Sam

the difference is that with Covid is that

1. the entire world was in chaos so voters didn’t pin as much of it on him personally

2. Operation warp speed was actually good and before he became hardcore antivaxx

Personally, I think people who are between the third and fourth quintile of income-earners in California should probably pay some income tax.

this person analyzes American politics for a living

if every global transit system switched to two person train operation, it would result in service decreases, more people driving, and increased emissions, driving tons of death all across the globe

it’s baffling when people say this about the MTA, a public agency that operates at a loss and relies on significant amounts of government funding to provide a critical service.

Making the MTA more efficient doesn’t mean additional profit, it means more service within its budgetary constraints

it’s crazy how his entire crowd has just been shitposting about the senate housing bill, completely refusing to address any of the facts or policy tradeoffs.

like, sure, plenty of Abundance folks are annoying but that doesn’t mean “abundance = bad” is a coherent policy vision

its actually crazy that simply saying “New York City does not need to be the only place in the world that legally mandates two person train operation” results in literal death threats

its so funny that they think opening the strait of Hormuz is about captains of container ships having balls and just doing it when in reality it’s about insurance lol

It is hard not to think that MPU wants to make their viewers as stupid as possible. If I wanted to incapacitate the American left, running MPU would be a decent strategy

and even then Eisenhower had a ton of monumental fuckups like Ajax

after, see 9:55PM timestamp

“antisemitism is a real problem in America” and “The actions of the Israeli government are fueling antisemitism in america” are two statements that are not at odds. if anything, both of those statements put together should make you realize how awful the situation is right now.

given the fact that a synagogue was violently attacked today I would say antisemitism is a problem, actually

so Matt Stoller is just a massive piece of shit, huh

The core problem is that literally 50% of the water is diverted to make comically tiny profits of, like, a few hundred million dollars, so trillions of actual economic activity gets held hostage by some clown who bought land in 1872. Put a market price on water and the problem is instantly fixed.

same with Tesla, spacex, and anduril

Dems ceding the argument to republicans that taxes are bad and should not be paid by the Virtuous reminds me of how Labour has handled immigration

raise taxes on the rich, absolutely. But we should use it to

-build out green energy and transportation
-build more low income housing
-fund universal healthcare
-fund universal childcare

all of these are more important than cutting taxes

Chris Van Hollen is one of my favorite senators so his slopulism tax cut arc has been really depressing

yeah but it’s getting a lot worse. dumb people are getting oneshotted by the algorithm

Abundance isn’t a perfect governing framework, matt yglesias is annoying etc etc…

but man the people who center their entire politics around being anti-abundance are just deeply unpleasant and completely incurious about actual policy impacts.

Jesus Christ they’re trying to do this AGAIN???

we just had a debate over the last bill that Hochul thankfully vetoed because it will drive up operating costs and reduce service

Update: Jack Schlossberg is tripling down on NIMBY slop. hopefully he replies to my fact check

the other thing is that you’d want a pilot to be in normal conditions so you get good data to understand the broader impacts

here’s a crazy fact: more Americans have been killed in disputes over parking spots than on the NYC subway this year

never ceases to amaze me how the modern conservative movement is full of the most pathetic, cowardly people on earth

oppositional defiant disorder fr

lol I’m blocked by Hunter Walker but it’s hilarious that he’s NIMBYposting even on Instagram

urbanism is a funny issue because a solid 30% of democrats are just totally regressive cranks

Republicans said that if I voted for Kamala we would get green degrowth with expensive energy and reduced carbon emissions

I guess they were right

oh my god the left-NIMBYs in LA are comparing mixed income housing on what is currently a warehouse to… Japanese internment.

beyond parody