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This is what the elites who installed Trump did it for. Not the only reason, but the main one. This is the explicit outcome they were trying to engineer.
The unemployment rate for Black workers soared to 8.3% in November. That's more than double the rate for white workers.
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is what the elites who installed Trump did it for. Not the only reason, but the main one. This is the explicit outcome they were trying to engineer.
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That "millennial white men couldn't get good jobs in media/Hollywood/academia because of DEI" article is wild bc in some ways it's *so* close to identifying the actual problem, which is the complete destruction of job security and mid-level "good jobs" across all industries, for EVERYONE, since 2009
December 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
That "millennial white men couldn't get good jobs in media/Hollywood/academia because of DEI" article is wild bc in some ways it's *so* close to identifying the actual problem, which is the complete destruction of job security and mid-level "good jobs" across all industries, for EVERYONE, since 2009
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Capital Punishment: How Billionaires and Corporations Stopped Competing and Banded Together to Suppress Wages, Subjugate Workers, and Install a Fascist Government in the 2020s
The Long Revolt of the Bosses: The Business Class's Response to the COVID Labor Market (Georgia University Press, 2037)
This Disney-OpenAI deal is breaking my brain. It's not OpenAI paying for the right to use Disney characters, it's Disney paying THEM. All OpenAI does is give Disney access to its API so that they can use ChatGPT and Sora to replace their animators, other employees, and 3rd party contractors.
December 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Capital Punishment: How Billionaires and Corporations Stopped Competing and Banded Together to Suppress Wages, Subjugate Workers, and Install a Fascist Government in the 2020s
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I have 2 ideas on the NBA cup:
1) eliminate conferences when doing the group stage so East & West can be mixed.
2) Have the cup Finals on All-Star weekend instead of a non-competitive All-Star game. Friday is the final 4 play off and Sunday is the final. Saturday events stay with All-Stars named
1) eliminate conferences when doing the group stage so East & West can be mixed.
2) Have the cup Finals on All-Star weekend instead of a non-competitive All-Star game. Friday is the final 4 play off and Sunday is the final. Saturday events stay with All-Stars named
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I have 2 ideas on the NBA cup:
1) eliminate conferences when doing the group stage so East & West can be mixed.
2) Have the cup Finals on All-Star weekend instead of a non-competitive All-Star game. Friday is the final 4 play off and Sunday is the final. Saturday events stay with All-Stars named
1) eliminate conferences when doing the group stage so East & West can be mixed.
2) Have the cup Finals on All-Star weekend instead of a non-competitive All-Star game. Friday is the final 4 play off and Sunday is the final. Saturday events stay with All-Stars named
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I don’t care what happens with the Texas legislative maps. Democrats should still gerrymander the shit out of blue states.
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I don’t care what happens with the Texas legislative maps. Democrats should still gerrymander the shit out of blue states.
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one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
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Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand
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The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.
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The problem w polling - as someone who does lots of surveys - is that surveys construct opinions that simply do not exist in nature for *huge* chunks of people and too few of the data science bros conducting campaign polling understand this very basic feature the survey response. Vibes indeed.
The existence of this photograph (which is a real photo of a real person at a Mamdani campaign event) is enough to establish for me that voters writ large have absolutely no grasp of what policy is or how any given policy impacts their lives. It's all vibes.
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The problem w polling - as someone who does lots of surveys - is that surveys construct opinions that simply do not exist in nature for *huge* chunks of people and too few of the data science bros conducting campaign polling understand this very basic feature the survey response. Vibes indeed.
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the revolt of the bosses is probably the single most important social movements since BLM and its actually massively under covered in media (which is not surprising at all)
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 AM
the revolt of the bosses is probably the single most important social movements since BLM and its actually massively under covered in media (which is not surprising at all)
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"A critical mass of people who decided the election were bamboozled by America’s horrendously broken information environment, and don’t like the results of their own choices." prospect.org/2025/10/29/v...
Voters Did Not Understand the Stakes in 2024 - The American Prospect
A large majority of American voters are greatly dissatisfied with the state of things, most especially the economy. It turns out that median voters were catastrophically misled about the stakes of the...
prospect.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"A critical mass of people who decided the election were bamboozled by America’s horrendously broken information environment, and don’t like the results of their own choices." prospect.org/2025/10/29/v...
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the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
October 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
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October 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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ONE MORE TIME! One of the greatest successes in voter participation and youth activism in Georgia since the 60's was Atlanta's effort to raise signatures for a referendum on Cop City. They beat overwhelming requirements to get it on the ballot. The City Council responded by just... not doing it.
September 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
ONE MORE TIME! One of the greatest successes in voter participation and youth activism in Georgia since the 60's was Atlanta's effort to raise signatures for a referendum on Cop City. They beat overwhelming requirements to get it on the ballot. The City Council responded by just... not doing it.
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Nah. He’s just a Zionist first, above everything else, including logic.
September 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Nah. He’s just a Zionist first, above everything else, including logic.
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The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it
trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...
September 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
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i actually think this is correct if the political spectrum is composed entirely of elites. which i think speaks poorly of our elites and poorly of the way political media conceives of politics in this country. fully aristocratic and white supremacist. clear who counts and whose politics simply don’t
September 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
i actually think this is correct if the political spectrum is composed entirely of elites. which i think speaks poorly of our elites and poorly of the way political media conceives of politics in this country. fully aristocratic and white supremacist. clear who counts and whose politics simply don’t
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people talk about the counterproductive idea of withholding their votes a lot because saying the thing that would actually be effective - supporting a grassroots effort to primary democrats or start a third party - obligates you to participate in kind of an enormous amount of work
“Elected Democrats don’t oppose Republicans sufficiently, so to punish Democrats we should allow Republicans to win elections” feels like a thing I made up to be hyperbolic and yet is endemic on this microblogging website
i said it before, i'll say it again: if Democrats don't explicitly campaign on putting these people in jail, then the only moral choice is to NOT vote for them until they do.
September 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
people talk about the counterproductive idea of withholding their votes a lot because saying the thing that would actually be effective - supporting a grassroots effort to primary democrats or start a third party - obligates you to participate in kind of an enormous amount of work
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i like that the administration is run by dilettantes whose pathological unseriousness is illustrated by their total disregard for human life
It's full steam ahead for NASA, according to Sean Duffy, the agency's acting administrator. During an internal employee town hall, Duffy warned of "letting safety be the enemy of progress" when it comes to winning the space race, according to a recording obtained by NBC News.
Interim NASA head tells agency that it will beat China back to the moon
Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy also told agency employees not to let "safety be the enemy of progress."
nbcnews.to
September 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
i like that the administration is run by dilettantes whose pathological unseriousness is illustrated by their total disregard for human life
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It’s very popular among certain groups on here to be anti-anti-popularist and anti-anti-Abundance, but none of those groups ever seem to have any answer for why so many of their faves keep finding themselves in social proximity to dyed-in-the-wool race science promoters.
September 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
It’s very popular among certain groups on here to be anti-anti-popularist and anti-anti-Abundance, but none of those groups ever seem to have any answer for why so many of their faves keep finding themselves in social proximity to dyed-in-the-wool race science promoters.
We really signed Isak. This is crazy.
September 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We really signed Isak. This is crazy.
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more than that, he *just does* the messaging rather than vaguely gesturing to "kitchen table issues" in general or scolding other coalition members for supposedly not doing it
i think it's basically telling that the Mamdani campaign is basically the economic focused campaign that pollsters say voters want, but it doesn't code that way because his proposals are well to the left of the status quo
basically the mamdani playbook: (1) be charismatic (2) focus on kitchen table issues in a way that sounds legitimately authentic and not focus-tested to death
August 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
more than that, he *just does* the messaging rather than vaguely gesturing to "kitchen table issues" in general or scolding other coalition members for supposedly not doing it
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They didn't want Biden and Harris to win, but they do want Trump to win and rule us. So they use headlines, social media posts and push notifications to spin for him, especially around stuff like economic sentiment.
U.S GDP grew at a at a 4.9 percent annual rate over the summer of 2024, and the Times reported this as 'unsustainable,' bad news for Joe Biden.
August 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
They didn't want Biden and Harris to win, but they do want Trump to win and rule us. So they use headlines, social media posts and push notifications to spin for him, especially around stuff like economic sentiment.