Notices by walterbobrowski (walterbobrowski@flipboard.social)

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@kcarruthers @pluralistic It presents a perfect analogy:

"It's the "Fiddler on the Roof" problem: sure, the villagers of Anatevka get six kinds of shit kicked out of them by cossacks every 15 minutes, but if they leave the shtetl, they'll lose everything they have. Their wealth isn't material. Anatekvans are peasants with little more than the clothes on their back and a storehouse of banging musical numbers. The wealth of Anatevka is social, it's one another. The only thing worse than living in Anatevka is leaving Anatevka, because the collective action problem dictates that once you leave Anatevka, you lose everyone you love."

@ProjectFearlessness Time magazine crowned that orange dotard. Meanwhile, The New European chose Gisele Pelicot as Person of the Year!

@mattg @pluralistic I expect "tax cuts" will come in the form of elimination of federal taxes on social security income, and possibly elimination ofsocial security withholdings from working adults. And voila, within just a few years social security becomes insolvent and Republicans claim we're now a Meritocracy echoing the current chant of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It'll be every American for him/her self.

The Power of Prayer.

@jeffowski A friend of a friend actually said, "If the poor don't like where they live they can always move!"

@georgetakei A classic tactic: "Play the victim."