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↙️↙️↙️ | techno-optimist | pro-markets & universal programs | liberal | critic of central planning (public or private) | software engineer | 🏗️🌐🧦🇨🇦 🕉️ | FFXIV: Nava Savitra @ Behemoth interests: tech, urbanism, economics, YIMBY, meditation, philosophy, occult
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I’m glad our corporations are still woke

Brutal.

New Liberals have been critical of Mamdani for being a populist, but we should remember: Fascism is happening in America. Billionaire oligarchs have bought the White House. Mamdani supports the abundance agenda while aiming to fight the baddies. Why be upset? open.substack.com/pub/venat/p/...

Midjourney has image to video now

NEW OP-ED: Rolling back pro-density zoning restricts housing choice. When we restrict housing choice, we’re not preserving neighbourhood character: We’re enforcing neighbourhood exclusion. Read more 👇 edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu... #yegcc #yegc

You own a house Should the government be allowed to come review how many forks and plates you have? What about doors? Can the government tell you your home has too many doors? What about desks? Or computers? /1

this is also why price ceilings fail (a policy that stems from attachment to outcome) As far as I can tell, attachment to ego and outcome USUALLY results in second and third order effects that makes real the opposite of what you desire

Esoteric Hot Take (and also a heuristic with surprising predictability): If your awareness is fully attached to ego and outcome, and from that place proceed towards your intentions, you end up manifesting the opposite of the reality you want.

Imagine signing up to your secular country’s military to fight someone else’s never ending religious war in the Middle East.

Doesn’t matter what country the reactionary is in. Which context. Which Faith. They see themselves separate and above the rest. They see themselves as soooo special, they don’t need to be productive organs of society. They are society’s cancerous outgrowths.

The far right is filth. The far right is troglodytes. They are apes. Their kundalini energy is trapped in their muladhara; living in a first world country scared by minute change and their own shadows.

My hottest take is that the root cause of the next American Civil War will unironically be driven by deranged suburban NIMBY fears about urban areas

"The most important signal to send right now is punching the billionaire class directly in the face. Mamdani is clearly the person positioned to deliver that punch while still advancing the policy agenda that abundance advocates claim to care about." Another banger from Sushil.

The abundance agenda is sound policy trapped in oligarch funding and technocratic language. Mamdani shows how to fix both problems. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/venat/p/...

abolishing FEMA is a chekov's gun

i don't consider myself a leftist i just love democracy & hate oligarchs who wish to upend it don't cuck out your liberal democracy because you don't like leftist aesthetics. now's the time to be explicitly anti-billionaire rent-seekers, especially when they're aiming to rip democracy apart.

The abundance agenda is sound policy trapped in oligarch funding and technocratic language. Mamdani shows how to fix both problems. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/venat/p/...

America is already in a Civil War. Casus Belli was declared by Trump long ago, on the campaign trail.

it's funny how Trump is reinventing the license raj

don't know what's brought a lot of readers to this piece today but it's pretty great and you have excellent taste newrepublic.com/post/195324/...

No Kings Protest being on the day of Trump’s Parade was genius. Never underestimate the psychological damage done to a narcissist like Trump. He’s not going to be in a good mood next week.

Fyre Festival ass presidency

Evergreen

I love Google Gemini with Cursor. I like it when it thinks and feels really sorry and apologetic whenever I tell it that it made a mistake.

square enix dropped a new cover for Weight of the World

Nazi shit. Visceral, actually existing Nazi shit. Gestapo. Secret police. Randomly inflicted terror against targeted groups in centers of opposition against an illegitimate, minority regime of masked men in brown and green uniforms. Actual, real life, nazi shit and it's home grown All American.

brutal

At some point we gotta start arrest ICE agents for kidnapping

Holy shit the problems discussed in the article are literally playing out in real time in the Linkedin comments

Loving that my hunch — there are a bunch of leftists that are just an in-group clique — is being validated.

lol they actually believed right wing news about receiving freebies from the government if you are a refugee

Hmmmm, it's almost as if someone would only leave their job and uproot their family to go to a country where they'd have nothing if they really really had to.

Christian Nationalists must be creaming their pants right now thinkin' the rapture bout to happen

So accurate