Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐

27 | Photography | Poli Sci GWU ‘20, Stuyvesant HS alum | Swiftie, Livie, Lauver

[Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐 @ryanbdrm]

We already know the answer. Her oldest songs are already 20 years old and still incredibly popular and recognizable, namely Love Story and You Belong With Me.

ABBA broke through in 1974 after winning Eurovision. Gimme Gimme Gimme came out and that video is from ~1979. They broke up in 1982. ABBA had a resurgence and attained their current popularity in 1992 when ABBA Gold, their Greatest Hits album came out. That success then lead Benny and Bjorn to write the Mamma Mia musical which debuted in 1999/2001.

Taylor released her first Billboard charting album in 2006. And released her first album to win Album of the Year, with songs peaking at 2 on the Billboard 100, in 2008. Even if she stopped making music there, in terms of time you could say her rerecording of Fearless in 2021 and the Eras Tour would be comparable to her “ABBA Gold” moment, coming 13 years later.

So Taylor has already “stood the test of time” and remained popular for longer than ABBA existed as a group, and as long as the time period between when they broke up and when ABBA Gold came out.

If someone doesn’t think she has stood the test of time, it’s probably because they’re so old they think 2008 was yesterday instead of nearly 20 years ago. Or so young they think Taylor Swift became popular 3 years ago.

[Link Lauren @itslinklauren]

I’m not a Taylor Swift hater, but when you hear these classic songs you question whether or not her discography will stand the test of time. She’s very commercially successful and has broken records. But I don’t think her music will have the same cultural impact as legends like ABBA, Michael Jackson and others who we still listen to 50 years later.

[Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐 @ryanbdrm]

@RoKhanna “Democrats believe that the federal government investing in the healthcare & education of our people will make America prosperous & productive”

Just like the federal government investing billions in high speed rail has given America high speed rail, right?

[Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐 @ryanbdrm]

As a born and raised New Yorker, born in 1998, who has gotten to watch the whole arc throughout my life. This is exactly it.

[Alicia @alicianieves__]

Since roughly 2010 a large migration of predominately white, middle class, suburban college educated types have descended into urban cities that were cleaned up btw 1994-2010 by reform moderates like Giuliani. Without knowing it, they inherited a safer and more prosperous city. Many from this cohort use their DSA/lefty politics and canvass for these POC candidates as a way to rationalize their presence in the cities and believe that this kind of politics can correct the inherent asymmetry between their smart little NPR life and the Puerto Rican teens selling weed and pressed pills down the street. Alas, their savior politics actually makes things worse for these people.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[RAH-66 COMANCHE @rah_66_comanche]

I am filled with optimism at the fact that the world's first trillionaire was made not by hedge funds or market manipulation, but by building the infrastructure to take America to the stars.

[Ben Braverman @braveben]

I’m actually fine with this framing. I don’t think a random 11 million American households could work together to build SpaceX. We’re getting a bargain.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

“If Elon Musk wasn’t a trillionaire, we could all afford healthcare.”

They fail to understand that Musk didn’t take his wealth from anyone.

It didn’t exist before he created it.

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Today is a great example of why taxing unrealized gains is insane.

If Musk had to face a massive tax bill for paper gains from taking SpaceX public, he likely wouldn't have done it, and the wealth SpaceX creates would be more concentrated in his hands.

[signüll @signulll]

almost everyone reads this list as wealth hoarded.

it’s the opposite. each name here is a rounding error on the surplus they unleashed on to the world through both the peripheral individuals (employees, investors, etc) involved & the compounding value of their creation to society in general (which allows others to also pursue greatness).

[Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐 @ryanbdrm]

@DarrigoMelanie Given the billions New york and California have shoveled into the black hole of “homelessness”, it doesn’t seem to be a money problem.

[Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐 @ryanbdrm]

@bourscheid The fact that you “don’t get it” explains why you will never have it.

They teach it Econ 101 at any community college. High school students can get it.

[Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐 @ryanbdrm]

The thing is you could not solve all of the world’s problems even with a trillion dollars.

If you divided up 1 trillion dollars among the global population, it would be a one time payment of $120 per person. That is not a home, food, healthcare, “happiness” for every person on the planet.

1 trillion is just .8% of the wealth produced *every year*.

[Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐 @ryanbdrm]

This is NOT Abundance

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire.

Let’s make sure he’s also the last.

[Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐 @ryanbdrm]

@grahamformaine How about we focus on making everyone trillionaires instead of making everyone poorer?

[Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐 @ryanbdrm]

How about you just invest people’s Social Security contributions into the S&P500 so Americans can share in the wealth being generated by Elon Musk’s companies and get rich along with him instead of loaning it to the government to lose value to inflation while they spend money on trains that don’t exist.

[Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐 @ryanbdrm]

“Wealth inequality is the moral failure of our time”

Do you sincerely believe every person adds equal value to the world and to society? The jealousy and envy of communism and the desire to take the belongings of other people because they produce more is the moral failure of our time

[Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐 @ryanbdrm]

@SenWarren Well yes, the average American would have to work 11 million years to create the collective value Elon Musk has added and will add to the world over time to the world through his various enterprises. This makes sense. You are supposed to understand economics.

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

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[Justin Shubow @JustinShubow]

The U.S. government just unveiled the majestic Greco-Deco design for the new federal courthouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The building is at once monumental and welcoming, classical and original. The iris capitals are an inspired touch, drawing on Tennessee’s natural beauty and weaving it into the stone of a federal building.

The Chattanooga courthouse is precisely the kind of building that President Trump’s Executive Order on federal architecture—“Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again”—was designed to produce.

When the courthouse is completed, it will stand as the living proof that the Order represents wise and humane public policy—something all Americans, regardless of political party, can and should support. Beautiful public buildings are not a partisan matter; they belong to everyone.

[Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐 @ryanbdrm]

If it’s like the air (which it will probably be since it needs to be thin to not be too thick when folded), it’ll probably have worse cameras than the Pro and shorter battery light (more battery but larger screen).

If it’s easy to swap sims I could see myself getting a fold for day to day usage, and a Pro for taking to concerts or traveling when I need the better camera and larger battery life.

[Ryan Boodram 🇺🇸🇬🇾 🌐 @ryanbdrm]

@taylornation13 @tayvisnation My #FavoriteTaylorSwiftSong is the best thing that has ever been Mine