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[Stan @sck_2008]

@ChadMoriyama I THINK I LIKE WATCHING OHTANI AS MUCH AS I DID WATCHING MAGIC JOHNSON IN THE 1980’S; IT’S WILD, BROTHER <3

[Otto Von Biz Markie @wittgenfine]

There’s a part in the book White Noise where the characters talk about losing their identity once they’ve aged out of being the primary demo for advertisements and marketing.I think about that every time I see nostalgia porn videos because they’re always just ads for old products

[Jamie Walters, CAIA @JWalters314]

This is a fake comparison.

SpaceX did not “lift America out of poverty.”

It created paper millionaires for people close enough to the equity structure.

That is not the same thing.

An IPO or liquidity event can absolutely make employees rich. Good for them. But that proves ownership works for people who are allowed into the ownership pool. It does not prove the economic system works for everyone else.

SpaceX’s value was not created in a vacuum by Elon handing out magic capitalism dust. It rests on NASA contracts, defense spending, public research, launch infrastructure, regulatory protection, tax law, capital markets, public procurement, engineers, technicians, welders, logistics workers, and years of investor tolerance.

So when someone says, “SpaceX created thousands of millionaires,” the honest translation is:

A public-private, state-backed, capital-market-driven company had a massive equity event, and people close to the cap table became rich.

Fine.

But that is not a rebuttal to Warren.

Warren’s job is not to mint millionaires through stock options. Her political argument is about wages, consumer protection, bankruptcy rules, health care costs, student debt, corporate power, taxation, and whether ordinary workers get a fair deal.

Saying “Elon created millionaires and Warren did not” is like saying a casino jackpot did more for one gambler than food stamps did for a hungry family.

It confuses concentrated upside with broad public welfare.

The real question is not whether 4,000 or 5,000 SpaceX insiders became millionaires.

The question is why America treats that as a civilization-level achievement while millions of workers still cannot afford housing, health care, child care, retirement, or a few months without a paycheck.

That is the propaganda move.

Turn rare proximity to capital into proof that the system works.

Then tell everyone outside the cap table to applaud.

[Stan @sck_2008]

@ChadMoriyama Feels like team will need to rely on some of the young OF bats sooner rather than later if serious about 3 peat

[Stan @sck_2008]

@TheJayBee @Theoldp Kelce is a exactly like this. Meatheads love him.

[Stan @sck_2008]

@purpledrank0 at least you’re not a cal fan, I guess.

[Stan @sck_2008]

@ChadMoriyama At least he’s not Bichette

[Stan @sck_2008]

@dlsecretdt @ChadMoriyama sarcasm, sweetheart 🫶🏼

[Reuben Rodriguez @ReubenR80027912]

What they DO want is for services to work, they’d like a Marshall’s or 5 Guys w/in a 15 min drive

But they don’t want Ezra Klien rolling into town, pushing to his glasses and saying “I’m here to help make your life and town marginally less wretched! Please clap!”

[Stan @sck_2008]

@ReubenR80027912 Has the death of my monoculture and thus Hollywood) changed this?

[Noah Camras @noahcamras]

Shohei Ohtani's OPS: .939 (1st in National League)
Shohei Ohtani's ERA: 0.74 (1st in MLB minimum 60 IP)

The Dodgers two-way star is the best hitter in the NL and arguably the best pitcher in baseball right now.

This isn't normal.

[Stan @sck_2008]

@Bnicklaus7 call up Tibbs and send Sirota to AAA. I read the Internet a lot so I know I am right about this.

[Mike Mitchell @MikeMitchNH]

This is classic conservative uncle/grandpa at dinner stuff that lots of Americans recognize. No evidence, no reasoning to follow, just a paranoid old guy sputtering "oh come on, use your common sense!".

In educated families, it's how the olds talk. Working class, it's everyone.

[Stan @sck_2008]

@ByBlakeWilliams update?

[Stan @sck_2008]

@vol_til @ChadMoriyama These are the type of folks that believe a magic man in the sky hears their thoughts and responds to them, so logic and reason aren’t exactly their forté, brother

[Stan @sck_2008]

@purpledrank0 They’re still bitter we partied in their pool.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

A court found Alabama's maps were drawn with "intentional race-based discrimination." The Supreme Court said: use them anyway. This is what the end of the Voting Rights Act looks like in practice. https://t.co/ZX42bXZ4WP

[ᴅᴏᴏᴍᴇɴɪᴄ @dinosaur_info]

Didn’t mean to start Wikipedia discourse so lemme be clear: If you in any way think Wikipedia is bad, or woke, you are an enemy of thinking and learning and you do not belong in polite society. You get your news from tiktoks and right wing blogs and your intelligence is a joke

[Stan @sck_2008]

@ArindamBur95750 @ChadMoriyama You’re smart! ❤️🫶🏼🤯