Ernest Nickels. American living abroad in the country of my birth; former prof., SUNY Oswego, IU Bloomington; present (*clears throat*); contributor @Quillette
They say the Eskimo developed 50 words for “snow” because, as it was such a pervasive and perilous aspect of their daily existence, subtle distinctions mattered greatly.
The English language has 456 synonyms for “bullshit.”
Infer.
tariffs will raise massive amounts of revenue off of imports, enough to replace the income tax, but also they'll foster a boom in domestic industry—precisely by deterring imports 🤔
meh. probably not a violation if it's a random draw after the fact, and at least it isn't dependent on how people voted. the lottery to encourage people to sign the petition against "activist judges" was worse
Musk: But, usually when they attack DOGE, they never attack any of the specifics. So they will say what we're doing is somehow unconstitutional or illegal or whatever. We are like well, which line of the cost savings do you disagree with? And they can't point to any
@ankushnarula when it's done to entice political participation to a particular side, yeah I think that's a distortion of the democratic process. Not really any better than buying signatures outright
Exciting to announce our first million dollar award for supporting our petition against activist judges in Wisconsin!
Next million dollar award will be announced in 2 days.
The Atlantic has already abandoned their bullshit “war plans” narrative, and in releasing the full chat , they concede they LIED to perpetuate yet ANOTHER hoax on the American people.
What scumbags!