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Joseph R. Biden deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for bravely ending the War in Afghanistan and safely and efficiently bringing our personnel home.
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It's amazing how rapidly Merkel's reputation has collapsed over the last few years.
Almost everything she did - austerity, Nordstream, cutting the Bundeswehr, closing the nuclear plants - has turned out to be disastrous.
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“Gifted kid” discourse is weird because it sounds like they were piano prodigies or won the state math tournament but then it turns out they read at the 3rd grade level back when they were in 2nd grade.
The internet is full of people who are in like the 75th percentile of IQ, but think they're super intelligent because they got put in the gifted class in 5th grade due to attending an abnormally stupid school
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@vanillaopinions
Yup there was a fiscal conservative / liberal "we should spend the money on social programs instead" alliance that hated the space program, but they were thwarted by a bipartisan pro-space program consensus in Washington.
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Back when Bill Clinton was president and talking about "safe, legal, and rare" the right was literally bombing abortion clinics.
If you’d stuck with “safe, legal, and rare” I guarantee you’d still have it.
But you had to go all “shout your abortion up to—and maybe even slightly after—birth for any reason, on demand”
Hie this ghoulishness right out of here.
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The student debt relief movement was wild because before it launched I had in mind sympathetic cases like "single mom who got scammed by DeVry" but they intentionally sent out people who were like "I make $120k a year and I think my Harvard master's debt should be cancelled."
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@femboytransit
"People from the Netherlands are so nice!"
A sentence previously unsaid in human history.
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A bunch of LA-based nonprofits used taxpayer funds to go on a paid junket to Ecuador and Europe and then came home and attached a metal grate to a bus stop in the name of gender equity.
They held a press conference to celebrate this.
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Maturity is realizing that the correct response to 9/11 was to require locks on all airplane cockpit doors, shoot a cruise missile at an empty tent and hit a camel, and call it a day.
Literally everything else the US did in response to 9/11 just made life worse for Americans.
Yesterday was Israel’s 9/11.
And remember, after 9/11, nobody told the United States not to retaliate, nobody called for a “ceasefire” or a “de-escalation,” nobody “both-sided” what had happened that horrible day.
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The meme that America is an impoverished hellscape with a handful of billionaires is so wrong.
America is a mass affluent society with weirdly bad public services.
Car payments have hit record highs:
Nearly 15% of drivers who financed a new vehicle toward the end of 2022 are paying $1,000+ a month.
(via edmunds)
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Hillary lost because she did a poor job of appealing to old, white, moderate voters.
"Left-wing Bernie fans did it" was pathetic cope cooked up by her campaign, but 7 years later leftists have internalized this belief and think they are the kingmakers who decide every election.
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The pro-shoplifting takes on here are so strident because it's one of the few crimes that the Brooklyn trust fund set is willing to commit on their own to distinguish themselves from their uncool parents.
If you see someone stealing food from your billion dollar employer, you didn’t see shit. You sure as shit shouldn’t be tackling them. You’re doing too much.
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@_Reaganite_
Brexit was dumb but it's become a huge cope for the UK's terrible policies in a bunch of other areas, most importantly housing.
The UK could kick off a huge economic boom right now by relaxing its strict planning laws.
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@Pvelkovsky
That’s such a fake ass “building” though. They’re just walkway-maxxing.
If one of them collapsed the rest of the buildings would be fine.
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Biden spent months saying invading Rafah without evacuating the civilians first was a red line.
But in humorous Biden style zero people actually believed him so now we have a betrayal narrative circulating.
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It's crazy that "Chinese people eating wild animals stored at unsanitary street markets" became the anti-racist explanation for COVID.
In most worlds the media quickly accepts that it's a lab leak and Steve Sailer is accusing liberals of covering up Chinese bat-eating practices.
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When Obama proposed resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the US it was one of most unpopular proposals in the history of opinion polling and set off a furious political backlash that led to the election of Trump.
Why hasn’t there been more push by activists to take in Gazan refugees in the West? Would save thousands of lives.
Israel would presumably sign a treaty to guarantee they be allowed back if we evacuated them for a year. As this would dramatically reduce Hamas’ odds of victory.
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The taco bowl tweet is actually an excellent comparison. It was a banger that successfully defused a lot of concerns that Trump was too racist against Hispanics.
Trump gets away with racist shit that would damage other Republicans precisely because he does it in a hilarious way.
filing this under “worst optics of the decade” next to the trump taco bowl tweet
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@SwannMarcus89
Self-immolation isn't culturally resonant in the US the way it is in predominantly Hindu and Buddhist countries.
No one in the US is sitting at home saying "wow I was skeptical of the pro-Palestine movement before but I'm so honored by the sacrifice I'm on board."
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@TheOmniZaddy
I don't understand how the term "Lunar New Year" has survived this long. Rosh Hashanah and Diwali are both lunar new years! I'm sure there are countless other ones.
Chinese 👏 (and people who use Chinese-derived calendars) 👏 Don't 👏 Own 👏 The 👏 Moon. 👏
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Everyone dunking on this by pointing out that Calgary and Ottawa transit sucks are proving Yglesias’s point.
These cities *do not* have world class infrastructure and yet still manage to get wildly higher ridership than any comparable American city.
Everyone’s instinct is to suggest an Asian or European city with awesome urbanism but my vote is Calgary and Ottawa both of which have higher transit mode than any non-NYC American city.
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@ArmandDoma
Getting negatively polarized against YIMBYs to the point where you renounce your own research
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Republicans get really testy when people politely mention the predictable effects of their insane abortion laws.
The official position of the Republican party is that a homeless child prostitute who is doing speedballs every day should be forced to carry the pregnancy.
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A GOP that consistently won ~51% of the vote wouldn't just come into power with a narrow majority. It would come in with a giant EC/House/Senate landslide that would totally reshape politics!
It's actually kind of nuts how badly the GOP squanders its institutional advantages.
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It completely jumped the shark for me when it became a major talking point that *doctors* should not have to repay their student loans.
Doctors give people medicine, so therefore they're not responsible for paying their bills, or something.
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@SwannMarcus89
The US tech industry deciding to concentrate itself in the center of the Zero Population Growth movement was an enormous tragedy.
The average mayor of a Midwestern city will deliver hookers, guns, bricks of cocaine to any tech company that wants to move there.
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@SwannMarcus89
Paycheck to paycheck went from a colloquial expression meaning "poverty" to just meaning the literal "I'd have trouble paying my bills if I didn't have a job."
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San Francisco is richer and nicer than every other 500k+ population city in the United States, but it chooses to locate its Skid Row directly in the central tourist district.
Worse stuff goes on in Philadelphia and Dallas, but those cities try to clean things up for tourists.
If San Francisco is a hellhole, why are its housing prices still astronomical?
Yes, draconian housing regulation is key. But you couldn’t make downtown Detroit prices sky-high by strangling construction.
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@bungarsargon
@libsoftiktok
Libs of Tiktok has stated she believes that openly gay teachers should be fired.
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Like there may have originally been some sort of strategy of trying to build public sympathy for less obviously sympathetic people, but they quickly went overboard.
The movement was dominated by very wealthy college graduates who just didn't want to pay their bills.
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It’s weird that Republicans even bother doing global warming denialism.
The Democratic position is “Global warming is real but any policy changes to reduce emissions need to go through a years-long community-led review process followed by legal challenges.”
Our planet is on fire and these morons think marginally speeding up the approval of desperately needed clean energy is going too far. You are climate arsonists
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I think "the left" is composed of journalists and progressive nonprofit workers whose wages really haven't increased in nominal terms in recent years and don't realize that their experience is kind of atypical.
The views of progressive inflation doves turned out to he completely, 100% accurate, they were spectacularly vindicated - but now the left is turning on the idea because they’d rather have ragebait retweets than working-class prosperity.
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The extremely strong interpretation of the First Amendment that we’ve adopted was a novel legal theory invented by literal communists at the ACLU in the 1930s.
It’s pretty wacky but on balance it’s been good for the left.
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I think every country that has tried financial incentives for kids has done it in a really half-assed way that doesn't reach the actual cost of raising children.
If you doubled taxes on childless people and used it to fund generous child allowances it would probably work.
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For all the talk about Trump being a bad candidate, within a few months of the Republican party no longer being guided by Trump they've started idolizing Kanye West and trying to revive the Satanist panic of the 80s.
New kids show from Disney. Keep in mind, this made it through the editing process and to the final product.
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American elections when Republicans start running on Based Islam and attacking white women
Based Muslim teenager who refused to shake hands with his teacher. May Allah bless him with more strength and success.
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@vanillaopinions
Weirdly I think Trump's shocking bad behavior distracts from the more prosaic ways that his administration was really bad.
Do people even remember the time he spent a year trying to yank health care from 20 million Americans?
Seems like it got overshadowed by January 6.
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This is basically the core of why the US right has gained less traction on trans issues than many people thought.
It’s very hard for right-wing evangelical Christians to run a campaign on “support 👏 effeminate 👏 gay 👏 boys 👏” when they clearly don’t believe in that.
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@IDoTheThinking
People whip out phones that are just as expensive as a base model MacBook and no one expects to be immediately mugged.
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@SwannMarcus89
If the US tech industry had based itself in Chicago in the 70s it would easily be the second NYC by now.
Instead we just got 4 million dollar 1960s ranch houses next to JC Penney shopping plazas and a bunch of money for crooked nonprofits.
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@lefttwick
I feel like there was some truth to this historically in that cops were seen as a corrupt urban machine?
But it's all been washed away by racism and cultural conservative politics.
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@RichardHanania
Pedophilia most commonly happens in broken homes where the mom is bringing boyfriends into the house.
It’s super rare in Romney-like stable married households but significantly more common among poor, dysfunctional households.
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Guy who believes that Democrats really dropped the ball by not mentioning abortion at all during recent political campaigns
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This contract cost the city of Los Angeles $200,000:
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The biggest flaw in the "Democrats being mean to Mitt Romney led to Trump" is that Trump led the 2012 GOP primary polls too. He just decided not to run that year.
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"I used to be ok with abortion until Democrats started pushing too far" - woman who drove the getaway car for George Tiller's assassin.
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99% of anti-natalist sentiment comes from cultural intuitions based on thousands of years of human civilization being stuck in a Malthusian trap, not Paul Ehrlich stans.
Like, are young people in Iran reading the Population Bomb?
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@jake_fitch12
Yeah and they should repay their loans. Student loan cancellation should focus on borrowers who have low incomes.
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@opinonhaver
The funniest part is that it's just for the love of the corruption game.
Panera is always located in large strip malls that have a bunch of other restaurants. How are they going to pay less than all of their competitors?
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@mrfrankthetank_
Yup. The Bernie Sanders campaign had massively more money and resources than Joe Biden and still lost.
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I’m begging centrist Democrats to understand that incremental changes in public policy can make huge differences in people’s lives.
It doesn't matter.
Thr court is already a hard right 6-3.
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@EthanBWinter
The media suddenly deciding that Afghanistan was an important story worthy of a month's worth of wall-to-wall news coverage to try to agitate against withdrawal after ignoring all the death and chaos there for 20 years was a deeply depressing moment.
They just love war.
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Kinda funny how the the most affluent generation in American history killing themselves at elevated rates through drug and alcohol abuse got framed as “deaths of despair.”
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@raspybb
If you're financially successful post-graduation you should repay the bills that you swore to repay.
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One of the weirdest aspects of Twitter is how rich it is.
The random asseater420 reply guy account is pulling like $200k a year.
Your deranged timeline is compromised of America's cultural and economic elite class.
I'm really fascinated by this genre of tweets where people complain about the prices of delivery apps because given the prices, you have to be decently well off to order from them, no? I'm also struck by how often people use the apps.
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We're going to have a massive expansion of the DEI bureaucracy with full bipartisan approval and the only people holding a consistent position against it are like two Arab-American conservatives.
Reps. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) plan to introduce the COLUMBIA Act, a bill that would create "antisemitism monitors" at select colleges.
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This is basically the *least popular* immigration pitch.
The right hates immigration for cultural reasons and the left supports immigration as humanitarian aid to help the global poor.
"We need more immigrants to boost GDP" is basically held by Caplan, Nowrasteh, and Yglesias.
Our dialogue on immigration is so fucking dumb.
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@gop
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@TheDemocrats
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The answer to immigration is to reframe it as “recruitment.”
We should actively recruit ~2 million insanely intelligent, driven, and highly moral…
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@ArmandDoma
I'm not going to pretend like I could never fall for a financial scam, but this is not a remotely good scam!
She handed a shoebox stuffed with cash to a passing vehicle based on a promise of a check in the mail from an undercover CIA agent.
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Newly-elected Judge Protasiewicz will not only strike down gerrymandered maps and protect a woman's right to choose, she also has a proven record of locking up hit-and-run drivers with lengthy prison terms and protecting traffic safety. 😍😍😍
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@gaslightyourmom
The smarter 9/11 truthers just said "Bush did it."
I don't fully understand the people who were like "yeah Islamic terrorists flew the planes but they had no impact on the buildings, but then Bush decided to bomb the buildings."
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@JoePostingg
DeSantis falling for a trap set by Kamala Harris and managing to turn it into a multi-week scandal is kinda crazy.
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@DeanPreston
Because your bad decisions harm the entire state?
San Francisco added a hundred thousand new jobs while building almost no housing, creating a housing shortage that has cascaded all the way into the Central Valley.
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@nikicaga
No that's just normal nationalism.
Balkanism is when you're in the Youtube comments insisting that the Bhagavad Gita was written by a Serbian.
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It’s pretty funny how California can get away with high taxes, roving bands of drugged up homeless vagrants, Ebony alerts, $2 million toilets, HSR from Merced to Bakersfield, etc. simply because it is the only place in the United States that has consistently good weather.
I think it’s really simple: half the tech professionals who moved to Miami during COVID had never been there in the summer before
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Liberal cities in Texas (basically Austin) seem like the absolute worst of all words.
All the important policies are set by the hard right state government, so the liberal city government is laser focused on... banning plastic straws.
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The best thing about Ukraine jingoism is that all the respectable centrists will be forced to admit that Angela Merkel was a monstrously bad leader.
Merkel denuclearized Germany, built infrastructure to import Russian gas while restricting German gas production, and also thinks there was nothing she could have done about Putin.
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I don't know if he'll actually pull it off, but if Biden wants to win re-election he needs to try to turn the age issue into an amusing joke that people are willing to shrug off.
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@Theophite
High inflation is doing most of the damage but media coverage trying to paint a tight labor market as a horrible crisis makes it 100% clear that they miss Trump and want him back.
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A bunch of states changed the law to make it more difficult for minors to get driver's licenses, and mandatory insurance requirements (insurance is very expensive for young drivers!) explains the rest.
We craved a driver's license as a sign of impending adulthood and independence.
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@sp6runderrated
Transit lines cost billions of dollars to build and operate. This is probably the single most expensive place to turn into a de facto homeless shelter.
Much cheaper to rent out rooms in the Four Seasons.
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“We don’t need more hospitals, we need *affordable hospitals*” is called a Certificate of Need law, and exists in many places.
There’s a group of Left-Certificate of Need-ists who want to apply the failings of our health care sector to every other sector in the economy.
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Hillary Clinton campaign to 19 year old Bernie fans who weren't even registered to vote: "YOU DID THIS! 😡😡😡"
26 year old leftist who now despises Bernie: "I brought down the Democratic machine before and I'll do it again! 😎😎😎"
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@JoePostingg
A while back the Facebook group NUMTOT (which is supposed to be a transit/urbanist group) got taken over by leftists claiming that public transit is ableist.
And then it turned out the disability that kept them from riding transit was social anxiety and aversion to noise.
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@nikicaga
I feel like it’s so divided that most people just focus on grilling instead of national politics.
Balkans fall victim to the narcissism of small differences. Each ethnic group is basically identical so they’re always getting up in each other’s business.
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You can point to Europe, but even the far-right parties in Europe wouldn’t try to ban LGBT groups or ban doctors from teaching about birth control.
Like 20 GOP-run states would do that tomorrow if the courts stopped taking such a broad view of the First Amendment.
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The worst part of about the housing shortage is that it turns normal politics on its head.
If you're a young middle-class Californian, your only chance of homeownership is for the state to ban algebra, empty out the prisons, and cripple high-paid industries.
You cannot overstate how culturally toxic the housing shortage is.
We are to a place where people say, "It's local employers' fault because they fund very well-paid jobs in my town."
You literally cannot overstate how culturally toxic the housing shortage is.
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@dilanesper
I don’t know if that is actually the purpose but pay toilets are widespread in Europe and make sense.
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@ettingermentum
13 year old Mexican kids taking jobs that 13 year old American kids just won't do
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@constans
240V electric kettles actually boil water considerably faster than putting it on the stove.
120V electric kettles do not.
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@UrbanDashboard
If LA wants to install real bus shelters in the name of gender equity I would support that 100%.
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This is an overstatement but I don’t think people understand how unpopular being even-handed towards Palestinians is.
A big chunk of Americans see a dead Palestinian Christian child and are like “don’t do the crime if you don’t want to do the time 🙄...”
Calling it now: This kind of both-sidesism by mainstream Democrats is going to be the Defund the Police of the 2024 cycle and there will be ads about it. They always — always — have to bow to their radical activists first.
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The conventional wisdom that the level of housing construction that prevailed in the mid-2000s was a "bubble" was one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated against the American public.
Texas builds housing at three times the rate of California.
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@Noahpinion
This has been a total debacle for the progressive movement because they've started framing their all ideas in the most unpopular ways and forget how to defend their ideas against moderate/conservative criticism.
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Why do planners with clearly NIMBY preferences hide behind process and make it sound like it's impossible to adopt pro-housing policies that they happen to oppose?
i love when people are like “we can change zoning right now” no you can’t
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@lefttwick
Yes! He listed out a a bunch of Biden administration accomplishments for the first couple weeks of the account.
By week 3 it was all crazy feuds. Post 10/7 it's mostly about Israel.
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Legal immigration has much better media optics than refugees or illegal immigrants, but yeah, the national freakout over the $5 beefy 5-layer burrito shows that people are absolutely not willing to pay American-level living wages for lettuce pickers.
If you shut down immigration, society would end up missing the illegals considerably more than the legals.
Legal immigrants take white collar jobs that citizens actually want.
But removing all illegals would cause serious problems in farm communities, construction, etc.…
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