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tomatolung

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  • Engineer Eats Efficiently (For $2.50 a Day)

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  • Just curious but are we heading towards an "eat the rich" society?

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  • Look to history for some answers.

    The Denver Post had a opinion piece that talked about how America has seen something like this before.

    The Gilded Age, the tumultuous period between roughly 1870 and 1900, was also a time of rapid technological change, of mass immigration, of spectacular wealth and enormous inequality. The era got its name from a Mark Twain novel: gilded, rather than golden, to signify a thin, shiny surface layer. Below it lay the corruption and greed that engulfed the country after the Civil War.

    The era survives in the public imagination through still resonant names, including J.P. Morgan, John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt; through their mansions, which now greet awestruck tourists; and through TV shows with extravagant interiors and lavish gowns. Less well remembered is the brutality that underlay that wealth — the tens of thousands of workers, by some calculations, who lost their lives to industrial accidents, or the bloody repercussions they met when they tried to organize for better working conditions.

    Also less well remembered is the intensity of political violence that erupted. The vast inequities of the era fueled political movements that targeted corporate titans, politicians, judges and others for violence. In 1892, an anarchist tried to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick after a drawn-out conflict between Pinkerton security guards and workers. In 1901, an anarchist sympathizer assassinated President William McKinley. And so on.

    As historian Jon Grinspan wrote about the years between 1865 and 1915, “the nation experienced one impeachment, two presidential elections ‘won’ by the loser of the popular vote and three presidential assassinations.” And neither political party, he added, seemed “capable of tackling the systemic issues disrupting Americans’ lives.” No, not an identical situation, but the description does resonate with how a great many people feel about the direction of the country today.

    It’s not hard to see how, during the Gilded Age, armed political resistance could find many eager recruits and even more numerous sympathetic observers. And it’s not hard to imagine how the United States could enter another such cycle.

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  • Sounds like a good bot.

  • BI: AOC asked voters why they backed her candidacy and Trump's reelection. They said the economy and Gaza.

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  • The responses to Ocasio-Cortez from split-ticket voters included:

    • "It's real simple… Trump and you care for the working class"
    • "Trump is going to get us the money and lets men have a voice. You're brilliant and have amazing passion!"
    • "I feel like Trump and you are both real."
    • "I know people that did this and it was bc of Gaza."
    • "You are focused on the real issues people care about. Similar to Trump populism in some ways."
    • "Because of Gaza"
    • "I voted Trump and dems because he reached out to Muslims"

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  • Anyone know how much of the oil transported is actually used for plastic, percentage wise?

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  • Not yet... Just waiting

  • 'It's the First Amendment, stupid': Federal court smacks down Ron DeSantis

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  • No ads here!

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  • What's funny to me is how they are in a fight for their company with the FTC, and they want to continue provoking people by increasing their revenue on the back of their users on a service they might have a technical monopoly on? Hmmmm...

  • House GOP infighting erupts over MTG's hurricane comments

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  • **What they're saying: **Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), who represents a Hurricane-prone district in South Florida, replied to one of Greene's posts writing, "NEW FLASH —> Humans cannot create or control hurricanes."

    • "Anyone who thinks they can, needs to have their head examined," he added – a biting direct rebuke of a fellow House Republican.

    Why yes please examine all of our Congressional heads. Also what da fk have they been ingesting? In the word of AvE, focus you f#k!