Dave_Hunter

@JonahPlatt While you have been talking about Ms. Rachel, the Galveston Snotty Strangler remains at large--with your tacit approval for his horrific crimes.

No one is saying caring about Palestinian children is the problem. The problem is claiming to care about ALL children while your own public record tells a different story. 234 mentions of Gaza since October 7th on Ms. Rachel's account. Near silence on Israeli kids. Then gaslight anyone who points it out. You don't get to call yourself a universal advocate and then pick and choose which children count.

@beanusoriginal @SimonCa00488810 @_carlbeijer Centrists reverse-engineer their stated "beliefs" about "what leftists would do."

@SimonCa00488810 @_carlbeijer I think centrists believe most leftists WOULD oppose a negotiated settlement out of ideological conviction to the end of the state of Israel. I think they are wrong about this belief. And yeah, this is all just very theoretical stuff, more about how people think of other people

Funniest part of this is when they tried to start their own "Zionist DSA" and had to give up because they couldn't find enough Zionists who support socialism

@Handre @dav0idz "Goo goo ga ga"

@dav0idz Under socialism there would not be such a thing as lemonade.

Socialism dies the moment you understand basic economics. Every socialist experiment—from the Soviet Union's 66 million deaths to Venezuela's 2,000% inflation—fails because central planners cannot calculate prices without markets. Ludwig von Mises proved this in 1920: without private property and voluntary exchange, rational economic calculation becomes impossible. You cannot allocate scarce resources efficiently when bureaucrats replace market signals. Cuba's average monthly wage remains $30 while North Koreans starve. Meanwhile, Hong Kong transformed from fishing village to financial powerhouse through free markets. Property rights create prosperity. Central planning creates poverty. The choice stays yours.

@WhatIsPrivate1 @DKThomp "Honest question: I want to cheat. Can you help me figure out how much I can get away with?"

@DKThomp Honest question - what if the entire writing / editing process is done through AI, but with significant human involvement? i.e. "Write xyz... keep this, change this, I want to express this better... ok, now change this part... I don't like how this sounds, make it more..." etc

Writing is thinking, and people who outsource the full writing process to AI will find their screens full of words and their minds empty of thought. But also: All writing involves and has always involved “outsourcing”—reaching outside of the writer’s mind to pull in pieces of the world, before and after the work of making words. Writers draw their ideas from other people, books, articles; after writing they often rely on outside copy editors, fact checkers, transcribers. Some of this stuff is just going to be done by AI in the future, and the boundaries between “good behavior” and “bad behavior” will have some blurry lines, and we should be honest and open about the blur rather than declare everybody with an open Claude window a part of the slopclass. Anybody who says AI transcription of long interviews obliterates the identity of a writer is being a little silly. But what about copy editing? Claude is a fast and decent copy editor, but it is inhuman to rely on it for that function? Is it moral to google “Econ papers on income transfers for child poverty” but immoral to write the same thing as an AI prompt? What about throwing 500 muddled words into ChatGPT and saying “does this make any sense? what do you think I’m trying to say here?” That’s going to be useful for some people. At an aesthetic level, I don’t like copy-pasting AI paragraphs into articles and pressing publish. That feels like me cheating myself. It feels like de-skilling. But the idea that “using AI” is anathema to the identity of being a writer is, in a few years, going to sound an awful lot like claiming that “using a computer” is a violation of the craft of writing. (Which, haha, maybe it is and we should all just go back to Steinbeck and his pencils; but talk about ships that have sailed.)

@watling_samuel @NewLeftEViews Psycho-drivel

@NewLeftEViews Yes, that is exactly right. No one has an intrinsic right to live in an urban areas over others just because they were there when rent control was introduced. Housing in urban areas is scarce, you need to give it to the people who will make the best of use it.

“more productive prospective tenants who can pay more.”

@haim_2010 @Decoherent_ @zakfilm Looks like no one else finds the same things funny as you. You are just a cackling weirdo on the street.

@Decoherent_ @zakfilm lol

A reminder that with the Warner Bros merger underway, Paramount said they will blacklist anyone that signs this petition to boycott. That includes Emma Stone, Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo, Lily Gladstone, Olivia Colman, Tilda Swinton, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ayo Edebiri, Josh O’Connor, Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Nicola Coughlan, Harris Dickinson, Guy Pearce, Jonathan Glazer, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Emma D’Arcy and more.

@MichaelSapirUSA 100 million dollars couldn't get Rick Caruso elected. LA business leaders should not fantasize that they can buy the election for this random moron.

@KenNYbUnchained @NYCMayor Kids are being hit by cars.

@Dave_Hunter @NYCMayor Come on Wall E Are kids being hit by cars or are you looking to fine more tax payers? How can you answer the question w/ a yes?

We're implementing the largest expansion of Sammy’s Law in city history: lowering speed limits to 15 MPH at every eligible school by the end of our first term. And we’re not waiting to get started. This year, we’re lowering speed limits at 800 additional locations to 15 MPH, bringing the citywide total for School Slow Zones to nearly 1,300 by the close of 2026. New York City’s streets should be the safest in the world - especially for kids - and City Hall is using every tool at our disposal to make that a reality as quickly as possible.

@KenNYbUnchained @NYCMayor Take a deep breath and try and explain your thoughts in a way that a normal human being could understand. If you remember how to.

@Dave_Hunter @NYCMayor Why are you BOT accounts so f-ing brain dead? Read the question again and tell me how yes would be a valid answer?

@KenNYbUnchained @NYCMayor The answer was yes but it turned out that you didn't give a shit.

@NYCMayor Why? Are kids being hit by cars or are you looking to fine more tax payers?

@ThatsMyShoww @PanasonicDX4500 I would guess he wrote it collaboratively with the actor.

@PanasonicDX4500 Ok but what if the writing is just not very good? IMO it’s just not great writing, cringe and unrealistic, regardless of his intention behind it

Part of the problem with the OBAA discourse on here is that people will watch this scene and think it’s PTA writing what he thinks revolutionaries sound like as opposed to just trying to make the French 75 sound like how every Weather Underground knockoff talked.

@DiscussingFilm YAY! CONGRATS TO OBAA FOR BEING THE WINNER OF THIS YEAR'S OSCARS! BEST PICTURE, INDEED!

@janus05554691 @jerald @Kaasburgers @charliesmirkley I don't think most white people are as rabidly racist as you guys. That's why you all still have to come to the internet, use a fake name, and still have to pay the "racist tax" to Twitter to get people to see your racist posts.

@jerald @Kaasburgers @charliesmirkley Same wiht any state benefits.

Across Western Europe, Muslim voters have built a near-total alliance with the left. 85% vote Left or Center-Left on. See details further below.

@otapt3a6933 @arketype4 @LewisMoran @santiagogolind2 @Pacific_Tim @ripplebrain Nope.

@arketype4 @LewisMoran @santiagogolind2 @Pacific_Tim @ripplebrain Maybe. But I don't think there will really be much of a change in the future regarding Israel diplomatically. At most the financial aid will stop, and probably intelligence sharing too, but the un votes and vetos etc will stay

I'm going to explain this in detail for people aren't familiar with it. It's going to sound somewhat unbelievable because it's some of the most stone cold Sun Tsu Machiavelli shit of all time, but Sinwar openly described it in these terms. First, put yourself in his shoes. Gaza is an open air concentration camp, and there's no indication this will ever change. The Israelis are gobbling up increasing amounts of Palestine outside of Gaza. They're also normalizing relations with the Sunni Arab states to an unprecedented degree. The Abraham Accords were signed in 2020, and Israeli relations with the entire Sunni world are on an upward trajectory. The only faction within the region that could possibly come to your rescue is the Shia. The Iranians have huge military potential, but their strategy is to keep themselves at a distance while slowly attriting the Israeli axis with proxy forces, and this is having mixed results. The Iranians are under severe economic pressure and have no interest in a wider war. It looks unlikely that they'll be able to change the picture for the Palestinians if this continues. So what do you do? First, you need to understand the mindset of all the factions involved: Israel, the US, Hezbollah, Iran, the Gulf monarchies, Egypt, Ansar Allah, and so on. The Israelis are almost as dissatisfied with the present situation as you are. While they're achieving diplomatic success, their goal is to fully ethnically cleanse Gaza and the rest of Palestine, and start gobbling up territory in Lebanon and Syria to drive towards a future Greater Israel. Even if their position is gradually improving with the Sunni states, ultimately they're nowhere close to their long term goals, and have serious regional enemies in the form of Hezbollah and Iran. And they have the largest military in the world at their disposal if they need it. Sinwar's strategic decision was to force a "great battle," a "flood for Al-Aqsa." His calculus was that if Hamas initiated a massive, open attack on Israel, the Israelis would use it as a casus belli to implement their strategic goals with regard to Palestine. With relations still not fully normalized with the Arab states, this would heighten the contradictions within the Middle East and lead to a massive regional war. As the Israelis would be forced to go for broke, they'd attempt to also resolve their goals in Lebanon, which would of course suck in Hezbollah, and in turn suck in Iran. Perhaps the most crucial second-order effect without which this plan could have failed is the reaction of Ansar Allah. Their actions in the Red Sea and decision to regularly lob missiles and drones at Israeli territory kept the situation from cooling off. If they hadn't been willing to take on the US Navy solo, the plan might have failed. It's taken until this latest outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Iran to get the Iranians to fully break with their strategy of caution and de-escalation. Sinwar understood the US/Israeli relationship. The Israeli ability to wield the US military like a tool ensured that a direct American attack on Iran was inevitable, forcing the Iranians to adjust their posture. This plan required a willingness to make enormous sacrifices. Gaza has been destroyed, Hezbollah is severely degraded, and the Iranians are now under existential threat. But much of the public worldwide is rapidly coming to grips with the true nature of the US/Israeli relationship. Support for Israel around the world is at a 70 year low. Tel Aviv has been hammered with hundreds of ballistic missiles in four separate True Promise operations, and there are active blockades in both the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. The US has openly abandoned its Gulf allies, paving the way for a total collapse of the geopolitical picture as it stood in October of 2023. The Israeli position is more tenuous than it's been in decades. The most mind boggling thing is that Sinwar set all of this in motion and then took up a rifle and went out to meet the IDF head on. Once Al-Aqsa flood began, the situation, which would pull in dozens of countries, was beyond his control.

@finbar589 @DianneCallaha16 @RepNancyMace No, that was fine.

@DianneCallaha16 @RepNancyMace Ranks right up there with Pelosi ripping up the printed SOU speech behind a sitting president. Right?

My heart goes out to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib tonight. Sending them thoughts and prayers.

@WilliamWolfe It will always be the conventional wisdom that Trump foreign policy is just flailing cruelty. Anyone who thinks otherwise will always be considered a stupid asshole freak.

The fact that a billionaire real estate playboy who liked to slap his name on steaks and wine has proven to be a better diplomat and military strategist than every other politician and foreign policy expert over the last 30 years is such a damning indictment of the DC establishment I honestly don’t know how they recover.

@ScottSoulman @spencerpratt Zzzzzzzzzzz

@spencerpratt As we saw at the State of the Union, Democrats won't stand when asked if they support American citizens over illegal immigrants. Bass no different...did not care about Americans in Pacific Palisades.

Karen Basura and Nithya Raman cut the LAFD budget by $17M dollars after the fire chief warned them they were dangerously understaffed. Thanks to Bass and Raman, entire blocks were left to burn in the Palisades Fire with no engines in sight.

@megha_lilly @gravey4rd_shift No you haven't.

@gravey4rd_shift I’ve read what academics have to say about great works of literature. That’s why I was revolted enough to write this.

University literature departments are where great works of literary beauty are dissected by serial killers called academics, and then the corpses of these books are arranged in a way to fit the Marxist messaging. And they call this “studying lit” and churn out more murderers.

@credealjunkie @Matt_Ryan415 @JackieFielder_ You can use the income you have raised to provide emergency funds for renters.

@Matt_Ryan415 @JackieFielder_ How do new taxes “keep” people housed?

Mayor Lurie wants to undo the will of San Francisco voters and pass this massive developer tax break, under the guise of “unlocking” thousands of housing units. When actually, this tax has kept 20,000 San Franciscans housed and was meant *to fund affordable housing.*