Someone who is not ESL/ not stupid will be able to put it into better words, but there is this theory that a millio/billionaire class is bad for society bc they never spend their money back into the economy but instead look to INVEST it. This is how we get/got so many bubbles. Think abt that a lot.

I don’t know who wrote this, but it’s absolutely perfect

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Again: we are in superhell.

justice

1870-71: Franco-Prussian War, 433K dead
1914-1918: WWI, 17.6M dead, including 116K Americans
1939-1945: WWII, 54M dead in Europe, including 277K Americans
1949: NATO founded
1949- : No big interstate war in Europe (until Ukraine, which isn't in NATO)
2024: "NATO's dumb. What's it do for us anyway?"

Come on people, social media didn’t make kids bad at reading comprehension. That frames the unacceptable as inevitable. Mass disinvestment from humanities education, from teaching nuance, critique, and deliberation did. Policy is the problem and policy is the solution. Eyes on the prize.

Even after more than a decade of Uber, people don’t seem to get that the venture capitalists only subsidize the “disruptive” tech long enough to throw the displaced workers into permanent precarity, then they raise prices after destroying the overall market. Cab driver suicides are the strategy.

It's not just that they understand/admit how evil this is.

It's that they understand that most WGA writers fighting for better pay have less than 5-6 months of savings.

And they want to punish that desire for better pay by exploiting the financial insecurity THAT THEY CAUSED.

the most interesting part of the story so far imo is how much corruption at the Court has been exposed with a relatively small amount of effort

Bloody hell. Meta's being unsafe.

Tool made music for people that never changed the oil in their
Saturns

those assholes were never going to be satisfied with Gab and Parler and Truth Social and Voat because they don't want their own thing. they want to take your thing away. that's the driving impulse.

When my mother told me “anything is possible,” I didn’t realize she was making an existential threat

meta launched Threads without alt text 🙄

pulling up to the death of the internet