All the other parts, if that’s how he wants to blow his money. That’s his money.

USS Thresher

Just in case you didn't know, there is a pretty cool song about this disaster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfUbxOrYJyI

Harris lifts up the voice of the anti-Zionists ^by^ ^having^ ^them^ ^escorted^ ^away^ ^by^ ^security^

I suspect that this is a smart TV being used as a monitor.

I suppose refugees and trans people don't figure into your equation because erasing them is the only way to make it balance.

It confuses me when people who argue "both sides" claim to support all those left policies when they don't appear to have empathy or awareness of the marginalized. I'm left to conclude that this brand of leftism must be based on vanity, because the only thing it protects is the ego of those who promote it.

The music industry is a microcosm of capital exploiting labor that everyone intuitively understands. Even children have a sense of outrage when they find out Taylor Swift doesn't own her old songs or that Prince had to change his name to release music.

Bongino is a former NYPD officer and Secret Service agent with three failed congressional bids under his belt. He rose to prominence as a conservative pundit on Fox News during Trump’s first term as president. He very briefly had his own show on the network before “parting ways” with the company in 2023. (His 2018 departure from NRATV prompted a failed defamation suit against the Daily Beast.)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bongino became one of the loudest voices against mask and vaccine mandates, which ultimately led to a permanent ban from YouTube in 2022. He currently hosts The Dan Bongino Show on the conservative platform Rumble.

It's extraordinary that while Kamala is spending the final stretch trying to expand her voter base, Trump is preaching to the choir. Ignore the "Trump exhausted" narritive. WTF is he wasting his time with this third tier clown in the middle of October?

Randomly choose 0.001% of the books.

If you think that's a bad plan, it's been the norm for the history of books.

I love the democracy vs. republic talking point on the conservative side. It's not new, I first encountered it in 2005.

"We're not a rectangle you idiot, We're a square!!!!!" -every conservative dumbass

Bachelors and Toddlers everywhere are inconsolable.

The King James Bible has the phrase those who "pissith against the wall" several times. In context it's pejorative for the rude class or enemies of King David, but Christians who insist on the KJV struggle to read and understand it, and have taken it as God's own description of male. and therefore pissing standing up isn't just an aspect of masculinity, but it's essence.

What astonishes me about people like Elon or Clarence Thomas is why, at this stage of their lives, are they seeking out people to whom they are subordinate? Is it a Daddy thing?

Sure, but does the set of all sets that don't include themselves include itself?

What you say is necessary, but not sufficient to answer the question of why capitalists prefer conservatism and tolerate fascism. The problem is there is no anti-capitalist party, or even a threat of one. Democrats want line go up too.

Good looking young people make good looking old people. Will wonders never cease?

If you multiply the HUD estimated census of homeless people by the average cost of housing it comes out to $11B annually, if by the average cost to incarcerate, then it's $30B/year. What's reasonable for administrative costs? Even if you figure 25%, that's $38B per annum max to house pretty much anyone who wanted it.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has a budget of $40B. So just like healthcare, we already paying for it, we're just not getting it.

I'm not sure the Palestinians will view being ethnically cleansed slightly less vigorously as a brighter future.

You are correct. I like to focus instead on those lacking shelter who've been completely alienated from society and cannot be 're-rehabilitated'. These are the people who are erased when we speak about how lifestyle or work ethic "redeem" those in extreme poverty.

For those with a skeptical nature, I hunted down these numbers.

The US has spent ~$18B on direct military aid to Israel since October 7, 2023. They've also spent ~$5B for operations in the region, mostly in the Red Sea and Yemen.

HUD does not provide numbers to "end homelessness", they report on the state of homelessness including an estimated census of the homeless.

Some annalists have taken these numbers and multiplied them by the cost to imprison someone, or the average cost of American housing. These estimates come out to $11-30B.

So the numbers check out. The only fault I could find with this meme's claims is that they are slightly misleading in suggesting $20B could "end homelessness" without the caveat that that's only for one year.