Ivor McTenn

Unpragmatic progressive devoted to unreasonable goals (pure food, clean water, healthcare, peace, etc...)

[Ivor McTenn @PurityPony]

Not a bot. Just someone whose day job doesn't allow a social media account, who uses this to read what others say, occasionally reply, and (very rarely) speak out.

[Ivor McTenn @PurityPony]

@harrisonjaime @therecount You can't find anything in the last 11 years to hoot about, you feckless twirp? Preening, self-satisfied crap like this helps explain why you were able to get stomped by Lindsay Graham while lighting tens of millions of dollars on fire.

Find better things to discuss, asshat.

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@PrestoVivace No, it's a caucus-wide decision. They unanimously re-elected Chuck Boomer, even after two disastrous terms as party leader.

They knew he was gonna do this. Apparently they didn't care.

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@alwaystheself Ironically, the best expression of that sentiment I've heard came from Michelle Obama (who would go ballistic if anyone suggested it applied to her hubby).

It's in this article-- the paragraph beginning "Here's the secret:"

https://t.co/Shp9OkxHD5

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@Atrios Alternate punchline: "Holy Zach Snyder cut, Batman!"

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@Atrios The electricity used to power the server that transmits 14,000 words of Keir Starmer is an infinitely greater waste of energy than Bitcoin mining.

Downloading it makes listening to George W. Bush's speech on infinite loop seem like a more rewarding intellectual pastime.

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@robert_zubrin @ClaireBerlinski It provides a great service. Anyone capable of this degree of naiveté & error clearly should not be relied upon for accurate analysis of future events.

To her credit, many people who were much farther off have had neither the honesty nor the decency to confess their error.

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@lib_crusher Michael Bay (explosions) & J. K. Rowling (TERFiness) require 120-150 minutes minimum.

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@davidsirota My issue with this: I've never known the media to respond to what readers say.

Oh, they complain we're all lynch mobs who don't understand the industry. But they don't change behavior.

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@AoDespair To leave no reply undone, most of my WGA friends insist that past contracts overlooked goldmines or miscalculated rates. I have no opinion; I can't say, from hindsight, whether it's sour grapes or spot-on.

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@AoDespair I didn't see this one until now (Thanks, Twitter). Carter (first) and then Reagan completely deregulated surface transport. Drawing the line before that began is at best clueless & at worst disingenuous.

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@jbendery I did it. I am Spartacus!

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@blakehounshell You "can't think" or you DON'T? Lawyers and nurses often tell people not to go into their jobs (especially nurses post-Covid).

Since college degrees cost $250K and are only seen as passports to a job, telling people "this job sucks and is not worth the money" seems useful.

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D's bring a spoon to a knife fight. Stock buybacks were illegal for 40+ years, on the grounds they were tools to manipulate. Reagan's SEC first permitted it.

If the goal is to get funding, that's one thing. It would be smarter, given the way companies have acted, to re-ban it.

[Sabrina Eaton @sabrinaeaton]

U.S. @SenSherrodBrown of Ohio introduces legislation to tax stock buybacks https://t.co/L924ggHFNd

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@AoDespair It's impossible to be anything but general in bursts this small. I will offer this: people always tell outside advisers "THIS specific situation is unique & none of your knowledge of history, past work experience or theoretical knowledge applies."

It's rarely correct. Ta...

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@AoDespair I'm not saying your approach can't work-- merely that these strategies tend not to. Too many moving parts & potential weak spots.

Big blobs have their own shortcomings, but the benefit is that nothing can be deemed out of scope.

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@AoDespair In theory, unions could match or anticipate. In practice (based on what I've seen) they get rolled because they can't move as fast.

A chain is only as strong as weakest link. One blinkered, timid or stubborn leader ruins the others, who can't fix what they can't vote on.

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@Sandra63131130 @RBReich Simplest way to fix the budget is to eliminate all those federal buildings in WV.

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@Avedon_Says @ggreenwald Think "Arsenal", "Manchester" & "Liverpool". Nobody in Ohio has a life; we rely on athletes for our daily Bread & Circuses.