pstein0111.bsky.social
Lawyer, prefer anonymity.
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I mean, the answer here is:
1. You’re not a journalist.
2. Direct testimony is very relevant if comes from verified persons.
3. Usually journalists would reach out to the administration before publishing, but you can’t do that.
4. This being shared increases chances of proper news picking it up
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But you have vetted them - because you know them.
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Could have merely said that the proud institution of Georgetown wouldn’t be too unhappy if none of their students join the fascists.
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Propositions like the taxe de patrimoine are not serious, as currently structured. They are ridiculously harmful and just demonstrate the left is bad at thinking about taxation. (Mind you, I am more to the left than right.)
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You can challenge stuff like the LMNP regime, but this is no hail mary and has down the line issues (they are already thinking on exemptions of the taxes).
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Real fiscal optimisation is - really really - hard to attack. France has been trying for 25 years to fight tax transfer pricing, which is the biggest one (multinationals optimising taxes to pay taxes in low CIT jurisdictions).
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I don’t see how France would raise anymore taxes. Tax burden in France for middle class is very high.
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French taxes are comparatively insane to surrounding countries bc of social security payments. Tax increases would either be meaningless (some low % on rich, which doesnlt bring a lot) or very ill received (taxing most French people more; increasing VAT, corporate taxes, etc).
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No higher taxes doesn’t mean painless. It may mean cuts from other parts of the budget.
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Microsoft bought it and just rebranded it. Everyone uses Skype today. It’s just called Microsoft Teams.
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Duh doy, they just fired everyone in federal staff.
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Very interesting, thank you. As a side question, do you send your policy briefs to politicians / administrations?
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They really are speedrunning a conversion of a democracy in a banana republic
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I mean yes, but a lot will still do that trying tl ensure US backing bc some just can’t afford a NATOless world
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Yeah I was very disappointed
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Seems to have been fixed
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I see you’ve fallen to Big Oil’s lobby and are pushing to make climate change cool again
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Well, I kinda agree, but also - what can you do? Like, literally, what can ordinary folks do? Go march? Sure, why not. Not overly comply? Okay. But like, what else? The guy has all the (democratically conferred) power he could need.
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While the USA is unlikely to default, their risk of crazy decisions is increasing exponentially and one may wonder at what stage an institutional decides to invest more in EU or Chinese bonds to mitigate risk.
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We are no longer in 2010, though. They may believe that public opinion has swung the other way. And if they only looked at the preliminary results on the day after election day (which were not the full picture), they would get this impression.
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Dear lord, that list is long. thank you for making it. Also, goes to show how many more people are on BlueSky now
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And ofc there is life outside the USA?
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Also, he like won the EC with 150K votes
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What’s the timing on that litigation?
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Je précise la question : en tant que ministre, vous représentez nécessairement la France. Toutefois, Mme Kallas indique que vous agissez également pour son compte, et par conséquent représentez également l’UE. Est-ce vrai ou est-ce une visite purement trilatérale ?
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Madame Kallas indique que vous représentez l’UE. Est-ce vrai?
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And this is just in the legal sector where AI should have a huge role (and rightly so).
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Likewise, even in more technical sectors of the legal practice, you have a lot of unwritten stuff that is incredibly important.
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I mean, they say AI will replace lawyers, but many things can’t be automated. Like, a divorce settlement is INCREDIBLY easy legally, but is hard due to the human factor (humans hating each other in their guts).
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Do you think this can credibly happen? I get the impression that AI is big, certainly, but it is more akin to the computer and internet than « replace humans ». I heard lawyers were afraid they would work less due to emails and typing on word taking less time than dictating to typists on machines.
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Feedback is a learnable skill that most people haven’t learned! But, actually, this also makes me think how kids believe more in compliments you make about them if you overhear them. This is kinda similar!
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Ideologically, immigrants seem to be perceibed, in my view, as either « not immigrants » (French, Germans) or immigrants deserving the UK’s help (« those poor things »). The idea that an Eastern European may be helpful to a British person appears to be absurd
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This is quite curious, as immigration in the UK has been particularly successful. My personal explanation is that nobody just seems to believe in the ideology of free and open borders. Like, they will say « discrimination is bad », but won’t even think that accepting immigrants is good.
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The Guardian published an article in 2008 saying even the establishment didn’t defend immigrants, despite abundant evidence UK immigration was a net positive. Nothing has changed since.
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I mean, I see why, but also, this is very weird. They are retiring Biden before his term is over.
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I wonder if any of them reads this.
They really should
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What RN platformed on in France as well.
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Also, the partner can fully integrate said racism. Being non-white doesn’t make you a non-bigot.
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The worst is, I think this is entirely intentional from the leaders of the left: they are positioning someone for failure; but the choice of the profile of the person will orient powers internally; so they do it anyway, just to be able to complain afterwards.
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Ok, so I am exaggerating of course, but it is frustrating to see so little external real politik and so much in-party faction real politik.
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They’re really idiots. I discuss with some of them and they are absolutely « hors sol ».
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How about no.
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And I don’t mean the national polls either. I am talking about polls in key swing states. Dem just don’t have the swing states; and we can debate the rationale, but it’s not just Biden’s age. And while it’s true that the campaign hasn’t addressed it, it was there before that.
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Is it? Most international commentary I read have been assuming a Trump WH for months - not as something that will necessarily happen, but as a strong likelihood. Most polls have went only one way so far.
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2. Switching candidates is hell. It’s not just endorsing someone else. You need money, you need staff, posters, filings, etc. Is PAC money even trnsferable?
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My problem here is multifold:
1. Most of Biden’s problems predate the debate. He was tied or slightly above popular vote (which is not enough) since december. It’s mostly inflation + Gaza/Israel.
Switching mid-way won’t change that; lots of energy would be spent and we will still be nowhere
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Unless Trump does damage that is difficult to change - administrations are big beasts that are hard to kill, but also hard to revive.
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This was SUPER INTERESTING, thank you! It’s just maddening that what we see as « recent progress » is actually the same old problems that were talked about 150 yrs ago. Very interesting.