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Director, Stratification Economics at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltinstitute.org Sociologist, Dad, Autistic person, Bathos-Enjoyer Taxes are what we pay for civilized society Opinions are my own
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Maybe the "wokes" were able to sense the Hitler Particles you were emitting.

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For all the talk of populism, the GOP has not really shifted from its standard, "more money for us, fuck you" approach to policy making. Not really attempting to deliver anything to ordinary voters even as they torch state capacity and bumble into a recession.

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submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Juan Linz was right

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Predictable outcome of rationality becoming an identity rather than a mental frame/technique to train and induce.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

To paraphrase @volts.wtf, rationality is a virtue worth cultivating, "rationalism" as a way of life is stupid and self-defeating because human beings are extremely good at justifying whatever is most convenient for them.

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

I am not a doomer; we can win in 2026 and 2028 and throw the bums out. But I suspect the damage to state capacity, to science/research/evaluation, to US credibility and standing is generational. I hope I am wrong but a lot of us will be picking up the pieces for the rest of our working lives.

submitted 7 hours ago • 13 comments

The pause we announced has been paused. Tune in tomorrow for further instructions.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

"What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

These are likely the 5 I will rank too. If one of them drops out I'll rank stringer I suppose.. The important thing is that I will rank all 5 I can and none of them will be Cuomo.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Also small plastic toys! Very important to onshore those.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This is so utterly incompetent that I cannot imagine voting for her in a primary.

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