@ForwardCarolina Forcing costs upwards with the ACA, acting surprised when they go up, and demanding subsidies isn't what I would call a smart long term plan.
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NC Physicist
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NC Physicist
@NC_Physicist
Physicist, die-hard optimist, love learning I'm wrong.
Katılım Mart 2025
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What conservatives have managed to do is fight against and chip away at the ACA's protections bit by bit.
Healthcare is still too expensive to far too many Americans - and getting more so, as Congress today refuses to extend support for ACA subsidies.
They're choosing to make healthcare more expensive. Bad!
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Conservatives have railed against the Affordable Care Act for 15 years running now. Yet despite having multiple opportunities to "repeal and replace" it, as they swore to do, they've never actually done so. Why?
Answer: it's because the ACA was actually a major success. Conservatives still hate it because it's associated with former President @BarackObama, still the most popular political leader in America.
Consider: because of the ACA, the number of uninsured Americans was cut in half. Tens of millions of Americans have access to healthcare today who otherwise would not.
Moreover: after decades of healthcare spending eating the American economy, something changed in 2010/2011. Guess what it was?
Brian Balfour@BrianBalfourNC
Interesting word choice. The "promise" of affordable healthcare. That's all it was, a promise. The reality is the complete opposite. #ncpol
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The ultimate form of tenant protection is the ability to say to your landlord, "I'm moving out," and that requires housing abundance.
Jay Parsons@jayparsons
Renters relocating from California prefer Texas and Nevada. Renters relocating from New York prefer Florida and New Jersey. Interesting data from Apartment List.
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@mynamehear Local man surprised propaganda state is good at propaganda.
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Every headline now is something like:
China powers office building with spoonful of baker's yeast; America's new AI surgeon general says hot dogs count as vegetables
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The ACA was a gift health insurance companies could only dream of. Giveaways and hubris disguised as compassionate care.
Many Republicans and Democrats are both bought by the insurance industry, and are too cowardly to make the hard decision to take away something "free" given to their voters.
Health insurance premiums and profits have only soared after the ACA, and the only solution proposed is more subsidies from the government as a bandaid / giveaway for a broken system.
And universal healthcare / Medicare for all would just be the biggest bandaid / giveaway leading to months long delays for lower quality care (queue cherry picked data in the replies).
Better middle ground might be a subsidised HSA style care that motivates people not to over use what's feels like "free".
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Most people will probably miss that this chart is log scale
Meaning it shows a 10,000X reduction in cost
This is quite literally insane. Engineering is magic.
X Freeze@XFreeze
It’s actually insane what SpaceX is doing to the space industry right now In 1981, it cost ~$65,000 to put 1 kg into orbit For 50 years, the industry accepted this as the standard. Reusable rockets were "impossible" Then one company - led by a man obsessed with getting humanity to Mars, decided that $65,000/kg was unacceptable Right now, Elon and the SpaceX team are building Starship to hit $10–$20/kg That is a massive ~4,000x price collapse It’s actually wild that we get to watch this happen in real time
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When people tell you who they are, believe them.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yashar
President Trump celebrates the passing of former FBI Director and Special Counsel Bob Mueller.
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@nckhui FYI, this is a difference of 0.7%
And that large shocking number they chose is the difference in taxable property value, not a tax revenue number.
Remember, if you see percentages without totals, or totals without percentages, you're being manipulated.
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Raleigh gets bad news on property tax revenue: An $800+ million hit to its base. Officials cite a loophole in NC law that allows a tax exemption for affordable housing even when the owners are mostly for profit. (Via Josh Shaffer) newsobserver.com/news/local/cou… #ncpol #ralpol
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The question isn't whether Americans prefer space or density. We live in a market economy and people can choose among different alternatives, according to price.
The question is whether one side of a nearly 50/50 split should be able to ban the other side's preferences entirely
True Discipline@TruueDiscipline
Americans still prefer space over density:
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@cremieuxrecueil Or they trot this out as the debunk.
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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
Remember: A lot of foolish people use the phrase "No Evidence" maliciously. It can mean there's evidence against something, evidence for it and the establishment rejects it, no evidence on some topic in the first place, or really, any number of things!
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I love when I find some debunking article that claims to show some definitely true claim is false, and I discover that they've just never debunked the claim.
Sometimes, they'll say a claim is false because some other, irrelevant claim isn't true.
Fact-checkers are incredible!
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Under the JCPOA, Iran was allowed to delay inspections for 24 days. During that time they would scrape 3 feet of topsoil from, and pave over, inspections sites, all while building their ballistic missile capabilities and range.
How was that meaningfully preventing Iran from obtaining a nuke?
usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
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Obama agreed to $1.3 billion in sanctions relief for Iran as part of a deal that prevented both an Iranian nuke and a war.
Trump withdrew from the deal, started a war that will likely result in Iran obtaining a nuke, and gave Iran $14 billion in sanctions relief.
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
🚨U.S. to allow Iran to get ~14 billion dollars (!!!) in oil revenue 🚨This is a huge financial concession to Iran by the U.S. 🚨It is the first time U.S. is buying Iranian oil since 1996 🚨It's all happening in the middle of a war against...Iran
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And there are multi-billion dollar investments happening in NC, because of this. Amazon announced $10 billion in new investment on top of the $12 billion already invested, and Google announced $1 billion.
This tech surge drove 27% of NC tech job growth in the last few years and is driving 100's of millions in tax revenue.
businessnc.com/google-plans-1…
pwc.com/gx/en/services…
americanedgeproject.org/wp-content/upl…
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Glad to see you sharing the good news!
People not up to speed might see this and worry, not realizing it's fueling massive amounts of our country's GDP, job, and wage growth. America is becoming the dominant leader in the new multi-trillion dollar AI information age.
pwc.com/gx/en/services…
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Datacenters now consume 7% of all electricity demand in the United States, according to Goldman Sachs Global Research. That's up a whole percentage point in the last 12 months, and it's still rocketing upward.
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I read your poll. You don't see any meaningful difference between these two statements?
1. The explicit mass murder of innocent civilians is sometimes justified.
2. Violence may be necessary to save our country
I have no problem saying I'm concerned with both, and one a little more than the other. The fact you can't say the same is telling.
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@NC_Physicist No, we're not - because that's pretty similar (actually a little lower) than the number of evangelical Christians who support political violence as well.
ncronline.org/news/poll-more…
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I'm not a Christian, and any attempt to establish a Christian theocracy would be a threat to our nation.
(and that video is a strange non-sequitur)
Are you at all concerned with the 1 in 5 Muslim Americans who say that suicide bombing is sometimes justified?
I'm expecting silence or a pivot. Let's find out which.
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@NC_Physicist You mean like Christian nationalism?
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Right Wing Watch@RightWingWatch
Joshua Haymes & Brooks Potteiger (Pete Hegseth's pastor) pray imprecatory psalms against James Talarico: "I pray that God kills him. Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ... If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."
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APs are getting easier, but they are still highly meritocratic compared to not just high school grades but college grades.
Most students who get an A in a college class would be lucky to get a 3 on the corresponding AP.
Michael Torres@MindofTorres
This is what grade inflation looks like. AP exams suddenly became easier. So when your local school, district, or state touts record AP participation and passage rates ... now you know why. Source: fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…
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This is what grade inflation looks like. AP exams suddenly became easier.
So when your local school, district, or state touts record AP participation and passage rates ... now you know why.
Source:
fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…
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