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Coddled Affluent Professional

@feelsdesperate

Retired Internet personality. 🚨 🚨 🚨 Find me at https://t.co/JkqmiUUmGW 🚨 🚨 🚨

Hoboken, NJ Katılım Ağustos 2017
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Coddled Affluent Professional
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This is a good example of what radicalizes Mamdani’s base: Ostensibly the type of person who takes this job is going to be sort of smart and well educated (credentialed) but they’re only going to be comfortable financially and lifestyle-wise in NYC if they have a trust fund or it’s a second-income vanity career. You can get off a plane from wherever and barely speak English and make this much driving an Uber. Nurses in NYC can easily make $150k a year. The dynamics of our economy that funnel people into these sort-of-high-status/ mediocre-salary jobs make them insane and then they become Leftists who want to burn everything down.
emily rahhal she/her@RahhalEmily

👀@NYCMayor is searching for a new speechwriter

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I think, paradoxically, there has to be a modicum of respect for West Coast homeless people where they are treated as adults who have agency, and if you ask them, ‘Have you made the adult life choice to live in a tent and gobble meth and howl at the moon, is that what you want?’ and they say, ‘yes,’ you just have to accept that, and then all of the paternalistic homelessness industry stuff can be treated as the charade that it is, and you’re left with the naked political decision of whether or not you let a small number of adults engage in extremely selfish and unsafe and disruptive and antisocial behavior that has broad negative externalities for everyone else. I think that’s what Pratt is actually doing here - he’s providing these people with a degree of respect they don’t often get by acknowledging their adult choices and agency and then following through on the logical consequences those choices entail.
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline

The level of disdain Spencer Pratt has for the unhoused is disgusting. And if you’re fine with this kind of talk, I don’t want to know you. Josh Haskell: “What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless people in Los Angeles?” Spencer Pratt: “Well, they’re not homeless. They’re drug addicts. Most of these people are addicted to fentanyl and meth… They are choosing to be on the streets because they want to do drugs. They don’t want rules. They don’t want to listen. They want to have animals to abuse.”

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Coddled Affluent Professional@feelsdesperate·
None of this is going to redound to Newsom’s favor because even when the Iran war ends and California resumes getting regular shipments of oil from the Middle East (lol!), California will still have the highest gas prices in the country, not because of anything Trump did, but because of California’s execrable energy policy from the terrible utilities, to high gas taxes, to chasing refineries and energy companies out, to not allowing development of energy resources. There’s really nothing good in any sector that Newsom can point to that the state government of California has done well.
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Governor Newsom Press Office@GovPressOffice

Mr. President, we just want lower gas prices

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Coddled Affluent Professional@feelsdesperate·
I was still kind of a lib in 2020 but I was totally unmoved by Floyd’s death. It wasn’t revelatory to me (just an ugly, pointless, small tragedy) and I didn’t think it meant anything. What I’ll always remember was how it felt to remain completely sober while so many people were swept away - it was disorienting to be in a totally different reality than the dominant culture, I almost felt like I was on drugs.
Mayor Jacob Frey@MayorFrey

Today, we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago.   That moment changed our city forever.

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Coddled Affluent Professional@feelsdesperate·
Very funny rant. ‘I am Hasan, I am the people!’ The Hasan/ Mamdani corner of politics is just saturated with delusional self regard. Say what you want about it, it does make for a reliably entertaining spectacle.
hasanabi@hasanthehun

every centrist blue maga who celebrates these subpoenas is a fucking moron. they think you’re all communists. they’re coming for you too. -kamala & hillary lost to trump cus they tried to present themselves as moderate establishment candidates. it was the dem parties failiure that gave us trump twice. -the dems and its free consultants on this website are entirely out of touch w the base & diametrically opposed to its demands. -pro israel dems have no real constituency but represent most of the political & media class. -blue maga is crying a lot lately cus left flank candidates that are for m4a, & anti israel are winning insurgent races in the dem primaries and this makes a lot of the blue maga folk on here scared. “i tried posting on twitter and it didn’t work?! well maybe trump can take of my problem”

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Dagoth Chud
Dagoth Chud@dagothchud·
@feelsdesperate Ah, common story. The Dave Rubin pipeline. "I'm a libtard but I want to bomb more countries and make excuses for Israel. The Left left me."
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Passage Publishing
Passage Publishing@PassagePress·
Today we are proud to announce the release of American Scapegoat: How a Corrupt Justice System Sacrificed Derek Chauvin to the Mob by former federal prosecutor T.J. Harker (@TJ_Harker). Six years ago today, George Floyd died while in custody of Minneapolis beat cop Derek Chauvin, sparking the most destructive riots in our nation's history and becoming the pretext for an era of mass political hysteria that threatened to rip apart the very fabric of American life. Cities burned. Floyd's body was paraded around in a gold casket. Every institution was made to bend the knee to BLM. Ordinary white Americans, represented by the person of Derek Chauvin, were called to account for three centuries of racial grievance. All most Americans saw of that day was the grainy cellphone footage of Officer Chauvin's knee restraining the back of George Floyd's neck. Few bothered to learn any other details about the case, and by the time the trial rolled around, the verdict was a foregone conclusion. An innocent black man had been killed by a racist white cop, they were told. And for America to atone for its original sins, that racist white cop had to pay the price. What they didn't know was that Chauvin's knee did not prevent Floyd from breathing. They didn't know Chauvin was following procedure by the book. They didn't know Floyd had taken lethal amounts of fentanyl minutes before being restrained. They didn't know Floyd had a pre-existing heart condition. They didn't know the autopsy report had been revised under threat of professional harm. They didn't know the original prosecutor removed herself from the case after seeing all of the evidence. They didn't know the subsequent prosecutors had to abandon their theory of the case just days into the trial. They didn't know the prosecution never established a cause of death, let alone that Derek Chauvin was responsible. In American Scapegoat, author T.J. Harker breaks down what happened on that fateful day six years ago, analyzes the thousands of court documents manipulated and recontextualized to achieve the trial result Minnesota politicians demanded, and relives the trial itself in thorough, painstaking detail to definitively show that Derek Chauvin did not kill George Floyd. Never in modern American history has our justice system been so corrupted by public mass hysteria than in the case of Derek Chauvin. This is the story of that trial. This is the story of how a man was sacrificed to the mob. American Scapegoat is available for pre-order now. Coming Fall '26.
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.
Ulises@UlisesDavid__

🚨| La claridad de un acueducto del imperio Romano, de hace 2000 años

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Coddled Affluent Professional@feelsdesperate·
It’s crazy how few homicides there have been this year in our nations capital, Washington DC. Major story that has been focused on less than you’d expect even from RW media. I wonder how much we’ve been discouraged into believing that tolerating social disorder and criminality all the way up to murder wasn’t a choice.
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Per student spending in NYC goes up every year but results don’t get better. The NYC DOE is primarily a jobs program the purpose of which is to provide make-work fake jobs to the Dem base.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor

In the wealthiest city in the richest country on Earth, it is unacceptable that so many students have been left behind.  So we’re investing in what works: high-quality instruction, strong support for teachers, and a public school system that doesn’t give up on anyone. The $17.3 million expansion of NYC Reads & NYC Solves programs will help make sure every NYC student succeeds.

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Massie will go down as a cautionary tale, as someone whose brain was boiled by the internet. Massie went online and yada yada yada concluded it was a good idea to call the incredibly popular leader of his political party a baby-eating pedophile. That’s all there really is to it, there’s nothing more to it than that, there’s no greater lesson than some people go online and fall victims to all sorts of bad incentives and end up doing all sorts is spectacularly stupid things common sense tells you you shouldn’t do.
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Alex Stephens@AlexStepherylh·
@vulpeurbem @Am3ricanIvan1 @feelsdesperate Like gas prices? Or competing for jobs with the H1B immigrants Trump is flooding into the country? Trump was supposed to “drain the swamp” and “go after the pedophiles.” Now it’s not a concern that he covered up the most notorious pedophile blackmail ring in history?
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The Current Thing is the Current Thing until it’s not. ‘Israel’ and ‘Palestine’ aren’t going to be a durable, ongoing predicate for American politics no matter how much the worst people on the left and the right would like that to be the case. Something new and stupid will have to emerge sooner or later. Maybe it will be data centers ‘turning the water brown’ or other nonsensical degrowth propaganda. The ‘Gaza genocide’ branding was obviously an attempt to extend the shelf life of those events but they’re well past their peak and people who are smart sold high and are moving on to something else.
Corey Walker 🇺🇸@CoreyWriting

I think people gotta realize that Israel-Palestine does not matter that much.

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@GovPressOffice @JohnDenverHojaa @dagothchud @TJ_Harker @Mike_from_PA @elonmusk @BarackObama @taylorswift13