aythree.bsky.social
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You live in the United States and your most recent repost as of right now is a Lenin quote
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Cuomo has lots of experience with sexual assault and visiting Tel Aviv
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Republicans somehow always do what they want and Democrats somehow always have their hands tied. 21st century US politics summarized in one sentence.
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Remember that iconic time in American history when George Washington obtained independence by imposing a curfew, so that British law enforcement could get control over the rowdy patriots
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You and what army? What are you gonna do about it, declare a bigger curfew? You're a wimp who is failing to meet this moment in history.
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Oh my god
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The federal government has declared war on your city. You are literally being invaded by marines. Why are Democrats so meek and submissive.
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She's making a lot of posts about looters and rioters, but has she made any posts about LAPD? Is this really an appropriate way to respond to a federal government that literally declared war on your city?
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"Just doing their job"
Why is liberal leadership so meek and submissive
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A communist that refuses to share why their beliefs are good, as though we aren't a niche demographic that has a lot of ground to make up for in mainstream political discussions
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Putin yearns for the USSR not because he's a communist, but because it's their good ol' days, when they used to be a global superpower.
So that's the answer: following the USSR's collapse, industry was widely privatized by oligarchs (shock therapy). Not communist
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_t...
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Obviously I'm speaking in broad strokes, but for example, open carry has been banned in California ever since Ronald Reagan was the governor. So you're not really going to see a local LA community militia resisting these federal abuses.
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Because the 2nd Amendment people are almost all Republican. They're quiet because they're happy with what's happening.
Democrats have abandoned firearms as much as they could constitutionally get away with. California gun laws are notoriously among the strictest in the nation.
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Kamala Harris campaigned on having, quote, "the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world."
If she predicted this was coming, do you see how it's a bad thing to have a lethal military and increased police funding?
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See but that's why is strange that she campaigned on having, quote, "the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world."
If you predict the military will be weaponized by a bad actor against the American people, can you see how a super lethal military is a bad thing?
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It's more like Democrats are enablers for Republican abuses.
None of this would be happening if the party had listened to the "Abolish ICE" crowd, who were dismissed as radicals but in fact accurately analyzed the inherent structural violence that ICE creates, so now Trump is weaponizing it.
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Since when has Trump ever needed an excuse to do anything? If he goes looking for a reason, he will find one, no matter how mild the governor's statement. We live in a post-truth administration.
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I think that's meaningless, because Trump supporters will justify anything and explain away everything.
The fundamental issue is that they disagree with you. They'll invent something to complain about before they treat you as a legitimate equal.
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In your profile bio, you call ICE agents terrorists. At what point is peaceful protest not enough? You will not win by placating their lies about agitators.
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Being in a position of authority, his word can provide legitimacy to resistance. But this statement treats the national guard like a passing storm
Trump has declared war on Los Angeles and I wish the governor would act like it. How about "I will defend my people from Trump's violence by any means."
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Mandatory parking minimums make public transit worse. Car infrastructure is incompatible with public transit infrastructure.
More parking = less density, and less density = bus routes are not financially viable
More parking = more car usage, and more car usage = car accidents and bad air quality
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"God, could you imagine how terrible a left-wing version of Trump would be? Having control over all 3 branches of government, having the power to implement ideas that are actually good. That would suck."
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That's obviously a good thing, but not every regulation is always good all the time
For example, people also get sick and die due to fossil fuels and car dependency. Yet some environmental regulations have been weaponized to block green energy projects or dense urbanism. I see room for minor reform
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"No mandatory minimums" doesn't mean parking is banned. It means the government will not force people to include at least x number of parking spots.
Anyone can still choose to create as much parking as they'd like. Removing parking minimums is a great thing that I think everyone should applaud.
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It's a shame you think that, because George Orwell was a communist. He volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War on behalf of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, a Trotskyist faction.
That's why I asked how you define it; you think communism is Orwellian, yet Orwell himself was communist
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How would you define communism. Something something 1984, something something Animal Farm?
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They are able to do this because the supply of housing is so restricted, and therefore landlords are in a very favorable negotiating position.
This is a wild statistic, and it heavily favors landlords. We have to build more housing
laist.com/news/housing...
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When the supply of housing is heavily restricted, that is a scenario that favors landlords. Lots of tenants competing against each other for few units is what raises the cost of housing.
This is why YIMBY ideas, which result in a lot of new housing construction, result in lower housing prices.
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The 2nd Amendment people are overwhelmingly Republican. They don't see it as tyranny because it's what they support
In general, Democrats (and solid blue states) have abandoned firearms as much as they could constitutionally get away with
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You can see my profile, I am a fan of gun ownership.
My overall point is that if we consider a gun to be a tool... well it's a very good tool for an impulsive suicide attempt. I think there's a middle ground that exists between "pistol grip = assault weapon" and "suicide/accidents aren't relevant"
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Japan also has a crushing work culture, among other factors. A country's suicide rate is a combination of multiple factors
What if Japanese law allowed any hikikomori or salaryman to impulsively buy a gun? What if America had European-style urbanism & welfare programs?
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Unlikely to be relevant--all data was from California, because CA tracks gun purchases
I'm sure we can agree that CA gun laws are bureaucratic & strict, often nonsensical. But the nuance of making it difficult is, if you don't already have one, a gun becomes a very inconvenient option for suicide
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Yes, there are substitutes, but the substitutes are less effective or less convenient
It's macabre, but this is visible the womens' stats. Women tend to attempt more often, but have a low success rate with their substitute. That's why with a gun, women jump up ~35x higher compared to mens' only ~8x
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Men who owned handguns were 8 times more likely to die by self-inflicted gunshot than men who didn't, and 35 times for women med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
The study itself: www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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The unfortunate truth is that firearms do statistically increase your risk of dying by suicide. This is consistently demonstrated
Suicide attempts are often an impulsive urge in a moment of extreme despair. Unfortunately, a gun is a very convenient and very effective way to act on that impulse
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"Accident" is ill-defined. You can have a firearm accident. You can drown, or leave the kid in a hot car, or be involved in a car crash.
Do all of these get the same classification of "accident"? That's an awfully broad and unhelpful category.
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For Americans aged 1 to 19, the most common causes of death are firearm-related, and car-related
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
I'm a fan of gun ownership amd generally oppose liberal gun control, but it doesn't help anyone when you cherrypick ages and categories
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Have you read anything else by that author? You're missing a critical piece of the history with a comment like that.
George Orwell was a communist. He volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War with the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification.
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I respectfully disagree. Whereas Republicans embraced their radical populist wing and have been rewarded for it, democrats despise their radical populist wing.
The problem with being a centrist facing a demagogue, is that a centrist position (like "we must support Israel") cedes the narrative.
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I don't know. But I think democrats and democrat voters have to embrace their radical populist wing. Republicans nominated Trump over John Kasich and Jeb Bush, and they've been rewarded for it.
The political environment is populist right now and I think it could be the momentum democrats need.
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Senate Democrats, including Schumer, voting yes on cloture is probably the biggest one.
If Democrats will acquiesce to prevent a government shutdown, then Republicans effectively have a Senate Supermajority that they don't have. Democrats have the senate seats.
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The United States emits the most CO2 per capita in the world
China is dominating the renewable energy industry, especially solar panels
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NYC famously has some of the most expensive housing in the world, & also has a historically low vacancy rate www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/new...
Oh, and nearly half of Manhattan's currently existing buildings don't conform to the zoning code. I think zoning has gone too far www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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It's pretty symbolic, a moderate endorsed by party establishment literally died and now a conservative seems positioned to take the reins.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
One might point out the symbolic parallels with the figurative death of the Democratic Party and takeover by the GOP
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Sure, people in swing states should vote for lesser evils. But, you know, there's a reason why we always have to frame it as "lesser evils".
Republicans embraced their radical populist wing, and have been rewarded. Democrats despise and consistently reject their radical populist wing.
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Connolly was the democrat minority leader on the house oversight committee.
His current acting replacement, Stephen Lynch (D - MA), is a conservative who voted yes on the Laken Riley act among other recent questionable votes.
The problem is multi-faceted, since the Democrats are enabling it.
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It's more of a curse, that being a leftist often makes you correct earlier than everyone else is
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Stephen Lynch is terrible. The exact opposite direction that the Democratic party should be going.
He is known in Massachusetts for being a conservative democrat. Here he is voting yes on the Republican's Laken Riley Act to strengthen ICE clerk.house.gov/Votes/202523
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"Workers in a factory or community assembly"
If I'm understanding, that means you only really have direct control over the stuff that is local to you. I don't own or control the factory, because I'm not part of their workplace nor their community assembly, so I don't make decisions. Is that right?
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Who is the capitalist when it comes to, say, public schools or public libraries? Who is the capitalist when it comes to the military? Or any other government program?
The state? Sure, but the state is elected by the people