@Ragcha @Noahpinion You are delusional if you don’t think California’s housing policy is the fault of Democrat policitians. They’ve destroyed those markets through policy, and even the NIMBYs have outsized influence compared to red states
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Yes, it is not clear enough to Dems what they need to do differently. Lots of confusion about what people believe vs reality.
Like how much of the inflation spike that happened after Covid was their fault?
And how much do people think Dems were pushing transgender surgeries on children at public schools?
And how much do people think immigrants are criminals compared to Americans?
And how much do people think that California’s homelessness is based on liberal policies vs. conservative NIMBYism?
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Trump is shit and everyone hates him, but Americans also hate progressive ideology, so Dems have an uphill battle when they shouldn't
(((Harry Enten)))@ForecasterEnten
The Dems midterm warning sign is pretty clear: There are high quality polls (Ipsos, MU Law, & NBC), which show Dems shy of their generic ballot benchmark in past wave years. Their Dems avg. lead is just 3 pts... & Dems need a 3-4 pt win to take the House given redistricting.
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@YankeesVikings6 @theDavidWilkens @Noahpinion Universal childcare is not the DSA platform. The DSA are a bunch of Marxists that hate America. These aren’t Nordic social democrats, they’re insane
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@theDavidWilkens @Noahpinion 2024 showed neoliberal centrism led to a decrease in turnout over 2020, and a frustration with the status quo. But sure, universal childcare is very unpopular.
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@JasonIn16370144 @JonahDispatch China income to housing cost ratio: 21x
US income to housing cost ratio: 5x
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Great. Try and implement the parts you like and you ll find that's a lost cause. The reason is because in America, capital has all the political power. In China, the Party does. That's why Bezos and Musk could commit any crime they want and not be in jail in America and in China the moment Jack Ma decided to go against the party he was asked to "self reflect in meditation" in a place without his family and friends being able to contact him. And why Didi got buried in red tape when it chose to go IPO before the Party felt comfortable with the tech not being able to be used for various foreign operations, and killed off it's initial valuation. You can't make economic growth work for the people of capitalists control the political system. You can have what America has. And that's why America has created one trillionaire whole China lifted 900+ million from poor onto the middle class.
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And how did China do that? It wasn’t through “socialism.” That was Mao’s project. The cultural revolution killed tens of millions of Chinese through dumbass collectivism. Then Deng allowed for markets. And boom, hundreds of millions were lifted out of poverty. China held on to command and control politics but introduced limited freedom in economics and did more to alleviate poverty than socialism ever did. But you people envy the authoritarianism and so you lie and propagandize for it. Shame on you.
Paweł Wargan@pawelwargan
In my lifetime, China lifted 850 million people out of poverty, while the US created one trillionaire. It is clear as day that socialism is the key to our future.
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@JasonIn16370144 @JonahDispatch Yeah, China has 1.4 billion people and was brutally impoverished (and dying) under Mao. They could only go up, and used capitalism to do it. Also
Chinese poverty rate: 15%
Chinese household millionaires: 1%
US poverty rate: 10%
US household millionaires: 18%
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@JasonIn16370144 @JonahDispatch I do….the capitalist aspects of China are great. It’s the single party, authoritarian rule part that isn’t. But since you’re a socialist, you can’t get enough of that. Long live the vanguard party comrade!
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That's not peripheral theory, and in the age of Google you could have just looked it up before responding. But if you are convinced China is more capitalist now, and of it's results are so impressive under "capitalism" why don't you advocate for that kind of "capitalism" on your country?
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@MEVANS72 @rodsteele11 Then maybe instead or increasing taxes, they should demonstrate at least once that they can balance a budget. Why would anyone want to pay more taxes if the government is going to run a deficit regardless?
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@rodsteele11 I don’t disagree with you. Government waste is appalling.
On the other hand, my aged family members rely on Medicare and Social Security, both government funded programs. I’m guessing you have relatives similarly situated.
Those programs are insolvent as soon as 2032.
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We can also grow the pie by taxing billionaires. Done right, they can grow the pie for society (& thus create stronger consumers) & continue to grow their own wealth.
McKenzie Scott started with $32 billion, has given away $26 billion so far, & is still worth between $32B & $42B
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@JasonIn16370144 @JonahDispatch Yes, the refinements were abandoning traditional Marxist theory and accepting that capitalist mechanisms within the private sector are required for a functioning economy. But that’s not socialism, it’s a mixed economy, and in China, increasingly more private as time has gone on
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If you haven't read anything besides Karl Marx, that would explain why you don't understand. The two principal refinements of Marx's doctrine by Lenin (esp peripheral theory) are key to understanding it, and of course Chinese a refinements to said Theory such as Deng Xiaoping Theory.
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@JasonIn16370144 @JonahDispatch So with china increasing private ownership year over year for decades, to where it accounts for more than half of their GDP, that’s Marxist socialism? Marx was like “Seize the means of production, but then like, stop seizing most of it after”
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@JonahDispatch Wow Lenin was apparently a capitalist because of the NEP, according to this tired and thoroughly discredited argument.
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@FADINGOPTIMIST @PollTracker2024 @notcapnamerica @PeterSchorschFL Donalds has a 94% chance to win based on the betting markets. Fishback is at 6%. If they’re racist, the sure like the black guy a lot more than the racist guy
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@PollTracker2024 @notcapnamerica @PeterSchorschFL The irony of it all 🤣. But I’m supposed to believe the Republican Party isn’t racist when it’s literally on display everyday that they don’t even like the black members of their own party 😂.
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#FloridaGovernor
Florida Politics dot com: James Fishback and his supporters ambush Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL)
Fishback calls Byron Donalds a “slave” and “DEI hire” in front of Donalds’ face
Video credit: @PeterSchorschFL
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@brklynmind @SethBorman @arpitrage Some of the most affordable places on the planet are in the sun belt when looking at income to housing cost ratios. All due to market forces. But I have a feeling that’s not exactly what you’re trying to achieve
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@SethBorman @arpitrage Our economy isn't large & doesnt grow because we spend 2x the amount on healthcare & get generally worse results, its in spite of that.
Imagine our economy plus where people could freely quit jobs they hate or are bad at & take ones they want, in places with affordable housing.
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I actually think a more evenly distributed wealth distribution would result in more “pro business” political influence because a larger section of voters views it in their interest
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@johnpaul2n44056 @itscoleonx @pawelwargan China income to housing cost ratio: 21x
US income to housing cost ratio: 4.5x
The sun belt in America down south is one of the best income to housing ratios on the planet
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@itscoleonx @pawelwargan And yet you can't afford to live, lmao
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In my lifetime, China lifted 850 million people out of poverty, while the US created one trillionaire. It is clear as day that socialism is the key to our future.
Pubity@pubity
Elon Musk is officially the first trillionaire in human history.
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@Vladimiracle @Jodyjtaylor @JonahDispatch Believe it or not, scaling businesses in sectors with large incumbents and high barriers to entry internationally is just as hard as having a good idea. And he did found SpaceX himself, didnt but it. Pretending Elon is some moron who accidentally keeps being successful is dumb
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@thebiggest1500 @Jodyjtaylor @JonahDispatch My solution here is to rightly point out that he is a fucking fraud. He doesn't invent shit, he buys companies that have good ideas and engineers, although not that good, Tesla's are horrible cars and the Space X rockets fail at astonishing rates.
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“hoarding $1T in stolen wages” is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a while.
they/them might be giants ☭@babadookspinoza
People only hate Elon Musk because he comes from an emerald mining fortune made in apartheid South Africa, he buys ideas and pretends he’s an inventor, he’s a white supremacist, union-busting, abusive employer, he’s hoarding $1T in stolen wages, he makes us ashamed to be human,
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@Vladimiracle @Jodyjtaylor @JonahDispatch Well yeah, he is a majority owner and founder of multiple billion dollar companies that were far more likely to fail than not. The average person is not, even the average wealthy person. What is your solution here? Force Elon to sell his companies because it makes you upset?
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@Jodyjtaylor @JonahDispatch All you dipshits saying 'he doesn't have a trillion dollars'! Are howling in the wind. He is worth a trillion. The average American is worth less than $300,00. He is a fucking alien and defending him makes you a bootlicking fucking moron.
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@RichardArion1 @TheoRavelstein I mean this is just objectively true if you’re using American standards
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@TheoRavelstein The point of my post is that “Hispanics are culturally conservative” is pure crap
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“Mexicans are natural conservatives”
Kalshi Politics@KalshiPolitics
JUST IN: Democrats have a 78% chance to win the Arizona Governor election
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@MichaelPByrne1 @grok @Sephirothwings @RoKhanna @elonmusk @JoeBiden Basic economics is greed gibberish?
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@grok @Sephirothwings @RoKhanna @elonmusk @JoeBiden grok is a devotee to the greed gibberish…fascinating
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@gitahishawn @Brien_Jackson So I saw this but gonna be honest, she is the only reporter who I’ve seen claim this exact wording so I could be wrong
x.com/brooketaylortv…
Brooke Taylor@Brooketaylortv
Live outside the Karmelo Anthony murder trial. The defense is expected to call more witnesses today after one of its own witnesses testified during cross-examination that “Karmelo was in the wrong” and provoked the confrontation.
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@thebiggest1500 @Brien_Jackson I don't believe it was self defence but this is just a lie,the kid who testified for the defence very clearly stayed that he was invited to the tent and the twins not only provoked him but one of them went over quite a distance just to do so,
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I'm going to offer a mild defense here and note that "I started the incident but then they made me scared so obviously I had a right to kill them" is a belief that conservative white people espouse with extreme regularity, do I understand feeling like there's a double standard.
Allie ✞@allie__voss
The “Karmelo Anthony acted in self defense” thing only makes sense if you believe you’re entitled to kill people who insult you A shocking number of people do, actually, believe this
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@defigosha @_Credible_Hulk You’re missing in the violent expropriation of property, dictatorial rule and silencing of political dissent that is fundamental to Marxist, Leninist, Maoist beliefs in achieving the ideal state. It’s a euphemistic way of saying “we will kill everyone who opposes us”
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I am curios. You really think there is no difference here? Genuinely curious
Nazism’s “ideal point” — that is the theoretical society they propose necessities killing of tens of millions
Communisms “ideal point” (it is impossible of course) — that is a theoretical society where goods have no relative value and everyone leaves equally
Not denying that attempts at communism killed tens of millions, not in the slightest. However this is genuinely not the same, at least from theoretical standpoint. At least how I see it, happy to read the rebuttal to that
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Communists think as long as you don’t intend to kill tens of millions it’s okay to kill tens of millions
Audra Nyx@TheAudraNyx
Dumb.
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@xbot911 @theblackvault Because they aren’t leaking classified info, which everyone understands. No normal person is going to expect them to destroy their families and risk prison, they’re going through official channels for a reason
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@theblackvault Edward Snowden is on the run for leaking a truly classified program, no one cares about "ufo whistleblowers", ask yourself why
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Yesterday, David Grusch mentioned a formerly classified 1971 Australian secret assessment by the nuclear branch chief of the Australian government discussing the U.S. coverup of UFOs.
This is a thread of that document that has been available on The Black Vault for a decade+.
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@thebiggest1500 @RepLuna I don’t need to look it up. I lived it for 26 years in the AF. OSD, Air Staff, CENTCOM, Europe, Pacific,SWA. This is a distraction by Luna and the Administration.
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My Task Force will be meeting with the White House to discuss providing whistleblowers with permanent immunity protections, so they can safely disclose the TRUTH about secret programs in the government that may know more about the UAP phenomenon than they are telling us.
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