Twitter C/D

To be fair to Table Pennsylvania is allegedly looking good for Biden, he’ll be riding Casey’s coattails.

cool so we get a dictator because people refuse to vote for Biden

seems good

also, thanks anvil— I appreciate that.

Maybe you should talk to your guy about 30,000+ Palestinians that we have helped to kill— against popular opinion— before getting on any sort of high horse about what constitutes democracy and dictatorship. That the wannabe dictator would “do the same thing” isn’t the smart retort many seem to think it is.

As I stated already he's not my guy. Just because I voted for him doesn't mean I agree with every policy. I am disgusted by the slaughter of thousands of trapped people, and it is absolutely disgusting what has happened in Gaza. Don't put words in my mouth. Not voting for either candidate isn't quite the bold statement you think it is.

If you think things are bad now, a second Trump presidency would be much much worse.

honestly, the differences in domestic policy, political appointments, and jurisprudence re: the National Labor Review Board, etc. are opaque to most voters. a lot of left-leaning people, discounting whether they identify as democrats, have trouble identifying specific policies and actions that Trump did other than something about the supreme court and changing the public dialogue to be outwardly discriminatory and hostile.

I'm guilty of that sometimes. But if you go through the actual policy record and appointments (or lack thereof in some cases) the Trump years were miserable. We had an unlawfully appointed directory of homeland security sending unmarked armed federal employees to Portland, Oregon during protests. We were stuck with a FCC commissioner who had no interest in regulating phone scams and fraud. A USPS postmaster general who held a stake in a subcontractor and had to be told he couldn't send out inaccurate information on voting by mail, let alone his attempts to gut the agency. A HUD secretary who didn't fill positions and didn't know anything about housing or real estate, etc. etc.

if you look at Wikipedia pages for various cabinet offices, their lists of previous secretaries pretty much always just have this rat's nest in the Trump years where everybody's either provisional or acting or deemed to have "unlawful tenure" or whatever i.e.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Homeland_Security

I agree with the larger point, but isn't the Postmaster General still in power?

Yeah, Biden can't fire him

if u think trump and biden are no difference on labor you just don’t pay attention to labor issues lol

The USPS has actually improved some in the last couple of years. Their new ground shipping rate, Ground Advantage, is cheaper but just as quick. Some of the other things people were complaining about actually turned out to have long-term positive effects. And now that the USPS is no longer required to fund all its employees' health insurance 75 years out, or whatever the fuck it was, it's in a lot stronger financial position. Nobody talks about them going bankrupt anymore.

Yeah, they can't kick out DeJoy but they can make the governing board have more power.

the NLRB has been great under Biden. there's a limit to what the NLRB is empowered to do, but within those limits they've been great.

some figured out a way to get those app download numbers back up!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/7/24064992/x-app-store-drake-nude-moderation

get your fake/ai-generated celebrity nude/porn leaks, only on the poorly-moderated x.com

People really want to see nude Drake? It takes all kinds, I guess.

It's an upgrade from the Benzino tape I guess.

Super Bowl talk on X is 🔥. So far conversations are up 30% compared to last year's big game!!

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) February 10, 2024

tweets very much in character

Clicked on the Kanye trending link and it’s just bots on top of bots making the same pathetic cry for engagement joke about Spotify and Apple.

Seamas O'Reilly, @shockproofbeats, wrote a piece in the Examiner about how terrible Twitter is now and got suspended for "platform manipulation". Everything's so cool around here. pic.twitter.com/TJIAEeE83v

— John Maguire (@JMaguireCritic) February 11, 2024

among the moderate sized accounts that haven't left yet things are more or less the same, but every tweet from a bigger account or anything that goes viral is just stuffed with insane replies, plus a lot of crypto shilling, porn, and AI-generated content. the site is still more or less useable but man the rot is really creeping in.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bill-ackman-war-harvard-mit-dei-claudine-gay.html

love a profile where the guy is interviewed and he just comes off as a self-absorbed asshole

let me know if this results in a 4000 word screen against journalism on X. I won't be reading it, but I would like to know that it happened

Incredible. https://t.co/ceGX7LbDbR pic.twitter.com/JPY20tAKsY

— Daniel D'Addario (@DPD_) February 12, 2024

Yes, "Activist" is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of "Ack."

his day job is to short companies based on pure vibes. it all checks out

I was predestined to become one of the aliens from Mars Attacks

https://images.app.goo.gl/3re9VYktsooMcjk78

shit that didn't work

https://images.app.goo.gl/3re9VYktsooMcjk78

In short, he has long supported efforts to increase diversity. But last fall, Ackman said, he had several extensive conversations with two different Harvard faculty members — he declined to name them — who suggested that he look more closely at the university’s DEI programs. “A guy I’ve known since college, very senior, was the one who really helped me understand this stuff — the whole oppressor-slash-oppressed narrative,” said Ackman, who felt that Jews had been unfairly wedged into the former category. “I’d never even heard that before, and I’m supposed to be an aware person.” Someone else sent him the book America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything, by Christopher F. Rufo, the conservative activist who led the effort to stigmatize critical race theory before turning his sights on DEI. Then came the deluge. “I started following various people on Twitter,” Ackman told me. “I started getting the download.”

I don't even know where to start with this one

Ackman joined Twitter in 2017, when Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker recommended the platform over dinner at Peretz’s house. “I use Twitter as a source of information — I should say ‘X’ to be respectful to Mr. Musk,” Ackman told me. “You can just follow people who are experts, or present as experts, in various things.”

so much going on here

ilx is where i present as an expert, in various things

undermining the idea of meritocracy with every million added to his Scrooge McDuck vault

“You can just follow people who are experts, or present as experts, in various things.”

And weigh their opinions exactly the same, like a real dumbass.

“I’d never even heard that before, and I’m supposed to be an aware person.”

"I started following various people on Twitter,” Ackman told me. “I started getting the download.”

STOP ALL THE DOWNLOADIN'

this guy's been a finance sector democrat forever, gets sent one book by Chris Rufo and does zero checking of additional sources, and now he's a RFK Jr. guy who parrots every right-wing talking point that's put in front of his eyes

Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

— Thing Bad (@Merman_Melville) January 24, 2019

having pure neoliberalism streamed into your brain by being friends with Marty Peretz for years has to have primed him for this

In a strange turn of events Ackman was eaten by ghosts while devouring pellets in a maze.

Yes, "Activist" is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of "Ack."

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, February 12, 2024 8:13 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

"So, my name is Ackman - I married Cathy Guisewite"

what's that website that lets you do non-monetary wagers on anything? I kind of want to see if someone has a position on whether Ackman's wife is going to divorce him by some future date

I was thinking Bill The Cat xp

lol map, I was scrolliing the thread to see if that joke had already been made

Yeah, Bill the Cat is top of mind for me.

never thought about how there were two comic strip characters whos catch phrase was ack

people were just walking around emoting ACK by the mid 80s. we forget that it wasn’t just the comics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx1ML4EHlKg

Packin' a Mac in the back of the Ack

billy joel’s movin’ out