how many Americans have a Biden Child to claim credit for though??
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
hunter needs to get to work
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Saturday, 16 January 2021 00:21 (three years ago) link
milf hunter biden
― trans-panda express (m bison), Saturday, 16 January 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link
Well itβs not like he didnβt _try_, from all reports
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 00:18 (three years ago) link
In Oval just now. pic.twitter.com/UY9yuE2HaX— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) February 3, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
what will the twitter and op-ed freaks find to complain about since he left the mittens at home
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
This page has a trigger warning for capitalism https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Hustlewave
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 11 February 2021 23:27 (three years ago) link
stimmy— New New York Times (@NYT_first_said) March 19, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 19 March 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/24/racist-and-reprehensible-jewish-power-set-to-enter-israels-parliament
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
Bibi is quite possibly the worst person on earth
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
this doesn't seem like an example of left wing drift
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
it took them 4 elections in 2 years to elect a workable far-right coalition at least
― γMyst1kOblivi0nγ (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
Meir Kahane's vision of Israel has really won out
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
I don't know that they have elected a workable far-right coalition this time either. That phrase would accurately describe most of Bibi's governments in the last ten years, however.
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
Indeed, I forgot the two threads had almost the same title, thought the right-wing one had come up recently and searched for 'west'. Doh!
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
this is supposed to be the good news thread!
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
There hasnβt been good news out of Israel since 1997
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
what happened in 1997?
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
Sorry, 95https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
yeah his killers run the country now. it's bad!
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
Public feeling towards labor unions is more positive than in any year on record back over half a century, @electionstudies. Public feeling towards big business is more negative than in any year on record.The gap is bigger than any year on record. pic.twitter.com/5ouRoc9Si6— Aaron Sojourner (@aaronsojourner) March 26, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 29 March 2021 06:00 (three years ago) link
Hereβs hoping
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
Has anybody been reading Andreas Malmβs recent books? Either _Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: WAR COMMUNISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY_ or the punchier titled _How to Blow Up a Pipeline_?
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 11 April 2021 17:53 (three years ago) link
one reason it might be happening: the right aren't paying attention
f you are banging on about woke now, you are missing the big story: an economic transformation. Me @FT on how the "woke brigade" is the latest in a long line of rightist "folk devils", and why it's now about "the economy, stupid" (and not just in the US) https://t.co/WJoHHv2Knj pic.twitter.com/RyppDiMVfZ— Simon Kuper (@KuperSimon) April 16, 2021
(see also https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/22/the-great-pause-was-an-economic-revolution linked earlier in this thread)
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Saturday, 17 April 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link
only 47 per cent of 1,600 British respondents could even define gross domestic product
― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 17 April 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
Itβs clear a lot of centrist Dem economists are frustrated with the online / administration economists, and apparently many are afraid to speak up. A few thoughts on this...— Adam Ozimek (@ModeledBehavior) May 29, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Saturday, 29 May 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
flopson come explain this goober to us
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Saturday, 29 May 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
The worldβs work marketplace, connecting millions of businesses with independent talent
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Saturday, 29 May 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
economists are the fucking worst
― Left, Saturday, 29 May 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
We should raise taxes on the top 20% to fight inflation.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 29 May 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
how fucking parochial is this discipline that these clowns have only recently started feeling intimidated by the "extreme left bernie sanders supporters" in their own ranks
― Left, Saturday, 29 May 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
there are endless ways in which these people are bullshit even by their own bullshit standards and stuff like this makes me think they know it deep down
― Left, Saturday, 29 May 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
https://www.thecut.com/2021/06/dating-apps-dismantling-capitalism.html
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Thursday, 24 June 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
well that was a feel-good read
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 24 June 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
j/k
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 24 June 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
"Bolsonaro loses support amongst gamers, who have been some of his most loyal supporters since the beginning" https://t.co/1vhDHzuhlA— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) July 18, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 18 July 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
https://wyrk.com/buffalo-city-council-considering-abolishing-buffalo-mayor-position/
I wonder if this has anything to do with a democratic socialist winning the primary...
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2021/7/19/22580472/child-tax-credit-biden-tiktok-memes
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 2 August 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
where's the check for people who already make too much money and have no kids huh???
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 00:03 (two years ago) link
tension in that article between the vox house style and the actual material things that - well, turns out they actually seem to matter a lot to people, who knew? can we do something to capture this effect for our purposes? of course there are these institutional obstacles which might as well be ontological preventing us from generalising from this very specific articulation so we are basically at an impasse where all we can do is say hey, cool new thing, what does this mean for the democratic party going forward
― Left, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
site:vox.com "class struggle" 38 results
why bernie lost, some zizek bullshit, inequality is problem but we're working on it, more why bernie lost...
― Left, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link
"The federal government is not a family. And it's not a small business. And it's not a local government. And it's not a state government," @RepJohnYarmuth says at Rules Committee hearing. "We can spend whatever we need to spend in the interest of serving the American people."— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 23, 2021
(Chairman of the House Budget Committee)
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 23 August 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
jesus christ thank you
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 23 August 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
I've been saying this
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Monday, 23 August 2021 23:55 (two years ago) link
if the democrats manage to open up the money faucet and then not lose the house next year I will give Joe Biden one (1) credit for it
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Monday, 23 August 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
They should find a reason to justify a stimulus check next October. Actually use the legalized bribery strategy that could have kept Trump in office.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 23 August 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link
speak for yourself john yarmuth, when my family runs out of money they just print more money we call it familycoin
― criminally negligible (harbl), Monday, 23 August 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
Everyone needs to spend big on their post-COVID (maybe) Halloween costume in 2022, here's $2k.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 23 August 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
If the SPD forms a government after the German election, which polls think is pretty likely right now, you would have social democrat-led coalitions in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Germany— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) September 13, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 02:11 (two years ago) link
Carbon tax, land value tax to pay for for UBI and high quality public housing. What a king https://t.co/vWhEPoq18E pic.twitter.com/XzhAPJafmt— big burgers, all-day breakfast and pies (@TribTowerViews) September 14, 2021
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link