if I had a nickel for every time some right-wing capitalist simp referred to autocracies as "communist" I could buy Xitter from Elmo Muskrat. North Korea is not communist, you can tell because KJU OWNS PROPERTY and the country's wealth is not being equally distributed amongst the people. Venezuela used to function great as a socialist country, until Maduro took over and fucked it all up and started hoarding wealth for himself. enough comparing capitalism to strawman examples of "communism."

the problem is, we don't actually have a free market, in any industry. literally, tell me the last time you heard of ANY business lowering their prices to gain or retain customers. I'll wait. 💀

ok I am CERTAIN I've seen this blurb in the Morning newsletter before, in fact I'm certain I've had this exact reaction to this blurb in the Morning newsletter, wtf is going on?!

idk what they mean by "treating people like commodities," all I know is if it wasn't for online dating I wouldn't be married and I probably wouldn't even be alive right now (nor would my two kids)

didn't they just elect AMLO? how often does Mexico hold presidential elections?

wow, somehow both responses managed to get it wrong. user data privacy isn't nearly as big of a concern as the reality of Chinese influence over Americans using the app. (as an aside, users complaining about the ban just speaks to how worryingly addicted they are.) if this was a Russian or Saudi-owned app being used to influence US opinion/elections, I doubt we'd even hesitate to ban it.

and continuing to portray Trump's openly fascist rhetoric as "dark" minimizes the grave threat he poses to our future. DO BETTER, MEDIA. CALL A SPADE A FUCKING SPADE ALREADY.

why? just because someone claims they're being censored doesn't mean they're right, nor is there anything wrong with certain forms of "censorship." am I being "censored" because I can't yell FIRE in a crowded theater? it's not even the govt censoring these people, it's private entities upholding their civic responsibility to truth in election information.

my condolences to anyone who was a fan of these books

"even as"? try "BECAUSE"

here's what's gonna happen: all these cases are gonna get delayed so there's no conviction before the election. without a conviction, Trump retains all his support + free publicity from the trials/persecution complex. Trump wins election, has all cases thrown out, tosses all prosecutors & political opponents in gulags, rules with an iron fist for 20+ years.

humanity is doomed.

SPRING IS LITERALLY DEFINED BY RAIN WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY WANT

I WILL TRADE YOU PLACES. I'll take your salary and your NYC apartment and the snow and the rain and the cold and you can take my poverty wages that Texas entices businesses with and you can enjoy balmy winters and brief February springs and then EIGHT MONTHS of boiling in lukewarm community pools and burning your ass on the car seat and $700 electric bills trying to keep your house from giving you heat stroke. I'm sure you won't question your life choices then.

I'm convinced people like this live in Canada or someplace that gets like 6 weeks of summer that never tops 90 degrees. by March Texas is already getting into pre-summer. we hit 90 in February this year. and climate change is already "hastening spring" to the point winter barely exists. he's gonna start pining for winter real bad when summer lasts 10 months and gets up to 120 in June.

this is why V is the only member of BTS whose solo songs i can tolerate 😂 #FRI(END)S

to sell them to people who do. wow, what a mystery.

can confirm, Facebook Marketplace has become the new Craigslist... and I'm reaping all the benefits.gif

GOOD

[endless screaming]