Top 500 songs from the 1970s

Oops, all Cher

I wouldn’t hold my breath. Kissinger made it to 100.

You don’t think Tech oligarchs would do this? Just war-profiteer off every side in an ongoing conflict?!

But who could be behind it all?

• Israeli pleads guilty to shipping US-made avionics to Russia, violating sanctions

• Israeli metalworking tools continue to enter Russia’s defense sector in 2024, despite sanctions, with over $10 million in imports recorded.

• How Israel sold Russia drones to stop missiles from reaching Iran

Well, idk about y’all, but I blame China.

Strong leadership really can prevent wars…

Idk what “strong” leadership is supposed to mean in this context. Because, in the American context, strength is directly correlated with a leader’s willingness to inflict unimaginable pain and suffering on one’s domestic and global opposition.

shitting your pants on camera, double tapping a school full of little girls, shitting your pants on camera, starting a pointless war…

Terror campaigns have a long and historically effective track record. Whether or not you’re cotenant when you press the big red button hardly matters.

The problem with fascist governments is that they’re very good at extracting enormous amounts of wealth from vulnerable people. So they produce a vicious cycle of assault, extraction, re-arming, renewed assault. Liberals heckling from the sides with “Haha, he poopie his panties!” doesn’t change any of that.

Trump’s allies are gaining wealth, sovereign territory, and an expanded role in the state bureaucracy. I don’t see anyone willing to acknowledge that. And so, once he’s scattered his fascist seeds, I question whether anyone will remember to pull them back out again before the next harvest.

Guy who is constantly lying: “Series of Lies!”

Me, a fact-checker: “I’m going to use AI to debunk these lies in meme format”.

But they are completely turned off by college campus culture warrior performative activism.

Turnout in the Wisconsin Dem primary was head-and-shoulders above the GOP race. People are excited to vote for an anti-Trump candidate and they’re bickering on the margins over who the best person for the job will be.

To say they’re “turned off”, you need to explain where the 310,230 people who voted for Hong came from. Nevermind the 32,237 that went to Barnes even after withdrawing. Clearly, culture warriors aren’t so unpopular that they can’t generate an enormous and enthusiastic base of support.

Just don’t use the word socialism.

The Republicans, the neoliberals, and the national media are going to call you a socialist whether you run as one or not.

If you’ve got popular policies and a socialist outlook, might as well put them both on the ballot together. The crown jewel of American Capitalism, NYC, just put an out-and-proud Socialist Mayor. If you can win there, you can win anywhere.

Exposing the terrible inefficiencies of the blasphemous Public Sector.

Obviously, all of this work should be done by AI.

If I thought anyone was going to read it, I would feel less bad about writing them.

Doing a reboot of Police Academy but they’re all investing which CamGirls are being paid in Iraqi Dinar

The poors can still get in if they are willing to become indebted wage slaves with a 6 figure debit for the next 20-30 years.

They can’t. Those schools are all scams. That’s the real ugliness. Private universities charging six figures also have some of the worst placement rates and poorest post-collegate incomes.

Just, don’t expect to get in to a social connection generator for nepo babies

Right. Because the degree is a social gatekeeper first and foremost.

You’ve found a bunch of clickbait headlines built on anecdotes.

But absent a marginal performance dip in the wake of COVID, overall US rates have been relatively flat for the first quarter of the 21st century.

What you’re witnessing is a media converge on a given topic, not a social crisis. Once the media hype dies down, you’ll forget about it.

The costs aren’t really what’s changed. It’s who bares the costs. Teaching a student today isn’t materially more expensive than it was 30 years ago. We’ve just shifted the demand for school revenues from state budgets to family pocketbooks as the number of students entering college has swelled.

The “kids aren’t literate anymore” line really runs afoul of the abysmal state of standardized testing. Case in point:

The Pineapple And The Hare: Can You Answer Two Bizarre State Exam Questions?

This is what we’re using to evaluate literacy in the modern day. Tests designed to confuse students and flunk classrooms, in order to justify education privatization.

I’m always deeply skeptical of this insistence that college offers “little benefit”. But I’ll happily concede that it functions as a bureaucratic hurdle, designed to favor the historically wealthy and socially entrenched over the impoverished and recently arrived.

I bank with Dixie Normous.

“Would you like to write it down?”

“That’s ablest and I’ll kill you.”

Two people screaming at each other on a plane is just one extra person for everyone else to hate

Happens on subways and buses in NYC from time to time, as well