CEOs looking around Earth: Yeah, this is a vibrant miracle of cosmic creation, but I'd be more excited if it was just solar-irradiated dust, that was really hard to get to.

This isn't an intelligent, mature observation, but the ultra-rich are high on their own farts.

The worker, identified as TJ Sabula in the Washington Post, said “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

/3 Think about it. Faced with lawless, violent thugs who feel entitled to murder and abuse, and faced with an unimaginably powerful government openly praising and endorsing murder and lying to justify it, these people are still showing up, often for people they don’t even know.

/2 In light of that, I am in awe and deep respect of the people who are still showing up to monitor the ICE Gestapo, protect and defend their neighbors, do whatever they can to hold ICE to account and call out their lawlessness. What incredible bravery.

Instead they just inve$ted on the prospects

Hast m'lord encountered Suehiro Maruo in ye journeys?

Nay m'lord, I cannot be conscripted for ye quest for my campaign days are long past. Yet I shall fix ye stirrup and tell lore of cocaine and dive bar debauch from thee early aughts.

I'm not saying I have confidence Mamdani is gonna be a gamechanger. Maybe, maybe not, but symbols are important, and he is that much. Bernie and AOC once were too, and we know how that turned out. It's enough to scare the shit out of rich people for now, and that's fear that radicals can seize on.

Fear is the key. No one is afraid of No Kings or Chuck Schumer. They're afraid of anarchists, socialists, and Zohran Mamdani because these things inherently threaten hegemony, and directly threaten it by taking action. A threat doesn't necessarily mean violence, but it does require confrontation.