F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Never mind every other single abominable or corrupt thing to this miserable moment, the extrajudicial and unevidenced execution of 34 human beings by the U.S. Navy on the orders of a U.S. President acting in peacetime is sufficient for his impeachment and conviction.

If we were a republic, I mean.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

I think this exists?

trumps strategy of destroying blue states which bring in majority of countries revenue and then also destroying and bringing red states to mass suicide with tariffs doesn’t make much sense so far

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

cybertruck owners treat being a cybertruck owner as just as hard as being transgender in the united states it’s so awesome

It’s actually pretty cool that in this time where our birth control access is threatened, men help out by buying cybertrucks

Praise be

Stop

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

Same.

every Ai news story is a press release for a product no one wants and doesnt do what it claims it does anyway

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Generals I have gathered you here today to make sure the military isn't doing anything gay or black

I also think they don't care who those people were because they don't see them as human beings.

how is this so perfect , i’m screaming

Trump Cancels Meeting With Top Democrats Ahead Of Government Shutdown The president initially agreed to the meeting at the White House, but then changed his mind, citing "ridiculous demands" made by Democrats.

Donald Trump and Republicans control the House, the Senate and the White House.

Trump promised to lower costs on Day 1, but instead Republicans made health care more expensive.

Now Republicans are causing more economic chaos by shutting down the government.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Call me a filthy commie but I think blowing up boats without actually knowing who or what is on them is really evil and wrong

the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents

This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.

I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button

Another stupid fucking column by Ezra “bend the knee” Klein platforming hateful racist Ben Shapiro, titled “Ben Shapiro and I Talk Political De-escalation”

Jeffery Dahmer and I Talk Cooking Recipes

His brand of it is particularly garish but all authoritarianism is basically government by spoiled child. No capacity for or interest in any principles. People who are nice to me get treats, people who are mean to me get abuse. I get what I want or I cry and thrash. Embarrassing