newsenjoyer.bsky.social
Director of Housing Acquisition at Blackrock, opinions are my own and not those of my employer. Formerly Egg Price Adjustor at Kroger's.
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That's how you get people that think Communist China was great until Deng Xiaoping ruined it.
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The vast majority of them aren't interested in persuasion. They are interested in aesthetics.
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It matters who the few are.
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It makes sense that Brazil would have such large gay parades if the share of the population that is LGBT is so much higher. From my experience there I noticed a lot more gay couples in the streets than I see in the US but that might have been due to cultural differences regarding PDA.
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And the idea that any disorder must benefit Trump, instead of arguing that he is the cause of the disorder and defeating him and his allies is how order is reestablished.
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Israel wants to tell Jews that it is a safer place for them the US and Europe. That's patently untrue. A Jewish person is far safer here and even other places like Latin America than they are in Israel.
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What I see from people on the right is the sentiment of "we wanted the criminals deported, not my neighbor/coworker/etc". It all comes from an erroneous view that there are hordes of criminals out there that somehow the government has chosen to not go after before.
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Menswear guy got pilloried yesterday from the left for being a South Vietnamese refugee and somehow not being pro-VC when he was a baby.
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It already is, but if they are met with resistance (especially armed resistance) how many of them like their job or hate immigrants that much to risk their lives? Not many I would bet.
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Finally the Right will have a Jill Stein of their own.
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On second thought, you are right. If there were people that could level a city in seconds I wouldn't care about it at all.
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Torres is despicable. Khanna is not much better.
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MattY.
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The real question is why did it taken Elon Musk bringing up Epstein for any Dem to jump onboard the "Trump is a pedo" wagon? Why didn't Dems seize on this issue before?
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It's the same issue with the X-Men. If mutants existed in the real world you would want to have them registered at the very least and killed at the worst. Otherwise you will have people that can mind control anyone or can level a city in a minute unchecked.
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The 70s and 80s are when things like CEQA and other regulations that make it much more difficult to build housing and infrastructure was enacted. Just look at how housing production took a nosedive in the late 70's. Abundance completely vindicated.
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You have to decide if you are worth catering to, because right now you are alternating between "You would have won if you listened to me", "why are you yelling at me? We are too small to matter". You can't be both.
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If they care about anything else other than Palestine, yes. And again, how did abstaining gain these would be voters anything?
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So going after voters like you isn't going to win elections? On purely transactional terms it doesn't make a party want to cater to you.
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How did punishing Biden and Harris work out to the advantage of Palestinians or anyone else? What did you gain from it?
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I hear Jesse Singal is harboring anti-Israel Muslamic terrorists.
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Would it be impolite to ask Aella to shower before doing the deed?
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Oppositional Defiance Disorder. If the libs are for something, leftists will find some way to be against it.
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If I was a journalist I would show up with one of those sealable cups that you pee into and ask him to clear up any doubts about his drug abuse.
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The Astrology and Psychology GPTs are more worrying in my opinion.
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Is anyone going to ask him if he is going to do a book on Trump's mental state?
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I have been interested in one, mainly for emulators, but there are so many of them and they are getting better so quickly it's hard to decide which one to buy or to keep waiting for even more powerful ones later.
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Now I am imagining a crime boss that is really tough on the guys running his front businesses, demanding they all turn a profit.
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I get wanting to help but this is all so sketchy.
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Haha.
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I had this happen a while ago, I couldn't find good sources for a paper I was writing. I asked ChatGPT for links and it gave me links with titles that looked like perfect matches. And they all were 404 or the link didn't match the subject.
It's better now but you always have to double check.
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Where is the food coming from that people are paying for? It doesn't seem like more money will result in more food, it will just to whoever has the most to spend and those with no money will go without.
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Someone has to be the lowest of scum to impersonate someone in need but people like that do exist. It's far better to donate to a reputable charity like MSF.
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Why roll the dice when you could give to a charity MSF and know the money will reach someone in need?
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The windows, the high ceiling, that view. Just lovely.
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The pendulum on the Dark Ages has swung too far from "It was the end of the world" to now "It was great, actually".
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It would be funny if it was like The Newsroom and just like in that show doing journalism the right way had no impact in the world.
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"Guys, you're still trying to replace the New Deal. I told you we can't do it. We can't do it. Now what we might be able to do is recreate it. Recreate it in the aggregate."
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We just had a round of "Bluesky is too mean to Dem politicians" posts yesterday and today. The only people that Dems will stand up to are their own voters.
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What I don't understand are the people complaining about being yelled at here, when they also get yelled at on Twitter. What's the difference?
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How do you solve this with policy?
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The crypto "industry" is riddled with scammers, the last thing we should do is to encourage people to participate in it. It creates nothing and it only works on the "greater fool theory".
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Voters perceive the GOP as being apex predators, and Dems as sloths, tortoises or deer.
There are no policy shifts that will break people's perception of Democrats as weak, more than anything the party needs to project strength.
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Matt, do you think if Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries picked out all the most popular positions, that voters would suddenly love the Dems? The leadership has no credibility, and Dems are already seen as wafflers and weak. Many people disagree with Trump but appreciate that he says what he believes
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It's telling that Yglesias never seems to advocate for new leadership. The message and the policy matters, but who delivers the message matters a lot too. A guy like Schumer could adopt every popular policy in the book and it wouldn't change anyone's mind because he has no credibility.
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Least weird crypto guy.
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David Short got caught with a burner account spewing racist stuff but that's not a deal breaker for these circles.