Notices by wasabi brain (virtualinanity@toot.community)

@jerry @kwayk42 Biden did a good job of using strategic reserve as
Buyer of last resort to keep producers producing. Seems like they should do something similar for gas

@jerry @kwayk42 awesome explanation!

@jerry @kwayk42 can you explain why? I would think it’d be the opposite

@jessew Trump threatening to not pay treasuries is affecting what should be flight to safe asset that was supposed to be treasuries. Just one of the many problems with his approach that has no clear end game is he is working at cross purposes to anything that might make sense

@mekkaokereke we teach civil rights as a series of speeches and not normal everyday people making material changes to the economy

@inthehands newspapers did such a better job than tv and cable in run up to the war in terms of providing historical context. Unfortunately it was the case of the one-eyed man in the land of the blind. Overall the papers did too little to push back on administration claims.

@mekkaokereke slightly off topic but I always love your perspective on the intersection of class, power and business: people who lived in Malibu are for the most part veeery wealthy and powerful. They were able to weaponize environmentalism to make it very hard to build in Malibu in order to prevent high density apartments for the most part. How will this impact the reconstruction of Malibu and pacific palisades?

@mekkaokereke we agree a lot. But I don’t understand how you can say black community didn’t trust Bernie but trusted Biden whose big thing was tough on crime / war on drugs when he wasn’t championing foreign wars. Biden was dead in water until the DNC joined together via clybourne and Obama in SC to block Bernie

@mekkaokereke Bernie adopting a rhetorical device of pretending to agree with an opponent to shock people into reading the rest (cut military spending!) isn’t why he lost the black vote. he won the young black vote in those early primary states. It was the older black vote that more closely aligned with the DNC

@AnarchoNinaWrites bill gates is classic example of Malthusian pushing his eugenics through a veneer of philanthropy in Africa

@inthehands @hugoestr so many people who know what they’re talking about keep losing their shirt shorting musk. He’s a master at missing targets that should absolutely smash the genius narrative but being able to continue distracting capital so the scorecard that matters (net worth) keeps going up

@mekkaokereke what if I were to tell you that for losing 100k black votes I could get you two votes from the Cheney family, isn’t that a great deal?

@Gotterdammerung @mekkaokereke reminds me how MLK jr and Einstein have been flattened in our history books and only small snippets of their large body of written work is taught. These guys were radicals. They were fantastic writers….and they called out wars of empire and systems of economic oppression

@mekkaokereke has been very hard for Harris to say “okay this time if you turn out to vote i absolutely will figure out making sure voting is treated as a right across all the states and we’ll get $15 minimum wage” when four years ago Dems ran on that same message, got exec + both legislative branches…and didn’t deliver. 2028 Ron desantis will be back promising trumpism. Can Dems be popular enough to not make it a close contest?

@inthehands we only care about humane immigration policies when republicans share their plans or are in power but then forget about it during dem administrations. We then end up in a situation where people are aghast when photos come out of kids in cages during Trump era only to say nothing when it turns out those pics were from Obama’s time

@thomasfuchs don’t frame balking at genocide as ideological purity. This sort of scolding at Muslims, Arabs and the young reinforces rather than convinces, imo

@thomasfuchs because dems depend on turnout from minority groups that they spend ignoring at best (voting rights) or at worst using as negotiation pieces (immigration) while they’re in office so every four years when they need the votes, they have to beg these people that this time they actually will do what they promise

@inthehands @sysadmin1138 during Obama tenure, they had both houses with more than enough dems to spare and he did nothing to advance voting rights. Then we got 2016. Base got energized and despite massive voter repression, again gained both houses and presidency in 2020. Biden then used manchin, sinema and the parliamentarian as an excuse to do nothing. And once again we find ourselves hoping that black and brown people put up with shitty laws and long waits to save us

@inthehands him as the candidate was 70% likelihood he would lose. Kamala is probably closer to 60% and some Midwest governor with no real name recognition is probably a toss up at this point. But just no path forward with him losing Michigan and Arizona because of his rightward turns on Gaza and immigration. It’s a pity because before Gaza he was most progressive president in my lifetime

@thomasfuchs the streamers have such limited options of old movies, especially from the golden era that my dad shared with me as a kid from his boyhood. Every now and then I’ll find one and watch before it goes off service but very hard to eg watch several Hitchcock movies in a row