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https://x.com/Kazanjy/status/2090087364186239278
I agree with this. Increases G component of GDP. Can’t cut it (“you’re literally targeting seniors and the terminally ill”) and there’s little accountability for services delivered or time spent.
https://x.com/i/status/2086109891799003209
It’s a d—ed if you do, d—ed if you don’t world. With energy prices in California, the working class is going to bear the brunt if these policies.
https://x.com/i/status/2085842125464457722
Stanford Professor Andy Hall notes that robust paywalls mean that LLMs recommend the Japanese Communist Party because their content is free and accessible.
https://x.com/i/status/2085932973480620112
I would be interested in Mike Rowe’s take on this.
https://x.com/i/status/2085099003734011937
We may have a DSA mayor of NYC, a DSA senator (MI), and a DSA governor (WI), along with a significant number of DSA congressmen and congresswomen in November.
Because the majorities are likely to be thin, the DSA can demand concessions from the Democrats, pushing policies further left.
The Red-Green alliance.
https://purgatoryisnotaplace.substack.com/p/two-leftists-celebrated-the-ayatollahs
Two female Marxists celebrating the overthrow of the Shah and holding up a picture of the Ayatollah Khomeini. One executed, and the other had to flee to exile.
The billionaires tax is likely to pass as well. I hate the people who whine about democracy when they feel they’re in the majority, then talk about oppression and vulnerable populations. Why did Athens lose the Peloponnesian War?
My parents were around for the bicentennial. There was a lot of patriotism and celebration.
The WNBA and the NWSL compete for who can cave to the craziest members of society. Notice in the USA Today article, the “questions being raised” started with journalists planting the seeds. Then the players union started running with it. Nneka being involved is sad.
A debate, mostly about UK politics, but it also covers the rise of populism on right and left. We’re not quite in William Jennings Bryan territory, but we’re in a populist age, now.
Interesting analysis of Norway’s wealth tax, especially because the billionaires fled to Switzerland, which has its own (small and varied by location) wealth tax.
https://x.com/i/status/2070175686568923388
Austria and Germany colluded to allow Germany to win 1-0 and keep Algeria from advancing in 1982, which is why the third group stage matches must now be simultaneous.
Stanford graduates urged to be optimistic, seek justice in clashing ceremonies
The related Khalil event was covered. If it was a few hundred, it was relatively small.
