“MAGA=socialist”
Does nothing mean anything anymore?
‘Socialist’ means anyone who thinks taxes are worth paying for anything ever, I guess.
Perhaps it’s the good old “nazis are socialists” meme. I mean they’re clearly at least half right: maga are nazis.
“Libertarians” have worked very, very hard to see that nothing does, starting with the word libertarian. That isn’t out of nowhere, it is quite literally a political strategy.
The anarchy symbol rebelliously displayed on a rear projection screen, the pride of the A/V department, in a ballroom of a Hamilton Suites lobby somewhere. My youth recoils in horror.
My now recoils in horror.
I have this cool keychain that says “be the change” but the A in “change” is the Anarchy A.
Am I gonna have to stop wearing that?
If you’re asking permission, then yes.
And these fuckers aren’t anarchists. They’re asshole right wingers who think they want companies to have even more power because they read ayn Rand once.
This country needs more than two parties. But these assholes? What the fuck, USA?
We can thank Murray rothbard and Milton Friedman for that gem. Rothbard openly coopted anarchism in Anatomy of the state and mixed it with Austrian economics woo woo
Swamp creatures are scary and gross, but my real fear is paywalls: https://archive.is/uFqL7
Yes, God forbid journalists can pay their bills…
Maybe the Brits have something with the television tax. I have no idea how you apply it to the modern streaming world, but it’s an interesting alternative
You don’t even need license fees. NPR and PBS do terrific journalism and they frequently even make reports that make their corporate sponsors look bad while admitting that they are a corporate sponsor. They get a combination of corporate sponsorship funds, government grants and membership drives. And it works really well.
It’s too bad more people don’t realize that or they would become members of their local public radio/TV station and it would get even better.
Chasing the profit incentive, including and especially for journals, is an overwhelmingly large part of the reason murica is in this mess to begin with.
What about my bills, then? I couldn’t pay internet this month. Am I just supposed to be ignorant because I’m poor?
Libraries are free.
I observe that you don’t answer the question.
Pay your bills.
“pay your bills” is not an answer to “am I supposed to be ignorant if I can’t pay my bills?”
Libraries are free.
And underfunded and steadily becoming fewer in number. Information should be free regardless of its source.
I recently read that there are more libraries than fats food restaurants (in the US), so seems like libraries are doing just fine.
Information, like everything, costs money. If you don’t pay for journalism, someone will and they will control the information. That or garbage LLM generated sites riddled with malware.
Journalists are workers and deserve a living wage.
Yeah… we’re gonna need a source on that. In my small town there are zero libraries, and about 200 fast food joints. I’ve never lived in a city with more than a few libraries, and those with more than 1 are college towns.
Gotta admit, him saying, “keep getting your 3% every 4 years, maybe you don’t want to win.” was pretty lmao
The biggest reason trump won in 2016 was, apart from Clinton’s unfavorables, his sense of humor. He could throw out zingers and also be surprisingly self deprecating.
His problem is that no one was in the mood for any humor in 2020 as he had royally fucked up covid and now in 2024 he’s obviously in mental decline. He’s still good for a quip once in a while but he’s not nearly as funny now as he used to be and way less funny than he thinks he is.
Biden, meanwhile, for better or worse is exactly the same now as he was four years ago. A little more soft spoken maybe but he hasn’t changed nearly as much as Trump has.
When has he ever been self-depracating ?
He was surprisingly good at creating devastating nicknames for people that would cut them down to a single flaw. A lot of his path wasn’t to be the best candidate, but to ruin everyone else’s reputations.
But now when he’s falling asleep in his criminal trial on almost a daily basis, it’s hard for quips like “Sleepy Joe” to have the same effect. Or when he’s asking for Biden to be drug tested before the debate when he’s the one with the White House that was referred to as being “awash in speed”. It’s always been projection, but he isn’t able to distract everyone fast enough anymore.
Biden, meanwhile, for better or worse is exactly the same now as he was four years ago.
🤡 He wasn’t good in 2020, and he’s even worse now. This is only the hottest, most recent takes based off recent events, but we know there’s a long record of humiliation & weakness on the world stage. Mexico border: fucked. USA fentanyl crisis: fucked. Afghanistan: fucked. Israel-Palestine: fucked. Russia-Ukraine: fucked. China: getting on their bullshit. The global hegemon is weak; the world suffers as a consequence.
Until the last couple months of panic mode, I have seen an entirely unfounded, unflappable confidence being displayed by Democrats, media. There is not a single damn thing about Biden that instills confidence. Trump isn’t silenced, Trump isn’t jailed, everything tried has failed. Which leads me to believe…we’re going to see at least an attempted Trump assassination.
Biden should be shuffled off into the nearest nursing home & replaced with a competent Democrat. It looks like that’s not going to happen. Idk, this next half-year is going to be mighty interesting, to say the least. 🍿😃🍿
“I told you so.”
- No one in the Party out loud
Trump did sometimes earn cheers from the crowd, including when he talked about ending wars, pardoning Jan. 6 protesters, protecting cryptocurrency, denying money to schools with vaccine or mask mandates, and defunding diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. The most applause came when he promised to commute the life sentence of Ross Ulbricht, who has been imprisoned for operating a website that sold illegal goods.
So this should tell you where libertarians stand on. A sandwich of two things worth cheering for and a whole lot of disgusting things to cheer for in the middle.
Wait - Libertarians have soured on crypto? I must have missed that.
Other way around. They want crypto to be protected from government interference.
And Trump is bullshitting anyways, as usual.
Bitcoiners remember this shit because they keep mental lists of who to annoy each time there’s a price rally. Trump was anti-bitcoin when it mattered most. And Biden’s has been the most pro-crypto administration so far, including when Trump was in office. The SEC just approved a huge Ethereum ETF.
Well yeah. Crypto guys are DEDICATED to it. It would be like if I came over to your house, 3 years ago, called your wife a whore in front of everybody, and set fire to her tampons box.
Then 3 years later I stop by uninvited to a different party honoring your wife getting power within the city. I tell everybody how great your wife is, and I’m baffled why I’m being asked to leave. All of you remember. Whereas I’m not sure I’d ever met you before.
Ooohhh…that makes more sense, thanks!
It’s not like I would trust a Trump campaign promise anyway.
A sandwich of two things worth cheering for
…why is defunding diversity, equity, and inclusion programs worth cheering for?
The two things worth cheering for would be the beginning- ending wars, and the end- commuting Ross Ulbricht’s sentence.
Hence it being a sandwich.
Lmao, my bad. I parsed that sentence separately from the rest of the list (which was all one sentence).
For a bit of context. Inviting Trump was decided on by the party leaders and was not a popular choice with most of the delegates who were worried it would send a confusing signals to people not familiar with the party. Trump was also able to sneak a lot of his MAGA supporters into the convention for the speech. They tried to sit up front to make it look like Trump was popular there but they were forced to sit in the back. So any claims about cheering should be take with some salt.
