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Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead

submitted 7 hours ago • 120 comments

I don't think it's really sunk in on the Hill yet how much this isn't an aberration we can just come back from overnight when he's gone, this is generational damage to America's place in the world and even best-case scenario it will never be status quo ante.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

The idea the president alone can levy taxes on a whim and spend it as he pleases without any congressional approval is the kind of thing so beyond the pale it's not unconstitutional, it's anti-constitutional. It is overturning in starkest terms the central rallying cry of the American Revolution.

submitted 1 day ago • 207 comments

I think this is a pretty important lesson for the left. The center-left is only as strong as the labor movement is, and the labor movement is only as strong as its ability to redistribute producer surplus, which is almost definitionally a diminishing resource.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Get him out of government before there's no government left www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 1 day ago • 228 comments

I do worry that other middle- to high-income democracies tell themselves America is an aberration and they've merely got to develop independence from us to stabilize global geopolitics when many democracies' leading right-wing parties are 90-100% as crazy as the American version

submitted 23 hours ago • 21 comments

the jewish american establishment will continue to eat itself alive until morale improves— next step, inviting a man under international arrest warrant for the starvation of 2,000,000 people

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

As I’ve noted before, the press is unwilling to recognize that Musk and Vance are at the very least close to neo-Nazis because to do so would mean acknowledging that the press massively failed in promoting them for years

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

So, just a note to any Very Online liberals or leftists: we don't know how to win over persuadable voters. Everyone outside our circle finds us super annoying. It is likely the case that Dem electeds don't know either, but they're right not to look to us for advice.

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

Kingsley Wilson, the newly-appointed DoD Deputy Press Secretary, believes in a thoroughly-debunked antisemitic conspiracy theory. I've mostly only seen this theory promoted by mask-off neo-Nazis. archive.is/dPvse

submitted 1 day ago • 143 comments

jesus fucking christ, man, it gets really tired noting this kind of thing, but "[veterans] aren't fit to have a job or aren't willing to come to work" is the kind of headline that should absolutely destroy a fucking administration and would, if that administration were led by a democrat

submitted 2 days ago • 173 comments

everyone — literally everyone — underestimated how much damage we avoided by mnuchin being willing to play along and sound like a dumbass while talking trump into (relatively, by comparison) sane economic policy

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

If the market continues to trend down, and the Atlanta Fed turns out to be right, the midterms will be very interesting. The battle between republican self preservation and MAGA will be intense

submitted 5 days ago • 3381 comments

Republicans will be like "you want to give money to Ukraine? what about our veterans?" and then yank millions of dollars from the VA

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

One thing that popped out of YouGov polling this week: The idea of Musk making money off his access is VERY unpopular.

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

SSA employee to me re: 50% staff reduction: "Can say unequivocally that such deep cuts to SSA, which is already at historically low staffing, will cause significant to extreme degradation of services, very likely including checks missed and individuals dying before their claims can be processed."

submitted 8 days ago • 123 comments

I'd flip this. The right has an ideologically coherent project, which is the defense of hierarchies that have dominated American society and opposition to policies that undermine them. Liberals and the left by contrast believe vaguely in helping people they feel sorry for but don't agree how or why.

submitted 7 days ago • 141 comments

I need to emphasize: this is comically ineffective You can't "overwhelm the algorithms" when the algorithms can be tweaked in realtime by malevolent actors who want the misinformation See, e.g., ExTwitter

submitted 11 days ago • 101 comments

Lesson many private sector businesses still don’t get: Firing a bunch of people in an economic downturn, then having to find, hire, and train replacements when the economy picks back up, loses money rather than saves. Then again, DOGE’s goal is break things for a loss, not actually generate savings.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

submitted 11 days ago • 3901 comments

Could even call this Ukraid

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Redneck mafia tried a shakedown on dudes who deal with russia every day

submitted 17 days ago • 26 comments

How was this contract awarded??!

submitted 17 days ago • 759 comments

it is beyond clear that for many americans trump is a blank slate who stands for whatever they personally want

submitted 20 days ago • 448 comments

the tech industry mania for internal LLMs and job cuts was driven not by revenue fundamdentals or the end of ZIRP but management radicalism against their employees

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

I've always said that NYT (and other headline writers) live in a strange and terrifying world totally alien to us. A sentient legal case attempts to provoke a government agency. Bullets, cars, and other things -- of their own free will -- attack unsuspecting humans. Everything is alive and hostile

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments