If you're unsure about the mainstream media's role in normalizing and enabling fascism, the responses to Italy electing an outright fascist from a party that traces it's lineage to Mussolini makes it clear. Thread. 🧵
Two days ago the NYT posted an investigation into politicians trading stocks
They found that 81 Democrats & 101 Republicans filed up to 3,700 trades and $100M in possible volume
Many had 100% winners, with some perfectly timed
Here’s examples of just how good they were
@w0rmonastring I was OBSESSED with Numberphile. Have you seen their video about the sum of all natural numbers? I asked every math teacher I had about it.
@ruminoid@Drplavbot@keffals This is just flat out wrong. It seems like your heart is in the right place, but your understanding of performance enhancing drugs is far too reductive, and blatantly incorrect. Testosterone is an anabolic hormone, period.
Hmm... Maybe it was paying an effective tax rate of 0.98%, heading a corporation that repeatedly paid nothing in federal income tax, and underpaying workers so much they had to rely on public benefits. That sort of rampant greed might have had something to do with it.
Republicans who say we can't impeach a president 10 days before an inauguration had no trouble confirming a Supreme Court justice 8 days before an election.
@burkkeee Because the electoral college makes it so the only Americans he needs to convince to vote for him are those in swing states, like Pennsylvania. Because that just makes so much sense!