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I think we keep seeing over and over again that modern parties are incredibly weak and can’t get overcome the power of celebrity.
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The fundamentals in NYC are a lot better than Chicago, but his judgment seems pretty bad.
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My sense is that billionaires do in fact pay taxes.
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Sometimes makes me wonder why progressives are so committed to a mode of rhetorical engagement that, according to them, is counterproductive and alienating.
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He sometimes wants to engage with him on specific policies but you can see from the flag rant that there’d be no point in doing that, he just totally rejects ideas like “ends and means” and “trying to make things better” and insists that his nihilism is moral and caring about things is nihilism.
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That's interesting on staffing.
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I definitely agree that there is overlap on price-fixing and anticompetitive rollups, per today's post.
www.slowboring.com/p/an-abundan...
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You can do what you want, but I still think Medicaid cuts are Trump's biggest political vulnerability.
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Using the 2021 baseline seems wrong to me given how much shootings rose in 2020-2021 — it’s good that we rapidly returned to the prior baseline.
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Must listen to the wisdom of people born in 1981 with just a touch of memory of the Old Days
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I don’t think there’s much of a connection, and I just agree with MB about taxes the welfare state.
Lots of disagreements with AELP though.