peterkurze.bsky.social
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It isn’t about numbers. It’s about the natural tendency of systems of concentrated power to turn out like this one has. Tom Paine exposed the insanity of having kings and we came up with something else. Maybe, with the benefit of 250 years experience, it’s time to have another think.
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Technically, we all came from the “shithole countries” in east Africa. The only force keeping us from recognizing each other as precious family are the egos of a small handful of delusional fools.
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I can think of at least 25,000 reasons why it’s morally bankrupt as well.
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It’s well suited to its primary function of sucking VC money into the bank accounts of founders, however.
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If you add “-ai” to your search it will turn it off.
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I don’t, in general, like ageism, but since I’m almost as as old as she is I feel justified in saying:
Screw your head on grandma, you’re talking backwards again!!!!
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None dare call it artificial insanity. The insanity is real enough.
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I know that the reality of these deportations is a senseless brutal disruption of people’s lives and I hate it, but on another level it would serve justice if all of the hardest working kindest people you’d ever want to meet packed it up and left America to its own selfish devices.
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I think it’s a pretty good measure of the fecklessness of the Dems. I think we’re going to have to move in to the future a ways to really see the current state for what it is.
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So very LA. Fucks like Trump, Noem, and Miller will never understand and are infinitely the poorer for it.
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“If everything goes well, then we should be in an era of radical abundance” and if not, oh well. We should get another shot at it 4 or 5 billion years. Hey, it was worth a shot, right?
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They must believe that that whole consent of the governed thing is not a thing anymore. I don’t think they have any idea how close to the edge they are running.
Hoc intolerabile est!
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A big guy with great toes came up to me with tears in his eyes and said …
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I know it’s an oversimplification, but really if you were to do root cause analysis on our political disfunction, you could honestly lay most of the blame on our public-facing media.
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Sooner or later we’re going to have to belly up and start teaching about the structural barriers to having those things that exist within the current narrative of the “American Dream”. Markets have their place but they will never solve quality of life issues and there are reasons that is true.
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Do you have any feel for how many people in Congress get it or how many get it but won’t say so publicly?
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I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to look stupider than Kristy Noem doing camo cosplay but Holman has managed it.
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How about peace through human decency and honest communication you smug little fascist twat.
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It’d easier to have that discourse if:
The whole subject wasn’t suffused with racism
Public officials were honest about crime rates
Public media didn’t sane-wash and otherwise cover up for the lying snakes that run this shit show.
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A smug mug thug for the ages.
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Start with the idea that lived reality is a manifestation of the theories of economics with all of the excluded externalities factored in.
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Shame on ABC. The truth hurts, but it doesn’t hurt half as bad as trying to live without it.
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We may be “everyday people” but you should not mistake us for suckers.
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Now, if someone would just give them real jobs instead of bribing them into terrorism. I know some of those assholes really enjoy the work, but it would be good to separate out those that are just trying to make their mortgage.
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Is FuckRahm a pronoun?
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Sometimes an absurd waste of resources is still an absurd waste of resources, even when it is done in service of a really horrible ideology.
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Had enough of never enough.
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to retire the national debt as the existing treasuries matured. As each tranche of bonds is payed off with fiat dollars, would that have the potential to trigger inflation and would that be difficult to control given that the influx of dollars to the public sector was pre-committed?
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Maybe it’s time to reckon with the instability of hierarchical governance structures. The periodic transfer of highly concentrated power is a risky way to navigate from the present into the future.
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Is there a link to the whole panel somewhere?
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I know that’s not what they’re talking about but the whole medical care-insurance complex is at least 50% low-hanging waste fraud and abuse. So there’s that.
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I know it’s little comfort, but at least we have the advantage of knowing that this time it will lead to catastrophic electoral disaster so we won’t get another generation of Carvills hanging around for f’ing ever.
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With all of those questions unanswered, one could think of the paywall as a great boon. It sort of paves over a lot of useless rabbit holes.
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I get what you’re saying but even Ronnie was a symptom. He picked ripe fruit.
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I had a friend who grew up in Hawaii that moved to LA and went to visit a friend in Santa Barbara. She didn’t know any of the place names so she didn’t realize she was going the wrong way till she got to the Mexican border. In Hawaii apparently all roads lead back to everywhere.
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version of this story is going to skip over a lot of detail but the basic outline is correct. I haven’t delved into private equity or other forms of rent extraction but when all of that is factored in the story is much worse. /f
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increase the wealth of the rich just doesn’t qualify. Now some things that ARE of general benefit will also enhance the wealth of the wealthy, and they might get done and boost the credibility of the cover story, but those are exceptions to the rule. Of course the 1000 character /3
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But invest in what? Aye, there’s the rub. To maintain your standing in the club, you need to keep an eye on ROÍ. In other words, you need to stay focused on enterprises that will make more money for those that are already wealthy. Anything that would be of general benefit but which does not/2
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understandings a part of the conventional wisdom, not just of the voters, but the press. /f