gregmotter.bsky.social
Always trying to be more concerned with believing things that are true rather than being right. Secular humanist in Colorado Springs. gregfromcos on the old place
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These charts would be so much shareable and meaningful if you used income amounts rather than percentiles. But maybe you are just trying to only talk to 5% of the population for whom income percentiles have meaning?
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They are the party of defunding the police
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Maybe we should be thinking about how to actually fix this? What legislation needs to be advanced, to maybe not stop this immediately, but stop it down the road. Have to think the last 4 years were an abject failure in legislating checks on what Trump did the first 4 years.
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Much better to use dollar amounts than percentages. Percentages are not applicable to most.
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VA and MD don't end up on this list? Or is this list just so overwelmed by military numbers?
Might be an interesting list to see government pensions on the list also. Always surprised how conservative those on especially military pensions or military disability tend to be.
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Still pretty amazing how cheap property taxes are in Colorado. 4th lowest rate in the country, and in the bottom half based on total amount paid, despite being in the top 10 in median income and top 5 in home values. Continue to wonder if higher property taxes would help hold down values.
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And as a result, rent prices have finally stabalized fairly well and if you include free months getting offered they are actually dropping in the metro areas.
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And yet some states are doing a good job of building enough units. Other states keep insisting on focusing on "affordable housing" and dropping their vacancy rates to 1-2% and wondering why the landlords have all the power. Colorado has managed to get the vacancy rate up to 6% in the metros!
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Unfortunate Joe Biden did not take getting the deficit back down to pre-pandemic levels as a percent of GDP more seriously, and then communicate on that effectively. The narrative has been lost for we Dems. Until there is some pain, don't think the narrative will swing back to anyone listing to Dems
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If the President can simply pardon anything away, what do checks and balances matter? Have people break the law, and pardon them after the fact. There will never be an impeachment when the media is too scared to hold Republicans responsible for what is going on.
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Agree. We keep pretending like any laws matter when it all can simply be pardoned away. The pardon system must be either vastly reformed along with the laws around Presidents who use the Justice system for retribution.
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Why didn't we attempt to fix the pardon power in the last 4 years... Let's please not elect such a horrible communicator, and maybe likely never a Senator again. I'm just not sure they are capable of forward thinking after being in the Senate.
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Where are the alarm bells about defunding the police?
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Love the infantilizing of the right, to make sure we blame the left for everything.
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Told someone the other day, I hate being this cynical, about friends and acquaintances, but I'm not sure of a way out.
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Not a nation. The nation is sadly bi-polar at the moment and we are living through a 4 year manic anti-intellectual episode. Hopefully we can change enough minds to correct course, but this is sadly what a majority voted for.
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Not to mention for Northern states, the giant sucking sound they hear is coming from Southern States who don't have a minimum wage. But for some reason many Dems won't talk about that.
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It will, but eggs are up like 200% at the moment. Kind of crazy.
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Also totally forgot to add in the fruit i add to the oatmeal which adds about another 1.50 per day on average.
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For some reason in my head I'd just assumed this new one was way more expensive so I'd never figured out the cost. Glad your post finally got me to check, also had no idea eggs had shot back up. Good chance for Trump to show us how he'll fix it!
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Switched from a 2 egg breakfast to a cup of oatmeal in almond milk and greek yogurt with a couple of seed additives that bring it up to 28g protein about a year ago. Had never figured the cost on it, about $1.44 per breakfast assuming none of it is on sale. Think my old egg one is over $2 currently!
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And it has to be focused on Republican's and the Media's enabling and hellicopter parenting, not Trump himself.
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How did you account for Bluesky gaining critical mass and certain people just leaving Threads causing those same posts to just get less natural engagement from those who were around in October?
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I mean sure, but that's mostly included in "Meta" at this stage. The lack of moderation and any desire for robust moderation. The deprioritization of anything political.
Honestly a bit surprised anyone thought Threads was a good platform. At one point I'd blocked like 1000 users, then gave up.
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Bluesky just needs some basic time based editing and it'd be even better. I really missed the name there, it whould have been X-odus!
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Before the grand Exodus, I always just told people Threads is in many ways worse than Xitter and Bluesky was just dead. Now that Bluesky is no longer dead, so it's the clear winner and gaining critical mass.
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Threads was always garbage. Meta + being forced to see so much you have no interest in. Just seems the majority have finally shifted here after the great Xitter exodus that caused people to also re-evaluate Threads.
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Would love to see this juxtaposed against Dems views of rioters that loosely attached themselves to BLM protests. I frequently get told by Republicans that we Dems supported the riots.
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Same as a Millionaire donating $250?
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Are they wrong that the results will be apparent quickly?
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Now with that said I think Matthew is wrong in that Fox does push those fringe positions. Democrats are just much less willing to tie the entire party to what we easily see are fringe positions.
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Think you are missing his point. Would a more left leaning be able to avoid tying itself to fringe elements on the left, due to fears of not being woke enough. If they are not able to do that it will likely get used to tie those fringe positions to Democrats more broadly. Now with that said...
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Given how seldom people have to use the marketplace that seems pretty abysmal
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I assume for most of those who did this, it was because of very poor coverage in Medicare for lots of years for certain things.
Do you know of a guide for doing the switch back to Medicare? Have a couple seniors that we've talked about doing this, but no idea how.
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Just have to figure out how to get Republicans a participation trophy every election and they'll be fine.
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And given how much he has condoned illegal drug usage, it's almost the opposite.
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Here is @pbump.com writeup detailing the retraction and the lack of meaningful evidence provided. rottentomatoes.com really should not be promoting propaganda.
wapo.st/4g30oZi
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Look up their connections to the creator of The Chosen
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It seems to think that GoP voters who demonstrably believe more untrue things are off limits. It refuses to point out when they bear false witness, and the hypocrisy with wanting to hang the Ten Commandments.
I'm just not sure I can continue supporting @washingtonpost.com because of this.
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...have said about how the charges would have never happened if he was not the president's son.
As much as I think the @washingtonpost.com News division is important, it has lost it's way. It seems to think that only one party is worthy of sustained criticism. It seems to think...
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The story that caused over 50% of republicans to bear false witness and thousands of Americans to end up in jail, all because they deeply believed a now admitted lie.
Meanwhile how many stories about the Hunter Pardon have we seen? Mostly ignoring what dozens of former DoJ officials have said...