@trad_west_ Anyone have context on this. Where does God give us a tax rate?
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pthoman
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Father Chad Ripperger: "How is taxing a man more than what God wants not defrauding a worker of his wage?"
"Where did the goverment get the idea that it is entitled to more than 10%? God doesn't even want more than 10%. Where do they think they are better than God?
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vivek results prove “extremism” in the GOP is not a real thing. but extremism in the DNC continues to define most major state and local elections, impacting, without exception, every major city in the country.
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@TomKlingenstein Name something conservatism has actually conserved besides Israel within the last twenty years.
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Preferring dignified defeat to harsh victory is how you lose a country.
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@TomKlingenstein There are no victories or defeats in politics. Gotta get that out of your head.
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@trouble_man90 I think platner wants to believe that guys is broadly representative of the electorate. This is a mistake.
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The Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine sat down with a three time maga voter and they bonded over their shared belief that the 2016 and 2020 democratic primaries were rigged. I mean what do you even say at this point??
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine
I sat down with a Republican who voted for Trump three times. We had a lot more in common than you would think.
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What is the biggest problem you see in America right now?
Be honest and don't hold back.
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@TheEcho13 Doesnt the graph from the OP literally refute that position?
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Men. I’ve never seen so many conservative women go left as I have in the last two years and they will all tell you it’s because of men.
Dr Taylor Marshall™️@TaylorRMarshall
What causes many young women to become so liberal? Give two reasons:
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Do you think peace is realistic between the US-Iran in the near future?
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@charadelaperla @mattyglesias Nope. He significantly moderated compared to the old party platform
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@mattyglesias Didn´t Trump famously won two elections by doing the exact opposite of moderating?
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It's very funny that everyone can see that moderation is electorally helpful when they are analyzing the dynamics on the other side.
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G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris
Trump's intrusion into GOP primary elections forces elected Republicans to take his side, often endorsing dramatically unpopular stances — which generates severe blowback for the midterms. E.g., this probably cost the GOP control of the Senate in 2022 gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-06-i…
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@jess_ann_pin @_alice_evans Or it could be caused by rising anxiety among women
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Iran has a TFR of 1.44.
Same as England & Wales.
Iran's female labour force participation is 14%
US parochialism wont help us understand why fertility is falling (nearly) everywhere all at once :-)
Lydia DePillis@lydiadepillis
Personal news: I am writing a book! The conversation around birthrates has grown toxic. The truth is that fertility decline is mostly a consequence of greater freedom and opportunity, and seems unlikely to reverse. We can deal with the downsides -- if we confront them head on.
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@whoahyi @willieboag In that environment I would feel cramped and crowded overall and be frustrated to not have any space for:
A family, storage, a yard, a garden, parking, quiet
etc. My bookshelves alone wouldn't fit.
It seems a person would likely spend alot of time away which can be expensive
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@pthoman2 @willieboag i don’t really get what you mean by crazy way to live? in college forever means what? in most ways living in a dense community has facilitated “growing up” way more than if i’d kept living in the 100k pop college town i just left. dinner & drinks instead of vodka in baja blast
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It’s too expensive because there aren’t enough homes
We don’t build enough homes. Until we solve that problem, everything else is just deck chairs on the titanic
Jonathan Berk@berkie1
72% of Boston residents ages 20–30 say their ability to afford a home is one of the biggest factors in deciding whether they stay in the region or move away.
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@whoahyi @willieboag Ill be honest, from the outside, that seems like a crazy way to live. I maybe understand it if you are searching for love, but in general, this whole culture where people live like they are in college forever seems like the wrong direction to be going.
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@pthoman2 @willieboag every one i know in boston (incl. myself) pays ~1500 dollars a month by living in a stu/1bd with a partner, or 2-3-4bd with roommates. then folks who are a decade older than us might live alone in a stu/1bd, way more available units could shift that to young ppl in 1bds …
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Around the block, maybe? If I let my 5 y/o walk over to the grocery store, I'm pretty sure some official would pay us a visit.
In Texas it's a safety issue. The vehicles are so large, and the roadways so unsafe you literally can't walk anywhere outside of the residential neighborhoods safely.
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My oldest is 6. Her age peers:
-25% already have a smartphone
-spend 7.2 HOURS/wk on internet devices
-58% aren't even allowed to play IN THEIR OWN YARD without supervision
-get less than 40 minutes/week outside without supervision
-socialize with friends only 2.2 hrs/wk
The Institute for Family Studies@FamStudies
American kids spend enormous amounts of time online with very few significant restrictions, according to a new @FamStudies research brief published today by Michael Toscano, @lymanstoneky and @grantjbailey 🧵 (1 of 3) Read the summary here: ifstudies.org/blog/new-ifs-b…
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@serraotweets @lymanstoneky @goblinodds How often does this happen?
the kids in our neighborhood all run around and play together outside without close supervision.
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@lymanstoneky @goblinodds I mean what are you supposed to do? If you let your young kid out unsupervised they will be brought back to you and you will likely be cited or even arrested
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@gillysuit21 @BriannaWu Not if it takes until after the midterms to accomplish
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@pthoman2 @BriannaWu lol if 1 happens thats the biggest W trump can take.
not much change of 3 happening after that.
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This is going to get me yelled at but I think Trump’s plan to stall and let their economy fail might actually be genius.
Mark Dubowitz@mdubowitz
Senior Middle Eastern official: The Islamic Republic in Iran is 8-9 weeks from total economic collapse. The Islamic Republic in Iran is 5-6 weeks from irreversible pressure disruptions to its capped oil wells.
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@mrmeech1707 @Noahpinion @dccommonsense Even in our system we have had previous parties like the whigs who have collapsed.
I think we are nearing that level now. Have the parties ever been less popular?
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It's funny..."Independents" in America decide elections. There's damn near as many of them as there are Republicans. Yet no one is apparently willing to believe they actually exist. The number of times I am told I'm a Democrat (with Dem presidents you can reverse this) is crazy.
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@kamilkazani Attacking the system is a dead end. It always makes things worse.
These guys like Platner are tapping into real anger thats out there, but they are being followers rather than leaders here.
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Very correct approach. What I like about the left populist candidates is that they can distinguish between the GOP politicians (whom they need to fight) and the GOP electorate (whom need to win)
Centrist politicians usually can’t. They are way too tribalist
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine
I sat down with a Republican who voted for Trump three times. We had a lot more in common than you would think.
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@JuddBaroff @Empty_America I relate to you here because I am also the eccentric and refined one in my family.
I just think that real class boundaries have always been higher and the groups more static than something you can decide to cross into by reading some books or listening to different music.
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@pthoman2 @Empty_America Sure, but doesn’t everyone, especially everyone who goes to a Parish?
I mean we are higher class in that we are the ones people ask for food recommendations, we go to the opera, our children learn (without screens) in an older style, we’re white collar, &c.
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The American class system is real and so complex/contradictory as to defy easy description.
But in a sense it doesn't matter at all, you either have the money or you don't.
And guys who actually have the money often just laugh at efforts to class-mogg them.
Gait Analyst@gaitanalyst
I am not first to say it but the American class system is far more complex than the British (though more forgiving) because it is not necessarily hierarchical along a single axis but can be hierarchical along multiple axes and is the place America leans most into guess culture.
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