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2011: Occupy Wall Street

2021: Burn Wall Street to the ground, then salt the earth.

I'm really just appalled by the supposition that without oversight from the schools every parent will become abusive.

(Please do not blackpill me on child abuse rates today. My heart can't take it.)

Term of the day: tournament careers

"where getting someone else out of the tournament is good for one’s own prospects, and where falling off the track once is basically a dream killer. "

So when Trump arrived, my opinion was <they're all terrible. This guy may be a new low, but he's a change in amount, not kind.>

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Basically, the Patriot Act and Guantanamo blackpilled me on the idea that our government would actually respect our rights. Obama blackpilled me on the idea that the Democrats were any better than the Republicans.

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My opinion on Donald Trump as president is inseparable from my opinion on Barack Obama as president, which is inseparable from my opinion on George W. Bush as president, which is inseparable from my view on the functioning of our government as a whole.

This left all of the change-the-world energy on the Social Experiments prong.

The outcome is inevitable.

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I blame Bill Clinton for wokeness.

There used to be two prongs to the Democratic Party platform:

1. Tax-and-spend for useful services.

2. Social experiments to rebalance racial outcomes.

Clinton's Third Way dropped tax-and-spend for fiscal responsibility.

"Jim Crow Filibuster" has all the hallmarks of a forced meme.

Rumor has it this time they might actually pick up a girl in the dungeon.

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_Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon?_

Season 3

I'm old enough that I can look back and cringe at things I did and said at my job, not just when I was in school.

You can tax to siphon money away from wildly successful people to provide services for people who are less successful.

You can tax to discourage people from doing the thing taxed.

It's really not clear how to do just one of those things.

I recommend live birdfeeder watching.

It's very peaceful and not super distracting to have on in the background.

youtu.be/vWVnwo5se0M

The biggest reason I don't pay for stuff online is the effort of setting up a new account on the service.

People note that Biden is signing his executive orders more quietly, while Trump held them up to the camera to show off his signature.

Folks, Biden still published pictures of him signing his executive orders. This is still promotional. He's just advertising a different brand.

Given the degree of the United States fuckup on vaccine production and distribution, surely some other country produced and distributed a vaccine way earlier.

What country was it?

When did they start distributing the vaccine?

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