vibes are confected and promoted by pundits. they only shift in right-wing directions. they serve to promote preference falsification. just don’t. will it ever be a vibecession under Trump? (no shade to @kyla.bsky.social of whom i am very fond. it’s just how the vibes of vibes have shaken out.)
it’s not so hard. the Billionaires of the East and West are wicked. they are green and wear pointy hats and weird socks. the Billionaires of the North and South are good. they wear crowns and very puffy dresses.
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i’d feel more secure about Amendment 14, Section 1 if they hadn’t substantially nullified Amendment 14, Section 3, with very little pushback or complaint because even though their decision defied the text’s clear intent (Congress is supposed to cure, not find), it seemed advisable politically.
it was the mister donut motto! “as you wander through life, brother, wherever you may roam, keep your eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole” when i went to the college desantis destroyed i’d pull allnighters there and draw hope from that, posted on the wall.
donut holes are all around us, all the time. the making of a donut simply reveals one.
melania is like david bowie incognito today.
shittiest mt rushmore.
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there was a loophole in the FDR rates for oil wealth. i’ve forgotten the details, but see Sam Pizzigati “The Rich Don’t Always Win” www.sevenstories.com/books/3727-t... oilmen, still embittered plutocrats despite good fortune, deployed their wealth as influence, financing the politics of reaction.
they didn’t like it! but we came closer to building a civilized middle class society than at any time in our history. rolling back FDR’s tax rates — explicitly intended to limit wealth accumulation, he’d lobbied for an income CAP — was one of the most destructive little bits of technocracy ever.
“Trump bizarrely orders things he has no power to compel. Here’s what happened when King Canute tried that.”
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yes. “optimal” is always with respect to some goal, and we’ve learned goals economists have taken as conventional are maybe not in fact what we are after.
94% would be better. no, it’s not “optimal” in the sense if the revenue-maximizing rate. people subject to those rates won’t realize the income. but that’s the point. they don’t realize the income. we have to then ensure the places it is left are leaky and contestable.
( a bit on how to tax the loans www.interfluidity.com/v2/9028.html )
acceptance of a preemptive pardon is a confession of original sin.
that’s a difference in governments. you can post a grotesque picture of Biden in a public square, no tech platform necessary, the raw American state won’t fuck with you, the Chinese state will. (we’ll see under Trump, these motherfuckers want lese majeste back.) 1/
so far the American state is constrained on punishment of speech. that might change. if it does, do you think X will be any less transparent to the US state than TikTok to CCP? 2/
so it’s the difference in the quality of states that matters, not the state/corporate distinction. who is doing more than any single human being to degrade the quality of the American state? There are a bunch of good candidates, but Elon Musk would be high on any reasonable list. /fin
what it is is if you funnel the tariff revenue directly into $TRUMP, it expands to $1T. just never try to sell it.
that's what makes X worse. which has done more harm, Fox News or RT? TikTok maybe you can argue hides what it is more than RT does, and so could be more dangerous. But X is pretty fucking dangerous, and if you are anything like chill about it, that's a mistake, i think.
the price dynamics of $TRUMP / $MELANIA basically track Trump supporters' theory of gender dynamics.
if only you could get me to capitalize. i agree it's a problem for CCP to have influence over core media of hundreds of millions of Americans. i just think it's equally problematic that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg do. i want equitable regulation that snares them all.
i can respect people who supported the ban. i can respect people who opposed it. i can respect people who want Congress to rescind the ban. what i can't respect are people who supported the ban but now want to see the law ignored.
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oh it’s part of the fun. often one can never be quite sure, can one?
