Cameron

the unspoken underlying assumption to a lot of right-wing complaints about liberal hegemony in institutions is that liberals occupy the professional managerial class because of political ingroup bias instead of on merit

basically they want affirmative action for Republicans

i'm fine with the government enabling poverty wages insofar as it means the economic calculations for aggregate labor supply don't have to include "deaths due to starvation" but that's just me

and also yeah in theory if people started starving to death such that the supply of labor fell eventually a new equilibrium would be reached but i don't want people to starve to death lol

you should care more about helping the poor than hating the rich

rich people making money isn't itself a first-order problem; it's the cause of a lot of second-order ones and a lot of people lose sight of that distinction

there's a type of progressive/leftist thought that is primarily driven by being anti-profit and it's very cancerous

how far does this logic go? no more Obamacare subsidies because it's lining the pockets of greedy insurance executives? no more food stamps because Nestle makes money?

lol imagine

oof Skattebo that's fuckin rough

and then even if defenses don't get flagged they're still fighting uphill against generous whistle calls (or in today's case retroactive whistle calls)

the play itself isn't that bad in a vacuum, the problem is that defenses literally aren't allowed to defend against it without getting flagged

imo the play should only remain legal if defenses are allowed to do equally goofy shit in response (e.g. Luvu jumping over the top in the NFC game)

the tush push is such a spiritually evil play that it metastasizes and creates other problems by its mere existence

that fumble call was so cooked

Virginia bros we might be so back

so many people tweeting "how are 40 million Americans on food stamps"

the supplemental poverty rate is ~12% and there are ~350 million people here, do the math

why does nobody google even the most basic facts about reality man

remember when Grok would randomly start writing rape porn about Will Stancil because it got too used to writing rape porn about Will Stancil?

anyways

do they even have a legal department or is it just Sam Altman with some Clark Kent glasses on

like seriously dude the potential liability here for every company that uses a ChatGPT wrapper for their customer service is staggering

you've seen the beginnings of it with right-wing influencers pushing to end no-fault divorce

i'd bet advocating to repeal spousal rape laws isn't too far around the discourse corner

it'll be couched by the more subtle right-wingers in terms of birthrates and preserving the nuclear family etc.

gender politics is going to get so incredibly fucked up over the next decade lmao

we're gonna see some really weird dynamics manifest where one party is openly pro-rape and the other will waste time hand-wringing over how to call it out for fear of "alienating men" or whatever

one thing i'm pulling for in a post-Trump world is PMC class consciousness against enemies above and below

the techbro DOGE nonsense and the EPA studying chem trails should be a wake up call to everybody that there is a war against smart people who know how things work

the staggering prosperity that is available to even the poorest American is only possible because of our urban cores filled with highly-educated professionals

i'm like JD Vance with the "be grateful" shtick except for email jobs

the past couple years have rapidly radicalized me into unironically being a smug coastal elite

i'm sick and tired of others in the ivory tower trying to psyop everyone else into thinking the outside world is Real America

no dude, this tower is sick as hell

Jiffy Lube mechanic is a real job (0.004% GDP) unlike those fake email jobs (30% GDP)

like i won't lie i've made jokes to my friends up north before *all of this* but if you're still saying "haha what if tho" in big 2025 it's cooked

this lowkey goes for a lot of sites

so many places just churn out Dem infighting ragebait

jacobin is buzzfeed "you won't BELIEVE number 8" for people whose entire political identity is "mad at the democratic party"

Jordan Wood on X: "Nope. This is bullshit and I'm not going to let the GOP spread lies that Mainers are "more likely" to support a candidate with a Nazi tattoo. That’s just not who we are. A friend got this survey and sent me a screenshot, here's how the NRSC posed the question: https://t.co/LlPc5uwbB5" / X Nope. This is bullshit and I'm not going to let the GOP spread lies that Mainers are "more likely" to support a candidate with a Nazi tattoo. That’s just not who we are. A friend got this survey and sent me a screenshot, here's how the NRSC posed the question: https://t.co/LlPc5uwbB5

source (who is coincidentally a different candidate in Maine): x.com/jordanwoodme...

btw there's that NRSC poll floating around that says voters are more likely to support Platner after hearing about his tattoo

here's how the question was phrased lol

it's why those rumors bouncing around Beltway media of an indefinite shutdown til midterms are more than a little concerning

big boy money is willing to give benefit of the doubt for a little bit but a full fucking year? with the President spending who knows what money? idk about that one

"the United States pays its bills on time" is such a fundamental pillar of the global economy that it's largely been abstracted away; all the finance math takes bonds as a given constant but at some point somebody's gonna start asking where the physical money is

getting big flashbacks to when the DOGE boys were poking around in Treasury payment systems

if there was ever a third rail for global civilization it's playing footsie with big boy money

wat

are we actually going to invade Venezuela or should i increase my holdings in Nothing Ever Happens Coin