Sparkalonius

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[drew @ImNotOwned]

pretty funny that this was roughly one trillion times more vitriolic than texas and she immediately endorses

[sam @sam_d_1995]

bruh she literally just hates every single holiday lmao

[Sparkalonius @onapier]

@nicksoley This opinion seems to come mostly from people who dont know any Hill staffers. How many do you know?

[Sparkalonius @onapier]

The best argument against democracy is attempting to sell something on Facebook Marketplace.

[Sparkalonius @onapier]

@TrueSlazac It looks like he started his PhD but never finished. It's not listed in his LinkedIn.

https://t.co/0EcQLjJiQW

[Phil McAlister @phil_mcalister]

A few very obvious points on Mamdani's grocery stores:

1. The supply of the discounted groceries will run out on day 1, and every day there is a new shipment. This is basic econ 101.

2. This means only the people who are lucky enough or fast enough will get these discounted groceries. Expect to see the city ration these groceries in some other way. By income, or neighborhood or some lottery system.

3. Grocery margins are notoriously low as it is (like 2-3%). These stores will lose a bunch of money selling 30% below market, or they'll sell so little it will be insignificant.

4. There is absolutely zero chance that government bureaucrats can source these products from global supply chains as efficiently as Walmart, or Meier, or Whole Foods, whose survival depends on it. Their costs will be far higher (unless they use government bludgeon to force distributors to sell to them at lower prices).

5. It's actually an incredible triumph of capitalism that you can get a pound of bananas that were shipped to your neighborhood from Equador for like 60 cents, or fresh grapes from Chile in the dead of Midwestern winter for 2 bucks a pound, and Norwegian salmon to cook in Italian olive oil for $15 -20 bucks or so. Truly stop and think about that for a minute. It's a miracle.

The median full time hourly wage is around $31 dollars. For ONE HOUR of work, the median working American can get all of the groceries listed below, which is about 22,000 calories. They can feed themselves for 10 days (or a family of 4 for around 2 and a half days), with an hour of labor.

This is the stupidest industry for socialists to go after.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

@souljagoyteller at least I understand why many republicans oppose statehood (they don’t want what will very likely be left-leaning senators and representatives), but anti-statehood lefties just crack me up

[Sparkalonius @onapier]

@MWarnerrr @Schaumby You can get a 2012 Camry for $10k. But instead people spend $50k+ on a shiny new car and then complain about affordability. Give me a break.

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

his personal commitment to rape supersedes all political considerations, truly dedicated to the game

[Sparkalonius @onapier]

@jahorne Carbon, yes. E-shifting, no. Good carbon frames can reduce a lot of chatter and that really helps on long rides.

[Sparkalonius @onapier]

@maplebonk @nikicaga If someone visited Serbia during the genocide via an explicitly pro-Serbian propaganda program, then yes, that would be bad.

Your chosen metaphor works against your argument. Are you so dense that you think doing Birthright is the same as just visiting Israel?

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

I'm a little bit of a broken record on this, but the issue is that people mistake *partisanship* (D vs R, and the extent to which you cheer for your "team") for *ideological* positioning (left vs right). Crockett wasn't particularly left-wing, but she was very *partisan*.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

@atrupar Trump tells stories the way kids lie—way too specific in weird places, zero proof in the important ones.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Sudan is the world's worst humanitarian crisis -- with plenty of competition for that title -- and drones are now devastating areas of Kordofan. Yet world leaders don't seem much interested and aren't imposing penalties on those who arm the deadly players.

[Sparkalonius @onapier]

@LoganDobson It's very obvious if you understand that, for all his rocket launches and EVs, Musk did more than any other single human to elect the most anti-science president in US history.

[ej @ejdickson]

So the Israeli filmmaker being boycotted:

A) has totally disavowed Israel
B) does not live in Israel
C) produced and distributed his movie in France
D) is so loathed by Israel that the entire country has refused to distribute his movie

guys at what point are we gonna start straight up boycotting bagels

[Sparkalonius @onapier]

@WarMonitor3 Nope, they know something that YOU do not - they cant count on the ability to refuel.

Don't project your ignorance on the rest of us.

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

I feel like this whole Platner situation could’ve been avoided if a bunch of upper middle class leftists hadn’t seen the most obvious red flags imaginable and thought, “that’s just what rough, salty, Ohio Waffle House type working class people are like”

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

Classic Woke 1 switcheroo:

1) A guy developed a *specific* ube ice cream recipe for his store

2) Group A told him to die for “gentrifying” and “arrogance”—a *disrespect* accusation

3) Group B found this insane and obnoxious and stupid.

4) Group A backtracks by substituting real issues—farmworker maltreatment—to retroactively justify the freak-out

But of course, some white American guy saying “I developed” an ice cream recipe (which he did; get over it) doesn’t have any bearing on the conditions of farm workers in the global south whatsoever.

Group A is mad that he didn’t show sufficient deference, self-denigration, and groveling. They’re mad that he’s using “their flavors” and has the temerity to admit his own efforts, as a worker creating things in his own right (a specific recipe, not a general foodstuff). It’s entirely about ego, respect, social hierarchy, and the libidinal thrill of disciplining a scapegoat.

And no, you can’t come in and talk about foreign demand for ube causing problems. Aside from the fact that demand rising or falling for a particular commodity has little to do with farm worker welfare (both increasing or falling demand have downsides, and long term improvements have more to do with increased economic productivity, unions, and regulations than demand), that wasn’t the objection made.

The objection was that the guy making ice cream is the wrong race to be allowed to take credit for his ice-cream-making, which is absurd chauvinist nonsense that makes you sound like an insane freak.