@jwmason.bsky.social
Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY; senior fellow, Groundwork Collaborative. Writing at jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
The unironic answer is rent control.
European countries had many opportunities to reconsider their support for Israel’s ever-escalating wars, if they did not want to end up where they led to.
Yes, the inflation was helpful there.
I get what he is saying. But if you describe the death toll in Vietnam as "thousands," what does that say about who you regard as human?
Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.
here’s a crazy fact: more Americans have been killed in disputes over parking spots than on the NYC subway this year
My older kid has been riding the subway alone since age 9.
The details are different. But there are parallels.
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our second times have never been more farcical, you're hearing it more and more
Interesting discussion of what looks like a very interesting book. lpeproject.org/symposia/tra...
I thought Trump II would be basically similar to Trump I. Had lots of company in that. Boy was I wrong.
Feels like we're somewhere around the second half of 2006 on the subprime timeline.
This quip is also about tech executives pushing GenAI:
No, it just means that his own beliefs are not consistent. Most people's aren't.
You can't be a Zionist without believing that Jews have a right to rule over Palestinians. That is what Zionism is.
Say I have a colleague who is against vaccines, a position I wholly reject. I can still have a good relationship and work with them. But I would never say "we have to be in coalition with anti-vaxxers."
My objection is to the idea of being in coalition with Zionists *as Zionists*. To be that is very different from the idea that you have to have some kind of ritual exclusion of anyone who doesn't share that position. I think this would be easy to understand in other contexts.
Whereas I think you don't understand my response. Anyway I expect we end up in the same place in practice, even if we'd describe the principle that got us there differently.
I think you need to distinguish between movements/positions and people who happen to be associated with them to one degree or another. I would never travel to Israel or have any association with any Israeli institution, but that doesn't stop me from working with individual Israelis.
Incidentally he attends the same synagogue I do, Kolot Chayeinu, which is one of the only explicitly non-Zionist congregations in the city.
(Actually now that I think about it I first met him when he was running the Fifth Avenue Committee.)
I like Brad. I voted for him twice when he was my Councilmember, and worked with him before that, when he was at PICCED and I was at WFP. But I don't want to support or be in coalition with him *as a Zionist*. Can offer him critical support while pushing him to reject Zionism entirely.
Sorry, no, can't be in a coalition with the nice Nazis.
Feminism or misogyny. Anti-racism or racism. Rapid decarbonization or an uninhabitable planet. Prison abolition or ICE. Demilitarization or endless war.
We might be about to find out again
“Socialism or barbarism” is a phrase we‘ve all heard many times. But it’s never felt it so viscerally true before now.
yes you’ll want to leave it out on your desk
I hope everyone’s got your Minsky books somewhere where you can reach them easily. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...