what is the missing context? here said:
"But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, ... whether it's the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment." No context is missing, he just didn't spell it out fully

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social re: your point on zohran being a communist, how do you explain the video of zohran talking about "seizing the means of production"? not sure how you can easily explain that away as Scandinavian states, etc...

👑 The Madness of King Donald Mehdi's Monday morning roundup of an increasingly unhinged US president, a new pro-Palestine Irish president, the big Mamdani/AOC/Bernie rally in Queens, and Gavin Newsom's 2028 plans.

"There is a clear mental health crisis going on in the Oval Office right now. He is detached from reality. Every politician and pundit, every journalist...knows this. It should be the biggest story in our media. But, shamefully, it isn’t."

Me for 'First Draft':

I don't think he is being sarcastic in what he wrote.

Mehdi, this sounds so stupid. You have to be fair and acknowledge decision happen dynamically, and this could not have been the initial decision, but one that was made in response to existing, ongoing reality... Don't be that guy.

I wish at least they were funny, most are cring

He's just shopping around/asking to be paid (secretly) by the billionaires (his primary votes are his leverage) to step aside from splitting the vote. He won't be on the ballot come election time...

the poem "The Devil of Pope-Fig Island"

The poem politely skips details, but the clear suggestion is that she lifts her skirts or exposes a private part and pretends it’s wounded or scratched by Phil (her husband).
This scandalous, shocking display horrifies and bewilders the devil.

People online will really be like “you believe in having principles? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, conceding every principle to build a winning coalition” and then not build a winning coalition

Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.

lol imagine being maga and having to convince yourself this man is a genius who definitely knows how to use a toilet correctly on the first try

ALERT: I had not seen this article until this morning. It is a pretty big deal. Mike Waltz isn’t actually using Signal. He’s using a copy or third party version of Signal created by a company called TeleMessage the point of which is to allow archiving of messages. The app claims to preserve …

"Tesla Inc. employs an odometer system that utilizes predictive algorithms, energy consumption metrics, and driver behavior multipliers that manipulate and misrepresent the actual mileage travelled by Tesla vehicles," reads the lawsuit. "In so doing, Defendants can, and do, accelerate the rate of depreciation of the value of Tesla vehicles and also the expiration of Tesla vehicle warranties to reduce or avoid responsibility for contractually required repairs as well as increase the purchase of its extended warranty policy."

It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service

Just incredible grift

Loved this, “FREE” always tastes so good…

A person in a boardroom points to a chart showing a steep decline, and says, “It was at this point, gentleman, that the President decided it was his plan all along to reverse course.”

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Most days I still can't believe Americans elected a fake real estate tycoon moron game show host POTUS once. And then after he incited an insurrection and was convicted of 34 felonies we elected him again and now even more sycophants suck his mushroom dick daily and pretend he's some kind of genius.

What does it tell you when women have taken over as the top Sunday morning News Show hosts in the U.S. while none of the late night comedy show hosts have even come close? This is the #hacks moment.

the moment you realize united states is over playing its hand in its various foreign policies, and is about to find out...

YouTube video by Roy Shilkrot Real-Time Captions & Translation OBS LocalVocal [Tutorial]

Looks like people have already started this idea:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHQ5...

Building a Personal Archive With Hoarder How to self-host a personal archive of web content even if stuff get's taken down

@jamesravey.me speaking my language with brainsteam.co.uk/2025/2/15/pe...

The whole Tariff headline related sell off that trump has been pushing is nothing more than a public signal by trump to "friends" to sell the top, as more significant volatility is about to hit the market... get ready..

Trump is trying to replace income tax (i.e. his tax breaks agenda), with a consumption tax (aka tariffs) on consumers. This is the ideal scenarios for all high income earners. Essentially changing the burden from the rich to the poor.

god is the quest to figure out what god is

"Promises made, promises kept" means if you helped me with my re-election, I owe you a favor and will help you back.

"America is open for business again" means the presidency is now open to transactional favors. Tell me how you can enrich me, and I'll help you back.
#PresidentialBribery

I wonder what Jeff probs thinks about the survival of the human species, with a sense toward the type of the people who wins in the show "survivor". Could it mean the current dominant human specie was not the smartest, nor the most physically strong animal specie?

Citizen united needs to be repealed and a constitutional amendment added to hold it. Spendings by the uber wealthy in politic has distorted our elections in ways we don't (and can't really) understand.

United States needs something similar to UK's “Prime Minister's Question Time”, where members of congress can orally ask the president questions for an hour. This needs to become law, we need better accountability!