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You actually don't have to do the "well, you know, I disagree with MAHA but they're right that there are real problems with The System" thing. That's a concession you absolutely do not have to make.
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Ex- lots of things. Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
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Do you know what's really funny? Mamdani's subsidized grocery stores are basically relying on location and reputation to have needy people self-select into them. This was EXACTLY the reform to universal subsidies the World Bank and IMF told Middle East countries to do all through the 2000s.
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Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.
Seth CotlarIn a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.
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Would you believe that the Air Force drew up a plan to detonate a nuke on the moon and the explicit purpose of it was to cheer Americans up because they felt bad after sputnik en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...
Project A119 - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org⟳ Репост от Ed Burmila
It's "Electability" season once again so let me just remind everybody possessing this incredible power of foresight to tell us something useful like November stock prices.
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"The politically-engaged citizen is encouraged to pour over poll numbers to determine their own preferences. Earnest liberals have been convinced that the only mature way of doing politics is to disregard everything you believe." www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-electa...
The Electability HustleCentrist arguments about who is or isn't "electable" have always been about disciplining the Democratic base rather than actually winning electionswww.lukewsavage.com
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I think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
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Updated our 'Do Moderates Do Better?' paper When you analyze the question rigorously (and don't assume correlation is causation), you find that moderates & non-moderates perform ~equally well in the Trump era Love working with @adambonica.bsky.social