LIFE HACK: Tax these fuckers into poverty.
May 11, 2026 at 2:28 PM
LIFE HACK: Tax these fuckers into poverty.
The reason Semler is a dishonest hack is he keeps using a specific metric - the Supplemental Poverty Measure - to argue the economy got worse under Biden, because the SPM shows poverty increasing. But the measure includes government supports and thus is affected by the expiration of COVID programs.
In this 4-blueskeet thread Will Stancil, based on no argument, calls Stephen Semler a "dishonest hack" and "pied piper for [the] braindead", part of a group of "wreckers" & "dolts" who "should be excluded" as "incapable of [...] productive partnership with honest and good-faith progressives". ...
Semler is a dishonest hack, and a pied piper for braindead lefties who are more interested in dunking on Biden than examining why it may be strategically unwise, for their own project especially, to argue that cyclical safety net policies will provoke an apocalyptic backlash if not made permanent
September 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The reason Semler is a dishonest hack is he keeps using a specific metric - the Supplemental Poverty Measure - to argue the economy got worse under Biden, because the SPM shows poverty increasing. But the measure includes government supports and thus is affected by the expiration of COVID programs.
there is a fundamental, near immutable structural barrier for law making in the united states that makes juggling a simple tax code hack that solves child poverty nearly impossible whereas a republican can walk into office and summon a secret police army to terrorize his political enemies
It was just 4 years ago that this country cut the child poverty rate almost in half. Then we just....stopped www.census.gov/library/stor...
August 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
there is a fundamental, near immutable structural barrier for law making in the united states that makes juggling a simple tax code hack that solves child poverty nearly impossible whereas a republican can walk into office and summon a secret police army to terrorize his political enemies
It's not just poverty, you CRAVEN MURDEROUS HACK. It's disabled, children, elderly - some like my mom with Alzheimers who spent her life savings on out-of-pocket care before she qualified. And before that, I paid her costs at the same time I was helping my kids pay for college. Lies and gaslighting!
Markwayne Mullin: "There are 35 million people that live below the poverty line inside the US. There are over 70 million people signed up for Medicaid. Now you're gonna tell me there's not room to make cuts?"
June 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It's not just poverty, you CRAVEN MURDEROUS HACK. It's disabled, children, elderly - some like my mom with Alzheimers who spent her life savings on out-of-pocket care before she qualified. And before that, I paid her costs at the same time I was helping my kids pay for college. Lies and gaslighting!
Indeed, if you use the original poverty measure, which leaves out government transfers, poverty actually DECLINED under Biden, suggesting an economy that was broadly improving. The reason to use the measure you did was to ensure the conclusion you wanted, which I think is definitionally a hack move.
September 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Indeed, if you use the original poverty measure, which leaves out government transfers, poverty actually DECLINED under Biden, suggesting an economy that was broadly improving. The reason to use the measure you did was to ensure the conclusion you wanted, which I think is definitionally a hack move.
lbjs great society, even after the substantial attempts to hack it to pieces, has been so successful that widespread white poverty in its bleakest form has literally been completely forgotten
August 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
lbjs great society, even after the substantial attempts to hack it to pieces, has been so successful that widespread white poverty in its bleakest form has literally been completely forgotten
"Hack stuff" is using SPM? It’s a poverty measure specifically developed to better indicate quality of life than the traditional measure. My god
This is little more than a lie: they worsened if you use a measure that specifically captures the program that expired. In short, conditions worsened if you cherry pick a measure you know will be bad. Hack stuff. And it’s embarrassing so many lefties think this is evidence they were right.
September 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"Hack stuff" is using SPM? It’s a poverty measure specifically developed to better indicate quality of life than the traditional measure. My god
In Detroit: Become Human unemployment is 40% and yet somehow you see less poverty and homelessness than in real-life Detroit
Which just goes to show that David Cage is the hackiest hack who ever hacked
Which just goes to show that David Cage is the hackiest hack who ever hacked
March 22, 2026 at 9:43 PM
In Detroit: Become Human unemployment is 40% and yet somehow you see less poverty and homelessness than in real-life Detroit
Which just goes to show that David Cage is the hackiest hack who ever hacked
Which just goes to show that David Cage is the hackiest hack who ever hacked
Jacobin is a hack outfit in general, but this bit is particularly laughable because poverty dropped sharply during the pandemic because of generous support programs that then gradually expired, and which Biden tried, and failed, to extend. Dems are bad enough right now. You don't need this bullshit.
A new Census Bureau report establishes that poverty increased over the course of the Biden administration.
The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.
The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.
It’s Official: Poverty Got Worse Under Joe Biden
A new Census Bureau report establishes that poverty increased over the course of the Biden administration. The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.
jacobin.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Jacobin is a hack outfit in general, but this bit is particularly laughable because poverty dropped sharply during the pandemic because of generous support programs that then gradually expired, and which Biden tried, and failed, to extend. Dems are bad enough right now. You don't need this bullshit.
I have decided to learn magic.
May 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
I have decided to learn magic.
A poverty hack I will never let go is adding cottage cheese to reheated leftover noodles to give them some body and a bit of bonus protein.
January 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A poverty hack I will never let go is adding cottage cheese to reheated leftover noodles to give them some body and a bit of bonus protein.
Yeah I think about this a lot with kids who have had to hack consoles to play burned games or get ROMs to run. Poverty is a powerful motivator and people will make do in the age that don’t reflect in market reports.
July 23, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Yeah I think about this a lot with kids who have had to hack consoles to play burned games or get ROMs to run. Poverty is a powerful motivator and people will make do in the age that don’t reflect in market reports.
this one weird poverty hack the plutocrats don’t want you to know
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New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
this one weird poverty hack the plutocrats don’t want you to know
*stares in poverty stricken writer who wants a pretty cover (and learned the basic fucking skills required to do it myself because I’m not a hack)*
May 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
*stares in poverty stricken writer who wants a pretty cover (and learned the basic fucking skills required to do it myself because I’m not a hack)*
Here's one that may be interesting after Will Stancil's latest preening as a hard-headed, data-hugging, chart-lover (not like nasty quant-phobic leftists): he called @stephensemler.bsky.social a "dishonest hack" because Semler dared to report on the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure.
The reason Semler is a dishonest hack is he keeps using a specific metric - the Supplemental Poverty Measure - to argue the economy got worse under Biden, because the SPM shows poverty increasing. But the measure includes government supports and thus is affected by the expiration of COVID programs.
In this 4-blueskeet thread Will Stancil, based on no argument, calls Stephen Semler a "dishonest hack" and "pied piper for [the] braindead", part of a group of "wreckers" & "dolts" who "should be excluded" as "incapable of [...] productive partnership with honest and good-faith progressives". ...
July 22, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Here's one that may be interesting after Will Stancil's latest preening as a hard-headed, data-hugging, chart-lover (not like nasty quant-phobic leftists): he called @stephensemler.bsky.social a "dishonest hack" because Semler dared to report on the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure.
lol its insane that Milei style massive economic austerity is still being lauded so much by hack economists that point to falling inflation as the Only Metric That Matters meanwhile literally every month a new report comes out of Argentina going like: "the poverty rate hits yet another record high"
January 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
lol its insane that Milei style massive economic austerity is still being lauded so much by hack economists that point to falling inflation as the Only Metric That Matters meanwhile literally every month a new report comes out of Argentina going like: "the poverty rate hits yet another record high"
It is beyond disgusting how much she gets paid to stalk Lia Thomas and slander trans people while so many of us live in poverty. Mediocre hack loser, one of the few people in the world that could be accurately described as a waste of space. Reparations.
Riley Gaines climbed the MAGA ladder by vilifying trans women in sports. Now, teammates are speaking out about the real problems on her team: abusive coaching, sexual harassment, eating disorders. ow.ly/o3wq50XuCzp
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
ow.ly
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
It is beyond disgusting how much she gets paid to stalk Lia Thomas and slander trans people while so many of us live in poverty. Mediocre hack loser, one of the few people in the world that could be accurately described as a waste of space. Reparations.
I got a hack for you be under the poverty level and just live in misery
July 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I got a hack for you be under the poverty level and just live in misery
There are hundreds of legitimate social workers and experts who think about ways to reduce poverty everyday, meet with those people if you’re looking for advice. Meeting, instead, with a far-right hack who was recently convicted of stealing from poor people is not what I want in my electeds.
September 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
There are hundreds of legitimate social workers and experts who think about ways to reduce poverty everyday, meet with those people if you’re looking for advice. Meeting, instead, with a far-right hack who was recently convicted of stealing from poor people is not what I want in my electeds.
Anonymous:
Instead of shutting down X how bout you hack eLons money and distribute it to those of us BELOW the poverty line. Take us off the back fucking burner that literally everyone keeps ignoring.
Thanks.
Instead of shutting down X how bout you hack eLons money and distribute it to those of us BELOW the poverty line. Take us off the back fucking burner that literally everyone keeps ignoring.
Thanks.
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ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo with the words `` ya gotta do better than that '' above him .
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March 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Anonymous:
Instead of shutting down X how bout you hack eLons money and distribute it to those of us BELOW the poverty line. Take us off the back fucking burner that literally everyone keeps ignoring.
Thanks.
Instead of shutting down X how bout you hack eLons money and distribute it to those of us BELOW the poverty line. Take us off the back fucking burner that literally everyone keeps ignoring.
Thanks.
My best poverty life hack for the winter when I couldn’t afford heating bills is to fill a large plastic soda bottle with hot water and place in the bed under the covers. No need to buy a rubber bottle, the water stays warm overnight either way.
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
My best poverty life hack for the winter when I couldn’t afford heating bills is to fill a large plastic soda bottle with hot water and place in the bed under the covers. No need to buy a rubber bottle, the water stays warm overnight either way.
No matter what the techbros say, you can't "hack" or "AI" your way out of the root causes of poor health
Political choices *can* be made however to prevent people from amassing such wealth that we had an epidemic of billionnaires during the pandemic
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
Political choices *can* be made however to prevent people from amassing such wealth that we had an epidemic of billionnaires during the pandemic
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
Pandemic creates new billionaire every 30 hours — now a million people could fall into extreme poverty at same rate in 2022 | Oxfam International
www.oxfam.org
November 19, 2024 at 10:20 AM
No matter what the techbros say, you can't "hack" or "AI" your way out of the root causes of poor health
Political choices *can* be made however to prevent people from amassing such wealth that we had an epidemic of billionnaires during the pandemic
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
Political choices *can* be made however to prevent people from amassing such wealth that we had an epidemic of billionnaires during the pandemic
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...