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  1. It's very simple.

    The people costing all the money, are the people with all the money.

    Not the people with hardly any money.

    It really shouldn't need explaining.

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  2. A more perfect metaphor for the far right doesn’t exist. We all know that sliced white bread is still widely available and sells as well as ever, probably the majority of bread sales. What Alex finds objectionable is the existence of anything else, even in a minority.

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  3. i might be mid-remember this, but in Postmortal by @drewmagary.bsky.social about a “cure” for aging being created has a section about the change in policies after politicians realise they are going to be on the planet for the long haul and will reap what they sow

    Tory leader Badenoch says the party will remove all net zero requirements on North Sea oil &gas companies

    Badenoch is to focus on "maximising extraction"

    Like saying if there were a fight in a pub, everyone would have to repair the damage except those starting the brawl www.bbc.com/news/article...

    The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis".

    Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea'

    The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis".

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  4. the world went mad for a month after this event

    tragic yes, but the (one might argue)“performative” distress displayed was at times genuinely weird

    i remember being in a pub on a karaoke night and listening to a number people do their own sombre rendition of Candle In The Wind

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  5. Henry Ford, the pos, even worked this out, paying his workers a decent wage so they could afford the products they were creating

    without a thriving middle-class who is buying these AI created products?

    Nick Hanauer made this point a decade ago

    www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

    A memo for my fellow filthy rich who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.

    The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats

    A memo for my fellow filthy rich who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.

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