i think polling self-identified yimbys on 'would you rather invest in robo cars or public transit' would see transit prioritized, but they are often coded as conservative for supporting self-driving cars *at all*
there are a number of issues like that that then seem to negatively polarize ppl
fascist algo is frying ur feed most of the yimbys im seeing are still normal, but x tries to put conservative stuff in front of us
and besides that, the movement just is big enough now to have ideological fraying/diversity
the irl presence is still pretty focused on the mission
For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.
my record in sts1 on mobile is 11:11 on ironclad. can this mindless whirlwindery prepare me for sts2?
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They found him. He died.
Another murder by our immigration goon squads
Sidewalk socialism
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
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that’s right
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
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DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
Chuck Schumer spectacularly failed the “vote blue no matter who” test and should be hounded from office
the housing is obviously more affordable than blue state housing - the biggest thing that matters here are the relative prices and wages
blue states under built relative to red states and now will pay the price while their citizens continue to put their heads in the sand about supply and demand
Doesn’t change congress, how are you gonna get the votes?
There are tons of well supported policy interventions that are far more ambitious and “obvious” than what the democrats have been able to deliver for over a decade.
the pushback here is that we may need even more dramatic improvements to break through. Congestion pricing was well-supported by theory but not politically popular until implementation. Shifting income taxes to land value taxes could be similarly dramatic. or finally delivering a public option.
It’s kinda the old kind of false consciousness! Who owns social media?
If voters can’t actually evaluate material conditions politics becomes detached from materialism which is bad for anyone but the rich imo
this is not his argument, if i read him right, his argument is that social media makes many people unable to process what issues are real at scale or not and that this is a problem for people who are serious about democracy
What I’m getting at is that I trust Matt to debunk bad interpretation of economic statistics so I wonder what his positive interpretation is, in the sense of what problems could we start shouting about that he’d say “yup that is a huge problem”
Unemployment, welfare he’s said I imagine housing too
it’s completely normal for a data source to be 1 year out of date
And wills argument has been ongoing since 2022 lmao!
So unless you think his social media theory is fine in 2023/24 but suddenly became wrong in 25 you were being a pedant
Have you published a blog or paper anywhere sort of outlining what you consider to be the biggest “real” economic drags on the average persons finances right now? I’m always happy to see you correcting data misuse but I’m curious what you consider to be the steelman of “people are struggling”
but i can't find one that is the same source as my initial graph, which splits out home/nonhome. so ig ill have to wait until those numbers come out to satisfy you. see you then!
if you wanna mix sources (this one is the bureau of labor statistics) it was a decent size drop in 2025 to return to the overall trend of slow decline
