Justin Slaughter

I cannot recommend this thread strongly enough, including that part of the problem is that the affluent doesn’t realize they’re a target of much middle class resentment.

The whole recent dynamic of consumer-facing businesses that exist due to capturing a large % of rich consumer spending and then offer some capacity and a worse experience to non-rich consumers leads to a lot of societal tension.

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

These people just want to take credit for everything. Profound idiots. The Trump Zohran thing had nothing to do with ideology or their brand of populism and the one place they expressed policy agreement was on YIMBYism which they’ve spent all year calling neoliberalism pejoratively.

BlueSky has most traffic when Twitter is experiencing server issues from a third party service.

Lesson there, deccentralized tech stack is better.

“Also, I’d like lower taxes. I am NOT a Tory though!”

“It’s not that I’m for austerity, it’s just that I’m against bailing out AI, crypto, private assets/university endowments, and I’m fine with canceled Thanksgiving flights and missed paychecks as long as Republicans take the blame for it.”

Bluesky is a site explicitly founded by cryptocurrency libertarians with the idea that it would be a decentralized platform where users would be free to choose the open-source moderation and algorithmic feed tools they wanted, and by accident acquired a power userbase that hates all of those things.

We’re all just waiting on more data to see how this is unfolding. The next big data is probably a poll at the 15 mark as folks miss their first paycheck.

Less dominant in the swing states than I expected. No stations in AZ, none in WI, none in metro Atlanta.

Serous question: which segments of capital would you say are acceptable to bring into the coalition?

Harris lost because inflation was 7% for two years under Biden because literally every pundit argued that Trump was caused by neoliberalism and we needed to aggressively try to flood people with money and eliminate unemployment.

This from @jbsdc.bsky.social Twitter seems on point

"This fight over the Fed independence is the Dems best chance to effect a rapprochement with the business community"

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Just going to put this here.

Crypto: [x] scam
AI: [x] scam
Polymarket: [x] scam
Economics: [x] megascam

The replies on this very leftist website re:tech/science/anything zoomer men are into are indistinguishable from Free Republic circa 1999. The worst thing about the left is the Nazis have somehow stolen the utopian vision

Probably worth thinking about the implications of online media gatekeeping shifting from Brooklyn journalists to attracting people succeeding on YouTube/TikTok. Do hot people want higher taxes?

Have you heard the Good News about position limits for oil to limit price fluctuations? https://www.paulweiss.com/insights/client-memos/cftc-adopts-position-limits-rule-and-extends-regulations-on-aggregation-of-positions

“You have to always hit the current optimal policy bullseye, and you get little credit for overshooting to avoid repeating past mistakes” is tough medicine, but seems to be the right heuristic based on the last 20 years of politics.

Supporters of rivalrous socialism/socialism in one country are the absolute worst of the bunch: Stalin, Pol Pot, the Kims, arguably Mao.

I mean, I respect them enough to listen to what they say to me. We just have a different view of the substance and politics here.

I mean, the explicit argument is that ring fencing it would shrink it down. I don’t think that’s a gotcha.

I mean, multiple members of the Admin made clear they were trying to shrink it, ringfence it, send it to zero, etc after the positive 2022 EO, including here on this website.

A lot.

You could do something that was effective there but it would need to be couched as being pro the users. That’s not what was done.

I mean, we tried that. That was 21-24.

Look, if you want to make people working in crypto untouchable for the coalition, that’s a choice. It’s not worked so well, but it is a choice.

Again, I’m a Democrat and someone who has strongly disapproved of Trump the entire time. The idea that my support is undesirable seems like an error.

Hope your day improves.

I’d say the industry was divided. But it was largely pro Biden in 2020.

I’d say you’re missing context.

Too much fixation on “fighting corporate power” in a way that didn’t animate voters but did anger business.

There’s a time and place for populism like that; this wasn’t it, not with this coalition facing that threat.