erikwlyon.bsky.social
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So, you’re telling us that Thomas failed to read and comprehend this document that is longer than a tweet?
Interesting… 🤔
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This thing is really a greatest hits album
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Was literally just reading this and thought to myself “I wonder if @michaelhobbes.bsky.social has gotten his hands on this yet” and came over here. Sure enough.
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Okay, but two things can be true. We can debate whether public transportation should be free, but that is not mutually exclusive to frequent, reliable, convenient transit.
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That’s part of the “missing information”
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Total Peter bait:
“not by the careful balance of Justitia’s scales, but by the gruesome slashing of her sword.”
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…more than simply a greater supply of workers would do on its own. And guess what, we still have a huge immigrant population, they’re just largely undocumented. Protecting the rights of immigrants is mutually beneficial for citizen/documented Americans.
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Call me a crazy “open borders” liberal, but I think this actually protects American workers and their interests. An undocumented underclass of immigrants that can be hired, paid les than minimum wage, and fired at will under threat of deportation depresses wages in these industries…
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3) were never going to keep track of everyone if we make it illegal to enter for most people, including economic migrants. 4) so we should let immigrants enter under a formal process at vastly higher rates than we do currently to avoid the incentive to enter without documentation
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This is the first step in the Rube-Goldberg machine that leads to sensible immigration policy. 1) various sectors our economy are deeply reliant on immigrants. 2) if we’re going to rely on immigrants, we should have good records of who is entering and where they are living.
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BREAKING: Virologists discussing viruses in early 2020 had informed professional opinions on the likely source of the outbreak.
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“Even someone I know in the demographic list vulnerable to misinformation knows that!!”
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There’s not much any president can do to *boost* the economy, but there’s plenty they can do to *bomb* it.
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The problem with VAT is that it’s generally regressive. The problem with luxury taxes is that’s it’s really hard to define precisely what is/not a luxury good.
LVT tends to be progressive with respect to both wealth and income because wealthier/higher income people own more valuable land.
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Property tax is different from LVT in that it also applies to buildings (and other improvements). The idea behind LVT is also to significantly increase the tax revenue collected from real estate, and decrease other “bad”/regressive taxes like sales tax.
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Canna indoor weed farm … go green?
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cc: @fivefourpod.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @aywarhiannon.bsky.social @fleerultra.bsky.social
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Then again maybe this poem should start with, “make me take my shoes off at the airport”
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First they used national security grounds to justify the war in Iraq,
and I said nothing.
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Classic “Good Boy/Bad Boy” Theory:
Laws are meant to protect Good Boys. If you are accused of a crime, you must be a Bad Boy. The law is not meant to protect Bad Boys, so you should not be protected by law. They don’t see how flawed this logic is.
(Paraphrasing @notalawyer.bsky.social)
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Remember this next time somebody whines “but democrats take money from big donors and super PACs too!”
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This felt like the recurring theme of his NYT interview: To win, we must lose. Never can we get ahead.
“I know how to win seats back in the Senate, which I’ve proven. Two, three, four years ago they said, “You’ll never get back the Senate.” We won the two seats in Georgia, everybody’s surprised.”
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I know that all politicians are swimming in the same soup, but let’s not forget which party started this travesty and supported it at every turn.
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2a) Elected officials* appoint judges to rewrite the rules in their favor.
*Republicans
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Yeah but if that were true, other countries would have done it by now… 🙄🙄🙄
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Millions, or dollars?
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Which one is @fivefourpod.bsky.social?
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Tax rent, not work 🤙
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Oh shit they’re talking about me. Hey guys, I’m in the news!
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We’re really being gaslit. “If you don’t allow us to dismantle the government, we’re going to blame you for shutting it down.”
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Bro didn’t understand the point is to listen to what public figures say and *not* random on the internet say.
These people do not speak for you.
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Maybe I should tell him that I, a man, work at a computer all day and have a labradoodle for protection.
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We really need to stop doing this “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” BS
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The question is always presented as: how can a different group of people feed them the same right-wing & reactionary ideas? The real question is: how and where do we reach them with progressive ideas?
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Ya I’m not an immigration expert, but basically this. At ports of entry on the US side.
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And that’s a corollary to my initial point: process asylum claims at another type of port of entry, airports. 👍
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Yes exactly: “yes and”
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Yeah I don’t know much about metering, but seem like a different mechanism with the same lesson: if you want to reduce undocumented crossings, eliminate metering where asylum facilities already exist.
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No argument on that point. I’m just saying they should ALSO make it as easy as possible in as many cases as possible.
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As in, that wouldn’t work if they are being persecuted by Mexican (or Canadian) government or police, who also staff border crossings?
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*they would put