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[Subprime Container @Letsgetacid]

@videogamedeals Very very rarely

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@JesseBWatters @DonnaPrissyrn1 Four of us respected the Constitution.

[Subprime Container @Letsgetacid]

@JimNorton "Thank you for your service"

[Reddit Lies @reddit_lies]

Incredible

[Subprime Container @Letsgetacid]

@michaelmalice Exciting new ways to be retarded

[Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic_hedgehog]

Cancelled in 1996, the greatest 'What if?' in gaming history. It would be a few more years before the world experienced the first fully 3D Sonic title.

[Subprime Container @Letsgetacid]

@CDCgov You dun fucked up

[Subprime Container @Letsgetacid]

Never the Fed

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers.

If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems.

The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale.

We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability.

Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.

[A. Astros Fan @Dierker4HOF]

No way is Enron in heaven

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

@chrisman Ask them what the consequences should be for homeschooling parents who fail to educate children. Then ask what the consequences should be for public schools that do the same.

The difference in answers is the game.

[Subprime Container @Letsgetacid]

Lul

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

I've warned for months that a @JetBlue-@SpiritAirlines merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares.

@JusticeATR and @USDOT were right to stand up for consumers and fight against runaway airline consolidation.

This is a Biden win for flyers! https://t.co/lJFGS3ucv3

[Jandaboi @Jandaboiiii]

@michaelmalice @hokiept More or less.

[Subprime Container @Letsgetacid]

@RampCapitalLLC Meth, cigarettes, coke. We used to have class

[Subprime Container @Letsgetacid]

@ChicagosMayor Bro I'm not watching your kids.

[Subprime Container @Letsgetacid]

@memechaotic Virtua Balls 2

[Subprime Container @Letsgetacid]

This is a feature of government, not a bug.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The California wealth tax is not on income…

It’s 5% of your net worth.
It’s state seizure of private assets.

This is now on the ballot and likely to pass.
Realize where we are.

[Subprime Container @Letsgetacid]

@sourpatchlyds @sircalebhammer They use it

[Subprime Container @Letsgetacid]

Less dastardly than anything Nancy and Paul cook up every month.

[BNO News @BNONews]

BREAKING: Person who won more than $400,000 by betting on Maduro's removal has been identified as a U.S. soldier who participated in the operation.

The soldier has now been arrested, according to ABC News.