James

James

@themilo.bsky.social

IQ is astrology for Nazis

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James reposted

off the top of my head, moral responsibility for trump, in descending order: 1- trump and his inner circle 2- SCOTUS 3- GOP-affiliated elites 4- biden DOJ 5- intelligentsia/media types who misled the public about the threat he posed and the tools available to stop him 6- elected dems 7- voters

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.

James reposted

Replying to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

the way to tell whether a person is credible is by *listening to what they say* and checking it against verifiable facts. The idea that you can bypass this with some value-neutral procedure is asinine if you think about it for two seconds and also the guiding ideology of 99% of American elites.

A child is safer in a car driven by drunk Teddy or a plane flown by JFK Jr than in a country with RFK Jr as HHS secretary.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

HHS Secretary RFK Jr: "This idea that you should trust the experts, a good mother doesn't do that"

James reposted

Replying to @jamellebouie.net

i think a good example of Propaganda Works is the number of you who think that the national Democratic Party spent the years 2013 to 2020 denouncing Americans for insufficient Tumblr-speak

James reposted

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

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Replying to @ryanlcooper.com

you look at Texas, they pay the state leg $7,200 a year and as a result like half of them are car dealership owning reactionaries

James reposted

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

I think the reason this resonated so much is because food delivery apps are the primary way American youth feeds itself.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com

boy is that true. in 2022-3, burrito taxis going up got about ten thousand times more attention online than the fact that it was the best labor market for low income workers in like 60 years

James reposted

Replying to @jamellebouie.net

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

James reposted

trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether