done in ways to allow GOP congressional members to later disclaim responsibility. They will say THEY never voted to cut things, that was all Musk. If you are still a GOP politican today you need to own all of this and what comes.
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Trump wanted an Iron Dome and we all laughed bc who would be shooting short range rockets at the US. But once again he was thinking 3 moves ahead.
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This is sadly why we need the recession and possible Flu or other calamities that are likely coming. There needs to be a shock that breaks the hold of Fox and Rogan, where people fully break out of lying media. Otherwise it is just a carousel of grifters that will keeping going.
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For employees and grant recipients that are hanging on by a TRO, the immediate spending impacts are probably nearly identical. Fascinating potential research topic in here on the effects of formal layoffs vs "pending in court" layoffs on consumer spending. Entirely rational to slam wallets shut.
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Chase hasn't released data on itself, but Diamond's epic rant last week that was leaked tells you a lot about their views on staffing. Meta, Chevron, Southwest (today) all looking at big staffing reductions. And with employees no longer scarse the reluctance to downsize may quickly disapate.
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You can hear this exact situation in a lot of the financial press. People still talking down tariff risk and that we'll get a nice boost later in the year from deregulation and lower interest rates. Carrying all the December wishful thinking with them right over the cliff.
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And when the crap hits the fan and then snowballs the pitchforks are going to get really pointy. We need a betting line on which country each oligarch will flee to. They don't give a damn about this country once they can't milk it.
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While Democracts also object to nuclear war in the abstract, they are debating whether nuclear winter could advance the goals of slowing climate change. Showing that Trump really is playing 5D chess.
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Is the province of Vamcouver the City or the Island or both? I'm not a political consultant, so my Canadian geography is a little rusty.
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Yes, be furious at the people who lied to these voters and the media that spread those lies, but we need the voters to turn. Some leapords eating faces is probably needed so people appreciate the lies, but the focus always should always be on how incompetent and cruel the core of MAGA really is.
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Still only the third or fourth best reason not to use them after the stupid cleaning fees, host rules and chores, awful customer support and the impact on local residents.
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These are the people and stories that Dem leaders need to screening out about and doing daily round robin media tours with across legacy media and new media. This isn't what anyone voted for (it is neither cost or living nor racism, it is purely making space for rich tax cuts).
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Harder with kids, but drop and fold as a single or couple is life changing. Drop a bag on way to subway, pick up on way home with everything washed and folded into an impossibly tight tetris cube. Way more convenient than any burrito taxi. But it takes density and transit to work.
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Like every thing they do is just proof of what a joke AI actually is and why nobody actually wants it.
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It was for me, and I can tell when I accidentally tab to Following bc i scroll like 3 pages and quickly realize there isn't anything from anyone new. Discover works well to mix things up.
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I don't really get the OP, I only use the Discover tab and it has consistently been showing me people from Twitter as they migrate over, presumably because the same network connections are rebuilding here. What I don't get is a lot of the weird, far-right noise that Twitter had, or any NFL coverage.
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Hungary is a very good example and the biggest difference is that Hungary started from relative lower incomes and got a lot of Euro handouts to allow it to smooth things out. US is starting from a level of wild prosperity people won't admit to, but they will definitely notice when it is gone.
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Kids learn some language on Duo and math on Khan. It is absolutely not the same as being in a class, but it isn't nothing. But what teachers seem to never want to acknowledge is that school is also childcare. Society basically collapsed w/o in person classes during Covid, and AI can never replace it
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Those funds totally can be redirected, that is the whole point. We can replace teachers and AI providers will "only" charge 80% of all teacher costs, while we will get a 20% competent teacher in their place. But it is cheaper!
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Unfortunately that is exactly right and it is how the entire US govt will operate for 4 years.
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Left's failure to let people build houses, while getting distracted with dumb fights over whether teaching Algebra is racist has real negative impacts on people. TX and FL have massive issues, but there is a middle somewhere that lets you have an affordable home AND control over your own body.
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Every CEO who stood in the front row at the inauguration and threw money at him has. They are not "low info voters" they knew what they were there for. Amazon, FB, Google. All have to account when the 💩 hits the fan. But they are bought in now, so they also have no option but to keep doubling down.
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How else is he supposed to know what NY voters think about a corrupt mayor? Not like he has any connections besides polling to what those NY voters might want.
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They may not turn on the Orange Jesus, but you can poison the pool of successors. Musk, Vance and Johnson can all still be turned against when a circular firing squad breaks out for control. Make sure the cult dies with its KFC loving leader.
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Do it where the PEOPLE that are being hurt actuallu are. Travel to Gerogia and talk to CDC staff about work stopped. Talk to Sorghum farmers in Kansas and Corn farmers in Iowa. Talk to Christian groups in the Bible belt doing Africa relief work. Make the cruelty real and give it a face and place.