@Ksaktweets Pure resentment. They don’t care about the poor. They just hate the rich.
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This is correct. What I’ve found in Seattle is that there is a revolutionary class of College grads angry they don’t have amazing jobs that are indoctrinated who just want to feel part of something. There is entitlement and a disdain for those that have made it.
They penetrate organizations and actually advocate for collapse. If homeless are running around everywhere it makes it look like capitalism failed.
They don’t care about the poor or solving a problem.
jim iuorio@jimiuorio
I think we’re making a mistake to just believe that the people who vote for these lunatics are ignorant. There’s gotta be more. I think there are many who want to burn down the whole system even if it makes their own situation worse…anger and hatred are powerful forces…thought?
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@SukritGanesh What’s sad is you don’t even have a theory for what prop 13 is harming. You just parrot.
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How to fix California:
- Implement 1910s building laws (zoning, permitting, etc.) on 50% of all urban land. Basically unfettered YIMBYism.
- Remove Prop 13.
- Abolish CEQA
- Uncap home insurance rates
- Eliminate corporate income taxes
- Adopt urbanism as state policy
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@RupertVonRipp @curtis_yarvin The boundlessness of human desire will come up with uses. Artisanal manufacture. Status competition. Some people will learn to code robots.
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@darknessatnite @curtis_yarvin Yet time is not. What, exactly, are the Everyman desk jockeys supposed to do when clankers can do everything the Everyman does, cheaper, and better?
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Capitalism inherently creates demand for human labor? How does this work exactly? Examples?
Is this a falsifiable assertion or a creed of faith? Does transportation inherently create a demand for equine labor?
I’m 30,000 feet over the Strait of Hormuz. Don’t see any horses
Julie Fredrickson@AlmostMedia
I think she has done an excellent job reporting on the mindset of what amounts to the Last Bourgeoisie. Knowledge workers so effective at disruption their aim was to destroy their own jobs But that’s not how capitalism works. It creates more jobs as we remove inefficient ones
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@SukritGanesh Remove prop 13 lets the state steal more. This will just make things worse. Fly your plane to Ukraine
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Huge question what LLMs will do to analytic philosophy especially... Seems like it ought to be very good or very bad.
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The way politicians in California are actively cooking and eating their golden goose is just incredible.
All they have to do is not be completely insane and they can’t handle it.
Blake Byers@byersblake
Unfortunately, those in power in Sacramento seem blind to second order effects. We are now in a situation where this wealth tax is very likely to pass. This means founders who control their companies through super voting shares (instead of ceding control to VCs) need to start preparing to leave the state. I wish we could entice more founders to come and build here instead of forcing people away. The top 1% of earners pay 40% of income tax (CA actually has the most progressive income/cap gains tax system in the world). If we could double that 1% group (by building people up and recruiting people here), we’d increase our taxes by 40%! Instead, we are pushing away those top 1% of earners and risking dropping our tax revenue by 40%. And for founders with super voting, they effectively are forced to leave. Basically we need to hope that Gavin pulls off a last minute save and negotiates with the sponsoring union to pull the Wealth Tax proposition.
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"Emmanuel Macron armours France against an Orban-style takeover"
If Orban packs Hungary's highest courts with ideologically and politically reliable judges, that's "democratic backsliding", but if Macron appoints a notoriously corrupt and incompetent loyalist to head France's constitutional court, where he will be able to systematically undermine the policies of Macron's successor for ideological reasons (even if he campaigned on them, they are overwhelmingly supported by public opinion and there is no serious legal argument for their unconstitutionality), that's a heroic act to protect democracy 😪
Sophie Pedder@PedderSophie
“Step by step Emmanuel Macron has been executing what looks like a plan to protect France’s institutions in case the populist right wins next year’s presidential election” economist.com/europe/2026/04…
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@Ed_Realist @herandrews Probably true. In the olden days you would pay a lot to get into a good district. Now you pay to get into a good district and pay for private on top of that.
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When Mission San Jose High School in Fremont became majority Asian, they cancelled their football program. "According to Coach Kevin Lydon, trying to muster enthusiasm for football on the Mission High campus was 'like trying to sell electricity to the Amish.'"
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@alreadydawn He’s just excitable. Most people at FAANG aren’t from ivies. The same thing that held him back is also why he flew to Ukraine after the war started.
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A famous Silicon Valley tech guy who made bank at Facebook and wrote a best-selling book on that experience shared how his kids must attend Ivies and how not attending one himself *literally* ruined his life.
Part of the rant included how he completely cut off all family relations once he realized the magnitude of the mistake of not having gone to one, how he talked to his mother only after she got cancer. I wish I was joking but this was literally all his own words, check the screenshot.
Mind you, this guy is still “filled with bottomless rage” over his parents’ unintentional mistake, even at 50 years old. I don’t think I’ve seen this level of victimhood and blame before, especially from someone with his level of career success.
Anyways, this gives you a peep into the spiritual sickness of the Bay Area. The striverism and the money/status chasing have made many very unwell.
damone.hl@defi_damone
@antoniogm You quickly deleted the last addendum to this thread… pretty nasty behavior and attitude given the context you provided. You disowned your family after retroactively acquiring personal insecurities about not attending an Ivy? You blame them for that? Insane.
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My rough estimate is that Justice Jackson has dominated more than half of the questioning in the TPS case, and it is clear her questions have no relationship to the decision she has already made. She is not seeking "illumination" or "understanding" -- she is demanding admissions with questions that assume facts not in evidence in the lower court.
She raised the issue whether the statements made by POTUS about Haiti reflect "racial animus" and when Sauer said they aren't relevant to the DHS Sec. decision, she says "But the District Judge said they were relevant? How is that clear error? Isn't that review that applies."
This is wrong. Just like a reviewing court looking at a video that was examined by the lower court, both judicial bodies can draw their own conclusions -- the lower court judge isn't any more competent than the reviewing court in determining what the video shows.
Same for recorded statements by POTUS. What he said is not disputed. What that means, and what impact it might have, is not something the lower court has greater insight about than the reviewing Court .... UNLESS the person testified in the lower court where credibility comes into play, and that did not happen here.
Shipwreckedcrew@shipwreckedcrew
I believe Justice Jackson, again, has jumped ahead of 5-6 other Justices ahead of her in seniority to begin grilling Sauer on the TPS case where she is doing NOTHING MORE than arguing the legal points of the opposition as if she was arguing the case on behalf of the TPS petitioners. Her "questions" -- with the lead-ins -- are 5x longer than anything she allows Sauer to say prior to cutting him off.
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Here's my "one-person" stats: Trans shooters have killed 46 people since 2018. Thirteen of those deaths are THIS YEAR!
Jesse Von Rootselaar (7 kids dead)
Sasha Shakur (1)
Robert Dorgan (3)
Marissa Teubner (1)
Eleanor Beaulieu (1)
And don't even get me started on the Zizians (6).
Thomas Sowell Quotes@ThomasSowell
Q: "Why do you have to lie to make your point?" Matt Walsh: "I think as someone who believes that women have penises you're not one to lecture people for lying."
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Elizabeth Warren doing enormous damage even if her butchery of the housing bill doesn't ultimately pass:
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
The Senate housing bill that would severely restrict build-to-rent homes is already causing projects to pause and financing to dry up on.wsj.com/4tyq3Ql
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So Justice Kagan is reported in Molly Hemingway's new book on Justice Alito as having urged liberal members of the Court to slow-walk their dissents in the Dobbs case for months after Justice Alito had finished his majority decision, presumably with the "hope" that the composition of the Court would change and the 5-4 outcome striking down Roe would turn into a 4-4 deadlock that left the lower court's decision in place - affirming Roe.
NOW, it is clear that it was Justice Kagan -- and not Justices Jackson and Sotomayor -- who has held up her dissent in the Louisiana redistricting case, as she has written the only dissent -- with the whispered-about motivation being to push the decision back far enough into the calendar back such that some states don't have time to engage in redistricting before the Nov. elections -- redistricting that might eliminate minority-majority districts and cost Democrats seats.
If both these two anecdotal accounts about Kagan gain traction, it will forever stain her legacy on SCOTUS.
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@mnolangray Prop 13 has been great. It’s the only thing which has actually resisted the rapacious state.
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I think people underrate the extent to which California is broken because of (a) insane ballot initiatives, e.g. Prop 13, and (b) insane court decisions, e.g. CEQA. These policies would not have passed out of the legislature.
Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi
Everyone is getting this wrong: The politicians in California are pretty terrible, but you can't blame them for the wealth tax... they actually killed the idea 2 years ago. Our uniquely bad form of direct democracy is the actual culprit. Democratic Socialist assemblyman Alex Lee introduced the wealth tax in Sacramento (AB 259) 2 years ago. It was not popular, it actually did not even make it to a vote. It was deemed too leftist even for the California legislature. So why is it back? California's uniquely bad form of direct democracy lets you bypass the legislature if you get enough signatures... You can put almost anything on the ballot if you get signatures. That is what the SEIU-UHW, the healthcare workers union did. Union leadership spearheaded this initiative and funded the campaign directly to collect signatures for the wealth tax. They collected signatures by going around asking if people want more money from billionaires to fund hospitals, healthcare, food aid, and schools... naturally people said yes without realizing the consequences. The only major currently elected official from California that supports it is Ro Khanna. My guess from seeing his support on twitter is that Ro decided to support it without understanding it and then dug his heels in for some stupid reason (he actually acknowledged that it is bad as written). Tom Steyer and Saikat Chakrabarti who are running for office also support it (we need to do everything we can to oppose them). I can't believe I'm defending California politicians, but remember - they actually rejected a wealth tax. This is a union-backed ballot initiative trying to go around them.
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