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This whole experiment has been awesome. Both sides claiming they are 100% just and accusing the other of being evil. The lesson is not which side is right. The lesson is how we communicated about it.

@BernieSanders Where is all the labor for horse carriage production? Did all those people go homeless, or did they move on to the next industry that needed their labor the most?

Jeff Bezos is seeking $100 billion to put robots into factories. Millions of manufacturing jobs — GONE. Driverless vehicle companies are expanding rapidly. Millions of transportation jobs — truckers, cab drivers, Uber drivers — GONE. We are not ready for what’s coming.

You’re either loyal to him or you’re *sane*

@AOC What displacements and exploits have AirBnB engaged in specifically?

Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning. Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale. Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model. Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole. Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.

@megynkelly @Mediaite Why do you care more about popularity than principles?

@esjesjesj @GuntherEagleman And you are so nice to everyone.

@GuntherEagleman You’re easily one of the biggest assholes I have ever seen

Truth! What changed.

Socialists probably take the price of this order extremely seriously

@GetthebagLou @DiscussingFilm It must be so!

@DiscussingFilm MATTHEW REAVES GIVE ME A LIVE ACTION MR FREEZE AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

First camera tests for ‘THE BATMAN: PART 2’. The film will be set during Winter.

@bloonavich @SternShark @50shadesofgay_A Nice one!

@RunOnCal @SternShark @50shadesofgay_A Was probably worried ur retardation was contagious tbh

Apologies @SternShark and @50shadesofgay_A, Destiny blocked me, so I couldn’t continue our conversations. I guess his rhetoric is fine but mine is too dangerous. Sincerely, I appreciate the willingness from both of you to engage with me, though.

LFG

@criticofthecath @TheTrojanBlade It’ll be the first year under Gary Patterson and his system, so we’ll see how he adapts the roster. Not the best timing for the DC to be getting his feet wet with the program.

What's USC's record in 2026?

Singaporeans pay 20% into a broader system that includes education, mortgages, etc. 10% of their income goes to healthcare. We spend, depending on income, 12-15% individually. The US spends 17% of GDP. All for lower quality care in a patchwork, fragmented system. The quality in Singapore is much better.

@RunOnCal @Noahpinion Tell that to 65-yr-olds during the 2008 financial crisis. Singaporeans pay 20% of their income into that system.

Progressives spent a very long time telling themselves that government debt doesn't matter. So it's good to see them starting to pivot back toward the Spirit of 1992.

They won’t live in poverty if they just save and invest their money. Literally just put it in the S&P 500 for 40 years and they’ll be fine. They’d be a millionaire actually. There is no fully privatized healthcare system, but Singapore is the closest. Their goverment doesn’t offer anything, they just mandate participation in private systems outside of a small safety net for the poor. It’d be better than what we have.

@RunOnCal @Noahpinion I don't want old people to live in poverty, happy to pay 6% to ensure that. Can you give one example where a fully privatized healthcare system is cheaper?

@SokchoChicken @Noahpinion Save and invest your money you save from reduced taxes instead of social security. Healthcare needs to be privatized. It’d be way cheaper.

@RunOnCal @Noahpinion I like social security and healthcare.

@SokchoChicken @Noahpinion Orrr grow some discipline and massively reduce spending. That includes entitlements.

@RunOnCal @Noahpinion We have to raise taxes to pay down the debt.

@SokchoChicken @Noahpinion I’m aware Clinton had a surplus. A deficit means the debt is going up. That is not good, even when the Democrats are in power. In general Democrats don’t spend any less, in fact they often spend more. The difference is they just tax a lot more too.

@RunOnCal @Noahpinion Except Dems have decreased the deficit every time they're in power. Clinton had a surplus, fyi.

@SokchoChicken @Noahpinion I agree about the Republicans dishonesty. I don’t think that means we should be awarding any prizes to Democrats who have done nothing but helped the debt go up.

@RunOnCal @Noahpinion At least Dems are honest about it and actual lower the deficit. Republicans claim to be 'fiscally responsible' and their idiot voters believe them.

@MartyFryer2 @NickJFuentes I agree, but that’s true of both Democrats and Republicans. Fuentes isn’t in solving that problem by switching sides.

@RunOnCal @NickJFuentes You are taking it as a given that the policies are poorly executed, but you are not asking why it happens in the first place. The reason is because politicians pander to the donors instead of to the voters. That will continue indefinitely until the voters put their foot down.

It’s really not that complicated. The Republicans totally betrayed their voters and broke every single promise. So I’m switching sides and voting Democrat in 2026 to punish them.

@SokchoChicken @Noahpinion Congress controls spending, and each president inherits a little bit of their predecessor’s budget. Reducing a deficit doesn’t mean much; your total debt is still growing. Both sides are to blame, and neither takes enough responsibility.

@RunOnCal @Noahpinion Democrats are the only party that lowers the deficit when in power. I just don't understand this argument at all.