corporate greed is a pay-to-win strategy in a co-op game
Joan Westenberg
joanwestenberg@nos.social
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“Foul-mouthed leftist” 🍕 I write about tech + politics + humans.
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goodnight to everyone except JD Vance who’s currently trying to prove he’s working class by eating at Applebee’s with a silver spoon he refuses to let go of
woke up from a nightmare where i was forced to give a TED talk titled “The Power of Being Yourself” to 3,000 guys in expensive jeans who all write “thought leader” in their bio. the standing ovation lasted six weeks
If you’re a white journalist with a hot take on why a fraction of Black voters support Trump, I’m gonna need to see your deep-dive analysis on why millions of white women vote for him first. Or just, fuck off.
The OG cultural marxists
What this nation needs it more ECONOMISTS and less ECONOMARXISTS
every time someone tells me to “calm down” i get 10% more powerful and 15% more unhinged. this is basic math. this is economics
I’m an RSS maxi
JD stands for Junior Dictator, Vance stands for anything Peter Thiel wants whenever he wants it
day 456 of explaining to my family that being down 99.99% is actually good because “you can’t lose more than 100%.” they’re starting to suspect i don’t know how math works
just found out some lib wants companies to “pay living wages” and “not destroy the planet”… buddy this isnt your grandmas quilting circle.. this is CAPITALISM baby gets crushed by falling stock prices
“My parents spanked me and I turned out just fine” I mean no you didn’t you turned into a grown ass adult who wants to beat their kids how is that fine
If my indie publishing career doesn’t take off there are literally only three options:
Get a job (bold of me to think I’m employable)
Start a think tank (only for the caffeine and clout)
Become the conservative right’s token trans woman ($$$??)
Publishing, please pull through.
The difference between progressives and conservatives is that progressives can laugh at themselves but conservatives can only laugh at other people
everyone keeps saying “wow.. your so brave for speaking truth to power” but trust me the second peter thiel waves a $2000 amex gift card at me im deleting every post faster than a roomba hitting dog shit
trying to donate my collection of 50,000 shitposts to the library of congress. “these are crucial historical documents” i say as security drags me out
my sleep paralysis demon trying to scare me but im just critiquing his form. pathetic. you call that a haunting? my grandma does scarier shit making lasagna
absolutely will not go to your open mic night. would rather get in a fist fight with every single bird at the zoo. the penguins have been talking shit anyway