lot of replies and QPs to this doing the same cutesy Schrödinger's Terrorist Apologism stuff we saw with Luigi Mangione and that *also* is what a lack of civic virtue does to a mfer

Call me a Georgist the way I look twice at that assessment

The risks include deliberate sabotage, someone kept in slavery not having the facilities necessary to perform well at a high-skilled job, and the lack of a supply of highly specialized slaves There’s a reason prisons don’t contract convicts out to oil rigs

The problem with slavery in space is that any job worth sending someone to space for instead of using a robot is going to be a high-skilled job, and using slaves in high-skilled jobs is a *really* stupid idea for a number of reasons

Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food. Me: That's--Hold on,

I have a hard time taking “they like Trump and want him to win” seriously, like, at all. I’m not sure there’s been a newspaper in history that *lied* about who it supported. Outfits like CBS and WaPo have far more blatant signs of editorial interference.

Sorry but you are way too humanities brained if you think space colonization is problematic because earth colonization was often accompanied by bad stuff. There are no people on the moon. The bad things involving colonization were the things they did to people living there. There are no people there

My state rep just posted that today is “start by believing day,” to commemorate the beginning of April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Maybe I’m a coward for not posting this under my real name, but… April 1st?! Who chose that day, and when do we fire them?!

Will Stancil's entire bit for years was (correctly) yelling at people that prices are up but so are wages and all of the normal economic indicators are good. And everyone hates Will Stancil! Of course Biden/Harris got blasted.

I wonder what the revenue-maximizing toll for Iran to charge on Hormuz traffic is. A complicating factor is that they would likely want to charge a toll slightly higher than the toll which maximizes *toll* revenue, since restricting the supply of oil increases their oil revenue.

I remain convinced that the Democrats being pro-choice and the Republicans being pro-life was contingent and not inevitable in 1973. In the alternate universe where it’s the other way around, pro-life Dems are unbearably morally smug, and pro-choice Republicans wear “baby killer” as an honorific.

Rent control has been tried in many cities and it has failed everywhere. I do not know why we keep trying - the result is clear for rent control and all price controls. And the ballot measure is not something moderate like what Wu proposed - it's incredibly damaging

I should not be a radical! I am, temperamentally, a rule-following, stuffy conservative! And yet!

The No Kings protest is a practice exercise.

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I’m surprised nobody on here is talking about Trump throwing the five day period out the window and bombing the power plants like he originally said he would

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Procedural question: other than the principled stance of “Dems didn’t need to provide any votes for ICE”, how is doing most of DHS in a regular CR and ICE in a GOP-only reconciliation bill a victory? Does it make it harder for Republicans to pass other nonsense through reconciliation?

When you think of it, ideology is intolerant and harmful bullshit which never should have been invented and any proper Georgist movement should seek to abolish it.

Are we looking at Bidenflation, a 1980s style farm crisis, or stuff that normally happens “over there”

So uh what exactly do food prices look like this fall in the US if the flow of fertilizer from the Gulf is destroyed because, say, Iran blows up all the oil refineries in retaliation for us carpet bombing them?

Trump’s Razor: it’s Friday evening and he wanted the markets to close up

Is Korea comparable? Or is that different because defending South Korea was a treaty obligation under the United Nations treaty, which the Senate had already approved?

A useful thought experiment: is there any SCOTUS decision, no matter how obviously wrong or against the plain text of the Constitution (like, say, ruling that the First Amendment doesn’t protect Muslims and Jews), that the mainstream press would say is legally wrong, not in op eds but in the news?

Wait So March 2020 and April 2025 were both massive redistributions of wealth from those who don’t trust Trump to those who do? Boy I’m sure that doesn’t have any Implications

Ah, so *that’s* how Mike Collins “got $9 from AIPAC”

My mom’s college roommate’s mother went to Andover-Newton, and when their statement of faith said that the Bible “contains” God’s word, she always replaced “contains” with “is”. Fairly standard conservative dissenter, right? Wrong! She was a lesbian!

This seems to underrate the possibility that we pass an export ban if things get bad enough.

I think the vast majority of people think the liberal bent of media is inherent and self-evident. “They always endorse Democrats and 90% of their employees donate to Democrats. How could they be right wing?”

they’re high prices Brent

Of course, since the bulk of that property value is unearned land value, we *want* to redistribute it. But local governments are uniquely incentivized to resist this. So the best way to neutralize this is to federalize the tax base. Which, lol.

And since taxes have gone up or services have decayed, it turns out that the appreciation of your home from the opportunity to sell it to a developer has vanished! TL,DR: exclusionary zoning is an anti-free rider strategy designed to protect the rich from paying for public goods for the poor.

But whereas the property tax base used to be $1M a household, it’s now $700k per household. That means, for the SFH owners who stay, either taxes go up or services go down. Efficiency gains will often fail to outpace this relative decay of the tax base.

This is selfishly rational. Suppose you have a town with 10,000 households, each living in $1M SFHs. The town upzones, and eventually, 5,000 of those are redeveloped into $1.8M triple deckers. There are now 20,000 households, 75% in triple deckers. In theory, the SFH owners make out like bandits.

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Is this the first strictly partisan war since 1812? Mexico had Whig adherents, and Lincoln had his War Democrats. WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, both Gulf Wars, and Afghanistan all at least started with broad bipartisan buy-in. Were there many pro-war Democrats during the Spanish-American War?

This is the only social media outlet where “I’m going to cut taxes for people like you” can get you flamed (laudatory)

Senator, please work to have the anti-single family rental provisions removed from the bill. There’s no reason why some houses should be inherently harder to rent than others.

If anyone bioengineered COVID, it was the Social Security Administration.

Unfortunately this is impossible, and not Mills’ fault. Any change to Maine’s redistricting system requires supermajority approval in the legislature, and Democrats do not have a supermajority.

whenever Plato and Xenophon agree about Socrates, it proves they were working from a now-lost Q source

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Navies weren’t seen as a threat to domestic liberty like armies were

I am in the homebuying process and I have seen interest rates tick up a quarter of a point in the last week

Idk tbh Sure we’re an exporter but prices move on a global market Theoretically we can “take our ball and go home” with an export ban, but we import a lot of stuff that relies on global energy supplies, and if we ban exports that makes inflation on those goods even worse

What’s the logical amount to put on oil futures, such that I perfectly hedge against increased gasoline costs?

Bruce Wayne is casually exposed as Batman when the 2021 NDAA, passed New Year’s Day 2021 over Trump’s veto, bans shell companies, but the ensuing scandal is buried by January 6th and relegated to the realm of Epstein-adjacent conspiracy theories