Fred Hampton once said (paraphrasing from memory) “a pig is a pig is a pig. No matter black, white, yellow, or polka dot”.

I think this applies here in the sense that race can be ignored as a factor in the corrupt, the same way you can rule out a coherent doctrine. The only academic question about Thomas is has he received a bribe, or is he angling for a gratuity?

I’m saying this as someone who’s tried to comprehend his political/ legal philosophy for years. Observers have often said that Thomas believes that black Americans can find more equality in capital than they can with the franchise. The reasoning goes that black Americans can never rely on voting because they’re a permanent minority and therefore perpetually dependent on the good will of white America; good will that can never be trusted. Valid point IMO. But nah… Justice Thomas was just corrupt.

Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence

What?!? The central idea of progressivism is egalitarianism, or to put it another way, All Men Are Created Equal… What kind of an RV or Private Island retreat paid for this ironclad legal and historical reasoning?

My first distro was Debian and I loved Gnome so much that I’ve never gotten around to trying anything else despite being on my 3rd distro hop.

I’m an old head and a firm believer in keyboard first computing. And I think an OS’s job is to be invisible until I need it. Gnome get’s out of my way until I summon whatever I need from it with the keyboard. For someone who’s labored under Windows for so long, Gnome is like escaping Plato’s cave.

Only if you consider mocking the POTUS political.

Yea, I talk about my balls! My eyeballs are shaped like footballs and I require expensive corrective lenses.

He also quoted the Bible: Ezekiel 25-17

If you’re a Pulp Fiction fan, that’s fucking funny. If you’re a Christian, not so much.

Their are already Linux phone options. I’m talking about full-fat installations and even distro-hopping.

Netanyahu did this. Allowing support for Israel to become a partisan issue in the US will go down as one of the classic blunders.

Bribing ladies to hang around men in shitty bars was a plot by big lesbian the whole time.

they did not have the right to violate international law and wage an all-out war of enormous destruction against the entire Palestinian people – in what experts have correctly concluded is a genocide.

This should have been the opening. Bernie shouldn’t have to spend 3 paragraphs proving his bona fides; preemptively defend vacuous accusations of bigotry; and acknowledge that Hamas are assholes, just to begin to list Israel’s crimes.

After that opening, Bernie really cooks. I just feel like preemptive apologetics cedes too much ground to bad-faith actors.

For so many of us, Steam made switching to Linux frictionless and they’d have to do something pretty fucked up to loose my appreciation.

Social media companies will target teenagers with ads for impulse products if they calculate that the user is stressed or tired.

You should let your community college people know that graduates from prestigious universities are being paid seven figures to influence not only how they spend and save, but also what they earn. Let them know that it’s their personal responsibility to overcome the efforts of trillion dollar industries that have captured the media and government.

I was getting angry reading this.

The idea that raising wages is inflationary is simple, elegant, easy to understand, and wrong.

it’s the biggest econ101 meme and refuses to die no matter how many times it’s been proven wrong.

Something like this may be handy when MAGA’s start taking off their hats and peeling off the bumper-stickers.

Ya’ll realize that hating on this dude is tantamount to contributing to his Patroon, right? He’s a rage-baiter and judging by the comments, a quite good one.

Poverty rates are extremely difficult to measure. I’m sure this data is good-faith, but there are lot’s of statistics like this that are dishonest and spread by people like Stephen Pinker in order to shill for neo-liberalism.

For example the cash/day measure can be tweaked until you get the trend you want. We all know that cost of living varies between the States, so imagine how much it varies between different countries and continents. Saying a person only makes X/day would mean completely different things in a poor vs. wealthy country. Accounting for this difference is more opportunity to dial in the answer your looking for.

I’ve heard conservatives argue that “assets” like refrigerators and ovens be counted as wealth; owing to their belief that poverty is a choice and the privations are exaggerated. Meanwhile those of us on the left are automatically skeptical of figures that don’t show that poverty is bad and getting worse.

My point is that numbers like this should never be accepted credulously. Microtrends, the source of this data lives in the “market analysis” data space and I’m sure it’s a coincidence that the numbers align with the priors of conservative business types.

Oh yea, so does your zip code.