Yeah, this is the stuff that worries me. Inequality is one of the two big stressors on social stability, and we’re going to be swelling the numbers of a permanent underclass with a greatly weakened political system where half the country wants to take active measures to make life for that underclass even worse.
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Yea I don’t exactly understand how “higher wage workers who weren’t laid off are doing great” translates to most Americans are doing great. Do people think “higher wage” starts at like $45k?
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lol, Toobin is trending right now because why not?
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1338793999868497920?s=21
Also, WTF?
https://twitter.com/rottenindenmark/status/1338874725162893314?s=21
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Back on the old site we had discussed doing some kind of bracket/draft for the best photographs of the Trump era. There are so many good ones. Are people still interested in a thread for that?
I’d enjoy seeing the photos and reading the writeups but wouldn’t contribute drafts myself.
Huge wtf at that Toobin story. The bit where he phones to say “hey did you get the message about how I’m gonna sex you up” is something.
He should have asked Jim Sciutto to sneak into her apartment to replace the tape. Tippy toe, tippy toe, deep state, enemy of the people!
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beetle au juice
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This is really a great demonstration of what it would have been like to be Beethoven. Well worth watching if you love music.
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it’s kinda off putting how much the algorithm likes music bloggers.
woah somebody do something about this right quick, I don’t want any bad mojo
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HUGO CHAVEZ DOMINION CHINESE COMMUNIST SOROS FRAUD
6667 legally cast likes, even more than I had 4 years ago!
@anon46587892 we need Wisdom and Courage!
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You should be fine. It’s not even correctly written SQL.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1339180998429446144?s=19
Thanks random trumpstain brother of the chick bezos was cheating on his wife with
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She should just give the fucking money to Amazon workers.
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Grunching, hopefully not ponied
lol libertarians
By pretty much any measure you can look at to gauge a town’s success, Grafton got worse. Recycling rates went down. Neighbor complaints went up. The town’s legal costs went up because they were constantly defending themselves from lawsuits from Free Towners. The number of sex offenders living in the town went up. The number of recorded crimes went up. The town had never had a murder in living memory, and it had its first two, a double homicide, over a roommate dispute.
So there were all sorts of negative consequences that started to crop up. And meanwhile, the town that would ordinarily want to address these things, say with a robust police force, instead found that it was hamstrung. So the town only had one full-time police officer, a single police chief, and he had to stand up at town meeting and tell people that he couldn’t put his cruiser on the road for a period of weeks because he didn’t have money to repair it and make it a safe vehicle.
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I’m listening to the audiobook about this currently.