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Many poor people in Illinois of any ethnic background would benefit by moving to places with lower taxes, lower housing costs, more economic opportunities, and lower crime. Don’t deny people the agency of their choices. No one was forced to move to Chicago, no one is forced to stay.

@ModerateIndy Terrible comparison. Czechs and Germans left those places because of white flight while blacks were relegated to the neighborhoods they’re in now and had to make do. Now they should up and leave because white folks want to live in those places?

1. Black Chicagoans have no more right to Bronzeville and South Shore than Germans do to Humboldt Park and Czechs to Pilsen. 2. Zoning policy is why you get priced out, not because white people just move there. It’s a supply issue.

I grew up in DeKalb. I had no input that large parts of Chicago were destroyed by their own residents by the time I moved to the city in 2010. It’s not like Stonewall Jackson or Nikita Khrushchev sacked the city. Chicago politicians chose to tolerate crime and disorder. Opportunistic criminals took advantage of the power vacuum.

@ModerateIndy These areas already have denser zoning than anywhere else in the city. Also the issue is absolutely not that straightforward. We made a choice as a society to neglect black neighborhoods in Chicago. It’s a national embarrassment that we allowed them to be disinvested like this.

@BrentAWilliams2 Physicians were the kids not interested in politics. They got crushed by regulation. Giant allegedly nonprofit health systems eliminated these formerly independent professionals. The administrators are taking the resources from what should be a better paid independent profession.

The number of cucks on here whining about how much $$$ physicians make is ridiculous. Go to medical school.

@SamaHoole @DomVR Are cashews or pecans as bad?

Every February, 70% of the commercial honey bees in the United States, roughly two million colonies, are loaded onto lorries and driven to California. They are going to pollinate the almonds. 80% of the world's almonds come from one valley in California. Over 1.3 million acres of nothing but almond trees, blooming for three weeks in monoculture, requiring more pollinators than the state can produce on its own. So the bees are trucked in from every corner of the country. Florida. New York. Montana. The bees are fed sugar water for the journey because their own honey has been removed to lighten the load. They arrive in the Central Valley to a landscape that is, for three weeks, pink and white blossom, and for the other forty-nine weeks of the year, dead. Nothing to eat. No forage. No diversity. Just almond trees and bare dirt, sprayed regularly with fungicides and insecticides that were deemed bee-safe in adult bees but turn out to be lethal to larvae when combined. In February 2025, commercial beekeepers reported the worst die-off on record. Around 60% of commercial honey bee colonies in the United States dead in a single pollination season. Financial losses estimated well over $139 million. Some beekeepers lost 90 to 100% of their colonies. The almonds are marketed as plant-based. Clean. Ethical. The preferred alternative. The preferred alternative requires the single largest managed pollination event in human history and it is quietly killing the pollinators faster than they can be replaced. Every glass of almond milk is, statistically, a small contribution to the largest pollinator die-off on record. This is not in the advertising.

@FairweatherPhD Amtrak takes 1:30 to 1:45 for the trip. Amazing to be faster than driving at most times.

I have to plug Milwaukee too. Chicago would be growing faster if it wasn't losing residents to Milwaukee, which is only an hour away by train. Milwaukee is gaining so many residents that it has the some of the fastest home price growth and rent growth in the country.

New favourite clip from Japanese news just dropped

@WomanDefiner No matter who wins in 2028 we will have a crisis. Probably also a drone war at this rate.

Hey guys the border being closed and foreign births dropping is amazing and I really mean that but 20% of people in Texas under the age of 20 are White. The damage is already done. We need mass cleanup now.

Every major city has the same predictable crisis: unaffordable housing, endless sprawl, and politicians wringing their hands about "equity" while actively making everything worse. The culprit? Height and zoning restrictions that artificially cap density and force people to compete for a deliberately constrained housing stock. When government bureaucrats decide that no building can exceed some arbitrary number of stories, they're essentially rationing land in the most expensive cities on earth. Wild. Then these same economic illiterates act shocked when prices explode and working families get priced out. The solution is embarrassingly obvious. Let property owners build as high as the market demands. But that would require admitting that central planning failed spectacularly, and we can't have that. So instead, we get more subsidies, more "affordable housing" mandates, and more regulatory theater while the real problem — government-imposed artificial scarcity — continues to destroy urban life.

What is the real inflation rate based on Dave Collin’s 1980 data point to the present? My last meal in New York City included a $17 prosciutto sandwich in July 2017.

@emilysnowau @DrDiGiorgio @allseeingpinkey These other countries pretend they have universal healthcare. The sick go untreated and die in lots of countries. We are more honest about our constraints in the USA.

@DrDiGiorgio @allseeingpinkey The same way every other country that has universal healthcare does. Triage is not an unheard of system.

If there are 50 people who want to see the neurosurgeon but he only has 10 appointments available, how does one guarantee that right to healthcare?

Illinois, This is the Democrat machine in action; the population is down and spending up 72% (inflation-adjusted). Where did it go? Straight into bloated union pensions, political cronies, Pritzker’s pet projects, handouts to illegals, and layers of useless bureaucrats who keep the machine greased and the voters distracted. Illinois is hemorrhaging people and treasure because one party has owned the state for decades and treats your tax dollars like their personal slush fund. Yet, Democrats blame Trump for every bit of this disaster, even though they’ve enjoyed a supermajority in the state for over 30 years and have run Chicago as their corrupt one-party fiefdom with unbroken Democratic control of the mayor’s office since 1931 (that’s 95 straight years), and a complete 100% Democratic City Council supermajority since 2011. This has to change. 🎇🇺🇸🎆 You retain the republic you're willing to sacrifice for. ⏰Get up (stop just sharing posts). 🗳️Get involved (volunteer, knock doors, donate, become a precinct committeeman, election judge, run for boards, higher office, etc.). ⚔️Fight to #MakeIllinoisGreatAgain! God bless. #Illinois #Vote #GOP

@rbarbosa91 Who likes boob jobs? So long as lady has a handful, it’s all good. I’m still using my @oneirongolf irons I bought with my 2010 tax refund. Spend your money on #whisky, #bullets, and #silver bullion. You have a #FN #FiveSeveN? #Five-sevenN #silverbullion

@rbarbosa91 The physicians need to publicize the statistic that physician pay is only 8% of US medical spending. The public thinks it is so expensive because their MD is making 10 times their salary. Admin bloat is why medical treatment is expensive.

It turns out that when people that were at the top of the class, and were required to endure extreme self-sacrifice for 15+ years, and start their first real job at age 35, that they do in fact want to be able to live in the nice neighborhood along with the corporate types.

@ScrimboSaggins @rbarbosa91 So long as the money is going to my class interests! More pay to attorneys, accountants, and male models, eh?

@br0ethius @rbarbosa91 I think it’s good that it stays expensive so that we can keep more people in the permanent underclass while giving more money to insurance companies

Universities discovered the perfect racket in the 1980s: convince bright kids they need PhDs to succeed, then extract 6-8 years of $15/hour teaching labor from them. Stanford graduates 180 PhDs per year but hires maybe 12 new professors. The math doesn't work -- and that's the point. You subsidize this machine every time you pay tuition or taxes. Universities expand PhD programs not because the economy needs more doctors of Medieval Literature, but because they need warm bodies to teach Intro to Everything while tenured professors "research" (write papers nobody reads). The artificial scarcity of tenure-track positions keeps desperate graduates working for peanuts well into their 30s. Classic monopsony power -- one buyer, many sellers, wages below market rate.

We have to get clinical pay up and administrator pay and burden down. If experienced attorneys and accountants, geeks like me, make hundreds per hour, physicians should make more. If physician pay is only 8% of US ‘health care’ spending, trimming bureaucrats are the low hanging fruit.

I think it's hilarious that some people think I should train for 14 years after high school, take q3 call and get woken up for nonsense every third call and real cases every fourth, keep them from bleeding to death through a literal pin hole, or save their life from various causes of sepsis FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME. I love taking care of patients and think what I do is the coolest thing in the world, however with all the bullshit *gestures around broadly* I would strongly advise you get off my back about my pay. If you think for a second I won't sell my house and truck and move into a mobile home to live out my days with my dog, you're SORELY mistaken. I came from the dirt and would return to the dirt. Don't try me. Fix medicine and we can have a reasonable discussion about pay. Start with firing half of the people with an administrative title. You don't need to screen them. They aren't needed.

The situation in Illinois is operating exactly how it's been designed by the democrats They've built it by funneling as much taxpayer money as possible to two groups 1. Unions 2. Migrants and their communities via healthcare and welfare spending. Both of these segments also have attached contractors, NGOs, advocacy groups, etc all dependent on the flow of dollars confiscated from those who earned them. This creates a system of well organized institutions who get out the vote and donate to the party monolithically. Sprinkle in a solid segment of run of the mill liberals who choose their politics based on what they think it signals about the type of person they are, and you've got a coalition thst will never lose.

I’m interested in the statistics going back to 2000 when the old productive Illinois economy peaked. New Illinois employment growth is in government-funded education, direct government employees, and health care. Most health worker increases are administrators these days.

@earlyvotedata @MaxNordau We should move in with the British airbase in Cyprus.

As an American the single biggest thing that repulses me about Europeans is the fact that when you ask for relatively simple and easy things, they kick and scream at you like you are some sort of monster. The USA is done being used. Get in the game or sit on the sidelines.

@Gimblin @DrClaytonForre1 If the states want to pay for their own subsidies, let candidates face the voters. Federal subsidies are inappropriate non-enumerated powers of Article I, section 8. The federal government is $40T in debt with a $2T so we can’t afford this.

My old neighborhood in North St. Louis City was destroyed by Section 8 housing. My family had lived there since the mid 1800s. A wonderful working class nation full of churches, religious grammar schools, old brick houses, bungalows, and local shops & stores was turned into an high crime ghetto. There were 3 murders on my block the 6-month period before I left in 1996. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to live out my life there. But our government sacrificed our neighborhood on the altar of the false & stupid god, equality. Section 8 and all subsidized housing need to be eliminated. It is a cancer that destroys every host neighborhood.