JBBdude

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JBBdude

JBBdude

@JBBdude

The rants and ramblings of a nerd on the edge. @[email protected] https://t.co/JZ6cJEAY9g

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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@NOMalreadytaken @FrizzellH @durdyessobee @JamesSurowiecki And were any of those Kimmel in his comedy bit last week, or, again, are you trying to connect unrelated people and statements to that specific incident? You said "accompanied." Stupid things some random guy said five to ten years ago did not accompany a comedy bit last week
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James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki·
The joke is premised on the idea that Melania is a trophy wife married to a very wealthy older man, and she's looking forward to the day when she inherits his wealth and no longer has to pretend she loves him. You can disagree with that portrait of Trumps, but it's a very conventional, even cliched, joke to make about a beautiful woman married to a much older rich guy.
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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@NOMalreadytaken @FrizzellH @durdyessobee @JamesSurowiecki Was Kathy Griffin doing that on Kimmel's show last week while he was doing his comedy bit? Or are you using the term "accompanied" loosely to tie one comedian's act last week to an entirely unrelated comedian nine years ago who has apologized repeatedly since?
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Ichabod Crane
Ichabod Crane@NOMalreadytaken·
I've heard plenty of jokes about gold diggers and the such. I doubt anyone would deny they are routinely told. Name another, or are you being intentionally ignorant, that those jokes were accompanied Kathy Griffin holding up Trump's severed head and Madonna dreaming about blowing up the White House
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Swann Marcus
Swann Marcus@SwannMarcus89·
100% agree. The reason I talk so much about Hasan is because I can’t change the evil shit Trump does but I can bully Hasan Piker and make him sad, so I engage in the activity that allows me to have a quantifiable positive impact on the world
Sarah Longwell@SarahLongwell25

I’ve been pretty clear about what I think about Piker’s rhetoric and have the mentions to prove it. But I do have an important observation about Piker: He’s not the President of the United States! He’s a Twitch streamer 80% of Americans haven’t heard of ? It’s not the same!

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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@FinnE635703 @SwannMarcus89 He did seem to ragebait a bunch of idiots with his post. Every interaction grows his rev share. Successful strategy, clearly
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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@mallengahs2013 @agraybee Not necessarily. China, Vietnam, and Cuba are republics without liberal democracy or competitive elections. Their source of sovereignty/legitimacy is the people. But they don't select leadership by popular election America is a democratic republic but it's not inherent
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Jam@mallengahs2013·
@agraybee A republic is a democracy
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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@AlecDacyczyn @TheTomKnighton Their case would be that the improved productivity resulting from the machinery results from the labor invested into the manufacture of the machinery. Any value of science or innovation is attributed to the labor involved in making the discovery It's dumb but worth understanding
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Alec Dacyczyn
Alec Dacyczyn@AlecDacyczyn·
So if I invest in machinery to do the same job in half of the time, does that halve the value of what I create? If Marx would pay me the same amount per hour of work then I have no incentive to invest in improved productivity. That is why such economies stagnate, fall behind, and ultimately fail.
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Tom Knighton
Tom Knighton@TheTomKnighton·
✅FACT: Asserting absolute bullshit is correct doesn't suddenly make it correct. A master craftsman can make an amazing piece in a surprisingly short amount of time. That thing is more valuable than an amateur's attempt that takes five times longer, but isn't as well constructed. A lot of people spend a lot of time doing things that no one wants anything to do with. It is not valuable because they spent the time, regardless of the demand for that thing. That's the inherent flaw in the labor theory of value. It assumes that just because you put a lot of time into it, it's worth more. Would the Panama Canal be worth more if it were dug out with spoons instead of steam shovels?
RTSG@RTSG_Main

✅ FACT: The labor theory of value is CORRECT, and every critic of it relies on strawmans and falsehoods already refuted by Marx himself.

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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@Fat_DTEA @constans Huh? Zionism means the existence of a Jewish state at all. Islamism is an actual extremist fundamentalist theocratic ideology, distinct from Islam, preaching global violence. Obvious differences between Iran pre vs post 1979, Afghanistan pre vs post 1996, democratic Iraq vs ISIS
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Fat Tea.@Fat_DTEA·
@constans it's what all that "anti-islamism" stuff is going to lead to. it's just "anti-zionism isn't anti-Semitism" for the center right.
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constans@constans·
This is the sort of thing that happens when we don’t immediate crush right wingers who lash out it with anti-Muslim rhetoric against Mamdani. You can’t let this stuff fester becuse it enables these crazed bigots like Rep Roy
Andrew Solender@AndrewSolender

Rep. Chip Roy introduces the MAMDANI Act — Measures Against Marxism’s Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists It allows for deportation/denaturalization of immigrants involved with "socialist, communist, Chinese communist, Marxist, or Islamic fundamentalist doctrines"

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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@agraybee Nevermind Warren. Obama's tax plan said tax the rich. Hillary's also did. Obama and Biden both passed tax increases for the rich
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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@jaymart222 The goal is making these units unprofitable and unsellable. They want to force landlords into bankruptcy, force sales to the city, run them as public housing, keep rents ridiculously cheap, then hike taxes like mad to pay for proper upkeep This is their stated strategy
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Jay Martin 🏠 🏢🏚️🌇
I have been inside many apartments. Many nice places to live and many that are horror shows. There is much about this video that makes 0 sense. What does make sense though is that if an apartment rents for $500 per month below its operating cost ( and $1200 a month less then what public housing pays to operate units per month ) with no subsidy… then the chances that housing is going to be terrible are very high. There is no reason other than politics that we can’t align interests to incentivize good property ownership and quality while making housing more affordable. Profit is necessary for that to be achieved just as positive income is necessary for renters of a city to want to stay in it. If new build housing has to pencil for it to be produced then old build housing has to pencil for it to be well kept.
Brecca Stoll@breccastoll

For the last six weeks, Zohran Mamdani brought disgruntled nyc renters together. He says their testimonies will shape city policy. Here’s one of the testimonies I heard. Abagail and her roommates pay $900 a month TOTAL for their 3 bedroom Brooklyn apartment. She tells me the ceiling is caving in, there’s rats, etc. The normal 3 bedroom apartment goes for $4,892 a month. She and others hope Mamdani will keep his promise to crack down on “bad landlords.”

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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@scarylawyerguy That's a very funny title given that Trump's signature move this year is not changing regimes
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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@SkylarkInFlight @pooosting16559 @kane @sfgov Releasing rapists into the world is merciful? The death penalty costs more to carry out than life imprisonment. Why would you want to waste public money on illegal immigrant criminals?
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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@SkylarkInFlight @pooosting16559 @kane @sfgov So you're saying that you want a serial rapist released from prison? You think that America shouldn't punish violent criminals for hurting Americans? Idk, seems weird to me. Pretty soft on crime
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Skylark@SkylarkInFlight·
@pooosting16559 @kane @sfgov Why should Californians pay to feed, clothe and house this sick rapist for the rest of his life?!?!?!? Deport.
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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@sekukocgar @Claire_V0ltaire Thank you for demonstrating the misunderstanding Germany existed before the Nazis & after Israel existed before Netanyahu & will exist after No other country has a term meaning supporting its existence. There's no Germanism nor any anti-Germanism arguing to dissolve Germany
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Claire@Claire_V0ltaire·
This is so incredibly annoying. If Zionism was support for the current Israeli government, Zionism would be mutable and people would hop on and off that train daily and majority of Israelis would be antizionists every Tuesday and Thursday.
The New Yorker@NewYorker

At many Jewish institutions, rejecting Zionism is indeed regarded as a form of sacrilege. But more and more American Jews are having a hard time reconciling other core features of their identity with support for Israel’s current government. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/KbUGTg

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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@CringePosted @agraybee Dems already hold left wing Israel positions, pro two state, anti Bibi, mostly anti Iran War Anti-Zionism, pro Hamas, and pro far right Islamist theocracy policy demands are not left wing
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me 🥑🔸@CringePosted·
@JBBdude @agraybee I do not think that Yglesias endorsing that democrats take left wing positions on Israel is the same as endorsing “kill the Jews”
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Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)
A swing voter in a focus group said he found Harris's promises "condescending" for unspecified reasons. Identity contextualizes campaigns. All politics is the "ummm human resources?" meme.
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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@EyeOnStalk @Wilson__Valdez Bc their goal is tying issues together. That tweet lumps together Dems' "radical" two states Israel policy with unrelated identity politics/Woke It's the same as anti AIPAC and "Epstein class" messaging conflating with random right wing domestic policy priorities
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EyeOnStalk@EyeOnStalk·
@Wilson__Valdez How about instead of arguing who's responsible for it we just shut it down?
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Centrism Fan Acct 🔹
Centrism Fan Acct 🔹@Wilson__Valdez·
You guys can keep repeating it over and over but no matter how many times you repeat it, it doesn't make it true. The "Activist Left" was absolutely responsible for all of the worst excesses of 'identity politics' that people associate with the Dem brand.
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Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩@ColeSandick

This is the skeleton key for understanding the current crisis of the Democratic Party. They're seen as radical because they were ideologically hijacked—not by extreme leftists—but by extreme centrists with radical views on identity politics, Israel and representational politics.

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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@maxkatz515 @NormalDemocrats Jewish turnout in those areas was higher than other demos. The turnout collapse was bigger among Black and Latino voters than among Jews You are targeting Jews to be mad at as a result of motivated reasoning, not reaching the conclusion as a result of the data
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Mack's Cats
Mack's Cats@maxkatz515·
@JBBdude @NormalDemocrats Great, so they turned out 7% more than other demos during 2024. National dem turnout was still down by 6 million votes compared to 2020, almost entirely in city centers, where jews primarily live. You can pretend it wasn't jews who didn't show up. I'm not going to.
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Democrats Against Antisemites
Democrats Against Antisemites@NormalDemocrats·
One of the most overlooked facts in debates about antisemitism and the Democratic Party is where Jewish voters actually live. In 2024, five of the seven key swing states each had more Jewish residents than Trump’s margin of victory. This is not a fact Democrats can just ignore.
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Judea Pearl@yudapearl

Jews are slowly coming to the realization that the Democratic Party to which they have been eternally loyal, actually wants the existence of Israel to come to an end. jewishjournal.com/commentary/opi…

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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@maxkatz515 @NormalDemocrats Though Jewish voter turnout was higher than Black turnout, so potentially they showed up even more for Harris And ofc not every non Harris vote was a racist/sexist. Other reasons exist for voting decisions, like the all popular dissatisfaction with the strong Biden economy
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JBBdude@JBBdude·
@maxkatz515 @NormalDemocrats Voter turnout stats, what you replied to, do count non voters. Jewish voter turnout was higher than the rest of the country Jews showed up more for Harris than anyone other than Black women. By your metric, this makes Jewss *less* racist or sexist than other demographic groups
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