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If everyone put in the same percentage of their income as a whole as the middle class wage earner I might consider some variation to the SS formula. I'm gonna be punished for working in a high wage city? Screw that.

That was the shot. This is the chaser.

Just watched this bizonkers video last night. I really liked Grimes music and forgave her weird relationship with Elon Musk but this stuff she and he are onto lately is so addled, so evil. I mean, could you listen to Heinrich Himmler music if he was an etheral techno pop artist who also prosecuted the holocaust? Oh, how does this related to Vladdie? Elon is promoting people like @jacksonhinkle who is a pro-Russian alt-right twitter feed. Elon and her are into fascism and are definitely pro-Putin. I remember how someone once defended a fascist artist saying that art was fundamentally undemocratic. Btw, Abigail Algo is very attractive.

Its going to be weird voting for her. I think of her as a oily chameleon doing or saying anything that serves at the moment. And yet, ethically she is within the normal range for a politician.

Burn your boats when there is no return to the fold.

Like Russia but even better for the oligarchs and somewhat better for the theocrats.

I think there is a lot of goosing of the numbers to drive up news viewership. Trump's disapproval is very high.

I celebrate the gentlemen who is the puncher and f the receiver of this punch for wearing a Nazi armband in a US city Tear the fascists down

The General is filling a role as the State of Texas' Adjutant General. He's wearing a US military uniform. https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/03/01/trump-speech-general-wore-uniform/ Its an act that the previous Chairman of the JCS General Milley was ashamed of when Trump walked him out to Lafayette Square during the BLM protests. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/28/mark-milley-us-general-trump-shouting-match

this does tempt me to vote for her.

Listen to "the Rest of History" podcast re: 1974 in the UK. Holy crap, that country was on its ass. They describe it as a bunch of balding, bespectcled, dandruffy old dudes with slump shoulders just treading water without actually doing the necessary to transition the UK to some actual economic model that could work. Amusingly, they cite the war records of some of the piss poor leaders on both sides and they are genuine dudes in the Don Brown sense.

I like it because it had a symmetry with Red Army devotion to the tank as the king of the battlefield. The old joke about the Soviet tank crew sitting in a West German Mcdonald's asking "I wonder who won the air war"

No, but I get what you are driving at. Its more like the old terms "wets" and "dries" Wets and dries - Wikipedia

its a political term. This is the political forum.

You might also wear this label if you have a hidden love of single party socialism and wonder why its never been tried. It has.

If you are for Ukraine and for democracy you don't need to wear this label. If you are for Putin and for authoritarianism, you do.

Tankie - Wikipedia

It wasn't. I was just amused at the definition of tankie. I had heard it in the context of post-soviet studies and a little bit since Feb 2022 in context of GOP Ukraine haterz.

by definition the Tankies will be doing whatever hurts democracy the most, so why bother making them happy.

More religious stuff from a guy who probably would think a lot more if there were repercussion .

This general officer needs to face punishment

Finally some consequences.

Can you imagine Rand Paul as Minority Leader?

If Trump won anywhere with a Whole Foods or a Trader Joes that would be news.