zeke5123a
10mo ago
The most obscene version of the heckler veto was exercised and instead of being condemned it was rationalized.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
If the left wing equivalent of Charlie Kirk was murdered in a similar fashion, the hypothetical other’s views wouldn’t be described as controversial despite almost certainly being further from the median voter.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
I would argue with Trump it went even beyond finding the man — they invented a crime largely out of whole cloth and then jury rigged the law to get a conviction. It will be overturned on appeal.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
I want them to jail George Soros. I want them to jail Reid Hoffman. I want them to uncover the funding mechanisms that knowledge supported things like antifa and if (as I suspect it does) lead back to Soros and Hoffman I want them to jailed. That is playing for keeps but within the lines.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
You mean the same Dems who tried to shout down an attempt for prayer for Kirk in Congress? Or Ilhan Omar with Medi Hassan? How bout Liz Warren?
zeke5123a
10mo ago
It does seem notable that Democrat national politicians seem to be..almost blaming Kirk for being murdered.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
Well, when you are investigating yourself, it’s easy not to find the culprit
zeke5123a
10mo ago
This just isn’t the norm. As a general rule, PE buys an entity with debt. Banks don’t permit cash to leave the banking group.
The only time is when banks lend money to an existing PE owned business with the express intention of repatriation cash (ie a levered recap). Most liquidity events aren’t levered recaps. Moreover, banks aren’t interested in lending to businesses that will go bankrupt (ie banks don’t want to equitize their debt; they want to get paid back on the debt). So generally leveraged recaps will only occur when the risk of bankruptcy is remote.
None of this means all PE companies survive, but in generally PEs cannot successful generate returns by bankrupting companies.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
I think Zelensky is playing just as much as Putin. Neither really wants the war to end.
zeke5123a
10mo ago
I would be really annoyed if the people I spend time with were always monitoring my speech etc
zeke5123a
10mo ago
Honest question — does the fear you fear make you question whether your near group are the baddies?
zeke5123a
10mo ago
That’s one way of describing PE but generally seems like a misunderstanding. Does PE cause some businesses to fail by excess debt? Yes. But to succeed, PE generally needs to in the aggregate sell businesses for more than it purchased them for.
Frequently, PE buys distressed businesses to get a good price, tries to turn them around, and sell at a profit.
Sometimes, PE provides liquidity to founders where the company isn’t to the size that would suggest an IPO makes sense at the time. Having this exit option is great for encouraging building companies.
Other times, PE builds companies by acquiring a bunch of small companies, integrating them, and then selling (ie pay 10x EBITDA, get some cost savings combining and sell at 15x EBITDA since the stream of income is a bit more secure).
Again, PE generally doesnt make money from companies failing (one exception is leveraged recaps). They make money by companies succeeding (in ways described above).
zeke5123a
10mo ago
This is interesting. The American left controls the establishment and therefore any particular agent wielding power is a threat because it introduces uncertainty in the way power is wielded.
Prior Republicans seemed okay wielding a small defined amount of power that didn’t threaten the establishment
zeke5123a
10mo ago
zeke5123a
10mo ago
Hillary Clinton concocted an absurd baseless theory about Russia stealing the election that led to a years long witch hunt. She also claimed it made Trump illegitimate. Seems like an order of magnitude worse “election denialism.”
zeke5123a
10mo ago
This reads “boo outgroup.” Fuentes isn’t popular and trying to claim otherwise is just a means to be able to paint the Republicans with Fuentes’ beliefs. It’s the same reason you uncritically believed the Seltzer poll despite all of the noted problems.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Sometimes jokes can’t be explained without ruining the joke and therefore are “low effort” but jokes should be the exception
zeke5123a
11mo ago
It begs the question why did the world lose its mind over that incident?
zeke5123a
11mo ago
The first one was a pure reshoot of ANH. The second misconstrued “subverting expectations” with writing a movie. The final one was writing by a precursor of AI.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
I’m struggling with the sale in that case if video games were generating 700m of FCF pa
zeke5123a
11mo ago
It isn’t just movies. Tasks the theme parks. Infamously Disney reimagined a fan favorite in Splash Mountain allegedly due to racism (note the ride literally contained zero humans or depictions of humans). The original ride was great story telling as the ride itself cohered with the story telling. The story wasn’t gendered but arguably somewhat masculine (ie had a frontier / wandering aesthetic).
Disney turned it into a black princess ride that is a pale imitation of its ancestor.
Or the Indiana Jones stunt specular. They removed swords for batons. Indiana no longer has a gun. The bad guys don’t “die.” They even removed the bad guy’s Nazi symbols. They sanitized the show removing the things boys would find interesting (probably without making it interesting to girls).
I’m not sure these moves are to pander to women so much as Disney has strong progressive / feminine decision making.
Again their caucus shouted down an attempt for a moment of prayer. That was their visceral reaction. Sure people like AOC had a more polished answer after the fact (though used it to support apparently complete gun control). But…I think it’s bullshit.
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