I probably shouldn't have called a parasitical racket a parasitical racket paulkrugman.substack.com/p/health-ins...
Health Insurance is a Racket
What value do these companies add, really?
paulkrugman.substack.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:26 PM
I probably shouldn't have called a parasitical racket a parasitical racket paulkrugman.substack.com/p/health-ins...
useless parasitical scum bastards
June 2, 2024 at 5:18 AM
useless parasitical scum bastards
"It’s become fashionable lately to say that capitalism has entered a new phase in which it has become parasitical to forms of creative cooperation. This is nonsense. It has always been parasitical."
- David Graeber
- David Graeber
July 17, 2026 at 3:51 AM
"It’s become fashionable lately to say that capitalism has entered a new phase in which it has become parasitical to forms of creative cooperation. This is nonsense. It has always been parasitical."
- David Graeber
- David Graeber
“Our technology requires parasitical theft to be profitable” is a bold gambit
December 20, 2024 at 2:19 PM
“Our technology requires parasitical theft to be profitable” is a bold gambit
November 13, 2024 at 7:26 PM
The parasitical business of ticket scalping for profit absolutely sucks
World Cup Final resale market is officially out.
Good luck getting your hands on a ticket. #2026WorldCup 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇨🇦
via @TeamStubHub
Good luck getting your hands on a ticket. #2026WorldCup 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇨🇦
via @TeamStubHub
October 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The parasitical business of ticket scalping for profit absolutely sucks
Here’s a timely phrase: “a parasitical oligarchy devouring the happiness of the many to feed the pleasures of the few” — and now about to be using the powers of government.
January 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Here’s a timely phrase: “a parasitical oligarchy devouring the happiness of the many to feed the pleasures of the few” — and now about to be using the powers of government.
“Musk frames retired people in parasitical terms."
'Parasitical': Analyst blames cruel worldview for driving Musk's Social Security agenda
Elon Musk’s laser-like focus on Social Security can be blamed on one thing, a columnist wrote Monday — a belief that retired people are a “parasitical” drain on the nation’s resources.Musk thinks that...
www.rawstory.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“Musk frames retired people in parasitical terms."
The Reflecting Pool was completely drained in June 2017 to control a parasitical outbreak. The parasite, which causes swimmer's itch, infects snails which inhabit the pool. More than 80 ducks and ducklings had died at the pool due to parasitical infection since May.
Trump was President in 2017
Trump was President in 2017
May 10, 2026 at 1:54 PM
The Reflecting Pool was completely drained in June 2017 to control a parasitical outbreak. The parasite, which causes swimmer's itch, infects snails which inhabit the pool. More than 80 ducks and ducklings had died at the pool due to parasitical infection since May.
Trump was President in 2017
Trump was President in 2017
Apart from anything else it's so funny to whine about other people having parasitical email jobs when you are the head of the think tank whose job is to develop the official Nazi Party platform
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Apart from anything else it's so funny to whine about other people having parasitical email jobs when you are the head of the think tank whose job is to develop the official Nazi Party platform
part of an actual autopsy should be why the Democrats developed a massively parasitical and incompetent political consultancy class (not a unique problem!); however they are generally also the people asked to write the reports
The two main lessons I've learned from skimming the DNC "autopsy":
1) I now understand why they didn't release it 😂
2) The DNC wasted a lot of money paying someone who is deeply incompetent.
Honest question: was this whole thing written by ChatGPT?
1) I now understand why they didn't release it 😂
2) The DNC wasted a lot of money paying someone who is deeply incompetent.
Honest question: was this whole thing written by ChatGPT?
May 21, 2026 at 6:42 PM
part of an actual autopsy should be why the Democrats developed a massively parasitical and incompetent political consultancy class (not a unique problem!); however they are generally also the people asked to write the reports
An entire generation of young people has been raised to believe being parasitical con artists is the way to go.
June 2, 2026 at 3:56 PM
An entire generation of young people has been raised to believe being parasitical con artists is the way to go.
Bludging and parasitical
September 27, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Bludging and parasitical
I can’t shake the feeling that AI’s relationship to humanity is essentially parasitical, and while there might be some beneficent aspects of it in the short run, ultimately this will end like all parasitical relationships do. Can anyone recommend something I could read that argues otherwise?
March 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I can’t shake the feeling that AI’s relationship to humanity is essentially parasitical, and while there might be some beneficent aspects of it in the short run, ultimately this will end like all parasitical relationships do. Can anyone recommend something I could read that argues otherwise?
Solution:
Get rid of the middlemen. Health insurance is just a bunch of parasitical gatekeepers.
Get rid of the middlemen. Health insurance is just a bunch of parasitical gatekeepers.
December 5, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Solution:
Get rid of the middlemen. Health insurance is just a bunch of parasitical gatekeepers.
Get rid of the middlemen. Health insurance is just a bunch of parasitical gatekeepers.
Parasitical diseased overlords who steal technology and enslave others. What's off topic here?
January 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Parasitical diseased overlords who steal technology and enslave others. What's off topic here?
#1 litmus test for 2028 needs to be willingness to prosecute and bankrupt every parasitical grifter that participated in this term.
April 23, 2026 at 12:26 PM
#1 litmus test for 2028 needs to be willingness to prosecute and bankrupt every parasitical grifter that participated in this term.
I mean ---
Shutting off all government funding to everything EXCEPT businesses you own seems pretty damned parasitical!
Shutting off all government funding to everything EXCEPT businesses you own seems pretty damned parasitical!
February 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I mean ---
Shutting off all government funding to everything EXCEPT businesses you own seems pretty damned parasitical!
Shutting off all government funding to everything EXCEPT businesses you own seems pretty damned parasitical!
Parasitical fan fiction writer behavior.
April 10, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Parasitical fan fiction writer behavior.
AI is a parasitical garbage-making machine, send it back to hell
NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn obtained this statement from Scarlett Johansson regarding OpenAI's ChatGPT voice that sounds like her role from the 2013 movie "Her"
May 21, 2024 at 12:22 AM
AI is a parasitical garbage-making machine, send it back to hell
We can make a society that exists for the care and thriving and enjoyment of the actual people rather than for the enrichment of parasitical greed freaks and the comfort of creepy-minded religious bigots. All that's needed is for more people to stop fearing good things and start fighting for them.
July 18, 2026 at 6:15 AM
We can make a society that exists for the care and thriving and enjoyment of the actual people rather than for the enrichment of parasitical greed freaks and the comfort of creepy-minded religious bigots. All that's needed is for more people to stop fearing good things and start fighting for them.
I like how the crypto goons openly brag about owning governments and nobody acts like they aren't just a parasitical scam inserting itself into the entire economy to line the pockets of a small handful of drug addicts
Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.
![Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫 [AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette] 2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreigsccsb3rboe3qjtuuicshmrhyho65cwntbj4syjn5y2gkil5m45a)
July 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I like how the crypto goons openly brag about owning governments and nobody acts like they aren't just a parasitical scam inserting itself into the entire economy to line the pockets of a small handful of drug addicts
If you see this, post a bloodsucking, parasitical vampire.
July 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If you see this, post a bloodsucking, parasitical vampire.
Parasitical works too.
April 10, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Parasitical works too.
A country with a housing shortage needs homes, not landlords.
Landlords of parasitical, draining wealth from renters and the state.
Landlords of parasitical, draining wealth from renters and the state.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A country with a housing shortage needs homes, not landlords.
Landlords of parasitical, draining wealth from renters and the state.
Landlords of parasitical, draining wealth from renters and the state.