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Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.

Hasan Piker speaks at DSA rally for Claire Valdez about how older voters are ready for socialism too "You think people in this room are radical? You should listen to a 75 year old named Gertrude who's out there and wants to basically criminalize being a Republican" "GERTRUDE! GERTRUDE! GERTRUDE!"

The based hunter biden "shitposter" PR gayop imploded overnight, we now return to your regularly scheduled coalline

I am & have been adjacent to a bunch of these ppl online via FB & private listserves -- a milieu of boomer & GenX sci-fi creatives, futurists, & game devs. An extended network. They reason they all closed ranks against AI is simple: they're still doing the techlash.

Most people don't know how much "news" black people get from "heard about it". A black coworker of mine once casually, morosely mentioned a "lynching happened downtown the other day". Shocked, I asked her for more information. She shrugged, saying "I heard about it on Instagram."

There was a genre of post Vietnam era military adventure pulp that used to be ubiquitous in libraries and bookstores when I was a younger. <200 page novels about special operators in exotic Cold War hot spots on the hunt for treasure and glory. I used to love reading these. Totally gone now. Men/boys didn’t just stop being interested in this kind of stuff. I’ve never heard a good theory of what happened to the publishing industry to make this kind of product disappear from the mainstream market. It’s like we all just opened our eyes in 2010 and we were …*here.*

This Trump judicial pick volunteered to preside over immigration cases in Minnesota and rubberstamped a mass deportation agenda. Operation Metro Surge was massively unpopular and resulted in the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Daniel Traynor shouldn’t be confirmed.

One idea I really enjoy is that Democrats have an unbeatable vote rigging operation, but instead of just using it all the time, they sadistically employ it only after briefly giving Republicans hope

Once you realize that the only demographics capable of renewing the American heartland consist of immigrants and liberals, the entire "alt-right" or "MAGA" thing begins to seem like a complete dead end. Because rhetoric about "taking America back" is cheap. And those espousing it either have the vigor and vitality required to literally, actually take the heart and soul of deepest America back and to give it new life -- or they do not. And if they do not, their rhetoric and ideals are dead on arrival. A meaningful movement in the direction they want to go requires a caste of exceedingly fertile and adventurous foot-soldiers or it doesn't work. Not everybody can be "taking back institutions in the metropole" or whatever (not that they're particularly good at that either). Not everybody can LARP as a country club Gordon Gecko type, or be a RW podcaster, or whatever. People need to raise their hands and say "hell yeah I'll go to Ottumwa and make it excellent, I can do that, let's try it." They need to do this in all states, including blue states, or it doesn't work. The entire digital right wing is worthless unless it can overcome this abject lack of energy, adventure, spirit, or can-do attitude. If it cannot, it's entirely stupid and worthless -- and by what I can tell, that's just about what all that kind of talk really is at bottom.

When you ask the people in san francisco what they're doing tonight, half the time they'll be like "I think I'm going on a date?? But I'm not sure..." And then you ask wtf this means, and they show you some extremely vague text convo where both people are like "yeah, we could maybe like... do something later?" "haha that would be potentially fun" "lmk?" And they're both just postponing all other plans waiting for the other one to advance this non-committal non-plan I think on any given day about 30% of single people in this city are trapped like this