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This track would be good accompaniment to playing Poohsticks: on.soundcloud.com/OfXf8SueqoIVMd…

@RBReich Given the Community Note and all your replies, will you be retracting this post?

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

@dissidentwest @aidannonx A capitalist figures out how to prevent (some) innocent people from being killed and robbed by idiotic, thuggish totalitarians. It's heavy handed but well done. It's on Netflix right now, so just watch some of it and make up your own mind.

@aidannonx I’ve somehow managed to never see this movie. It’s actually good?

What’s the best right wing coded movie that was clearly not intended to be for a right wing audience? You’re not allowed to say The Matrix.

I am hereby coining the nickname, "GooBook" googlebook.google

@cryptodavidw @paulg In Berkeley, the activists of the '60s became the anti-growth activists of the '80s and '90s and 00's.

@paulg I thought it was people on the right that were being NIMBYs

It's so weird how difficult it is for the left to understand that all you have to do to decrease housing costs is to let people build more housing.

My Senator, Supreme Ambassador of Joylessness

@KeenanPeachy @kausmickey Okay, that's the who, but what is the how? This post has zero evidence of kickbacks.

You're not gonna believe this, but Gavin Newsom's new "free diapers" program is yet another corrupt NGO money laundering operation. Kelly Sawyer runs Baby 2 Baby, an LA charity that provides baby gear to poor mothers. If you go to an LA private school, you get solicited to donate to it every year (and I have). Newsom announced he's giving $20 million to Baby 2 Baby to give new mothers free diapers. Only, he's not giving it directly to mothers in the form of supermarket vouchers or gift cards -- he can't do that, because then Kelly Sawyer's Hollywood producer husband Jamie Patricof wouldn't be able to funnel this money back into Newsom's presidential campaign. Jamie Patricof, you see, is one of the top donors and campaign bundlers for the democrats in California. He's the son of venture capitalist Alan Patricof, one of the biggest bundlers for the Clintons. Jamie took over for Alan, who's 94. Newsom is giving $20 million of our money to his close pals the Patricofs' pet "nonprofit." How much is going to get kicked back to Newsom's campaign? How much do the Patricof's get? This plan is more full of poop than a newborn's Huggies.

I will not be taking questions.

My hottest Star Wars take: the proper watching order is 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 8, 3, 2, 1.

@BasedSamParker This isn't true, though. 63 square miles is the whole development; the building sizes will be much less.

Imagine a building a half-mile wide. Now imagine that building stretches from Seattle to Portland. That's what they're gonna build in Utah. Utahns showed up in droves to oppose it. The 3-man county commission passed it anyway. This is "democracy." Lol I don't normally advocate violence, but they're making it VERY difficult here.

@davidgaw @PattyGr29702276 @mattyglesias This is great, now you are both happy and agreeing!

@PattyGr29702276 @mattyglesias Then there you go.

Don't know what the mechanisms are but these Virginia judges need to go.

This looks like it was correctly implemented: Spider-Noir | Official Trailer (Authentic Black & White) youtu.be/OSMUZJ2LkU8?si… via @YouTube

@AgoristN @RickDHarrington They didn't kill him for being legally armed. Here is a news article about the incident: cbsnews.com/news/two-feder…

@PattyMurray Why do you want non citizens to vote?

There it is. Republicans’ SAVE Act is not about protecting the right to vote – it’s about putting up barriers to make it harder for certain people to vote. Senate Democrats will block this anti-democracy garbage from ever becoming law.

@Gerrytheicecube @vjeannek @SusieWiles47 @dlaw530 Well, for example, Twitter stores all the data for this conversation in data centers. Where else should they store it?

@craigsuperstar @vjeannek @SusieWiles47 @dlaw530 Data centers were forced on us, too. Before them, we all had storage on our own computers. Our information was more secure, and we controlled our own info. I'm still trying to figure out why we need data centers and cloud computing. Just seems like more risk, little reward.

President Trump is the most forward leaning president on innovation in American history. When it comes to AI and cyber security, President Trump and his administration are not in the business of picking winners and losers. This administration has one goal; ensure the best and safest tech is deployed rapidly to defeat any and all threats. We appreciate the effort being made by the frontier labs to ensure that goal is met. The White House will continue to lead an America First effort that empowers America’s great innovators, not bureaucracy, to drive safe deployment of powerful technologies while keeping America safe. Really, it’s common sense!

@TheBabylonBee Also: just before watching The Two Towers

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@KatraApplesauce @amazinggengar @ShawnNOrlando Heh, they responded with further baseless insults and a block. You don't need "media literacy" to guess why.

@KatraApplesauce @amazinggengar @ShawnNOrlando I have enough literacy to read Shawn's post, where he describes the meaninglessness as an objective reality within the story. For Shawn, it's the only consequential thing in the movie: x.com/i/status/20519…

Anyone who says "the casino scene was a waste of time", I assume they drink battery fluid. The point of the casino scene is to illustrate the 1% rich elites that profit and benefit from the war with no stakes in who is involved. Finn realizes that all of it is useless

@KatraApplesauce @amazinggengar @ShawnNOrlando No no, look again, Shawn says, "Finn realizes it's all useless". In his view, change is impossible, and nothing in any of the movies is consequential.

@craigsuperstar @amazinggengar @ShawnNOrlando What's being said is that the people not in power are being oppressed by those who profit off the war and that the resistance cannot count on the help of the galaxy in a grassroots uprising but has to be the torchbearer to lead the way in defeating the FO.

@KatraApplesauce @amazinggengar @ShawnNOrlando Shawn says none of it matters because it all just benefits the elites. Are you saying he's wrong?

@craigsuperstar @amazinggengar @ShawnNOrlando Dude, the stake here is that the only ones willing to stand up to the first order and oppose it's rule are at the verge of being exterminated. Watch the fucking movie you clown.

@amazinggengar @ShawnNOrlando SHAWN's point is that they like movies with no stakes

@ShawnNOrlando So you make this point that the conflict is pointless bc the REAL ppl in power arent in jeopardy And the movie continues to another battle on a salt planet that... has no purpose or stakes bc the REAL ppl in power arent actually in jeopardy. So why bother to make this point?