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[sharpemcelroy @sharpemcelroy]

And so, MAGA is not about greatness whatsoever, it is about ignorance: the luxury to ignore. It is about fantasy: the luxury to pursue a dream in which consequences of our actions do not exist; the luxury to pretend; the luxury to go back in time to

[Jenni @hashjenni]

First it was $40 billion to Venezuela and now it’s $300 billion to Iran

This is the price of the Epstein files. This is the cost of electing a pedophile. I never want to hear conservatives say we don’t have money for shit ever again

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I grew up in a double-wide trailer, my mother worked the drive-thru at McDonald's, there were whole summers when I was fed by friends & teachers because my parents couldn't afford food. So no, I am not a trust-fund kid. And yes, we need art in order to live.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Sheryl Crow speaks out after Trump’s UFC 250 event: “To stay quiet means to turn a blind eye. And so I am saying this. What happened last night on the lawn of the White House was disgraceful and void of decency. Powerful, rich people filled the lawn to watch a violent sport that ended with a vile and racist comment. All while the average American cannot afford healthcare, gas, and cost of living. Do not be fooled. This administration is corrupt and does not give a damn about the American people. It only cares about making money hand over fist at the expense and in spite of our democracy. If we continue to support this kind of distraction from reality, we are no better than them. Let's be better, America.”

[Mightykeef @MightyKeef]

If this were black people, there would be tweets all over this site about how violent black people are, and how they cant be in society, followed by an Elon musk "Yup" retweet.

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

More Americans can’t become trillionaires, Elon isn’t really one anyway because it’s all financial smoke and mirrors, and bro you really should’ve gotten some college education if you’re this simple.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

It means you live in an aurhoritarian political climate with a mob boss style leader.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Julien Hoez @JulienHoez]

@ben_issen This would be believable if the American techbros weren't some of the most incompetent, culture-less, vapid losers that we've seen in a very, very long time.

[george @idobadtakes]

No they won’t. The tech oligarchs are the most useless set of elites imaginable. No set of rich people in American history have been as useless a drain on society as they have

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

The quickest way to realize we are not as clever as we think is to read someone who lived 200 years ago.

[sharpemcelroy @sharpemcelroy]

"and the VAR crew with us today":

[sharpemcelroy @sharpemcelroy]

a mental health app that can gamify turning off the device. Additional points accrue the longer it stays off.

[NKY Lefty @NKY_Leftist]

Genuinely this dude's entire fortune has been built on losing money, but convincing people over and over again that you have some crazy feature or product that's coming soon, but never actually does, and that eventually you will totally make money.

Toyota made $25B in profit last year, almost 7x what Tesla made, and has a market cap less than 1/4 of Tesla. If Tesla had a market cap based on profit, it would be worth $40B, nearly 1/35th it's current value, and Musk's shares would be worth around $8B instead of nearly $300B. His entire fortune is fake.

[✪𝓙𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓼 𝓢𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓽-𝓕𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓬✪ @sirjamesa12]

1 million seconds = 11 days
1 billion seconds = 32 years
1 trillion seconds = 32,000 years

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

You cannot afford healthcare.

You cannot afford childcare.

You cannot afford rent.

You cannot afford groceries.

You cannot afford gas.

And your taxes paid for SpaceX making Elon Musk a trillionaire.

But sure. Blame it on the single mom who gets $6.20 a day in Food Stamps.

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

The amount of people who think the money plutocrats own doesn’t come from anywhere in particular is really unbelievable to me. Just being a whole fully formed adult with no concept of how the world they live in functions.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2026: $1.1 trillion

Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2026: $262 billion

Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2026: $202 billion

Tipped Minimum Wage
1991: $2.13 an hour
2026: $2.13 an hour

5 words: Tax oligarchs out of existence.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

I think about this every day. In the Netherlands, if a person dies alone, without any family or friends as mourners, a poet will be sent to write a poem and read it at the burial service. It's called the Lonely Funeral Project, and it's just humans being good humans.

[Lunwi @lunwi75]

Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did, and he just completely ignored them?