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Pete Maher
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I use big words quite often in substitution for semantically equivalent words

I attribute this success to my professional demeanor and my strong stock portfolio
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Andressen's argument is that if people really understood govt programs like Social Security - the way that tech billionaires who don't understand govt do - they would not support them. And the billionaires will use social media to make the public understand these programs the way they do.
Douthat: I can imagine a remarkable new plan for making the federal government in various ways much more efficient. I can totally imagine that. I am skeptical that such a plan would, in the end make a big dent in the federal government’s costs. Let’s say you have tons of dead wood in a particular federal agency. Well, you’re going to get rid of that dead wood. But in fact, you’re going to need to hire better people to replace those people. And you’re going to need to pay those people appropriately and so on. And all of this is in the shadow of Social Security, Medicare and a range of federal commitments. There is no magical argument on social media that will suddenly make cutting those commitments popular. But this is, of course, the traditional, institutional, cynical Washington view. Andreessen: I was going to say, but this is the traditional, institutional, cynical Washington view. And the way that reads to a normal person is absolute contempt for the taxpayer. Absolute contempt for the taxpayer by saying, “We can sit here in Washington, and we can ladle out $50 billion here and $100 billion there, and when we’re challenged on it, the answer is, ‘Eh, it’s a rounding error.’” Right? Douthat: No, no. The answer when we’re challenged on it is: The actual spending that the federal government does is either big-ticket things that the average taxpayer supports or smaller things like funding for students with disabilities across public school districts or something that if the average taxpayer doesn’t support it, at least a very vocal and influential constituency supports it.
January 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
peterrslayer.bsky.social
This is why most people in the UK travel within the UK.
December 28, 2024 at 7:38 PM
peterrslayer.bsky.social
TBF I was 15 when 9/11 happened so this checks out
December 17, 2024 at 9:38 PM