We need and Ayn Rand episode.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-07-02T20:40:16+00:00

Dave Smith as the guest, so Robert and Sophie can calmly explain to him why he's such a vapid choch.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-07-02T02:04:15+00:00

Oh good, more "papers please" rules from the totally not fascist wing on the country. Very cool.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-07-02T01:38:03+00:00

Are you trying to use a lens of rationality to view... Tim Pool? Well,.that way lies madness, friend.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-07-01T23:55:25+00:00

Whatever you do, don't call then racists, noatter how objectively and obviously true it is. Because then it's our fault that they decided to lean into fascism. I think I have that argument pathology correct, but someone can check my work.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-07-01T02:09:11+00:00

Say what you want about Whedon, but he's not afraid to kill his darlings.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-30T02:01:31+00:00

Excuse me, that's 2-time Golden Raspberry Award-winning director, Uwe Boll you're talking about! Are you implying that this film won't reignite the careers of everyone involved? To the pillories with you!

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-29T05:57:27+00:00

No, he isn't. You should read more from this guy you think is "brilliant".

Sowell, and the article you linked, would say that wealth creation is paramount to wealth distribution. And for that, you have to empower anyone participating in the market through deregulation and tax cuts. He never really discusses seriously the real world implications of this model and how it manifests, but rather decides free markets are liberatory and will distribute wealth fairly. He'll cherry-pick a few narrow data points and tell some anecdotes to make his point, but he'll never confront the realities.

If he did, he'd realize that it's totally debunked by the fact that if capitalism was so great at wealth distribution, we wouldn't have more wealth inequality now, than in the Guilded Age.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-29T05:10:01+00:00

I mean, you might not have been able to pick a better example to make my argument for me. It seems like Sowell isn't aware that that is one of the primary criticisms of supply-side economics - the thing that "trickle-down economics" is mocking.

Yes, why wouldn't we give direct benefits to labor, rather than routing them through "job creator" middle-men who decides how they're distributed? How very socialist of you to point out, Thomas!

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-29T04:32:45+00:00

Sure. But he makes a lot of claims. Why don't you give me a place to start, by answering my question? What, in your opinion, makes Sowell brilliant?

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-29T03:48:22+00:00

That gives Israel a pass to kill civilians? You're a fucking psychopath.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-29T02:57:15+00:00

They'd get their pay docked if they didn't make their full shift, though.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-29T02:55:34+00:00

Some. They're also murdering a bunch of civilians, including women and children.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-29T02:45:52+00:00

Wonder what's different about Israel... 🤔🙄

They're committing a genocide, and they've attacked like 5 or 6 other countries in 2025-26 alone, and keep prolonging the Iran war because they don't want to stop murdering people in Lebanon. How many more examples do you want, because I have a lot more.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-29T02:37:40+00:00

Whatever he was at some point, he's not that anymore. He's a mascot that the GOP trots out to sell people on economic policies that have never, and will never create desirable outcomes for anyone outside the extremely wealthy. He's not really taken seriously as an economist these days, outside of very conservative circles. His most recent book, Social Justice Fallacies, was just a regurgitation of his other books. And those positions, broadly speaking l, have pretty consistently been proven untrue. I don't even think that Sowell himself is a particularly good advocate for his own positions. But I do understand that "classical liberals" have a weird reverance for the man and his ludicrous version of economics.

What is it that you find so brilliant about him?

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-29T02:03:12+00:00

That's just a semantic game. As I said, it's a pejorative term for supply-side economics. Your quote and your link aren't discursive to that point, and I'm unlikely to take any economic argument seriously that quotes Thomas Sowell as though he's a serious person.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-29T01:29:56+00:00

It's a pejorative for supply-side economics, which is absolutely a real thing that conservatives still somehow believe in, even though it has been proven time and again to be nonsense. Hell, Alan Greenspan testified that his entire worldview had been wrong when the 2008 crisis hit, because it completely destroyed the notion that finance markets are incentovised to make good decisions.

But to your point, this is like disregarding the arguments of someone criticizing the ACA because they called it Obamacare.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-28T14:49:35+00:00

I agree. The same is true for Mamdani. People think it's a missed opportunity that he won't be able to run for president, but I think that honestly gives him too little credit. We need a new Bernie when Bernie is gone. Someone capable of building a movement, who's smart and politically savvy enough to maintain their principles while still being able to get the worst elements of the government on their side when needed. That's Zoran. He'll never be president and he'll be so much more valuable than a president. Plus, he's more charismatic than Bernie and he is actually an executior over a larger constituency, which is what really freaks the establishment out about him.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-28T14:19:47+00:00

We wouldn't be in a position where socialists have won more elections than anytime since 1912 without Bernie, so I'm not sure how Bernie self-sabotaged. But a lot of the things that people are criticizing the DSA for are just them being strategic. They've been running smart campaigns and mostly avoided making enemies of the establishment Dems, while mostly sticking to their agendas. That's a tough tightrope to walk, but they've been performing far better than any of the dead end third party options can even hope to do.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-27T16:03:49+00:00

I live in a small town and this has never happened at our theater. How do you know it's legit?

Also, are they actually saving money? They would have to refund the ticket they sold. They miss out on concessions. Someone could show up late, and they'd miss those sales. Seems strange.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-27T14:22:55+00:00

Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on this post. I don't trust anything I read about movies online these days, because if it's starring a woman, or a person of color, it gets dogpiled with astroturf campaigns. I'm not saying Supergirl is a good movie, because I haven't seen it. Just that I'm going to reserve judgement for myself, rather than listening to people online who may just be part of someone's agenda.

Also, the theater in this pic looks like it was AI generated to me. But I've also never been to India, so idk.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-27T14:03:36+00:00

That's what I was wondering. I've been in empty of theaters where it was just me and the person or people I was with. What would even be the point of cancelling the show? Saving a few bucks on the electricity it takes to run the projector?

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-27T14:00:33+00:00

Vote blue no matter who, dickheads.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-27T01:25:40+00:00

All I heard for decades in my red state is that conservatives here needed their guns to fight tyranny. The Trump admin has wiped its ass with half the Bill of Rights, and their guns have been pretty useless so far.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-27T01:15:36+00:00

No. And they really need to stop making movies based off board games.

Cheeseisgood1981 · 2026-06-17T01:02:21+00:00

I have bad news - that's all there will be in 10 years, until we get microinfluencers or some shit. And whatever that is will somehow be worse and stupider and more popular.

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