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Lost Future

@a_lost_future

Neoliberal moderate. Mixed economy enjoyer. Populism is really, really bad

Inscrit le Ocak 2019
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Lost Future@a_lost_future·
PR proponents will just never understand that single party control is a feature and not a bug. They lack a theory of the mind to understand that other people want different things out of elecoral systems. Some of us are *against* coalitions
Matthew S. Shugart@laderafrutal

“Mandate.” The party won 125 of the 165 single-seat districts on 44% of the vote. It’s MMM so they also got just over half the list seats on not quite 48% of the party vote (with an assist from fragmentation of the rest of the field). MMM is a lousy electoral system.

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John Arnold
John Arnold@johnarnold·
I think I finally solved the stock market.
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Marc Goldwein
Marc Goldwein@MarcGoldwein·
1) Reduce Medicare Advantage overpayments 2) Adopt site-neutral payments in Medicare 3) End Medicaid provider taxes and IGTs 4) Raise all retirement ages 5) Limit Social Security for higher earners 6) Address overlapping veterans/military/private disability/workers comp/unemployment/SSI/Social Security payrments 7) Replace the employer payroll tax with an "Employer Compensation Tax" 8) Eliminate the SALT and mortgage deductions 9) End stepped-up basis of capital gains at death 10) impose a carbon tax
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Lydia DePillis
Lydia DePillis@lydiadepillis·
Two striking studies out this week show how noncompete agreements suppress wages. 1. A NBER paper shows that employed workers today are half as likely to receive better outside offers, likely due to rising employer concentration and noncompetes: nber.org/system/files/w…
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Lost Future@a_lost_future·
@MattBruenig @mlipman13 @UpstandingMembr @lydiadepillis what’s the limiting principle here? Can former employees just abscond with anything from their employer? Any intellectual property? The formula to Coca-Cola? Google’s algorithms? Would you even have the concept of IP if employees can take literally anything out the door?
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Matt Bruenig
Matt Bruenig@MattBruenig·
@mlipman13 @UpstandingMembr @lydiadepillis There are no doubt specific executives who cannot figure out how to run a successful business in an environment of labor and customer mobility, just as there are some who cannot do so without slavery. But others can do it successfully. We don't need to protect the incompetents.
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Joe Weisenthal
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart·
Every normie feels in their gut that oil should go higher. And every oil expert seems to think that every day we get closer to the true disaster scenario. So why is it that oil is not only below the highs of the month, but, as @JavierBlas pointed out, far below the 2022 highs?
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Marc Goldwein
Marc Goldwein@MarcGoldwein·
🚨🚨🚨 This year, a couple retiring at the normal retirement age (~67) could collect $100,000 in Social Security benefits. 💰💵 Our new Six Figure Limit would cap benefits at that level. A short 🧵
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Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦@bayraktar_1love·
Interception of the Russian Shahed above the clouds
Wild Hornets@wilendhornets

After a tough week, it’s time for a satisfying video. Make sure to watch until the end ❤️‍🔥 And remember that behind this beautiful Shahed destruction is the extremely hard work of a “Tortuga” crew operator — involving a complex approach and target acquisition. The high video quality is thanks to the Hornet Vision 360 digital video system.

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Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson@DKThomp·
It’s amazing to me how many resources must be devoted to geopolitical strategy, intelligence gathering, and war planning in the US and Russia; and yet the two most high-profile wars of the last five years involve a military superpower attempting a blitzkrieg decapitation of an opponent and appearing shocked and stunned and flummoxed when the attacked adversary doesn’t surrender but actually fights back
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Lost Future@a_lost_future·
@ThorningMichael @ChrisStirewalt a simple fix- defund the primaries. Maybe in a recession, states say ‘we’re not running & paying for primaries anymore. Parties can select their nominees however they wish, on their own dime’. State parties lack the funds to run primaries, so they’ll be forced into conventions
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Michael Thorning@ThorningMichael·
Smoke-filled rooms aligned candidate selection with general election electability. But those aren’t coming back. I think @ChrisStirewalt is on the right track that we need a system which better aligns candidate selection with general election incentives.
Ross Sherman@rossbsherman

.@ChrisStirewalt nails the #PrimaryProblem and the most realistic solution: open primaries, like what California has, or no primaries at all.

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Ross Baglin
Ross Baglin@ross_baglin·
For those with long memories of 1956, it is mildly amusing that the US is now begging Britain and France for help in unblocking what is, in effect, a shipping canal.
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OSINT Gorilla
OSINT Gorilla@GorillaOSINT·
Europeans after telling Trump "we decline" instead of "we have no ships"
Phil Stewart@phildstewart

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the U.S. had been informed by most of its NATO allies that they did not want to get involved with the country's military operation in Iran. "Because of the fact that we have had such Military Success, we no longer 'need,' or desire, the NATO Countries’ assistance — WE NEVER DID!" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, also singling out Japan, Australia and South Korea.

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Fin Moorhouse
Fin Moorhouse@finmoorhouse·
Thinking about the time our high school English teacher gave us a poem to analyse When we finished she told us it was Donald Rumsfeld’s WMD press conference, and that was the class
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