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Economic uncertainty and exploitative labor practices, increasing wealth gap and decreasing wages? Seems like a recipe for depression.

Yes. He was captured by Calypso, and held on an island against his will. It's said he wept bitterly every night at the shore, longing to be back with his wife. He was not in control, he was not happy, he was not free to leave.

So yeah, forced seems right.

Wired coming out swinging with an actual socialist/leftist/communist article? Color me impressed.

In the states, the Democrats are often mislabeled as a lefty party, or mislabeled as socialists. People will call CNN Marxist. They really, really aren't.

It's fascinating to see a major publisher going out on a limb to publish something like this.

Here's the thing, though, Assange and WikiLeaks are complicated figures who have done good and evil things. They are fair targets for criticism, and it's genuinely ok for someone to draw the conclusion that, "given the criticism, I cannot support them".

Yes, a deliberate smear campaign exists, but also these are institutions with complex histories. You cannot simply call anyone critical of them "gullible".

Zucks responses are incredibly out of touch, holy shit.

I can absolutely see why staffers are losing trust. Mark is treating this as if everyone already agrees with the idea.

Just, unbelievably callous.

Plenty of folks called those a scam too.

It's likely SVB has assets in excess of $250k per account. So if they are sold, I'd expect depositors to get at least $250k and possibly more, depending on how those assets are sold.

It only becomes a bailout if the government pays beyond the sale of svb's assets.

The guy seems incredibly driven, doing all sorts of stuff to improve access for people with disabilities, for instance. I'd assume Twitter was dysfunctional before this guy was.

They supplied data from the state showing the longer trend line. Scroll up a few comments.

Both posters are correct, and supplied data.

Crime rates are half what they used to be, that's true. Crime rates have also gone up very recently, that's also true.

No need to be so hostile.