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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 7h

This sounds like paying people in company scrip but woke

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 8h

I really like the ads on odd lots where they’re just like “improve your business with AI” and that’s it. How will the business be improved? Unclear

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 10h

Smh

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 14h

I can't even tell what they're mad about. Do they think "money is power" is different from "money is a source of power"

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 14h

very confused by the people angrily replying "but money IS power!!!" as if that's not literally what the article says

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 18h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 14h

Related to this is the belief that we could have a Scandi welfare state *without middle class people paying more in taxes*, and billionaires stop it, which goes alongside the Nimby belief that everyone could have a lovely cheap well-located home without building any more if it weren't for landlords

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 18h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 14h

what's going on in the mind of a person who votes for Reconquête instead of just voting for RN

Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 14h

France, Ifop poll:

RN and allies-PfE: 36% (+3)
PCF/LÉ/PS/PP-LEFT|G/EFA|S&D: 19%
Ensemble-RE: 13% (-1)
LR-EPP: 11% (-1)
LFI-LEFT: 8% (-1)
REC-ESN: 3.5% (-0.5)
Divers gauche-*: 3%
...

+/- vs. 5-8 September 2025

Fieldwork: 07-08 October 2025
Sample size: 1,386

➤ europeelects.eu/france

ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

you all are always complaining about how there's no money in journalism anymore but this guy appears to make a living by tweeting and writing one piece a year about the nobel prize for literature

Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 1d

Me and @markkrotov.bsky.social wrote about Laszlo Krasznahorkai and the Nobel Prize in Literature newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the Prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

newrepublic.com

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

lmfao I can't believe the Treasury is actually just buying pesos this is so fucking stupid

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

girl the forever chemicals

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

a teacher on the other website said he recently subbed for some fourth graders (first group young enough to not have had zoom school that he's taught) and that they're much better

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

put it in a shadowbox and hang it on the wall

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

"but what does it say about society that I thought it was true"

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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 1d

personally my favorite part of this discourse was the guy who got offended by calling India a developing country, and got more offended when shown instances of the *Government of India* calling it that

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

adding "child tax credit" to the list of discourse topics that have provoked DM'd threats, alongside French-canadians, fallout new Vegas factions, male height, and Thomas Kincaid