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mamdani Socialistly balancing the budget is some truly son of the century-tier bullshitting because what he's basically doing is ransoming hochul for state funds with the threat of a primary challenge. very based, but not a very replicable form of fiscal politics

Javier Milei is making Capitalism great again!

Female construction worker in East Berlin, 1970s.

Caffeine + L-theanine + magnesium glycinate might be the closest thing to the limitless pill

"Imperialism was historically progressive"

Oh my god. The level of reading comprehension is lower than I expected. If everyone chooses red, everyone lives. There is no dilemma.

One of the reasons I am a liberal and not a leftist is that leftist morality is about power, not rights. Good actions reduce power imbalances, bad actions exacerbate them. Murder, theft, and discrimination can all be justified if they harm a “powerful” person or group. Liberals condemn these actions because they violate individual rights and dignity. Liberalism seeks equal rights, leftism seeks equal power.

You read about any American waterway it’s the same story “for thousands of years it hosted a highly diverse and unique ecosystem. By the 1980s it was mostly DDT and paint thinner.”

Members of Congress calling for invocation of the 25th Amendment, a thread 🧵:

“Water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. They are assets that should be included in global economic balance sheets.” This is not satire. The World Economic Forum wants to monetise breathing.