Structuring the pandemic small business bailout program as “loans” that get “forgiven” rather than just grants (which was the intention to begin with) ended up being such a PR win when student debt forgiveness became a big issue and so many critics of it had PPP loans forgiven
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It’s not the most coherent comparison, but it’s pretty funny, and as it happens, student loan forgiveness is dramatically more progressive than PPP loan forgiveness
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It wasn't even intentional, it was done for technical reasons
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one last thing about the insane DeSantis ad: it shows the hard limits of the nihilistic, always vaguely ironic, “haha you can’t take a joke” mindset of the extremely online when it comes to actual political practice.
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Max Burns
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It's difficult to overstate the damage this ad is causing Ron DeSantis right now. His team is frantically working the phones as @GOP groups like LCR condemn DeSantis as a raging homophobe. What a massive, inexplicable misfire. twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoo…
The GOP vs Democrats
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A major child labor rollback goes into effect in Iowa this weekend.
14 year-olds are now allowed to work in meat coolers, 15 year-olds can join assembly lines and 16 year-olds can serve alcohol.
In a few weeks, similar rollbacks take effect in Arkansas. who13.com/news/new-iowa-
the groyper/GOP junior staffer crossover is doing them real damage because groypers are horrible people who don't know how to talk to regular human beings
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Max Burns
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It's difficult to overstate the damage this ad is causing Ron DeSantis right now. His team is frantically working the phones as @GOP groups like LCR condemn DeSantis as a raging homophobe. What a massive, inexplicable misfire. twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoo…
It’s stupid that some people have Tuesday off but not Monday
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After extensive research, I have discovered two major things about the semiconductor industry
1) Dear God these things are complex
2) Dear God these things are expensive
Starlink being totally useless except for the Ukranian war effort is very funny. Elon has exactly one real client and he hates their guts.
I met a dude yesterday who's almost 40 and has never had a job in his entire life. I feel like LA is one of maybe a handful of cities on planet Earth where you could meet a person like that.
What does this mean? Organize who? To do what? And how? It feels like “organize” is the lefty panacea for all ills without an actual thought about what that means or looks like. (Beyond holding meetings about how everyone is a gentrifier but them)
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Looks like David Sacks is keeping 10,000 little boys locked up in his basement. Hard to get accurate figures but it’s what I’m hearing. Not good. Open to being corrected on this.
damn sounds like you want to go back to brunch
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“you must vote in 2024” ok sure I have voted every election for my entire life and this stuff keeps happening, wild how it’s not working
and how are people supposed to get around without a car? people act like there's a subway stop on every corner in new york
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recently drove into Manhattan with a friend who was moving his stuff into the city and…
it was literally the worst experience ever. pure gridlock. took us 20 minutes to go 6 blocks. anyone who drives in the city on a frequent basis is a masochist
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Just a bizarre conception of voting to me. The whole point of a democracy is that there is no Final Election that solves everything. There’s just a (hopefully) unending series of them where you get to keep weighing in.
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sarah day arts
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“you must vote in 2024” ok sure I have voted every election for my entire life and this stuff keeps happening, wild how it’s not working
Mainstream news just casually covering a monstrous hate group as if they're just a normal political movement.
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These moms call themselves joyful warriors, but they're mad -- mad at teachers, principals, and the president, and they're fighting back. trib.al/pw4BTeE
trade school advocates be like "this student debt crisis will be a thing of the past once 40% of the population are plumbers"
it's absolutely bug-eyed insane to post this as if the answer is 'no"
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Crashed and Burned
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Did voting for Biden make anything better?
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Some ideas on how to create menswear outfits this summer with shorts 
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Need a thread of summer outfits with shorts
There is no method of political change---whether voting, organizing, activism, revolution, bribery, etc---that has a state of total and complete victory.
All human social organization is pushing uphill against entropy. That's just how it be.
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sarah day arts
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“you must vote in 2024” ok sure I have voted every election for my entire life and this stuff keeps happening, wild how it’s not working
a classic NIMBY move: when an actual developer shows strong intent to build a particular level of density, spend ten mins mocking up an alternative with fewer units, brag about how "amazing green gentle density with 50% affordable units" it is, even though it would never pencil
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Patrick Condon
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Lots of benefits to this model of development for Jericho lands in Vancouver. 50% affordable is completely possible.
The video is here. jerichocoalition.org
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Honestly, apart from the importance she attaches to it, she's kinda cooking here?
Its absurd how every Disney show or YA book has most of their main cast go to famous unis, even if they're not shown as super gifted. High School Musical is the worst offender
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the way you guys think about the world is so funny
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It is absolutely incredible that nobody in the Democratic Party ever says "ya know, maybe the universities are partially to blame for student loan costs since they're the ones charging $100,000 for a creative writing MFA at Columbia"
recently drove into Manhattan with a friend who was moving his stuff into the city and…
it was literally the worst experience ever. pure gridlock. took us 20 minutes to go 6 blocks. anyone who drives in the city on a frequent basis is a masochist
Easily one of the most unserious "left-wing" people on here. Just a laughable view of politics.
"Organize."
Organize what? Also, can one not both organize and also vote?
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Weird we aren’t getting updates from the Twitter CEO who is the person in charge of company as everyone knows