Jacob

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A screenshot from a Wall Street Journal article. It reads 'Ramaswamy in interviews has offered an unusually blunt-and likely impossible to implement-strategy for how to slash the federal workforce: firing those whose Social Security numbers start or end with odd numbers. "Boom. That's a 75 percent reduction done," he said on a podcast interview this fall.'
Text Shot: If all the estimated figures from industry experts are correct—and Sony has never rushed forward to say they’re not—this is a project that made $1 million and lost $399 million. For comparison, the biggest movie box office loss of all time was Disney’s 2012 film, John Carter, which grossed $284.1 million, while losing $255 million. Yet, if you search the website of the New York Times for the word “concord,” you will not find a single result mentioning the game. Search for “Folie à Deux and you’ll find a handful of pieces, including one reporting its significant box office losses.
Text Shot: Remember, too, that The Post and ABC News and Ipsos — like every other reputable pollster — exist on their reputations. We are explicitly in the business of presenting accurate information to the public, including assessments of elections. The Trump campaign, by contrast, is explicitly in the business of presenting Trump as the best candidate for president and reinforcing his ability to win. Which of those groups is more likely, in your objective assessment, to be willing to present false claims in an effort to swing the election results?
Text Shot: It's that "the whole point of" that gives the game away. It creates this entire creaking haunted house of assumptions. The assumption that comprises the frontage of the edifice is that women must have a point, and that certain men (them) are the ones who will define that point and make all adjudications about whether that point has been achieved. The idea tucked on the backside of this already creepy facade is that a lot of people don't have a point, especially a lot of women. In the basement you find other assumptions about what is to be done with pointless people—people who either never had a point to begin with, like immigrants or refugees or unhoused people, and what is to be done with people who could have had a point but instead chose to defy the masters of the rest of us and refused to achieve that point by forging their own paths by pursuing their own interests, and decided instead to just be themselves and live their own lives, refusing to recognize that they have…