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And here it comes

nobody should use twitter (you don’t have to use bluesky! just not twitter!) but very specifically journalists and entertainment reporters using it has been astoundingly corrosive for our civil dialogue, because we have completely lost any semblance of “saying this is unacceptable”

You did not just do that. The expression is a cautionary tale !

The internet is not a dump truck, it's a series of tubes. Everything flows from that. So think of a very thin but incredibly long straw attached to the airplane. That's your vpn!

95% of my communications from the Democratic Party look like this. I have never in my life signed up to be texted by a campaign or the party, and I spent fruitless months attempting to unsubscribe from these. These are functionally identical to scam texts.

yeah it's not really a "lie", as Schumer had already chosen her to run and was urging her privately as early as 2024 (which was nonetheless reported publicly and widely known). Whether she would have actually run or not without Platner entering, nobody can ever know because that's not what happened.

but that's Will's point (which I disagree he can make so cavalierly); that people are dumb and their calculations are dumb

unless they also collected extensive data from everyone who asked about this poll about their income levels, age, level of debt, dependents, medical issues, debt etc., there is no way to just blanket declare "studies show people are dumb so clearly that's all this is". You can't just assume that

see here's where Will loses it. this stat shows "people are bad at math" or/and "people are so desperate for immediate money they choose the 50K option". Will assumes the former based on a pre-conceived assumption that financial precarity is a myth, but he offers little to no reasons for this.

it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption

But to do this you need..... datacenters

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

my 80 year old parents are totally MSNBC Rachel Maddow types who nonethless still watch Maher because they can't really distinguish that he's awful

because there's no Constitutional right to the Olive Garden

I've tried to point Will to some articles by Krugman, an actual economist, with a nuanced take on how even w "good" macroeconomic factors here's reasons why people are still suffering (job stability, housing, health care etc), but Will gets more engagement w/ his "nobody is poor, they're lying" take

I’m deadly serious in wanting the next Democratic trifecta to repeal in full every existing statute granting the president emergency powers. The president doesn’t need any statutory emergency powers. In an emergency, Congress can gather within hours and pass legislation.

actual oldness

(also she *was* running for vice president! ha ha.... )

Sorry I meant Biden