It's a cliche at this point, but man does Luntz have a talent for picking some of the most confused, politically incoherent, and uniformed voters out there. Bonus points for including an unabashed TERF.
[Dentist waiting room]
Me: [chanting] years of lead, years of lead-
Other patients: years of lead, YEARS OF LEAD
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] YEARS OF LEAD, YEARS OF LEAD
Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law
Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly
Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor
OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal
media: should shoplifters be executed?
"You will feel pain in this hand within the box. Pain. But! Withdraw the hand and I'll touch your neck with my gom jabbar--the death so swift it's like the fall of the headsman's axe. Withdraw your hand and the gom jabbar takes you. Understand?"
Exec: so what are the names of the gross pasty nerd billionaire and his weird girlfriend?
Writer: Musk and Grime
Exec: and the embezzler?
Writer: Sam Bankman-Fraud
Exec: and the politician and his son who do organized crime?
Writer: Don and Don Junior
Exec: get the fuck out of my office
Twitter / X is testing out charging users $1 a year
Elon Musk & his fans tried to claim that everyone took him out of context last month when he said he’d do this
you will not be able to post, like, or RT unless you pay
report: fortune.com/2023/10/17/t...
confirmed by the platform minutes later
It’s so funny that all the policy evaluation of giving money to poor people & workers is all “this was a spectacular success,” and the evaluation of giving money to bosses & rich people is like “hmm very puzzling, why was this a giant waste that didn’t work?” 📉📈
One of the funny things about The Inferno is you grow up thinking it’s got a clear theological point of view and all the levels are significant but a lot of those dudes are just people that Dante thought were dweebs
