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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 59m

Twitter is a far right wing echo chamber that radicalizes its user base by pushing Nazi propaganda relentlessly

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 6h

By far, the dumbest people on this app are the ones who think the economy can “crash”

It’s like they were asleep when the Fed eliminated crashes in 2008, 2020, and the SVB bank run in like 2023.

There isn’t a mathematical mechanism for the economy to be ALLOWED to crash

Wake up

Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 8h

What a fcking joke

Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine still thinking the US economy and stock market is a “fair and free market” lol

The US economy is rigged to go up only infinity. Period. And it’s a communist central planning methodology, not capitalism at all

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 9h

Well when it understood more broadly that these traitors are being paid by the far right to only protest Democrats and not Republicans, it all starts to make sense

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 9h

I think what has been done to Gaza is criminal and the Israel govt officials involved should be held accountable in criminal court

But its also true that “anti-genocide” protestors in the US are paid by the far right to only protest democrats to help Republicans

These people are traitors

Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 2d

Kamala Harris has HAD IT.

Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 13h

Also There is a mythology that all immigrants are smarter than Americans at STEM and innovation and this also helped lead to the glorification of clowns like Musk and Thiel who really aren’t creative or intelligent at all

Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 13h

Thiel is another guy with very little talent and low intelligence who has become a billionaire king maker based on media hype and not much else

Also the Fed subsidized the venture capital ecosystem with zero interest loans for far too many years which drove inflation much higher with no returns

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 13h

It isn’t though. It’s roughly 42%.

There is his cult and he picked up a lot of other demographics since 2021. Low info voters surged in his favor in 2024 as well as 65% of Hispanic men ended up voting for him. Also Gen Z men voted for him at like 60% or so.

Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 13h

Basically whoever can persuade voters on the culture war, will consistently win elections. Period.

The economy is not a major issue because there is a general understanding that the economy and stock market is manipulated to only be able to go up only infinity

Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 13h

There is zero evidence voters give a fck about the economy. It’s laughable to think this. The economy and stock market is relentlessly manipulated by the Fed to go up only infinity and this has been the status quo since 2008. Everyone knows the economy and stock market won’t be allowed to decline

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 13h

This is the main reason generic polls on the Democratic Party are in a downward spiral compared to the GOP and why Democrat voters aren’t motivated by any of the weak and feckless actions from Schumer, Jeffries, DNC, etc

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 13h

Republicans are 100% aligned with their voters positions on the culture war

Democrats are in retreat on culture war issues that their base voters care about and keep pivoting to the right because they listen to right wing clowns like Ezra Klein & David Shor & other brain rotted Twitter “centrists”

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 13h

The reality is the vast majority of voters are motivated by the culture war - policies related specifically to civil rights, freedom, police state, crime, mass surveillance, starting/ending wars, immigration etc

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 15h

His approval rating went way up after the debate with Gov Walz

White suburban women and Gen Z men will vote for him in droves. Those are the demographics that the Republicans need to win.

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 6d

Bukele fired the Supreme Court, 1/3 of judges in El Salvador, and the AG and replaced them with loyalists…not because he needed to in order to fight crime, but because he needed to get around the constitutional ban on reelection, and shut down corruption investigations against his administration.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17h

They have sincerely convinced themselves that the average person wants Nazism. They hang out in group chats where Nazism is based and cool and they’ve been convinced this is a popular agenda

scorch forever @willcrist.bsky.social · 17h

It’s kinda wild how modern ultra wealthy people missed the memo that if you build trains and libraries and museums and fund the arts people are generally less likely to want you dead?

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17h

It’s bonkers. Like say what you will about Andrew Carnegie but after getting wealthy beyond compare he built libraries. Thiel and Musk and Ellison have been like “what if we restored the third reich? what if I became Big Brother? what if we ushered in an age of superstition, wouldn’t that be neat”

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 15h

People underestimate Vance. He is a pathological liar and pushes the bogus right wing culture war. Just those things alone make him a great candidate to hold together the MAGA coalition into the future

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 1d

Funny thing is that Elon and Thiel run their companies much worse than charities despite getting record levels of taxpayer welfare from the American people whom both seem to have contempt for

Almost like they are actually not real Americans

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Solana is the probably the dumbest person on the internet

Low rent oligarch bootlicker

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 1d

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 1d

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 1d

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