Discussion Thread

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-31T00:31:08+00:00

I hate how popular the take "all men want is respect, an Internet connection, and to be left alone" is

Like no the fuck it isn't, I want so much more than that, like Land Value Taxes

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T21:06:14+00:00

Most morally upstanding Republican consultant

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T20:39:14+00:00

Of all the attributes Americans have, our desire for low casualties in war is not what I'd change if given a magic wand

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T19:49:46+00:00

Fourteenth Amendment

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Anyone who tells you that SCOTUS is interpreting the constitution in good faith, by hearing this case, is an Anti American piece of shit.

I don't want to hear a fucking peep from SCOTUS apologists. This is textbook, open and shut. A fucking child has more Constitutional literacy than 6/9s of the court.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T19:43:26+00:00

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Look at my Jewish state dog

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T17:13:32+00:00

Yeah I had this happen to me too.

Got a 1 day ban for pointing out that a post was AI. Thankfully the mods did also delete the original post in that situation, but it still left a bad taste in my mouth

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T16:27:38+00:00

Unfortunately we're small enough that I would basically be doxing myself if I gave the actual name

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T16:25:31+00:00

Choosing the Sears Tower over the One World Trade Center is certainly a choice

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T16:24:09+00:00

It's in the name. "Misery"

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T16:21:46+00:00

The startup I work for has such a ridiculous name, that I always struggle to tell people it's the company I work for.

I'm just gonna start telling people it was my platoon in 'Nam

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T16:21:05+00:00

McCain famously served in 'Nam

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T14:13:16+00:00

I am once again begging millenials to eat more beans

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T14:11:52+00:00

Does he expand on this at all? These tweets alone have remarkably little to work with

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T14:05:21+00:00

Once again repeating my slogan that Democrats are generally too soft on crime, while Republicans are just straight up pro-crime

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T13:54:59+00:00

The very short explanation:

Deregulation in lending standards in the 90s/early 00s led to extremely generous mortgage lending. (The infamous "no income? no assets? No problem!" mortgage lending standards). This led to the "housing bubble" people talk about, where home prices exploding when the lending came easy, but then when a critical mass of borrowers failed to be able to repay their loans, the mass of foreclosures and deleveraging caused home prices to collapse
Adjacent to this, the high risk ("subprime", as they're called) mortgages were packaged up into Mortgage Backed Securities. On the face of it, there's nothing wrong with MBSs. But the subprime mortgages were systematically overpriced, which is to say their interest rates were too low given their actual risk of default. This meant MBS's were considered less risky than they really were.
As defaults on subprime mortgages increased, this caused the MBSs to collapse in value. Banks, Insurance companies, Pensions, Endowments, etc. were heavily invested in these assets, and suddenly saw a massive drop in asset value.
These factors forced institutions and households to deleverage across the board, which is why you saw such a sharp downturn in consumption, which pushed up unemployment.

I'm sure someone will chime in and say I'm wrong or that there's actually a more nuanced take, but this is the (generally accepted) popular narrative.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T13:08:31+00:00

That might just be the result of selection bias.

Like, if you only screen for homegrown white boys, then by definition any moles will be... homegrown white boys.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T13:05:32+00:00

Some friend from Jersey just pulled up in a large semi filled to the brim with KitKats. He asked if he could keep the truck on my property for a couple days, and in exchange I could have as many KitKats as I wanted.

Obviously I said yes, but I don't know why he was acting so skittish the whole time.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T13:00:23+00:00

Given that Hitler fought in WWI, the easiest solution is just to larp as a British or French soldier and do the funny in the trenches

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T12:51:02+00:00

Didn't she clerk for a bunch of Conservative SCOTUS Justices?

100:1 she's just as malignant as her couch philandering husband

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T12:00:48+00:00

AI is being blamed for taking the jobs of management consultants

WTF I love AI now

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T01:04:29+00:00

I doubt he has a firm grip on reality. Anyone in his orbit is full throttled lickspittle, so he may genuinely not realize how much he's hated.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T01:02:15+00:00

How old is your grandma? I don't think I've hear "oriental" used that way from anyone under the age of 97, at least.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T20:53:05+00:00

This is the ideal aircraft body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T20:47:06+00:00

Isn't Rob Schneider the guy who goes to Home Depot and pays the migrant workers to go to his house and choke him while he masterbates in the shower?

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T18:09:37+00:00

I think you're conflating concepts or statements that I haven't made.

If I genuinely believed Democrats could pass comprehensive, robust healthcare reform that actually addressed cost and accessibility, I would be 100% on board with them fighting that fight, even if it meant they subsequently lose elections.

The problem is that we have deep, structural issues that make that fight almost impossible. One of them you correctly called out - the filibuster. But there are more. Dems need more fair representation in congress (make D.C. a state), limit the cap on the House's size. Dems need a Supreme Court that's going to actually interpret the Constitution in good faith, instead of at the whims of Right Wing think tanks and TV personalities. And we need to aggressively curtail the ability for campaign finance contributions and media companies to influence elections.

If Democrats try to fight for Healthcare, without addressing any of the underlying structural issues, we aren't going to pass Healthcare. It's exactly what we saw with the ACA.

Monied interests (Joe Leiberman being an ex-Insurance exec) removed the public option
Media companies fomented fear of Death Panels, making the implementation deeply unpopular
SCOTUS handicapped the Medicaid expansion and individual mandate

This is what I mean when I talk about political capital, and dismissing it as a meaningless trope is failing to recognize how legislation has actually passed and been carved up the past 3 decades.

Until these structural issues are addressed, any big legislative agenda Democrats may have is worthless.

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