Alan Worsley
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Lives in Vancouver.
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This is what I don't understand. I feel like the barriers being suggested here would disproportionately hit their own base.
Don't most Americans who have passports ...lean left?
Unless of course, it all comes down to selective enforcement...
Don't most Americans who have passports ...lean left?
Unless of course, it all comes down to selective enforcement...
February 13, 2026 at 11:07 PM
This is what I don't understand. I feel like the barriers being suggested here would disproportionately hit their own base.
Don't most Americans who have passports ...lean left?
Unless of course, it all comes down to selective enforcement...
Don't most Americans who have passports ...lean left?
Unless of course, it all comes down to selective enforcement...
I think the most important bit of that April 2020 article (after Starmer won leadership but 4 years before the 2024 elex) was when Jones said that the left wish him well as long as he stands by his promises.
Since then, I think Jones has been pretty clear that he...did not do that.
Since then, I think Jones has been pretty clear that he...did not do that.
February 9, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I think the most important bit of that April 2020 article (after Starmer won leadership but 4 years before the 2024 elex) was when Jones said that the left wish him well as long as he stands by his promises.
Since then, I think Jones has been pretty clear that he...did not do that.
Since then, I think Jones has been pretty clear that he...did not do that.
2028 is going to be a different world...one way or another....
I sort of feel like the 2028 candidate may well be someone no one is even thinking about yet.
Sort of like how few people had heard the name "Mamdani" even 6 months before the NY mayoral primary.
I sort of feel like the 2028 candidate may well be someone no one is even thinking about yet.
Sort of like how few people had heard the name "Mamdani" even 6 months before the NY mayoral primary.
February 3, 2026 at 3:20 AM
2028 is going to be a different world...one way or another....
I sort of feel like the 2028 candidate may well be someone no one is even thinking about yet.
Sort of like how few people had heard the name "Mamdani" even 6 months before the NY mayoral primary.
I sort of feel like the 2028 candidate may well be someone no one is even thinking about yet.
Sort of like how few people had heard the name "Mamdani" even 6 months before the NY mayoral primary.
Maybe it says a lot that hundreds of gallons of milk is an easily relatable measurement..
January 23, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Maybe it says a lot that hundreds of gallons of milk is an easily relatable measurement..
Anything but metric I see
January 23, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Anything but metric I see
No they should give it to Obama.
January 21, 2026 at 9:54 PM
No they should give it to Obama.
well...I mean yes quite frankly. I sincerely hope the Democratic primaries absolutely demolish a LOT of incumbents.
January 19, 2026 at 5:24 AM
well...I mean yes quite frankly. I sincerely hope the Democratic primaries absolutely demolish a LOT of incumbents.
Actually I think the founders were VERY aware of someone like Trump coming to power and that they could quite easily be elected. They were writing all this during the reign of "mad king George III". That's why there are several levers to get rid of a tyrant. The issue is corruption throughout.
January 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Actually I think the founders were VERY aware of someone like Trump coming to power and that they could quite easily be elected. They were writing all this during the reign of "mad king George III". That's why there are several levers to get rid of a tyrant. The issue is corruption throughout.
yeah the comparison is a bit harder to make since UK politics went absolutely haywire about 10 years ago
December 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
yeah the comparison is a bit harder to make since UK politics went absolutely haywire about 10 years ago
The more I look I think that housing figure might be a vast underestimate....
December 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The more I look I think that housing figure might be a vast underestimate....
Also if inflation-adjusted wages were the only thing that matters then the 90s must have been Terrible!!!
And yet that is definitely not how I or anyone else I know remember them
And yet that is definitely not how I or anyone else I know remember them
December 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Also if inflation-adjusted wages were the only thing that matters then the 90s must have been Terrible!!!
And yet that is definitely not how I or anyone else I know remember them
And yet that is definitely not how I or anyone else I know remember them
Housing is a part of the basket of goods, but only about 30% or so. So if Housing goes up massively, but the other items don't that difference doesn't really get captured.
Point is relative to wages housing and education are WAY out of whack. But yes it is probably easier for us get tacos.
Point is relative to wages housing and education are WAY out of whack. But yes it is probably easier for us get tacos.
December 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Housing is a part of the basket of goods, but only about 30% or so. So if Housing goes up massively, but the other items don't that difference doesn't really get captured.
Point is relative to wages housing and education are WAY out of whack. But yes it is probably easier for us get tacos.
Point is relative to wages housing and education are WAY out of whack. But yes it is probably easier for us get tacos.
The point being made is that JUST looking at inflation-adjusted wages does not tell the full story. Not my area of expertise, but my understanding is that the "Adjustment" being made to wages is based on a basket of goods. Not specifically say, housing.
December 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The point being made is that JUST looking at inflation-adjusted wages does not tell the full story. Not my area of expertise, but my understanding is that the "Adjustment" being made to wages is based on a basket of goods. Not specifically say, housing.
you keep referencing material that is only talking about the pandemic. Which is A) not the time period being discussed and B) a rather unusual time economically speaking
December 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
you keep referencing material that is only talking about the pandemic. Which is A) not the time period being discussed and B) a rather unusual time economically speaking
I don't have a NYT subscription, but elsewhere I see that wages have grown 67% since the 1960s but housing 🔼 114%
education 🔼 200% since 1987
The avg age of new homeowner in 1960 was 24. Today it's 59.
It's not just bad, it's acceleratingly so. While things were getting better throughout 60s
education 🔼 200% since 1987
The avg age of new homeowner in 1960 was 24. Today it's 59.
It's not just bad, it's acceleratingly so. While things were getting better throughout 60s
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I don't have a NYT subscription, but elsewhere I see that wages have grown 67% since the 1960s but housing 🔼 114%
education 🔼 200% since 1987
The avg age of new homeowner in 1960 was 24. Today it's 59.
It's not just bad, it's acceleratingly so. While things were getting better throughout 60s
education 🔼 200% since 1987
The avg age of new homeowner in 1960 was 24. Today it's 59.
It's not just bad, it's acceleratingly so. While things were getting better throughout 60s
It does make you wonder where we would be if Cleverly had won the leadership race.
December 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It does make you wonder where we would be if Cleverly had won the leadership race.
I know!!
But it's very true that it's hard to wrap your mind around the scale over which Dinosaurs were alive. And if that asteroid had missed - no reason to think they wouldn't have just kept trucking.
But it's very true that it's hard to wrap your mind around the scale over which Dinosaurs were alive. And if that asteroid had missed - no reason to think they wouldn't have just kept trucking.
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I know!!
But it's very true that it's hard to wrap your mind around the scale over which Dinosaurs were alive. And if that asteroid had missed - no reason to think they wouldn't have just kept trucking.
But it's very true that it's hard to wrap your mind around the scale over which Dinosaurs were alive. And if that asteroid had missed - no reason to think they wouldn't have just kept trucking.