Yeah, I think you’ve got a good handle on it.

I imagine that Kamala could at least win an argument with a potted plant, which is more than you could say about Biden at this point.

Yeah, I don’t get it. I was confused and not happy when I saw he was running again. He could’ve gone out like a heavily watered down LBJ, instead he’s going to be forever remembered as the lost nursing home patient who wandered onto the debate stage. This is an unmitigated disaster, and the only way forward I see now is have Joe step down and let Kamala be the president. I’m not excited for that prospect, but I assume she can at least win a debate against a potted plant.

Yeah, it reminded me a lot of the Carter/Reagan debate, only if Carter had a massive concussion.

And when he said he beat medicare

I would vote for a wet sandwich before I vote for Trump, but Jesus Christ, it would be nice if the democrats fucking tried.

If only. Dude looks and sounds like he’s about drop dead. I cannot begin to express how enormously frustrated with the democrats I am.

Gas prices mean nothing if you can take the train. Every time gas prices jump, people start thinking about alternatives. Might be pretty sick, actually.

If you’ve got better ideas, we need them, get out there and get on it. As it is, we’re sleepwalking into catastrophe.

Fucking embarrassing tbh. We’re going to decimate the global north because somebody said no to our ethnostate pal.

So here’s my question: what happens when Israel finishes swallowing Palestine and there’s no more land left to steal? What then? Are they going to start shit with Jordan or Egypt to steal their land next? At what point does the US let them know that we’re not going to let them drag us into WW3 just because they need to steal some land.

I think anon has it 100% correct. The instant Gabe is out of the picture, I expect to hear talk about how “you don’t understand, we have to fuck out users, won’t someone please think of the IPO?!”

All my homies hate Milton Friedman

So this is what’s called “personal pricing”, it’s a mythical vision of capitalism where instead of having to price your product against anonymous gross demand, you can price your product according to what you think you can get each specific individual to pay. Proponents (Chicago school MFs) argue that it would be “good for consumers” (massive sarcasm quotes there) because, hypothetically, you could safely offer your goods and services for much cheaper to people who are less able to afford them while making up the difference by charging more for people who can pay more. I very, very, very seriously doubt it will work that way in practice.

My problem with it is that we’re quickly arriving at a market where the amount of information held and utilized by the seller is maximized, and the amount of information held and used by the buyer is minimized. This is already causing and will continue to worsen exploitive disparities in the market. Without the consumer having ready access to accurate information and the ability to actually utilize it practically, consumers can’t make informed choices, and that has been and will continue to be leveraged to coerce economic choices from consumers that they never would have made otherwise. The tl;Dr is that implementing personal pricing in the fraud economy will never ever work for the consumer’s benefit.

So, the thing about the US is that we became cum slaves to the car companies. That’s not the whole picture, there’s, of course, other factors like white flight and other racism-based phenomena, big oil lobbying, etc. etc. but any other industry would gladly murder their mother to have the kind of absolute entrenchment and societal dependency that the car industry has in the US. For seventy years, every urban policy has bent itself around the concerns of cars and the people who own them, including the transfer of wealth from downtowns that pay well more than they consume in taxes to the suburbs who consume far more than they pay in taxes. There’s a reason why US urbans are uniquely terrible, even among NATO and other capitalist countries.

I’m glad for China, everyone deserves to have good cities. I don’t think that having good urbans again is out of the reach of the US, even without a revolution. It’s just going to take time, a lot of time, and consistent action at the local, state, and federal levels.

It’s a regional dialect, that’s what he calls genocide.

When I’m in a worst takes competition and my opponents are Lindsey Graham and Dmitrey Medvedev

Israel, the state, tries to conflate the two in order to have an impenetrable shield against all scrutiny.

“Jesus Christ, Israel, why are you playing soccer with dead babies?!”

“Excuse me? What, do you hate Jews or something? What, are you some kind of Nazi?”

A really good point I heard is: this was likely a state actor attack, so how many others just like this are out there, undiscovered?

I’ve met this bird. It only prioritizes issues as urgent; when interacted with, it’ll say “yes, this is part of MVP”