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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 2 days ago • 714 comments

3 essential newsletters for a finance crash course: Nathan Tankus, www.crisesnotes.com Adam Tooze, Chartbook Tracy Alloway & Joe Wiesenthal, Odd Lots. Got us through Wall Street Crash, Euro Crisis, Covid Crash, and now just fantastic on the wreckage of the global dollar during Trump Crash.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I find myself in an interesting spot as a *practitioner* of economics as opposed to an actual economist whenever people start getting factional about stuff. And it's interesting to see people reflexively defending MMT as a faction, because MMT is *much* more useful then established econ.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I want a candidate in 2028 to create a vague impression that they will do Obama style looking forward not back admin, and then once in power put these people in jail and possibly give them the death penalty.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Intolerable tyranny. No free people should stand for it and anyone who does is an enemy of freedom

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

all left wing people should oppose superstition and irrational beliefs, which are necessary in order to maintain class, racial and societal heirarchies and oppress mankind.

submitted 7 days ago • 106 comments

stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation. -You cannot legally deport people without due process. -You cannot legally deport citizens. -They are defining down deportation to break the law.

submitted 8 days ago • 73 comments

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

submitted 8 days ago • 138 comments

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

submitted 8 days ago • 206 comments

we should stop having presidents. call a constitutional convention and abolish them it's really the only path forward at this point that avoids a cycle where both parties feel that electing extremists willing to use massive executive overreach is the best way to get their desired policies enacted.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

sure this sounds bad but remember this nation was founded on the principle of cheerfully tolerating large surtaxes on imported goods

submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

“anything we can actually do, we can afford” stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college

submitted 8 days ago • 59 comments

Worth noting that the "special privilege" here is mostly the privilege to get scammed.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep its basic functioning has to discourage lying. rewarding it instead is suicidal

submitted 8 days ago • 51 comments

I supported the party that believed the 2020 election was stolen, that J6 was an inside job AND ALSO a patriotic day of love, that Covid vaccines were a bio weapon, that climate change is a hoax, and that Obama was born in Kenya…and I expected economic rationality to prevail.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

submitted 9 days ago • 619 comments

What a sentence: "Contrary to the government's position, 'upholding constitutional rights surely serves the public interest.'"

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

i am real bloodthirsty rn ngl

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

i think the GOP base is gonna remain insane for a long time, but that doesn't mean the party'll have a viable coalition tbh, and getting slapped around for a decade will do things to a party not the least because of voter churn

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

chat, is there anything in christianity about forgiving the people who killed your son

submitted 11 days ago • 151 comments

Gitman's oxford button-down shirts, made in the USA December 2024: $205 April 2025: $235

submitted 11 days ago • 106 comments

The best chance we have is to make sure people know that Trump is the one hurting them - poisoning their water, cutting cancer research, closing their hospitals, stealing their social security, closing their post office, raising their taxes, lowering their wages, making everything more expensive.

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments