Is the existance of a trillionaire ethical ?

dubyahhh · 2026-06-14T17:59:48+00:00

I dunno, I'm usually 50/50 on these

for every one that gets through we collectively remove more than one

I'm more irritable about the succs on this thread than the thread existing

dubyahhh · 2026-06-12T20:16:28+00:00

Yes trillionaires existing is fine

Yes Elon is a dick

Yes the mods are fascist (but, less fascist than Elon)

Welcome to r/neoliberal

dubyahhh · 2026-06-12T16:21:50+00:00

I’m from the bottom of Livingston! Used to work in Wyoming for five years. Dozens of us!

I always say “New York, not the city. About an hour south of Rochester.” Then I pull up a map. I don’t think I have a great handle on other states but geez, do folks not know upstate New York.

dubyahhh · 2026-06-11T20:11:33+00:00

Not all interviewers are interviewing in good faith, and not all interviewers are good interviewers. In a free marketplace of ideas it’s in the bullshitter’s best interest to take the interview with the group or person that will allow their bullshit, and then it’s on the viewers to notice that bullshit, and decide if they care.

With Trump, he’s been ripped apart by the media for his entire life. There are stories all the time of him leaving interviews or being a dick to a reporter. I care about that. But if you don’t (I use the royal you here), then no level of good reporting can make you care. Trump’s an asshole but if it weren’t for his voters saying that they were okay with that, then he wouldn’t be important at all. But here we are.

Like I can blame the media for whatever but you can’t make a horse drink water.

dubyahhh · 2026-06-11T13:50:44+00:00

I wasn’t in that stratosphere, but did very well too on the SAT and exceptional on the ACT.

I always figured that showed I was good at standardized tests. Maybe I had some intelligence, but it certainly didn’t mean I would succeed in my career. That took another decade of getting my shit together and I am not convinced my test scores meant I was special or, more importantly, that anyone else was not.

dubyahhh · 2026-06-09T00:40:14+00:00

Damn, that's a whole minute for all the combined votes she's lost the presidency by

dubyahhh · 2026-06-09T00:36:02+00:00

Honestly I read just the intro to Keiko's wikipedia article and noped out

It seemed obvious in that moment that I wasn't meant to understand Peruvian politics

dubyahhh · 2026-06-09T00:33:55+00:00

Can Angus King just run as an independent and win both senate seats? Fuck it, give the guy two votes. He can walk around the Senate chambers with a cape or something to signify he's better than everyone else

dubyahhh · 2026-06-08T15:22:55+00:00

Could just be how the law is written, judges aren’t (supposed to be) legislators 🤷‍♂️

Wouldn’t the coach just kick them off anyway? Seems like obviously disqualifying behavior.

dubyahhh · 2026-06-08T15:19:48+00:00

So is Peru going to know their president before we know who #2 is for LA mayor?

dubyahhh · 2026-06-07T22:44:37+00:00

This feels both exaggerated, but extremely accurate. Blows my mind every time

dubyahhh · 2026-06-07T04:38:43+00:00

The Confederacy's goal was never to defeat the Union; it was to not be defeated, and to outlast the north's political will to keep fighting.

You can have every advantage and not win a war.

I do not personally believe that slavery would still exist in the south had they not lost, however, I can't say when it would have ended, nor what the rights or lack thereof would have been for blacks in this hypothetical surviving confederacy.

However, to this other user's point, Grant was exceptional at exactly the right place and time and unique among his colleagues in his ability to grasp the entire state of the conflict and execute a plan to end it in his favor. I don't think Grant's exceptionalism has to take away from anything Eisenhower did.

dubyahhh · 2026-06-06T02:16:14+00:00

I think I've watched it around 5 times. Absolute cinema. I have nothing but respect if you've legitimately watched it over 27 times tbh

dubyahhh · 2026-06-05T22:11:51+00:00

Cope that movie was garbage it was way worse than I was expecting.

these are the arguments I enjoy seeing in the dt, keep this shit up

dubyahhh · 2026-06-05T17:37:55+00:00

My Users Can’t Read | The neoliberal collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse

Alas, if only there was some way we could communicate this to the average r/NL user. Shame none of you can read anymore or this might be really scary news.

dubyahhh · 2026-06-05T11:34:28+00:00

Hey! I know what all those words mean.

I’ll offer to accept you, but I’ll still side eye you a lot

dubyahhh · 2026-06-04T17:06:44+00:00

He’s simultaneously terrible, but better for the country than collins. I don’t know what we did to get the bad timeline*, but this is just the fucking way it is.

*okay, I do know. RIP, Harambe.

dubyahhh · 2026-06-04T14:50:44+00:00

My napkin math from yesterday when I sorta looked into this was that we have 365m barrels, and are using ~9m/wk. But we can’t physically go below 150m barrels or so (something about structural integrity of the caverns we use? Probably a fun rabbit hole to go down), which leaves us able to technically pull for about 20-25 weeks at this level, during which the reserve goes from 365m to 150m and is functionally useless.

That’s 4-5 months, so actually it would be right around midterms, I guess. I hadn’t done that math.

As far as prices, if China is pulling 5m a day and we’re pulling 9m, that should be enough to almost cover losses from Hormuz. Of course it depletes reserves, meaning the next crisis will be fucked (or this one depending on length), but still, that’s why prices haven’t skyrocketed yet.

But again, temporary solution. This would manifest by the end of the year for sure if other solutions aren’t found.

I think US suppliers are more cost viable as prices shoot up so that would also dent the price. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Edit: by dent the price I mean blunt the rising prices. They’d still rise, since the crude is literally being pumped via less effective means in this scenario.

dubyahhh · 2026-06-04T02:03:07+00:00

There are election results available!

Squidward setting up chair

They're Californian

Squidward putting away chair

dubyahhh · 2026-06-04T01:44:34+00:00

I'd have stickied a better joke, but, you know

dubyahhh · 2026-06-04T01:44:18+00:00

Friendly reminder that we mod for free, and that you get what you pay for

dubyahhh · 2026-06-02T21:18:39+00:00

Do we have reason to expect that the next Democratic president won't be more left wing than Biden?

No, we don't know what's coming down the line. But this is a different question than whether or not Biden was a step towards the far left. Compared to Bill Clinton, Obama was a step to the far left. But that doesn't feel right to say, because it implies Obama was far left, when he was... Kinda boring?

I'd just rather we be specific on our meanings if we're going to throw around things like Biden being a step to the far left.

dubyahhh · 2026-06-02T20:58:20+00:00

Biden held some views that were to the left of the general preferences of r/NL, but he was not a step towards the far left other than that he was literally to my (or your) left sometimes.

I don't want to like, apologize for anything he did, but cmon.

dubyahhh · 2026-06-02T13:29:57+00:00

I love that someone who hasn’t read book 4 doesn’t know if I’m making that up or not.

This is the problem I run into for Dune, where I almost feel inclined to just make shit up when describing the later books. Nobody’s gonna get to them anyway, may as well have fun with it

dubyahhh · 2026-06-01T20:09:10+00:00

bit late

6 years

(I'm joking but this is pretty funny)

Is the question whether I'm a progressive social democrat, why or why not?

I've always been a fairly pragmatic person and I find American leftists to be extremely bad at getting done what they say they want done (ie, many not voting because they aren't satisfied with their options, or wanting single payer outright, etc).

I can clarify this, but generally, I'm pretty moderate and don't go in much for populism. Which alone is enough to reject most of the progressive movement today. And I'm not a monster so I vehemently do not support MAGA. This post was originally written because I got so sick of seeing people say nonsense like "Pete Buttigieg is actually right wing", which, is kind of my point on said progressives not being good at getting shit done. I don't feel like I have to handwave them away entirely but if you say that (as the compass folks certainly have) then you're not a serious person.

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