i dreamt a dream,

People can speculate about anything. Who exactly was taking their marching orders from the media you're talking about here? Pelosi?

He doesn't have to have Parkinson's to be cognitively declining. It happens to everyone. The tipping point was that people who thought he still had it watched him and changed their minds.

Yes, that's the nature of a "collective action problem." Once it reaches a tipping point you get a preference cascade.

Nobody with anything to lose tried it.

It's a collective action problem. Lots of people thought Biden shouldn't have run. The just didn't stay it because in the event he stays in, everybody will call you a ratfucker for saying it.

Nobody tried because of the old rule that if you strike a king you must kill him and there weren't any volunteers.

And yes, of course, by the time it happened it was Harris or nobody. That's why I said they should have time it sooner. She had name recognition and it was all poor.

We are indeed being lied to about Graham Platner, first and foremost by Jacobin.

Biden endorsing Harris killed it because it means anyone else stepping in is a homewrecker, but absent that, she was not a strong candidate in 2020 and even if she wins a Harris that survives a primary has more legitimacy than then one who gets coronated last minute.

The overwhelming majority of people don't watch the debate. They hear about it from cultural elites, who did watch the debate and did not like what they saw.

Well they should have finished knifing him sooner so that we could get a primary instead of whatever that was.

we can confidently say we understand physics because physics makes predictions that are extremely reliable. we don't understand minds nearly as well. there's basic principles like "people dislike pain" that aren't even universally true.

You should use the language corpus of what gets played on TV and social media weighted by views because that's what people are seeing.

Sure, that corpus doesn't exist, but going with a platform nobody reads is looking for keys under the lamppost.

he wants to spread democracy to every corner of the earth, by gunpoint if necessary

it just so happens that that happens to include america

Democrats are made to own "defund the police" because a few nonrepresentative Democrats want to defund the police and the rest of the Democrats waffle when pressed instead of saying "no that's dumb."

Cato Institute has the same economics as ever but has also been surprisingly not-terrible on constitutional issues.

"trump has poor character but democrats don't care about immigration or crime" is the median undecided voter

She thinks of herself as someone who escaped a cult. I'm guessing her previous social milieu interacted very badly with her existing mental illness, and she's happier now that she's decided to liberate herself from all of her previous social norms.

Makes for bad journalism though.

Of course they were on the take. Every politician who accepts donations is on the take, which is all of them. The question is whether they were on the take in way that differs from anyone else.

it's both fine to study the long-term outcomes of the second shift and to coin a term for it that's shorter than "the harsher burden of the second shift on people at a certain stage of life." people just want to complain.

the overwhelming majority of renters have the option to live somewhere for cheaper at the cost of some dignity if the alternative is literally starving to death

Left behind: Voters’ reactions to local school and hospital closures Voters in rural and peripheral areas have increasingly turned away from mainstream parties and towards right-wing populist parties. This paper tests the extent to which political decisions with adver....

Republicans are counting on the phenomenon in which whenever life gets worse for rural people they blame the left and vote even more right.

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And? Has the Barro of today morphed into a cackling Nazi or something?

average redditor: "well he might like the nazis but he's not a zionist so he's still better than the other guy"

Medicare pays hospitals who make money treating seniors.

If you banned companies from making profits charging seniors for healthcare there would be a lot less healthcare for seniors.

At some point Old Ms. Henderson who was charging 90s rents eventually figures out the market because it's just a click away.

The "gains for users" come entirely from Realpage informing landlords that they are charging undermarket rates, which they then raise to market rates.

That's bad for renters, but it's not unique to Realpage. Visiting Zillow will get you 90% of the way there.

Well, those aren't your suburbs, where honest, hardworking, God-fearing Americans live. Those suburbs are full of subversives, foreigners, and communists.

Not giving a shit about coalitional politics is a defining trait of Abundance.

ie, when transit unions are in favor of things that will make transit more expensive, the Abundance people want them to kick rocks.

Mainstream centrist establishment Democrats are mostly answering to their constituents who generally do not want affordable housing blocks built next door for QOL reasons (they want them built, but elsewhere).

And both electeds and constituents do so by pretending to be left-NIMBYs.

yeah, if you acknowledge the abuse you're complicit in it. people should just pretend it doesn't happen.