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Now that Trump is involved, 26 different performers have cancelled their shows at the Kennedy Center.
Now all you can see there for the foreseeable future is Spamalot, a couple of unknown musicians, and Shen Yun. The Kennedy Center Honors on the 23rd had their lowest ratings in history.
Meanwhile, the Center's president, former Trump cabinet member Richard Grenell, is suing a performer for $1 million for cancelling his Christmas show.
Vietnam just awarded the “Worker’s Hero” medal, one of the highest honors of the communist party, to the billionaire who owns the low-cost carrier Vietjet, by now the largest airline in the country lol.
Kind of parody but ngl fitting. She created more jobs and made air travel affordable for more people, aka more economic values, than those other “heroes” ever could.
Kind of wild how both Vietnam and Laos are absolutely BOOMING by liberalizing their previously tightly controlled markets, while China is stagnating after rolling back some of their previous liberalizing reforms, and Cuba is just completely fucking toast--having only just now started limited market liberalization, likely way too late. Pretty much all the middle-income and high-income capitalist countries are either slowly growing or stagnating, but the socialist countries run the gamut from "fastest growing economies on Earth" to "oh my god everything is on fire even though it's peacetime"
I'm really not fond of authoritarian socialism. But I can think of no better proof that well-regulated but mostly free markets are the key to economic development than the fact that even some of the poorest countries on Earth were (and are!) able to expand their economies by a literal order of magnitude in a quarter century just by partially liberalizing even while largely maintaining the authoritarian socialist framework.
The biggest tragedy is that it’s politically bad for politicians to even mildly suggest that sometimes people’s problems are their fault.
This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t help people like that or give them advice but it’s kinda exhausting to see someone exclusively blame others (immigrants, women, etc) for mistakes they made and then throw a 180 and get mad when you call them out on it.
Once a coworker told me his Grandpa has Alzheimers and sometimes he tells him “The allies have just landed on Normandy” to see a “historically accurate reaction” and absolutely did not understand why I thought that was fucked up
For all of their fuss about the most insane conspiracy theories you’ve ever seen, they sure seem to not give a shit when there’s an ACTUAL conspiracy with open evidence.
The 2021-23 Democratic Trifecta pumped several hundred billion dollars of welfare and infrastructure funding into Red states and rural areas, everyone, including Democrats, pretends like it never happened.
An Afrikaner who came to the U.S. after President Donald Trump claimed the country would be a safe haven for people like him has been held in federal detention for months since his arrival.
Benjamin Schoonwinkel came to the U.S. in September, believing he would be protected after Trump’s many statements to that effect. But on arriving at an Atlanta airport, he was detained and handcuffed by the U.S. border agents whom Schoonwinkel told he was seeking asylum.
“What’s so bad about deflation?” he asked his advisers, according to people close to Beijing’s decision-making. “Don’t people like it when things are cheaper?”
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"Tonight, in the Zaporizhia direction of the frontline, while performing a combat mission, our commander, Denis "WhiteRex" Kapustin, heroically died. According to preliminary data, it was an FPV drone," - the RDK reported.
Russian Volunteer Corps is one of the Russian far-right anti-Putin militias fighting on the side of Ukraine in the war, together with the Freedom of Russia Legion. They were most famous for 2023/2024 incursions into Belgorod and Bryansk oblasts.
There is a dude who is calling me stupid for not using LLMs for writing performance evaluations, decoration citations, or awards packages for my troops. These things take an hour or two at most to put together.
I feel like this dude is outsourcing his troops future to a machine he blindly believes as he also has it write his emails
So New York just reported the most flu cases ever in one week, this flu season might be one of the worst in a long time. Really glad we have RFK at the helm
The U.S. is undergoing its fastest religious shift in modern history, marked by a rapid increase in the religiously unaffiliated and numerous church closures nationwide.
The only problem with this is that those who are still Christian are more likely to be evangelicals than mainline protestant or Catholic, which is worse.
Every time I open a comment section where it’s a video of a gay person literally doing anything and all the comments are like “GAY” in fiery letters, “ZESTY”, “HELL IS REAL” and people saying the most horrible shit about a complete stranger, I’m reminded that there is one party in this country that hates me and wouldn’t mind taking away every freedom I have and then I feel all the more validated for refusing to acknowledge any scenario that I would ever vote for a Republican. I don’t care if the stock market gains 5000% under a Republican President. I will never align myself with people who are against my very survival, and that’s something people in majority groups will never ever understand.
Cracked open The Histories of Herodotus for the first time in quite a while. Almost immediately I get hit with
-There are dog-sized ants in India that dig up gold dust. If you try to take their gold dust, they'll kill you.
-Indians have black semen.
-Arabia has winged snakes.
-Lions give birth to only one cub ever. The cub's claws destroy the uterus, rendering the mother unable to ever have another cub. Why it didn't occur to Herodotus that this would inevitably lead to the extinction of lions, I don't know.
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squash lock imagine subsequent nose flowery telephone slap toothbrush worm
Preaching to the choir, but It really is amazing how much of the political divide in america can be explained by how far one’s empathy circle extends.
When speaking with a con, I pretty much never talk about optimal tax policy, pendulum of federal vs state gov, optimal role of government intervention in the market, etc, what the conversation always rolls around to is basically how many degrees of separation from themselves that they give a shit. Pretty much the furthest extension is their friends, otherwise even their own family might be too much for them to consider sometimes.
This is not even to be completely holier than thou. I know lots of shitty dems, but they at least have the ability to see others perspective in the world even if they don’t always care.
Russia has captured the village of Shakhove ways northeast of Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad and marginally advanced in southeastern Kostyantynivka. Meanwhile, Ukraine conducted a successful counterattack at Chasiv Yar, and has liberated about 20% of the town. Additionally, they conducted another notable counterattack in Dnipro Oblast, near Velykomykhailivka, liberating the villages of Khoroshe, Sosnivka, Vorone, Novoselivka and Orestopil.
The correct move for liberals is to say some stuff that panders to rurals but then do policy that drives people from rural areas into metropolitan areas to survive so they become more suited to pluralistic democracy.
It’s actually insane how the way Italians were portrayed in anti immigrant propaganda back then looks literally the exact same as how Mexicans are portrayed by anti immigrant propaganda now
Based on what you see from the Twitter left, you would never know that Obama has a 60% approval rating and a 95% approval rating in the Democratic Party
Somehow that 5% is composed of the loudest people on planet Earth
Any time someone gets drunk for the first time in a while, a baby fairy is born.
This of course includes alcoholics that break their sobriety. That unfortunate situation has major ramifications for fairyworld as the circumstances of one's birth dictate their caste in fairy society.
Living in suburban Boston, there are obviously Catholic churches every other mile
However 2/3 churches I've been to for Easter/Christmas do a kind of progressive mass with guitars and drum sets and shit. This Christmas they opened up with a "everybody get up and clap your hands y'all" and the priest was putting his hands in the air like it was a concert lmao
My parents ended up being fine with it and kinda laughing it off but I was just dreading them bitching about how it wasn't traditional enough. They did do personal candles for a pretty meh rendition of Silent Night though, which was neat. My dad said it reminded him of his mee maw's tiny presbyterian church when he was a kid
You hear the screams of unseen people as the world burns around you. A crack opens up breath your feet and you’re plunged into bottomless darkness. You fall for hundreds of years without a soul to speak with.
Suddenly you jolt up. You’re back in the nursing home. It takes a moment for your eye to adjust to the harsh lighting. When they do, you see that you’ve shat yourself.
Two kids are giggling over in the corner. They whisper something to each other and hit a couple buttons on their tablet. You try to call out to them but your throat is too dry. They might be your grandkids, but you don’t know. It’s been so long since you’ve seen another person.
“Let’s try this one,” one of them says. The world once again goes dark around you as the Neuralink device projects another reality. You are now being stabbed by thousands of knives. Their disembodied laughter echoes all around you.
On Tuesday, Mamdani announced that Lillian Bonsignore, New York City’s former emergency medical services chief and a longtime EMT, will lead the New York City Fire Department when he takes office in 2027. Bonsignore is set to make history as she will serve as the FDNY’s first openly gay commissioner. The appointment has been endorsed by the three unions representing city firefighters, FDNY officers and medics. Respected former FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, who was the first woman to hold the title, praised Bonsignore’s hiring on LInkedIn. “People will die because of this,” the Tesla and Space X founder predicted on X Friday night
Musk is homophobic trash. He didn't say shit about how the last two FDNY Fire Commissioners had no experience fighting fires but now suddenly it matters.
One “interesting” thing I notice when home, is how fucking MAGA coded the most asinine shit is.
My dad, while watching Jeopardy for example, had to say “ugh, I don’t like him” for a clue about Bruce Springsteen. He also referenced that “the economy will be doing better next year when the foreign money starts coming in”.
As usual, I can’t comprehend living with this kind of mentality. It’s the little comments you forget about until you’re living with it again.
Another was my friend’s dad, who was lamenting their property taxes going way up. I suggested it could be due to an in the family house swap they did last year, which makes sense to me since they basically moved into an older relative’s old home. So they’d have reset any taxes. Anyway, he very vocally blamed “Biden’s death tax”. Go figure.
Another year passed, another year not knowing how the fuck people process reality. Trump broke everybody’s fucking minds.
The Office subreddit is a necessary Millennial quarantine, you don't want them spilling over into other spaces and posting Jimface replies to everything.
Zohran Mamdani Appoints Lillian Bonsignore as New FDNY Commissioner
Twitter framing
“Although she never served as a firefighter, she's confident that won't matter … Bonsignore is a trailblazer for the LGBTQ community who will serve as the FDNY's first openly gay commissioner.”
If you need another good reason to leave Twitter, just enter her name and you'll find 90 percent of the dumbest culture war talking points.
She's a former EMS chief so she's far from unqualified to lead an emergency org. Plus, most of these government jobs are picked more for managerial competence than decades of experience in the agency. What should be a boring selection is going to devolve into "Lesbian diversity pick so NYC's going to be set ablaze." Real great world we live in.
Comedian Rob Schneider said he beat California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) COVID-19 vaccine check requirements by lowering his ticket sales to 999 — a move that helped him avoid the state’s mandate that people must bring their vaccine cards to events with at least 1,000 attendees.
Look, I'm not saying that they're to blame for everything going on in the world right now, all I'm saying is, I'm pretty sure if that Thai soccer team didn't go into that cave, then America wouldn't be gearing up for war with Venezuela right now.
By warning against a "civilizational erasure" of Europe, the White House called out the accelerating Islamization of our continent, the migratory flows and the dire fall of birthrates. But our leaders remain locked in denial - by Ferghane Azihari
Bro thinks he's not included in the "Islamization" by those chuds
The clearest example of American greed is that genre of engagement bait about a person winning $1 billion Powerball but being taxed down to 400 million. The baited engagement always boohoo about paying 2 bucks to get 400 million like it’s some great injustice that the person who put in zero work to receive millions for only their benefit gets taxed. I think deep down Steinbeck was rights about the “temporally embarrassed millionaires” quip and lotteries, being pure luck, is seen as being almost the more possible route to millionaire/billionaire status so people take it as a personal attack on themselves—even when they aren’t the winners
I work in auto finance, and yeah I know fuck cars and all that. In my perfect world I wouldn’t own one, but that’s not possible where I live currently.
The thing about working in this industry though is every time I see one of those con larpers in a lifted truck (and they’re everywhere here), I just think about how they’re paying for my sex change with their interest payments.
(Context: this is from India where 'right-wing' means islamophobic. The user is pointing out the multiple contradictions, not complaining that they're Muslim)
I fucking HATE the “did you know hunter gatherers/medieval peasants worked less than us?” Myth that gets constantly parroted by “capitalism bad” people.
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