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Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

Hey Sam, any comments on how the ‘tyranophobia’ of liberals is the main thing we should still be worried about?

you are literally so stupid

The Trump economic program seems to be to both do Javier Mileiism (completely cutting off all government spending through executive fiat) *and* Peronist import substitution

wow so glad we created a diplomatic incident for a dumb reason and then declared pretend victory to avoid following through on the dumb threats

my crank theory of Thing That We Should Bring Back That Would Make Life Better is the belief that not everything you like is virtuous

When you build houses in a state, it becomes North Carolina. That's just economics.

The Boston suburbs have some of the most egregious exclusionary zoning in the country, with 1-acre minimum lot sizes, requirements that new apartment buildings only serve seniors (to keep poorer kids out of local schools), and outright apartment bans. Reform that and housing gets cheaper.

unemployment rate is at 4% bro like you can go and get a job and it'll pay pretty well?

From the world of tech: this young American entrepreneur completely revolutionized the pogrom game in Myanmar. Now he wants to do the same to America. My latest for the Atlantic.

Something that has become very clear to me from working on housing and urban policy more generally is that a lot of people — including a lot of professional advocates — think that there's a way to do policymaking without any tradeoffs, and the existence of tradeoffs means you did something wrong.

Like it's the @upzoneca.bsky.social bit about "where are the white fathers" but being delivered entirely unironically by a guy whose party thinks education is gay

mitch and the never-trump neocons have had the exact same revelation, the difference is they recoiled with horror and he went "ah, well. nevertheless..."

good

that one friend that's at the exact right level of woke

They’ll probably get away with ending birthright citizenship as long as they don’t make it retroactive. “Well, *my* kids will be citizens because I am, and it was different when *my* mom came over here anyway” will be a common reaction

one of the problems with prioritizing a cool aesthetic in politics is that hope is never cooler than despair — by nature, being emotionally disaffected and distant is the foundation of “cool”. Works great if you’re, like, Miles Davis, less so for, say, organizing.

Doctors proscribing everyone who comes in for a cough knee surgery because their buddy the knee surgeon wants a bigger house next year

people basically want 1) free healthcare that has unlimited and unrestricted use 2) no claim denials ever for any service 3) low wait times for all services this is literally impossible

It's fine to think insurance is the cause of all the systematic healthcare problems as a normie, but if you're posting 3 hours a day, frankly it's a little embarrassing

The FTA just released October US transit ridership data, so I want to highlight the results of 3 big recent transit expansions First is the Bay Area's Caltrain, where ridership is up 78% year-on-year in the wake of the line's recent electrification!

Insurance companies are sin eaters for hospitals. They let hospitals maintain the image that they're righteous non profits and should also be allowed to charge whatever they like.

sort of seems like someone so afraid of their own perceived cultural elitism that they thought some random lit PhD with a maybe silly thesis was a safe target for creating distance but then discovered the other side of the aisle was pretty nasty

It also has one of the highest car ownership rates in Europe

to be maximally uncharitable for a second, I think that the reason a lot of people are very emotionally attached to this thesis is because they've built their identity and brand around being Bold Critics, and are very attached to the idea that the critiques they're leveling are consequential

GUYS JESUS, stop taking crappy surveys from for-profit companies shared by anonymous doomer Twitter accounts as gospel. No! One-fifth of renters do not spend their entire income on rent, how would that even work or make sense

i feel like this is the primary thing keeping me having hope when it comes to politics

median American law name: The SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP Act—Securing Privileged Economic, Commercial, Investment, And Legal Rights to Ensure Longstanding Atlantic Trade and Investment Opportunities and Nurture Security, Happiness, Innovation, and Prosperity Act Median non-American law name: Bill C-19

College professor cosplaying as a factory worker: the hollowing out of America's industrial core by neoliberal intellectuals was responsible for the white working class's rightward swing. Real proletariat: so my kid gets pinched on a gun charge but the illegals all get free college?

"the first american newspaper to cover a coup d'etat in asia's fourth largest economy is the atlanta journal constitution" the New York Times and WaPo are fortunately busy talking about much more important issues, like transgender sports

it's too late i have already depicted you as the big doge and myself as the cheems wait hold o

> authoritarian caudillo > "just give everyone money" > extraordinarily racist against niche Hispanic nationalities > macho performance > refuse to accept own skin color He truly is the first Latino President

The last article ever published by the New York Times will be something like “Whether it’s the Democrats suppressing reasonable discourse on trans identity on college campuses or the Republicans lining us up against this wall, both parties are scared of free speech.”

this was always an intra-elite thing imo. conservatives went hard on education polarization for sound electoral math reasons but it locked their elites out of top uni’s/cultural hubs and tanked their dating prospects.

not good, bob!

huh, hamilton county in might flip

Disappointing but not surprising that a senior VP of the country's leading libertarian think tank is taking Election Day to make a case for dreading a Trump win less than Harris. Here's hoping we only have to speculate about how wrong this would turn out to be. www.cato.org/blog/fear-lo...

They definitely will, & I am fully prepared for Republican primary voters to tell them to take a hike when they try to push anyone who isn't an obvious bigot

@schlagteslinks.bsky.social you are vindicated

a celsius and however many bags of planter's roasted salted peanuts the 20 bucks sans celsius will buy

iowans are actually the “i would have voted obama for a third term” people, but this time harris is obama

if Iowa actually comes in Harris +4 I take back everything bad I ever said about America's agricultural industry. $10 Trillion for the next Farm Bill. Abandon the entire trade war so we can ship more Soy to China. Every car must run on ethanol and every American must drink high fructose corn syrup.

i don't know what i'll like more, that donald trump will (hopefully) stop being a thing after this election, or that oren cass will be unemployable after this election