"I'm just asking questions" [that I could easily answer myself with two seconds of googling if I weren't trying to bait liberals into getting mad at me so I can play the victim] nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/…
very long thread, but some fascinating history in here
I genuinely had not read up on this. this goes wayyyy beyond defending a neo-Nazi on civil liberties grounds. Glenn kept publicly supporting the guy after he was convicted for conspiring to murder a judge dneiwert.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-po…
oh well the mass murderer said it wasn't a race thing, it was just an deranged sexual obsession with Asian women. case closed!
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NFTs may be an even dumber and more toxic idea than bitcoin, and that is saying something seths.blog/2021/03/nfts-a…
it's a collectors item, except you don't actually have exclusive rights to the item, you just have a solved Sudoku that "proves" you "own" it. also the system somehow chews up more electricity than Serbia
"minting artwork on the blockchain uses somewhere between weeks, months, years, (and in rare instances decades) of an average EU or US citizen’s energy consumption." everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-enviro…
so Tucker, Steve Bannon, et al are socialist in the sense that they are anti-immigrant and opposed to the "transnational, global, corporatist elite." a kind of national socialist, as it were
thanks to Biden's broken promise, "the payments now effectively create an insanely punitive marginal tax rate on a very narrow band of Americans" slate.com/business/2021/…
extremely cool to see the argument coalescing again that The Left needs to shut up about justice and Dems need to run reactionary Blue Dogs in every marginal race
worked before, it will work again!
yeah in seriousness this is the giant hole in the center of the case, conservadems in practice are *much* more opposed to popular economic stuff they are to like immigration reform