And then the monkeys would starve because they’d realize there weren’t actually 1 trillion bananas, but only the promise of 1 trillion bananas that could be produced by a special banana tree that only the dead monkey knew how to grow.
@AzPetrich This is dumb for a lot of reasons. But I’m cracking up at the idea of the left suddenly accepting Elon if he paid for stadium or arena naming rights lol
@JamesSurowiecki How about public sector unions? Should they get to use taxpayer money to shape political outcomes that result in them getting more taxpayer money? Or is that cool because it’s the Democrats’ lifeblood?
@DarrigoMelanie@SallyMayweather@julia_doughty We funnel an ungodly amount of $ into wealth transfers and welfare. It doesn’t have the result you want because (a) a large % of it is wasted, some of it fraudulently so, by incompetent and malevolent bureaucrats and NGOs and (b) sadly, many people can’t be helped by $
@jonfavs Oh fuck off. This game lefties play with “x people will/have die(d) because of y policy I don’t like” is so exhausting. We could do that with virtually any policy. The accounting is made up and it completely fails to acknowledge we live in a world of tradeoffs
@baseballcrank Ranked choice might be dumb but I can at least understand the argument for it and why it would take longer to count. California’s system is pretty hard to see any other way than a scheme to make fraudulent electioneering legal
@avidseries Hegseth appears to have an alcohol problem. Platner is nazi loving loser on a platform notorious for child abuse and has lied about major parts of his bio. Not exactly the same
@micah_erfan you’re literally talking about 3 people, only one of whom could possibly be construed as right wing. Oh, and CNN hasn’t even been acquired yet and CBS was only recently acquired and the lefty journalists there have been throwing a fit ever since
@avidseries One of the few people in media that I think could appropriately be labeled a centrist. Usually centrist just means lefty but not as crazy as those lefties over there
@yhdistyminen She conceded and then spent the next decade bitching about Russia, claiming trump was illegitimate, and watching the bogus conspiracy her campaign invented hamstring the duly elected POTUS