The amount of money being spent on these is a better justification for a wealth tax than anything else I’ve ever seen.

Late-stage Capitalism is getting really fucking weird...

The old Cruz tweet isn’t really a shitpost, because however dumb it may be he sincerely believes that. His more recent ones (the antifa Green New Deal wrecked Texas’ power grid) don’t really qualify either, because they’re not even in bad faith, they’re just outright lies about a real thing we can see with our own…

So going to preface this before I say what I’m about to say because I know someone here will immediately go to “Oh you’re just being a douche on the internet”, which... well, saying that already has put that in their mindset but we’ll sort that out later:

Counterpoints:

Add in universal basic income. The pandemic has shown how necessary that one is.... but at bare minimum how about that 2k stimulus 

That is completely inaccurate. First, if amendments were required, there’d be at least 37 amendments to the Constitution, and there very much are not. Second, did you even read the article? Third, the text of the Constitution is very availabke online. Read it. Nothing about amendments required.

In this order:

I’d hesitate to do this because it would likely invite a litany of “children are the most wonderful thing ever” and I have no interest in that. I know why they have kids - because they wanted them and biology or adoption worked out.

It was Thanksgiving, as I recall, that my Mother-in-Law, of blessed memory, and who had mentioned the topic many times before, started in on me and my wife about how she wanted more grandchildren and we needed to supply them. After exactly one more comment than I was interested in, I said, “We can’t have kids. It’s my…

You get a little sick of being the cannon fodder in a war you shouldn’t have to fight. It also takes up a lot of time.

To the preface this, I’m trying to manquestion and not mansplain. In regards to the “assistant,” I get that this hack might work, but it seems like more of a bandaid over the problem of underlying misogyny. If the goal is equality, I think that this might actually do more harm than good in a “win the battle, lose the…

I remember when Lifehacker would teach the audience how to set up a Linux-based media server on an old laptop or something. Stuff that required actual work and thinking and left you with a sense of minor accomplishment. Those days are long gone. 

Are you being critical of Google for not releasing the list of 24,000 apps or Brendan for not breaking into Google HQ to secure the list for this piece? You make it seem like he left us without a course of action, but he included a list of things you can do to protect yourself.  It is a good list.

With a lot of people working on reduced incomes, the items you showcase exhibit a tone-deafness that’s amusing. That’s the angle you were going for, right?

With a lot of people working on reduced incomes, the items you showcase exhibit a tone-deafness that’s amusing. That’…

Then you’d have to ignore Minnesota, Maine, Massachusetts, and purple North Carolina.

Fun fact: I lived in the US for 2 years, routinely spoke my native french everywhere with friends that were here with me, stole one of y’all jobs for a while, and weirdly enough, nobody ever told me to speak english. People usually swooned and squee’d.

But sure, it’s not racist ^^

Its not rational, it’s just about flexing. They will at the same time say that the Mexicans are stealing all our jerbs AND they are lazy welfare queens. The bigot isn’t rational, just deliberately ignorant.

I’m from Texas and find that shit especially bananas here. 1) the U.S. has no official language 2) TEXAS USED TO BE PART OF MEXICO AND SPAIN and 3) Texas law, since way back when Texas was a country, requires that laws/government stuff be translated into Spanish. I wonder why that is, racists?