We must forever honor and respect Kobe running riot on a glorified low intensity friendly

The fuckin' Green Party... lol

A group unbeholden to anything, still completely missing the moment

This kind of thing feels like it's just a bribery scheme or something but I can't figure out why or what for

The failure hinges on the opposition party adopting the obvious counter strategy of, "Look at these fuckin' weirdos! Jesus Christ!" and the last time they did that they immediately got cold feet and put Liz Cheney on a bus

Sure Michael, but she's a VIRGIN and isn't that the most important thing?

Cutting checks for missiles and partying.

Why would we think the trillion dollar black hole was full of competent people? The people sticking around were the ones who liked all the stupid wars we started!

Always foolish that our gas tax was so small. The number already whipsaws back and forth nobody would notice that $0.50 was a permanent off the top to the federal government

And if they did notice, good, use less gas

Pretty cheap to pay a couple regulators so they can get out of Mississippi

Americans yearn for an aggressively anti-rich people party. Cannot have one because the rich people have so much money that they fund both parties too much.

Which, as I'm sure you know, is actually an unfair fate worse than death rather than what should happen if you're a piece of shit with a reputation.

There were quite a few allegations and Jeremy Piven seems like such a marginal "celeb" that it wouldn't take much to cause people to go, "eh, just get another barely memorable guy to do that job, it's not worth it"

Do people go to these shows? Or does some billionaire just pay them to go do freebies for local Mexican restaurants?

I'm kind of refusing to believe that live arts are economically perilous, except for the "piece of shit doing standup" segment which always has room for more

It's very funny that they're stuck in park on the "easy" part of the process, figuring out what is "bad"

Because Step 2 is "getting everyone to stop producing and eating what you consider bad" which is literally never going to happen.

GET RID OF THOSE DISGUSTING ULTRA PROCESSED FOODS *throws french fries on the ground* AND EAT THESE NATURAL FOODS *hands you french fries fried in beef tallow*

Thank God I was here to save you from being unhealthy.

It's all "one incredible trick" discourse tarted up because "everyone should be eating way more vegetables and walking" is an immediate nonstarter. Instead we have to come up with a whole big to-do about what foods you can stop eating and immediately become the weight you, and they, want you to be.

It's so perfectly Elon Musk, that I think Elon Musk faked an Elon Musk tweet.

There are thousands upon thousands of RPGMaker games out there that nobody plays, made by human beings with intention. Nobody is gonna play slop shovelware RPGs

Feel like this is the macroeconomic version of "why does a subreddit have posts for and against something" and the answer is there are very stupid people with money on all sides

When you find and replace TK with nothing, because it's your first day and nobody told you what they meant

American politics will never stop being a pendulum, don't worry about dynasties, just do what needs to be done and keep doing it when it's your turn again.

You don't have to put it to them. You just do it and make Republicans put it to a vote to eliminate those things.

Then you reverse what they did two years later.

Politics by treat clearly failed. Just do the thing that helps your people (normies) and hinders your enemies (the rich)

Yeah, I'm not sure how effectively you can make something like Bluesky make money without drastically adjusting what your guiding principles were.

Having a VC CEO doesn't make me hopeful Bluesky is aiming for non-profit margins rather than blowing things up to try Twitter but profitable

We're entering our monetization era

You cannot fund a decent country on the back of rich people, unless we're talking about absolute insane wealth and a 95% of the country that is eating bugs to survive, which sorry, is not America. Rich people should have their wealth taken, everyone should pay taxes.

No, the money should come back to them in the form of benefits. That's the point. Someone making $75K should not receive a check back for their tax burden, they should receive benefits paid for by their taxes. "I should keep my money and the nobles should buy me nice things" is how society collapses

Because it's important that the families that should be getting a lot from the system also pay into the system. You do not want 25% of the nation paying "nothing" into a system that has many line items that exist for them -- that's how they all end up disappearing in a populist fury.

Honestly, incredible of you to even interject. I would just let them finish and then call at 5:30 with, "Hey, I thought you were doing my gutters today?"

It was a very aggressive Buy 1 Get 1 Free

Wow, you think it's so funny when people ask why their burrito taxis cost seven dollars but you're offended that your cauliflower taxi is just as expensive???

"We must respect the firewall between the Presidency and the DoJ"

As his handpicked pedophile protector protects pedophiles. Ooh, sorry, as he builds an unbreakable case against all these people. It takes time you know, you're to blame for not giving him eight years.