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I think it's pretty easily matches the burrito taxi discourse, there are people who want a thing (to speed, or to get fast food delivered) and they consider themselves leftist, so therefore it is anti-leftist to do something that prevents them from their thing.
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I think it's pretty easily matches the burrito taxi discourse, there are people who want a thing (to speed, or to get fast food delivered) and they consider themselves leftist, so therefore it is anti-leftist to do something that prevents them from their thing.
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this post brought to you by a purportedly socialist city supervisor promoting a crypto rug pull named after a cat killed by a robot car
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
this post brought to you by a purportedly socialist city supervisor promoting a crypto rug pull named after a cat killed by a robot car
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my most parochial take is that a lot of national dysfunction and elite pathologies genuinely do primarily spring from roots in the SF Bay Area. like why do so many tech sector types have such insane opinions about the efficacy of the govt?
December 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
my most parochial take is that a lot of national dysfunction and elite pathologies genuinely do primarily spring from roots in the SF Bay Area. like why do so many tech sector types have such insane opinions about the efficacy of the govt?
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Yeah this has def been an evolution for me as well “markets” and “regulations” are just dumb things to have strongly held views about in the platonic abstract! They’re both social tools, the actual normatively substantive question is the outcomes they produce.
again, baby samantha absolutely thought that policy worked this way. "social problem? try regulation!" grown up samantha is living in the wreckage nimby regulations made of our cities and has different opinions.
in particular i’m struck by like, how clearly so many people’s understanding of how regulation and law work is “no, you only need to ban the bad stuff that my enemies do, and not the good stuff that my friends do” even when, from a mechanical perspective, these are the same thing
December 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Yeah this has def been an evolution for me as well “markets” and “regulations” are just dumb things to have strongly held views about in the platonic abstract! They’re both social tools, the actual normatively substantive question is the outcomes they produce.
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It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.
This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
December 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.
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Yeah I’m sorry, but this is indefensible and is *exactly* the kind of shit that people are talking about when they talk about non-profit/activist brainworms. And it’s causing real harm here! Minorities are more likely to be victims of drunk drivers as well!
The California ACLU is staunchly opposed to the ignition interlock device program and is a big reason that it has not been expanded. Despite the fact that California heavily subsidizes the cost for low-income drunk drivers, the ACLU says that the program is a form of "racialized wealth extraction."
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Yeah I’m sorry, but this is indefensible and is *exactly* the kind of shit that people are talking about when they talk about non-profit/activist brainworms. And it’s causing real harm here! Minorities are more likely to be victims of drunk drivers as well!
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“we would just win if we could break the laws of war” is terminal GWOT brain. its sacrificing your capacity to fight conventional wars to win asymetric fights against insurgents who dont matter bsky.app/profile/fwor...
It's almost as if militaries have understood this intuitively for centuries and that's why the law of war is what it is! But no, these assholes have to reinvent everything and do it badly.
December 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“we would just win if we could break the laws of war” is terminal GWOT brain. its sacrificing your capacity to fight conventional wars to win asymetric fights against insurgents who dont matter bsky.app/profile/fwor...
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Inclusionary zoning is a way of transfering the cost of social housing from the general public to new condo buyers.
In some circumstances it might just be the cost of doing business. But it's not especially progressive.
In some circumstances it might just be the cost of doing business. But it's not especially progressive.
Inclusionary zoning* is a tax on new housing that worsens the housing shortage and drives up housing prices. It’s bad policy and we should stop doing it.
The city of Los Altos charges an inclusionary fee $255,000 per unit for 1500 sq ft townhouses.
December 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Inclusionary zoning is a way of transfering the cost of social housing from the general public to new condo buyers.
In some circumstances it might just be the cost of doing business. But it's not especially progressive.
In some circumstances it might just be the cost of doing business. But it's not especially progressive.
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Please stop blaming on trade the things (or putative things like the $140k number) that are pretty much entirely the fault of America’s terrible nontradeable sectors. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Please stop blaming on trade the things (or putative things like the $140k number) that are pretty much entirely the fault of America’s terrible nontradeable sectors. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
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I honestly don't understand why the successes in Colorado with left focused YIMBYism does not get far more attention.
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I honestly don't understand why the successes in Colorado with left focused YIMBYism does not get far more attention.
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if the willett be claire, you're in the clear. if the willett be kate, you're not doing great
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
if the willett be claire, you're in the clear. if the willett be kate, you're not doing great
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What happens when you pick an American Pope: he builds an entire international trip around a Thanksgiving Turkey pun
Pope Leo XIV embarked on his first international trip as pontiff on Thursday, traveling to Turkey to start a six-day tour that will also include Lebanon. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
What happens when you pick an American Pope: he builds an entire international trip around a Thanksgiving Turkey pun
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“If you believe the MAGA postliberal project is real, then liberalism must understand MAGA is not a reaction to economic consequences or “elite failures,” but an affirmative preference for illiberalism.
Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...
Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...
Liberals: Stop the Masochism
Why liberalism romanticizes the Forgotten Man and is reluctant to take its own side in the fight against authoritarianism.
www.thebulwark.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“If you believe the MAGA postliberal project is real, then liberalism must understand MAGA is not a reaction to economic consequences or “elite failures,” but an affirmative preference for illiberalism.
Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...
Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...
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I’ve begun to think there’s something more sinister about the “ackshually people in the top 10% of wage earners are in poverty too” nonsense.
What purpose does it serve other than to reassure the rich that they’re not, and try to convince the poor that raising taxes on the rich would be bad?
What purpose does it serve other than to reassure the rich that they’re not, and try to convince the poor that raising taxes on the rich would be bad?
If your wage leads to a "tight" budget that still allows you to live in a "well-off Boston suburb" it is not poverty.
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I’ve begun to think there’s something more sinister about the “ackshually people in the top 10% of wage earners are in poverty too” nonsense.
What purpose does it serve other than to reassure the rich that they’re not, and try to convince the poor that raising taxes on the rich would be bad?
What purpose does it serve other than to reassure the rich that they’re not, and try to convince the poor that raising taxes on the rich would be bad?
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one of the things that comes up, over and over, in every account of the war in the pacific was the level of murderousness the IJN showed towards helpless or surrendered american servicemen
Fox’s Greg Gutfeld on double tap boat strike: “It's just better for us to kill them in the ocean, make them shark feed, be done with it”
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
one of the things that comes up, over and over, in every account of the war in the pacific was the level of murderousness the IJN showed towards helpless or surrendered american servicemen
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This is why you should act like everything a potential leader says is sincere. If they sincerely believe war crimes are good, that's disqualifying.
If they say it insincerely, their lying is disqualifying.
If they say it insincerely, their lying is disqualifying.
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is why you should act like everything a potential leader says is sincere. If they sincerely believe war crimes are good, that's disqualifying.
If they say it insincerely, their lying is disqualifying.
If they say it insincerely, their lying is disqualifying.
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the use of "color revolution" here is like the spoor of the authoritarian internationale--the way that russian propaganda has slithered its way in to the american right
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
the use of "color revolution" here is like the spoor of the authoritarian internationale--the way that russian propaganda has slithered its way in to the american right
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what i think is especially interesting is how much YIMBYism has broken with this entire paradigm. we don't pretend to be the authentic voice of the people. but we also haven't retreated into the dreamland of "mass proletarian mobilization!!" instead we focused on winning the war of ideas directly
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
what i think is especially interesting is how much YIMBYism has broken with this entire paradigm. we don't pretend to be the authentic voice of the people. but we also haven't retreated into the dreamland of "mass proletarian mobilization!!" instead we focused on winning the war of ideas directly
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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Would I vote for the turbo YIMBY boomers into Soylent Green import 1 billion immigrants party? Yeah except that everyone else who would too already follows me on here and I don’t have 100 million followers
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Would I vote for the turbo YIMBY boomers into Soylent Green import 1 billion immigrants party? Yeah except that everyone else who would too already follows me on here and I don’t have 100 million followers
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anyways
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
anyways
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Which building looks better, the older ornamented box or the new one with upper floor stepbacks, massing breaks, and numerous facade colors?
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Which building looks better, the older ornamented box or the new one with upper floor stepbacks, massing breaks, and numerous facade colors?
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I do think some people are kind of fighting the last war when it comes to 'not platforming', like guys these people hold elected office, the horse is very well out of the barn, it's not 2015 anymore.
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I do think some people are kind of fighting the last war when it comes to 'not platforming', like guys these people hold elected office, the horse is very well out of the barn, it's not 2015 anymore.
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then you would be in agreement with pretty much every american government municipal to federal, which is one of the major contributing factors to why our politicians are constantly doing graft and insider trading
Hey so what if I said politicians shouldn't be able to make millions of dollars in office and that they should be subjected to earn the same minimum wage of their state?
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
then you would be in agreement with pretty much every american government municipal to federal, which is one of the major contributing factors to why our politicians are constantly doing graft and insider trading
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Literally the reason Twitter sucks now is all these foreigners logged on willing to do racism for pennies on the dollar and undercut our home-grown American racists. We need to erect serious trade barriers to protect the integrity of our domestic racism industry and preserve racist jobs.
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Literally the reason Twitter sucks now is all these foreigners logged on willing to do racism for pennies on the dollar and undercut our home-grown American racists. We need to erect serious trade barriers to protect the integrity of our domestic racism industry and preserve racist jobs.