If our gas prices are permanently higher? An inconvenience and economic drag, but you probably should be on your last gas-powered car by now, if you still have one.
Honestly I should write an essay about how the core fact of American economic existence is consumerism and how left-wing politics keeps running into trouble by trying to discuss it with a bunch of moral frames that are really built around the concept of poverty
The best thing about Vote Blue No Matter Who is that it unloads a lot of cognitive burden. I wanted Tom Steyer to be in the Governor's race, but he's not so I'm gonna vote for Becerra. I don't follow his campaign at all: I'm voting for him because he's not a Republican.
i love that there is a guy who makes people so mad that him saying "fiction is fictional" yields "OH MY GOD UR SO DUMB FICTION IS AT LEAST LOOSELY BASED IN REALITY UNLIKE ECONOMICS"
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2d agoYeah, for days people have been citing “boots theory” at me and I want to shout DO YOU REALIZE THIS IS A RANDOM IDEA TOSSED OUT BY A FANTASY WRITER AND MAY NOT ACCURATELY DESCRIBE REALITY
People are both cheap and greedy and hate being called either.
Rapidly approaching the point the only thing deterring China is if theres general attitude among CCP leadership of "ehhhhh i dont really feel like it"
They have to run private busses to San Francisco because their workers don't want to live in a ranch house where the nearest place to get a beer is a PF Changs
tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 2d agoI'm not going to QT but there's a silicon valley NIMBY complaining about maintaining the historical character of Palo Alto and man that place should look like fucking singapore. Market cap of tech companies based in and around there is like $14 trillion and it's full of fucking bungalows? So broken
He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"
yeah he sees himself as being in a negotiation with Iran but at war with Minnesota
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d agoStill can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol
wow it turns out the immigrant army crushed the army of slaveholding perverts? that’s crazy you’re telling me this for the first time
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
biggest surprise from the Lincoln bio I'm reading. The dude just loved to get into fistfights. He's cornered by a gang after beating their leader and yells: “I’m the big buck of this lick!” And they back down! Who knew the great emancipator had a little WWE in him?
i got too much fuckin wicker on me
rob@ok-but-still.bsky.social · 6d agoi'm done looking at shit for a while
I continue to hope that the California left will one day realize that housing scarcity is toxic to the causes they care about.
Benjamin Schneider@benschneider.bsky.social · 5d agoProgressive LA Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman told Vanity Fair that her main difference with DSA is on housing. www.vanityfair.com/story/nithya...
“The enemy is no threat and frankly, I like them better than you anyway,” is certainly one way to sell a war to the public.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
The difference between Will Stancil and Kat Abughazaleh is that Kat used a bad faith quote tweet dunk on Will to solicit cash donations to her campaign consulting business and Will refuses to let anyone give him money to fix the slashed tires on the car he chased ICE agents around in.
He's an unrepentant murderer too. Killed a guy and his biggest issue was not being able to drive for a year.
Because the war is financed via deficit spending, which implies an increase in corporate profits via the Kalecki Levy equation. theovershoot.co/p/greedflati...
"Greedflation" and the Profits Equation
The assumption behind the "greedflation" thesis is that companies are choosing to squeeze volumes because they care more about unit margins than total profits. There are other possibilities.
theovershoot.co
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 7d agoIf war means everything is more expenive, why are all the companies making record profits? Seriously. This isn't even subtle in the slightest.
I was still working in EMS during Covid. Nobody knew what would happen. I was brining in patients who got sick, would de sat, get tubed and be dead in 48 hours. Healthy adults. Respectfully a lot of you cannot understand what those early days were like. We truly did not know if we would die.
Kat’s post here is *literally* “hey dunking on Will gets a lot of RTs so if I do that and then put a fundraising link in the second post it’ll get me more money.” Like it’s that naked. Abuse of one guy as a direct vector of funding.
One thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor.
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