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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Propaganda

I wouldn’t assume he’ll quit. He’s already got infinite money, and he and his tech multi-billionaire peers seem more interested in investing in political power nowadays.

Please don’t troll instances. Stirring inter-instance drama is corrosive to the threadiverse.

Money doesn’t always work. It usually does, but not always. Bloomberg, having made himself a symbol of corporate wealth, was a little too on the nose.

My first thought is that this may be for 1) political leverage and 2) propaganda. Leverage as a spoiler, to pressure/influence the other two parties in the election cycle. Propaganda is pretty self-explanatory, I think: getting into the news & podcaster cycles, throwing events, sending out mailers/flyers etc.

Some people (rich & poor) and interest groups/super PACs may fund it, so it won’t even have to be all his own money.

Don’t be fooled by their seeming friendliness: they’re just trying to fatten us up.

You do know what average means in this context, right? You divide the sum of the empires’ years by the number of empires.

FYI, this was considered fairly recently, and the end-result was:

Will re-open if anyone wants to work on this, but its way out of scope for us.

I know it was just an example to make a point, but my first assumption was that there would be a web server or something in front of the application, and so I’d rate limit the API path at that level, before the calls even reached the application.

Not really: The poorer you are, the less a person you are, which is why Enron Muck is the greatest person in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=False_dichotomy

Just vote blue no matter who^[1].

So if anything should happen, know that each incident was by a lone wolf and not a member of any fascist paramilitary organization.

Hopefully more people will realize that bourgeois democracy is working as intended, and that it cannot be reformed; it must be replaced.

The [political] killing of Jeremy Corbyn

For anyone unfamiliar with this malarkey: Reconciliation (United States Congress)

Budget reconciliation is a special parliamentary procedure of the United States Congress set up to expedite the passage of certain federal budget legislation in the Senate. The procedure overrides the Senate’s filibuster rules, which may otherwise require a 60-vote supermajority for passage. Bills described as reconciliation bills can pass the Senate by a simple majority of 51 votes or 50 votes plus the vice president’s as the tie-breaker. The reconciliation procedure also applies to the House of Representatives, but it has minor significance there, as the rules of the House of Representatives do not have a de facto supermajority requirement.

The Senate filibuster rules aren’t formal law. They’re rules the Senate imposed on itself over the last hundred years, and it can remove them just as easily. Both parties want these supermajority rules because they don’t want to pass bills that aren’t bipartisan.

So Democrats would have to get 60 seats who never vote against their own party. But it doesn’t ever work that way because there are always some rotating villians in those seats. If necessary, they’ll use other dirty tricks, for instance the Parliamentarian, who blocked a minimum wage increase in 2021. Congress is Kayfabe.

I knew where this was going: 1 April 2013

Three red lines was introduced in Aug. 2020. The collapse started in Sept. 2021. It was a centrally planned, managed collapse, with the intent of making the capitalists take the hit instead of the working class. It was very unlike the 2008 one in the US, where no orthodox economist saw it coming, and the government was caught with its pants down, and it ratfucked working class homeowners to save the private banks, who had written bad mortgages that they knew couldn’t be paid.