anothereconguy.bsky.social
Policy wonk with a master's in economics and a passion for improving outcomes. Also moonlights as a LOTR lore enthusiast.
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I think your imaginary therapist should tell you to just go for it.
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While we are at it, can we defund Tesla? Especially considering it actually receives subsidies and tax breaks?
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The problem is pointing out hypocrisy just doesn't work. Trump sycophants will just gaslight about facts, try to reverse uno the hypocrisy claim by pointing to an unrelated Biden action, or just call it based when MAGA does it.
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My mistake. Bannon went to prison for a different series of charges than those Trump pardoned him for. He was sentenced to and served 4 months for defying a congressional subpoena. Bannon did avoid prison time when Trump pardoned him for wire fraud charges at the end of his presidency.
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Pardons can be issued at any time. There have been posthumous pardons. It is just a forgiving of any wrongdoing. Steve Bannon was pardoned after he served his sentence, and Paul Manafort's sentence was cut short as a result of the pardon.
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I didn't realize I said Hunter Biden was innocent. I think I said that the other three committed exponentially worse crimes. I think if I laundered money from foreign agents, lied to congress, and committed tax fraud, I would also be doing "hard time." And that's not to name Trump's 34 felonies.
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I shouldn't, but I'll bite. None of Hunter's convictions were from illicit use of a firearm. He lied on the application to purchase a firearm. The three individuals above engaged in money laundering, tax fraud, witness tampering, and perjury to benefit Trump and provide cover for January 6th.
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I could not care less. Trump pardoned Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort, and Roger Stone, whose crimes were exponentially worse. If anything, this is milquetoast from President Biden, considering the charges against Hunter were contrived in a ridiculous attempt to motivate votes for impeachment.
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2/2 Likewise, business and economic growth benefit from an economically empowered society. People are more likely to buy products if they feel financially and socially secure. The two are not only not mutually exclusive, they are fundamentally dependent on each other.
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If they did, I couldn't blame them. We aren't sending our best.
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So is Trump's revised border security platform that China will pay for the wall via tariffs on the illicit drug trade? Gotta admit I did not see that one coming.
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Yeah... but the Democratic Party went way too hard calling Trump fascist, right?
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On the bright side, political scientists finally get their natural experiment for outcomes related to a kakistocracy.
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Yep. It is bad. Under the last series of Trump tariffs, soybean farmers were subsidized, and economic activity fell: negating any benefit from assessed duties. There are two options, either firms increase prices due to increased costs or deficits explode (and rates likely increase) due to subsidies.
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If only the left had a similar algorithm...
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Agreed, but emotional messages can be drawn downstream from data (i.e. inclusion and diversity). I'm not sure how it is fixed, but I think it starts with developing a strong media/internet apparatus supporting these ideas.
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Any platform which does not outright boost right wing content in the backend algorithm=echo chamber. Got it.
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I understand your interpretation, but by liberal narrative, I mean existing positions. I think our existing data-backed positions need similar platforms to those the right have cultivated. I become critical of the left the moment they engage in the outright lies and gaslighting tactics of the right.
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At this point, right-wing anger is a heuristic for strategies liberals should absolutely be promoting.
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I didn't even think of this, but thank you for the additional doomer consideration in a stacked deck of Trumpian nonsense.
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It is genuinely a breath of fresh air. It is time for liberals to start fighting fire with fire. We need liberal/left leaning media and platforms to promote our narrative. The right figured this out before us, so hopefully, it is not too late.