capitalism is about the consolidation of power. the dollars are the scoreboard, not the goal. they hate redistributive policies not just because it would cost them money but because they would redistribtute the *power* as much as the money.
Guy who does PR for AI companies mocking other guy who does PR for AI companies
Spaceman is from earth, Starchild is from space
Tfp would have gone bankrupt in five years if they didn’t raise money or get bought out. Boneheaded opinion
People think this is dumb as shit and nothing more than meaningless posturing
On a more serious note, Collins thinks the Riyadh lineup reflects something dire about both American politics and the bifurcated woke-versus-anti-woke comedy scene. Collins says there’s “a lot of money” behind enticing anti-woke comics to shill for the political project on the right. “I also like money, but I think getting hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell jokes for 10 minutes about ‘airline food is bad’ is actually illustrative of a much larger thing: The stuff that’s getting greenlit is not necessarily popular with the populace. It’s popular with rich people who are sick of being yelled at in the media. They are using some of these people as vehicles for whatever the comedy equivalent of greenwashing is.”
A quick note about money and comedy and power.
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.
what Americans seem to want is to be able to buy whatever product they want without government interference but also an ironclad guarantee that all store-sold products are safe, and we just need to recognize that these are contradictory ideas and we're gonna have to make people mad about the former
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
@SecKennedy MAHA is winning. Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake • 2d Starting August 1, Steak n Shake will offer Coca-Cola with real cane sugar in glass bottles. America deserves the best! 6:10 PM • 7/19/25 • 134K Views
16 million people are losing their healthcare and hospitals are already closing because of it but it’s a win because one of the bottom tier fast food restaurants is going to start selling the same Mexican Cokes that you can already get at literally every store
Takes one to know one
@MichellCClark: they made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market-then told you that poverty is a personal failing. they privatized survival and called it freedom.
That last line hits hard
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
They did these things before becoming billionaires. How are you so bad at making this argument
USPS in the 90s does more than anything Amazon does today. Idiot
Per @npr.org, the Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the White House U.S. DOGE Service, has built a searchable national citizenship register with data from the Social Security Administration & immigration records— without public notice & comment.
Infrastructure for a police state.
The $$$ effort to crush Mamdani’s candidacy is now kinda openly an effort to crush young voters into cynicism, apathy, and inaction. An establishment absolutely devoted to burning its own future at every level.
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
dems to rurals: “this is real america, not the dirty cities (ew). football, cornfields, county fairs. here’s a trillion dollars”
GOP to rurals: “these degenerate druggy hill people will learn the dignity of work once we defund their schools and hospitals”
rural elections:
[dem🟦] 7%
[rep🟥] 91%
They’ll play maybe 6 games together healthy
great day to be a new yorker
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If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.
The hardest rule of Beltway journalism is that Republican public officials have no agency and bear no responsibility for choices fully within their discretion
