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@LinkofSunshine You're really not voting for Bores?

Fuck it, im in, someone needs to do policyslop for millennial w2 renters

We need 1 Billion Americans.

@uncledoomer Parts of Los Angeles are exactly what you just described

it never made sense to me why this is not some of the most valuable real estate in the country. ive been there and it was all fent zombies and gas stations

@robbc_ @estherzelda0514 Land tax would be theoretically better but practically harder to implement

@GabeThoughtsIdk @estherzelda0514 Which is the argument for a land tax, not one tied to the value of the house itself.

I decide to get a TV. I pay in cash instead of financing. I am outraged that I still must pay sales tax. I take it home and find I must pay the power company for electricity to operate the TV despite paying for it in cash. I cry about this on the Internet to reveal my stupidity.

I'll hand it to Mamdani - He promised to lower costs, and Mets tickets have never been cheaper.

Disgraceful. Would have never happened under President Washington.

@beffjezos The core problem is that the flight is too long. Bring back the Concord so it’s <3 hours, then it’d be viable.

@cremieuxrecueil The 44% who didn’t are NGMI

>56% of high-income households used AI in the past week

@uncledoomer They're basically already doing this. I've heard politicians call for taxing endowments.

within the next 10-15 years, politicians are gonna run on confiscating the endowments of legacy universities who took six figures from kids and gave them worthless slips of paper

@K_AminThaabet Does he have a shot? Love the energy he brings but there are races where donations can make a real difference.

Support Ethan Agarwal, running against noxious demagogue Ro Khanna

I just want to clarify, because I'm still getting messages of "support" for telling Matt "how it is," that I wasn't really trying to criticize him. I get the impression he's a serious, honest person. I'm sure that for him, it really is about the Israeli government's manifold faults. And his list of gripes probably overlaps with my own. I'm absolutely convinced, and have said as much many times, that under Netanyahu Israel has lost far more than its enemies or some disinterested audiences radicalized by the propaganda war. It's lost good and longstanding friends, and it lost them by choosing to be grossly, recklessly incompetent and sometimes unnecessarily cruel in both policies and messaging. So far we're in agreement. My point of disagreement with Matt is that these massive failures of the Israeli government are nevertheless woefully insufficient to explain the unique scale, duration and frenzy of the anti-Israel campaign. It's simply unprecedented. Even if you assume the absolute worst of Israel -- literal genocide and the worst government imaginable -- it wouldn't be enough to explain it, for the simple reason that worse wars with much higher civilian death tolls carried out by allies of the West using Western weapons and pushed by much worse governments bent on carrying out actual genocides (cue the tiresome mob) never drew a tenth or a thousandth of this response. That's a simple fact. I don't know how to get around it. What other conflict, or even crime or atrocity (let's concede everything to show how even that doesn't close the gap), with a death toll five times Gaza's (like Yemen), could so saturate and define political discourse that it would produce the Tucker and Mamdani phenomena simultaneously, and similar shifts in Holland and Britain and Spain? What other conflict would see in the activist heart of the campaign a demand to relitigate the 1940s (erm, not the whole 1940s, only the part where Jews became safe) or demand to destroy a people? There something else at play here. Something unique to this conflict and the role it plays in Western and Muslim-world psychologies. Is it really a coincidence -- asking for some friends -- that this totally unique response happens to be landing on the Jews? The replies below will now fill with the usual endless rage-tweets from people who are definitely not bigots, they've just woken up to how the Jews control America and can't restrain their bloodlust, and since Jews are so objectively evil, it isn't antisemitism to obsessively hound them everywhere they may be found. Because of Israeli misdeeds, that's why. Matt really does despise some Israeli actions. I believe him. He's a mentally and morally healthy person. But he's not seeing the larger phenomenon around him -- which Israeli misdeeds alone can't explain.

I think, after Arafat's Camp David rejection and then Abbas's rejection, it would be helpful for some of us longtime advocates of 2SS if the Palestinian govt would hold up a map and say "this is what we will accept" or "here is what we demand in return for *ending the conflict*"

@Noahpinion Not ranking JetBlue (which is about the same size as Alaska) is super west coast-coded

Ranking of U.S. airlines: 1. Alaska 2. United 3. Delta 4. Southwest, maybe? Idk 5. discount carriers 6. just driving instead 7. flapping your arms very hard and screaming "I'm flying!!" til they kick you out of the building 8. ? 9. American

This is SO quaint. What were the 2000s?

Global perceptions of Israel are actually deeply related to ***perceptions*** of Israeli conduct, which are heavily distorted, and whitewashing of the conduct of Israel’s enemies. This is a home truth.

There are two root propositions being force-fed these days: -Antizionism is a response to Israeli misdeeds -Antizionism is not a form of Jew hatred Both of these propositions are false

Emanuel has to say this because Democrats have no idea how much we spend on stationing troops in our other allies and have no interest in learning.

Kamala trying to appeal to the “cool kids” in her party and remain relevant. But this is a flagrantly false & loathsome assertion that reinforces a core anti-Jewish trope, & to embrace this rhetoric is not to lead, but to follow. Not Presidential material now or ever.

Israel had a massive left-wing movement and left wing governments. They tried earnestly for years to make peace, and received suicide bombings in return. Because for the Palestinian “partner” the peace process was tactical, not strategic. Somehow this is all forgotten today.