I appreciate your comment. I feel that DEI in its current form has a lot of things to hate about it. However I usually don’t say anything because I’m worried someone will just call me a Nazi or something.

I’m a Jewish democrat, but as a white man I feel like I’m basically guilty of original sin in these types of conversations.

I’m convinced Elon’s final act will be running over minorities in a Cybertruck while strung out on Ketamine.

Comparing Tim Cook to Lex Luthor is somehow an insult to both parties.

Sometimes I feel like democrats don’t actually care more about voters, they just care much more about appearances.

No I think it’s more likely than not that there’s a small extremely dedicated group of terminally online progressives who are wholly unaware of how bad they make basically every liberal look.

Except on reddit, which is clearly astroturfed to hell from some organized group. Probably multiple.

If you told me most online progressives were part of a psyop to make people more conservative I’d believe you.

My Instagram reels are the most tame shit ever. You gotta redo your filters.

The fact that meta is also banned makes me think a huge part of this is just getting people onto Bluesky.

I get Zuckerberg is an asshole, but Instagram is the least toxic platform for me. That’s because Instagram has keyword and subject filtering.

An eighteen year old woman dating a thirty year old man is considered a victim of grooming. An eighteen year old woman entering a sugar baby arrangement with a fifty year old man is considered an empowered feminist. However if said man provides her with a glass of wine before the deed, that’s a class three misdemeanor.

Gender politics in the US is cracked. A huge part of the reason why is the entire discourse is dominated by super reductive hot takes.

The article seems to argue that Neil was able to pull the wool over a lot of people’s eyes, and it’s perfectly reasonable for a lot of people close to him to be in the dark about all of this.

As far as I’m concerned Palmer is an active participant. There’s absolutely no way she didn’t know what was going on, and her public feminist stance provided extra credibility to Gaimen.

This is an extremely fucked up article. I don’t think anyone could read it and not be disturbed.

That man is going to get an extremely brutal lesson in the difference between absolute and relative values.

That’s generally how progressive tax brackets work, yes. Technically speaking if I rich person wants to take out a 30k HELOC they’d also not get taxed on it.

Okay but you can just apply the same logic to a HELOC. If you get a 30k HELOC for a bedroom renovation then it does not count towards capital gains tax.

Even normal capital gains taxes have brackets.

Homeowners are excluded from capital gains tax for the first 250k for individual filers.