anachronist

Renters have two options:

• get fucked
• move (and get fucked)

At least if the homeowner sells they get the windfall.

I was living in a neighborhood that gentrified and my rent went up a "life altering" amount. I had to move to a different, shittier neighborhood and had nothing to show for it. If a property owner has the same thing happen, they may be forced to sell, but they will get a massive windfall. Renters get nothing besides a kick in the butt.

Tea party was partially real. But it was basically petite bourgeois: car dealership owners and the like. This was also the main component of Jan 6th. These people aren't a huge constituency but there are a lot more of them than billionaires.

"hype" is literally media attention

hype
1)
: publicity
especially : promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind
all the hype before the boxing match 

Merriam Webster

It's really incredible. Then again, there's a theory I heard that Israelis like it when Jews feel/are threatened elsewhere in the world, because it promotes Zionism.

Mozilla executives are once again carrying water for Google.

If there is any doubt who they work for, watching them testify in defense of Google's monopoly should be all you need.

This honestly makes me a little conflicted about the government black-bagging immigrants off the street.

The rotating villain strikes again! https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2023/05/05/the-democratic-party-is-untenable/

Pete will lose the 2028 election to JD Vance using the Abundance Agenda strategy. Dems will say "I guess America is too xenophobic for a gay president."

Highly influential people who where loyal to Gorbachev: Purged and often imprisoned after the coup attempt.

Highly influential people who were loyal to Yeltsin: Oligarchs.

If you have a 401k you are probably a holder of Tesla stock since it's in the index funds.

This is one of the bigger problems with the current stock market where investment decisions for a huge amount of the capital in the market is being made mechanically by looking only at the market capitalization of the company. We end up in a hyperreal situation where if you pump hard enough on a stock you can basically "manifest" a blue-chip label on it and then leverage everyone's retirement accounts to keep it