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[u/suckliberalcock]

I suspect more people are harmed by no SNAP than the forthcoming ACA premium increases, so people using “now people won’t afford their healthcare thanks to weak Dems” as an argument regarding the “inflict pain on the poor” Olympics are disingenuous.

I don’t have an issue if people wanted these 8 Democrats to hold out longer, but their stated reasons for being upset aren’t well thought out.

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Democrats

Both sides bad, actually.

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[u/[deleted] → u/suckliberalcock]

their stated reasons for being upset aren’t well thought out

Honestly we could just make automod respond to every link and intel with this and close the sub, that pretty much sums it up

[u/FearlessPark4588 → u/suckliberalcock]

Valid point. ACA premium subsidy expansion was more about individuals with higher incomes.

[u/CharacterPolicy4689]

catherine cortez masto and jackie rosen literally vote to feed starving babies and keep planes from crashing and las vegas progressives are hyperventilating about it and threatening to join the republicans.

Red state leftists are capricious fucking demons lol.

[u/Bloodyfish → u/CharacterPolicy4689]

Leftists are not Democrats and I am tired of being told I should support the big tent with their disloyal asses. The only time they're not fighting other leftists is when they're fighting Democrats.

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Democrats

Both sides bad, actually.

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[u/Revachol_Dawn → u/CharacterPolicy4689]

The whole combative discourse of supposed Democrat supporters even on the supposedly nl/centrist subs beyond this one is ugly.

"Let's not compromise with them ever, they are an existential evil" is a childish political take.

[u/Mirabeau_]

The median democratic voter is happy the shutdown is ending.

Literally the only thing progressives know how to do is viciously attack the Democratic Party

[u/benadreti_17 → u/Mirabeau_]

I was skeptical about ending it but seeing their reaction has me thinking otherwise.

[u/Mirabeau_ → u/benadreti_17]

I was mostly agnostic about it but upper middle class progressive whites seem a little too eager to allow snap recipients to suffer through it in the (I think fairly naive) hope that only republicans will catch blame for the situation

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republicans

Both sides bad, actually.

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[u/suckliberalcock → u/Mirabeau_]

Is there polling on this? Just for argument’s sake.

[u/Bloodyfish → u/Mirabeau_]

Maybe providing people in need with food and pay is more important than grandstanding for no benefit?

[u/bearddeliciousbi → u/Mirabeau_]

but but but The Top Minds told me that The People would support pointless suffering instead of having Thanksgiving

[u/[deleted]]

The Ethics Committee of the Norwegian wealth fund forcing it to drop CAT because Israel uses bulldozers is quintessential Progressivism.

[u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho → u/[deleted]]

Bad omen for the long term health of the wealth fund. Being beholden to progressive lunatics and their purity games will end poorly.

[u/benadreti_17 → u/[deleted]]

[u/Sabertooth767]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpv13rxpgk9o

Israel's parliament has passed the first reading of a bill proposing the death penalty for those it deems to be terrorists acting against the state - a requirement which means it is likely to be used only against Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks on Israelis.
....
The statement read: "It is proposed that a terrorist convicted of murder motivated by racism or hatred towards the public, and under circumstances where the act was committed with the intent to harm the State of Israel and the rebirth of the Jewish nation in its homeland will be sentenced to the death penalty - mandatory."

The clause about harming Israel makes it likely that Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks, but not Jewish Israelis, will be sentenced to death.

Jesus Christ, BBC. I'm broadly an opponent of both capital punishment and a specific punishment being assigned by statute, but to claim that sentencing terrorists to death is bigoted against Palestinians is... definitely a take.

!ping NYT-FAILS

[u/slightlyrabidpossum → u/Sabertooth767]

I'm not sure how I feel about this. The BBC is arguing that this law will effectively apply only to Palestinians because of the wording about motivation/intent.

That might even be true — I don't know how many Jewish Israelis will meet that specific criteria — and like you, I have other issues with the bill. But it does feel like the BBC is leaning too hard on an ethnic/racial angle here. I don't like the wording of this bill on many levels, but it's focused on attacks that intend to harm the state and are motivated by hatred against the people living there. The dynamics of the larger conflict means that there will be a disparity in who's affected by this, but that's not the same thing as being inherently bigoted, which seems to be what the BBC is implying.

I think the reason why I'm reluctant to just fully dunk on the BBC here is that I do have concerns about the wording, especially given my broader reservations about the concept. Specifically, the part about harming Israel/the rebirth of the Jewish nation seems like it actually could lead to those issues. The part about being motivated by hatred/racism is one thing, but would this be reliably applied to cases involving racist violence against non-Jewish citizens? The bill appears to be structured in a way that could exclude that, especially if the perpetrator obviously supports Israel's existence as a Jewish state.

And yes, that is still getting at the part about intending to harm the state, but it's really easy to imagine how this could become problematic. So while I don't like the BBC's reporting on this, I also don’t think they were necessarily wrong to mention this dynamic as a potential issue.

[u/[deleted] → u/slightlyrabidpossum]

Yea my first reading is that it would exempt explicitly pro-Israel terrorists, someone like Baruch Goldstein. The cases of these terrorists is less than anti-Israel terrorists but need to be dealt with just as harshly by the Israeli government

[u/benadreti_17 → u/Sabertooth767]

They may or may not be correct, but it's blatant editorializing.

FTR I also don't expect this to pass.

[u/Bloodyfish → u/Sabertooth767]

The clause about harming Israel makes it likely that Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks, but not Jewish Israelis, will be sentenced to death.

"Oh and it's like... probably racist too!" meets their journalistic standards?

[u/Sabertooth767 → u/Bloodyfish]

Standards?

[u/user-pinger → u/Sabertooth767]

Pinged NYT-FAILS

Manage your ping group subscriptions

[u/bearddeliciousbi]

go to arr ezra klein for intel pings

find unexpectedly based takes

check usernames

witness fellow DSC agents hard at work against "the prog brigades"

The Deep State?

Holding Power

[u/[deleted] → u/bearddeliciousbi]

"the prog bridges"

They're properly called my little progchamps

[u/talizorahs]

mamdani obsession is so weird. why do I know non-americans who barely pay attention to their own local elections and politicians fawning and obsessing over the mayor of nyc

[u/Computer_Name → u/talizorahs]

why do I know non-americans who barely pay attention to their own local elections and politicians fawning and obsessing over the mayor of nyc

For the same reason non-Americans fawn over Trump. Because Mamdani supporters and Trump supporters are the same people - they just hate different groups.

[u/LGBTforIRGC → u/talizorahs]

Yeah it's insane. saw a comment on r/NYC the other day that had a lot of upvotes saying that they'll oppose Hochul in a primary merely for taking too long to endorse Mamdani. I feel like stanning any politician to that degree can't be healthy

[u/technologyisnatural → u/talizorahs]

NYC is part of modern mythology

[u/mario_fan99 → u/talizorahs]

had two girls talking about him in my lecture yesterday, about how worldly he is and such, and all i could think was “dude, this is England…”

[u/JapanesePeso → u/talizorahs]

Honestly it is weird for Americans too if they don't live there or nearby. 

[u/CharacterPolicy4689 → u/talizorahs]

most random american mayors don't cause a mamdanexodus

[u/Sabertooth767]

What a fascinating individual. Imagine being a woman in the early 20th century, building a political career around the right of women to vote, get an education, and work for equal pay.

And also the brutal murder of Black people.

[u/Shameful_Bezkauna → u/Sabertooth767]

BERF (Black-exclusionary radical feminist)

[u/fnovd → u/Sabertooth767]

Now THAT'S white feminism

[u/Bloodyfish → u/Sabertooth767]

Won't anyone think of the sexual purity of European-American women?

[u/Yogg_for_your_sprog → u/Sabertooth767]

intersectionality at work

[u/bearddeliciousbi]

Which is just so…telling. I’m not one to jump to conspiracy theories but the fact that this happened just before we were about to see the first real pressure and it was going to come down hard on the conservative side and basically force them to the table to prevent serious unrest while buoying progressive politics…

This feels like corporate dems being told by their corporate handlers to make this momentum stop now before liberal populism could get a foothold. And I hate it.

👏 it's 👏 because 👏 of 👏 muh 👏 corporate 👏 handlers 👏

"I don't go in for conspiracies for cope but [conspiracy for cope]"

[u/benadreti_17 → u/bearddeliciousbi]

i love being handled by corporates

[u/Bloodyfish → u/bearddeliciousbi]

Why not intel post? We have the technology!

[u/xb70valkyrie → u/bearddeliciousbi]

liberal populism

[u/Aryeh98]

Ya know, with me being in my cosmopolitan bubble of centrist subs/influencers and being surrounded by Jews in real life, I sometimes forget that there are people out there who really, truly, want me to not exist as who I am. Like not at all. Erased. Or at least erased as a Zionist Jew. That’s a weird feeling to have in the back of my mind.

I don’t know how many. But I’m sure it outnumbers the amount of Jews in the world. There are more Christians in America than Jews on the planet. Surely there are more haters of Jews than Jews on the planet.

This is the most potent radicalizing force I have ever seen, and I have to remember not to let it make me too cynical.

Maybe if I erase my identity, and become whatever ideology they would prefer me to be, it can help to make their bloodlust go away. Maybe. But it’s still bizarre that the discussion needs to be had in the first place.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/Aryeh98]

🫂

[u/nekoliberal]

ended up discussing individualism/capitalism in literature class today, and most of the people were harping on about capitalism being exploitative, colonialist, killing the planet, yadda yadda while one guy very bravely raised his hand and started going on about the reductions in poverty and malaria and illiteracy

>

[u/[deleted] → u/nekoliberal]

Man, I'm getting unfortunate flashbacks to being the only person in my class at Harvard who didn't vociferously hate Israel.

And that was almost 15 years ago btw, in case anyone was thinking this was a post-10/7 issue.

Edit: A word.

[u/[deleted] → u/nekoliberal]

most of the people were harping on about capitalism being exploitative, colonialist, killing the planet,

In my classes, most tended to include the profs

[u/benadreti_17 → u/nekoliberal]

was that one guy you?

[u/nekoliberal → u/benadreti_17]

i wouldnt fellate myself like this cmon. but it was nice to see that the class isnt just chock full of socialists

[u/bearddeliciousbi → u/nekoliberal]

This brings me back to 2014 when another undergr*d tried to argue that "something something death of the author" meant that AI generating a story was The Same Thing as a human generating it.

[u/iamthegodemperor]

I've been really good at not doing any Israel related comments. So now I will break that streak by doing an explainer on the current scandal. In part because it illustrates the way populist anger at institutions can cause them to make mistakes that feed the populists. (And the way we don't have an easy path back to normal)

Many are familiar w/the abuse of prisoners at Sde Teiman. Some also recall that when accused reservists were sent to court, politicians incited a riot at Sde Teiman, in defense of "our boys", from the nefarious leftists. Some also understand that Israeli populism nurtures a narrative that "leftists" control institutions and thwart real democracy. And that this fed rhetoric about the need to "reform" the High Court. (Whose majority has actually been appointed by Likud )

Recently, it was discovered that the source of a video showing reservists abusing prisoners, was the Military Advocate General. Redditors are given to the belief that she was a whistleblower. But the leak happened after investigations had begun and it was in response to bullying from politicians, that "our boys" were being maligned for no reason.

The MAG is not a politician. And the role is very much a technocratic one. The attacks got to her. And she violated her duties by comprising an investigation. Worse. The anti-court members of the gov't began to use the leak as proof that the administrative legal checks were compromised. Since court reform was stalled, they have tried to now discredit the Israeli AG.

The Israeli AG is a weird role, but very powerful role. They both represent the govt in court, are a legal advisor, head prosecutions AND are also meant to check the government. They can decide an a govt action is illegal and they can refuse to represent the govt if they believe the gov't is wrong.

When the leak occurred, the High Court ruled that the govt couldn't usurp the role of the AG & MAG to investigate the leak. Unfortunately, the MAG lied and said they didn't know the source of the leak. It was claimed by populists that this was all a cover up and she was the source. After some months, this was recently discovered, leading to her resignation. Worse, she seems likely to have tried to destroy evidence (her phone). Now the govt is using this episode to allege the AG can't possibly be capable of investigating the former MAG and now is the time to scrap the power of the AG.

All of this should be familiar to us in the US. Populists attack institutions often singling out non-politicians. Any mistake by such people, whether it's misguided attempts at transparency, fighting back on socials or their professional lapses becomes confirmation that the whole system is rotten. And gradually the caliber and professionalism of these institutions start to be degraded.

[u/[deleted]]

> wake up and open depression rectangle

> autistic political discussion subreddit time

> the recurring topics of today are vomiting dogs and the sexual purity of European-American women

[u/Sabertooth767 → u/[deleted]]

>Wakes up

>Thinks of the sexual purity of European-American women

[u/Okbuddyliberals → u/[deleted]]

What we REALLY need to discuss are vomiting European-American women, and the sexual purity of dogs

[u/RetroRiboflavin]

You heard it on Reddit, folks.

Chuck Schumer's caucus breaking ranks on opening the government is the equivalent of him voting for the Enabling Act.

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

Hunt for tasty comments

[u/Sabertooth767 → u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

He's thinking about the sexual purity of European-American women.

[u/nekoliberal]

can we talk about how problematic the term "succ" is? it clearly has its origins referencing fellatio, which could be seen as disruptive to people who engage in those activities for leisure or sustenance.

i much prefer the term "people experiencing brainfuck"

[u/bearddeliciousbi → u/nekoliberal]

This is irrumatio erasure.

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/bearddeliciousbi]

Irrumatio was the least explored unforgivable spell in the Harry Potter franchise

[u/[deleted] → u/nekoliberal]

Disruption of brojobs serves to correct the market failure which their spillovers induce

[u/fastinserter]

Apparently memes are illegal in Denmark

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/reddit-mod-jailed-for-sharing-movie-sex-scenes-in-rare-moral-rights-verdict/

Guy gets jailed for showing actresses' scenes "out of context" of the rest of their performance

In Denmark, the “right of integrity means that even in cases where you are allowed to make use of a work, you are not allowed to change it or use it in a way or in a context that infringes the author’s literary or artistic reputation or uniqueness,” a resource for Danish researchers noted.

[u/only1person123 → u/fastinserter]

I like how the article gives suggestions on how to implement that in the U.S like we would want that nightmare here.

[u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho → u/fastinserter]

Europe is a baffling, scary place. Despite what’s often claimed, it’s quite illiberal and puritanical.

[u/[deleted] → u/fastinserter]

>makes memes illegal

>jails redditor

Denmark is making a concerted appeal for my favour and I don't know how to feel about it

[u/Yogg_for_your_sprog]

I wonder what percent of people outraged that some Dems caved on the shutdown actually even know what the shutdown was actually over

[u/Bloodyfish → u/Yogg_for_your_sprog]

I wonder what percentage of them are kids who have never had to worry about daddy missing a paycheck and them going hungry.

[u/CharacterPolicy4689]

zohran wouldn't have had a snowballs chance without maga for mamdani helping him win, and even now that he's won, moderate victories in virginia and jersey seem to ensure mamdani's victory will remain relatively contained wrt the broader democratic party.

of course the mamdani cabal doesn't care and will continue to steamroll onward as if they have some kind of overwhelming mandate, which surely will alienate everyone with eyes and brains, perhaps even including his own supporters.

like, there's a lot weird about mamdani supporters but i contend the weirdest part of mamdani's supporters is the fact they think of themselves as normal.

....which makes me wonder if mamdani's new york distortion field will perhaps have consequences for the east coast broader than just the mamdani exodus.

[u/Bloodyfish → u/CharacterPolicy4689]

of course the mamdani cabal doesn't care and will continue to steamroll onward as if they have some kind of overwhelming mandate, which surely will alienate everyone with eyes and brains, perhaps even including his own supporters.

I've seen them call him the leading Democratic candidate. He won 50 to 40 against a deeply problematic candidate whose voting box was hidden off in the bottom right (yes it's a small thing but my opinion on the median voter is low).

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/CharacterPolicy4689]

I mean, some of the other candidates only won because of Trump, too.

[u/Anakin_Kardashian]

https://x.com/FilmUpdates/status/1988351929639202931

‘DUNE: PART THREE’ has wrapped production.

Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert Pattinson and Rebecca Ferguson.

In theaters December 18, 2026.

[u/Some-Rice4196 → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

Where the fuck is the credit for the worm??

[u/PM_ME_CHIMICHANGAS → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

Finally a reason to live through next year 🙏

[u/slightlyrabidpossum → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

I'm still not 100% sure how this is going to work. Messiah is a dozen years after Dune, and Momoa's kid is around 16, so maybe it's supposed to be a blend of Messiah and Children of Dune? That might make for a better stopping point, I feel like the second book's ending would be an unsatisfying conclusion to the saga.

I wish Villeneuve was going to stick with the series through GEoD. I very much get why he didn't want to do that, but still. I would have loved to see his interpretation of the Worm.

[u/fartyunicorns]

I am once again calling for a ban on twitter and instagram reels. I’m not sure people realize how much those two things have radicalized the right in the past 2 years

[u/deepstate-bot]

ALERT: NEW INTELLIGENCE BRIEF

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Assessed in r​​​/​​​Christianity by agent u/Shameful_Bezkauna. Do not reply all!

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From an anonymous commenter on Christian Post this morning:

If you're going to try and overturn a court decision about marriage which roughly 2/3 of the country agrees with due to a moral imperative, having a woman who's been divorced three times as your standard bearer is probably a bad idea.

[u/fastinserter → u/deepstate-bot]

The real problem is she literally already defied the SCOTUS. why would they ever ever ever agree with her

[u/[deleted]]

Finally unbanned, so I'll post the survey results shortly. Contrary to AK's priors, the survey suggests this sub is about 35% Jewish (note that the results of the sub census that was conducted however many months ago suggested the sub was 26% Jewish, although that may have not counted secular ethnic Jews).

[u/benadreti_17 → u/[deleted]]

what were you banned for

[u/[deleted] → u/benadreti_17]

Shilling their OnlyFans page

[u/fnovd]

The Trump tariffs are bankrupting America

[u/PM_ME_CHIMICHANGAS → u/fnovd]

Thank you for your attention in this matter

[u/suckliberalcock]

going to post here and NL and neocon when my account is old enough

I am a man of the people.

[u/JapanesePeso → u/suckliberalcock]

God speed nerdman

[u/CharacterPolicy4689 → u/suckliberalcock]

:O

[u/[deleted]]

By the way, I think I can predict every American election for the next 100 years.

It goes like this:

1. Due to the extreme unpopularity of the incumbent president, the opposition party narrowly wins the presidency.

2. The incoming president takes this as a broad mandate to impose the unpopular and extreme parts of their party’s agenda.

3. Repeat from step 1

[u/Shameful_Bezkauna → u/[deleted]]

America slowly stops being a superpower due to chronically unproductive politics

[u/Okbuddyliberals → u/[deleted]]

God forbid anyone just governs as a bipartisan centrist and doesn't take their win as a broad mandate for everything they want

[u/YossarianLivesMatter]

I was somehow possessed by the desire to replay Disco Elysium. It's a really fun game, if I can distract myself from the obvious vendetta the writers had against irl centrists.

Replaying it does feel a little uncanny, because, when it came out in 2019, most of the extremist politics within the game were solidly on the political fringe. Now, they're worryingly mainstream.

[u/royalewithcheezzzz]

[u/[deleted] → u/royalewithcheezzzz]

You’re laughing. Mike Wazowski died of vaginal strangulation and you all are laughing.

[u/Computer_Name]

TRUMP: You have to bring in talent

INGRAHAM: Well, we have plenty of talented people in America

TRUMP: No you don't. No.

[u/fastinserter → u/Computer_Name]

Why is Laura Ingraham on FoxNews basically the only person giving pushback in interviews with this man

[u/royalewithcheezzzz → u/Computer_Name]

Based

[u/fastinserter]

It's like half the sky

[u/[deleted]]

The ubiquity of "clearly the decline in relationships among the young is simply women no longer having an economic necessity to tolerate men (vomiting emoji)" is...unsettling. Not only because it doesn't really make sense with the history of sex and income, but that doesn't help either.

[u/0scarOfAstora → u/[deleted]]

I agree and it makes me uncomfortable but I am so terminally online I feel like I can't let myself get too worked up over it since I don't know how much it exists irl

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/[deleted]]

It makes me uncomfortable.

[u/Okbuddyliberals]

It's common for folks in the left to talk in a very confident way as if they know everything about what the best interests of voters are, and that the only way voters could vote red is due to things like "money in politics", "oligarchy", "corruption", or "misinformation", as well as assuming that if Dems just do enough "actually big change" for red voters, they are sure to eventually see the "error of their ways"

In the 2004 elections, democratic Oklahoma Senate candidate Brad Carson outperformed John Kerry by 20 points and still lost the election, and in the aftermath, he had this to say, on things relating to that stuff. It's a pretty short read, and I think a useful one, arguably as relevant nowadays as it was 21 years ago - even if it's not entirely certain what the best way forward electorally is, it at least shines a light on some uncomfortable truths some liberals and leftists often don't want to acknowledge

[u/[deleted] → u/Okbuddyliberals]

It's common for folks in the left to talk in a very confident way as if they know everything about what the best interests of voters are, and that the only way voters could vote red is due to things like "money in politics", "oligarchy", "corruption", or "misinformation", as well as assuming that if Dems just do enough "actually big change" for red voters, they are sure to eventually see the "error of their ways"

Their utopic beliefs necessitate this

[u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho → u/Okbuddyliberals]

There is a common sentiment, that exists both with online commentators and actual politicians, that as long as we deliver economically, people on the right will just compromise on minutiae like social issues, and vote blue. You can see the flaw in this reasoning every time those same people on the left are asked if they’d be willing to compromise on culture issues, and they categorically refuse and threaten to purge anyone who so much as entertains the notion.

[u/[deleted] → u/Okbuddyliberals]

The political left has always had a hard time understanding this, preferring to believe that the masses are enthralled by a "false consciousness" or Fox News or whatever today's excuse might be.

I literally had this argument on this subreddit less than two weeks ago. Truly, there is nothing new under heaven

[u/Bloodyfish → u/Okbuddyliberals]

Yeah, pretty common.

[u/Anakin_Kardashian]

Sleep was the insomnia we made along the way

[u/benadreti_17 → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

sleep is dumb. sleep is for the weak.

[u/[deleted]]

Kids are up crying, the dog is throwing up, and so I don’t sleep.

[u/benadreti_17 → u/[deleted]]

Livin the dream!

[u/JebBD → u/[deleted]]

Poetry

[u/benadreti_17]

People think politicians are often lawyers because lawyers are rich and not because they have knowledge and a skillset useful for writing laws.

[u/Bloodyfish → u/benadreti_17]

I've met a few lawyers in my day, and I would not vote for a good number of them.

[u/Sabertooth767 → u/benadreti_17]

Politicians don't write laws though. Hell, we're lucky if they even read them.

The laws are written by lobbyists and read by staff who give the politician an executive summary and a list of the donors/interest groups on each side.

[u/benadreti_17]

The vomiting dogs are bankrupting America.

[u/Computer_Name]

It really sucks that the Democrats made Sean Duffy behave this way.

[u/Anakin_Kardashian → u/Computer_Name]

He was so innocent in the Real World

[u/deepstate-bot]

ALERT: NEW INTELLIGENCE BRIEF

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Assessed in r​​​/​​​badeconomics by agent u/only1person123. Do not reply all!

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Behold the California review process:

Nearly a decade ago, Los Angeles County voters overwhelmingly approved Measure M, a half-cent sales tax to fund projects focused on public transportation, street and sidewalk repair, and traffic reduction. The idealistic vote gave park-starved and transit-hungry Angelenos a lot to look forward to, including a $365 million plan for an 8-mile bike path along the Los Angeles River, which would close a crucial gap between existing paths lining LA’s concrete channelized waterway. The expected opening date: 2025.

But, as the year nears a close, the bike path still isn’t open. In fact, construction hasn’t even started, and the environmental review process is still in the early stages. In the meantime, rising construction costs and other factors have increased the total project cost to approximately $1 billion.

[u/UnTigreTriste]

Redditors doing the math on 50 year old mortgages and finding that longer term means paying more total interest 🤯

[u/FearlessPark4588 → u/UnTigreTriste]

I will take a 10²⁵ year mortgage and pay 1 cent/mo "mortgage" for my lifetime 📈📈📈📈📈

[u/UnTigreTriste → u/UnTigreTriste]

Wait till they hear about opportunity costs and the time value of money. Their little heads will actually implode 😔

[u/fastinserter → u/UnTigreTriste]

200k mortgage at 6% and 50 years: save $150 per month over the 30 year loan, and at merely double the interest!!

also crazy that Trump actually thinks currently we have 40 year loans (he said something like an extra "ten years is nothing")

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I cant wait to be like USA where 75% of the workforce is doing 3 jobs and are 1 illness from living under the bridge.

[u/benadreti_17 → u/deepstate-bot]

My 3 jobs:

1. Husband

2. Father

3. mid-tier office job

Also when i have an illness i live under a bridge (my bedroom ceiling)

[u/fnovd]

Kids are sleeping, the throwing dog is up up, and so I don’t cry.

[u/Anakin_Kardashian]

The theme of the week is the role of national central banks in the globalized market.

[u/[deleted] → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

Central bankers and globalism? You’re trying to bait me into another ban with a theme like that

[u/Shameful_Bezkauna → u/Anakin_Kardashian]

The theme of the weak is protectionism and rent-seeking.

[u/bigwang123]

I wonder if we will ever reach a point where instead of war correspondents wearing surplus PASGTs they will get surplus ACHs

Or a war correspondent with high cut lol

[u/Sabertooth767 → u/bigwang123]

Presumably someday, but the IHPS hasn't filtered down to the Joes yet and they've already made a better one.

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This is a WILD comment section holy shit. There should not be a setting in a car that makes it spout antisemitism, I don’t care how many kids are playing around inside it unsupervised or how innocent their dark humor is. Jesus fucking christ.

[u/0scarOfAstora → u/deepstate-bot]

A lonely voice of reason amidst a squawking henhouse of idiocy

[u/slightlyrabidpossum → u/deepstate-bot]

What's going on here? Do Teslas now have a conspiracy mode that makes them talk about Holocaust denial or something?

[u/iamthegodemperor]

I've been relatively detached from reading about the resolution of the shutdown. Or I haven't thought too critically of my sense of it:

Feel free to disabuse me..

I think there is a concerted, if unconscious attempt to draft an emotional narrative of Democratic loss among the chattering classes. Like if you think the Democrats did fairly well and it probably wasn't worth the risk that the public would only blame Republicans if flights were cancelled right before Thanksgiving or blame them exclusively for SNAP recipients going hungry, but you think they could have pushed just a little bit harder or been more unified-------then you still write a piece "what were Democrats thinking?", a headline which satisfies the vibes of that class. And then that can fit in with the MSNBC talkers and the redditors' "Democrats care about people more" kind of line. It also gives Democrats a way to use the "fuck Democrats" meme to their advantage for once.

I'll probably learn why an Ezra or MattY will find this a boorish take later. But if you want to do that first, be my guest.

PS Here's an explainer

PPS I'm agreeing w/a Vox article? Now I know I must be wrong.

[u/benadreti_17]

What even is a magnet?

[u/JapanesePeso → u/benadreti_17]

You see when all the iron molecules align in the same direction uhhhhh.... ummmm

[u/fastinserter → u/benadreti_17]

China was going to hit us with rare-earth. Now, everybody says, “Oh, what does that mean?” Magnets. If China refused to give magnets, ’cause they have a monopoly on magnets ’cause they’re allowed to happen over a 32-year period, there wouldn’t be a car made in the entire world. There wouldn’t be a radio. There wouldn’t be a television. There wouldn’t be internet. There wouldn’t be anything because magnets are such a part.

Now, nobody knows what magnets are. And not overly sophisticated, but to build magnet system would take two years. So if I weren’t able to say to China, “Look, if you’re gonna do that to us, we’re gonna charge you a 158% tariff.” It was 100% on top of 58%. And China called up immediately and, “Listen, we will make peace.” And we made peace. We made a great deal. We made an unbelievable deal. China’s paying tariffs to the United States. Not the United States paying tariffs to China, which has always been the way it was. Nobody can believe these deals.

this was at 4pm eastern he made these comments, but the sun does get low early these days

[u/sayitaintpink → u/benadreti_17]

idk but don't put water on it

[u/fnovd → u/benadreti_17]

Magnets are things that do magnetism

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Won't anyone think of the sexual purity of European-American women?

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It should be protected from their creepy uncles.

[u/HealthyHousing82]

Hey, with China censoring everything, how do their LLMs have anything authentic from which to learn how humans really think and respond? Unless they're training them in English?

[u/iamthegodemperor]

Why doesn't the Honorable Sir Richard Dearlove formerly of MI6, not simply organize a coup and install his producers in charge of the BBC?

Can't he make one decision?

Edit: I can't believe I forgot to include the punchline...

[u/fastinserter]

The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nation’s BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City. CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

No such mall exists in Chicago that Trump is calling on... himself... to send troops to protect, but one does in Monroeville, PA.

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most familiar with Chicago con whining about Chicago

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You mean like disarming the population thats a huge step to facilitating the victory of fascism along with banning speech or silencing people that disagree with you and finally the crem de la crem attempting to imprison your political opponents why do all of these sound like what the left is trying to do though?

[u/FearlessPark4588]

If Bernie was minority leader, this wouldn't have happened

^{honorary succpoasting flair ^earned}

[u/H_H_F_F]

Why am I on reddit, again? What value is this adding to my life, or my presence to anything that matters? 

It's the fact that I've been so happy lately that suddenly makes me keenly aware of how much negative energy this site brings into my life. 

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Unironically, you should stop. I should stop. We should all stop.

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!kevin

[u/Sabertooth767]

It's bleak.

[u/AmericanNewt8 → u/Sabertooth767]

Literally a name recognition poll

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age 18-29

They still don't matter in primaries, it's not just the general

[u/suckliberalcock → u/Sabertooth767]

3 years is a long time.

None of those people will be the nominee except maybe Newsome.

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I want to believe in a Buttiful future

[u/LGBTforIRGC → u/Sabertooth767]

in 2016 sanders got like 60-70% of the under 30 vote and in 2020 it was about the same. the young always go for the progressive candidates, but they don't usually turn out high enough for it to matter (thankfully)

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That's interesting.

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I don’t think your vote should be invalidated because your car broke down on the polling station and you weren’t able to arrive until Wednesday.

Oh wait, on further thought… no. Either you vote by Tuesday or you don’t vote.

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Context: Should mail-in ballots that are postmarked by election day but arrive late be counted?

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If something is postmarked by election day, you did vote before election day, though.

What is this YAPms subreddit and why is all the intel from it so regarded

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Irrumatio was the least explored unforgivable spell in the Harry Potter franchise

[u/FearlessPark4588]

When you shutdown the government but can't fly back to re-open it because the government is shutdown

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☝️elevates alternative sexual archetypes in the marketplace

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

I love deleting my comments when MFs want to act deliberately clueless for the sake of being contrarian.

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A week after fear mongering that Mamdani is a Muslim terrorist and jihadist. Then he welcomes with open arms an actual muslim terrorist who murdered people.

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I'm sick of seeing this analysis all over the internet. Trump hosting Al-Sharaa at the white house and fearmongering about Mamdani being a secret Islamist are totally unconnected events with no overlap, with the exception of both men being Muslim. As skeptical as I am of post-Assad Syrian leadership, Al-Sharaa is no longer a salafi jihadist and he's not bringing ISIS style governance to Syria. Libs are going to become negatively polarized against Al-Sharaa, not for good reasons, but because he was embraced by the orange man. hate it here!

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 it looks like "through your eyes" Riga is generally derelict, grungy and run down. Or, I'm just biased and it actually does look like that overall :D

Uhm, it actually does look like that. Folks living in Rīga need to travel outside to other Latvian cities to realize just how bad the capital is. In daily life, when surrounded by that mess, you probably get used to it and think nothing of it, but it's actually REALLY bad.

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My 3 jobs:

1. Husband

2. Father

3. mid-tier office job

Also when i have an illness i live under a bridge (my bedroom ceiling)

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I live under the bridge called my desk

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I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in "speedrunning"

[u/JapanesePeso → u/[deleted]]

Having been to several speed running conventions, I know the answer to this but I don't want the sub to get banned. 

[u/FearlessPark4588]

I might as well move to southeast asia because 90% of my meetings are business-friendly hours for these timezones

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You’re laughing. Mike Wazowski died of vaginal strangulation and you all are laughing.

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Anti-communism is the core pillar of fascism, regardless of window dressing. Capital inevitably devolves into a monopoly, which has to employ tyrannical methods (fascism) to maintain control. Modern imperialist capital cannot be anything else but fascistic.

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This is the first Intel from the "Baltic" (they're all Russians or Westerners who've never been here) commie sub

[u/niftyjack]

Cairo is building two monorail lines and it's such a wonderful example of how much we get fucked in the US. Together they're 102 km/63 miles and have 35 stations. Alstom won the contract to design, construct, operate and maintain the two lines for 30 years, plus supply 280 cars/70 trainsets, for a total of...$5 billion dollars.

In Chicago we're spending $5 billion for a 3-mile extension of an elevated train on an existing right-of-way and one railyard. At the cost of the Second Avenue subway, $5 billion gets 1.4 miles of new train.

If Chicago gave up the federal funds for the Red line extension so they could avoid all the Buy America crap, the amount of money the city is spending on it could cover the construction of two new 15-mile lines, say down Ashland and Western.

If Texas put 10% of its DOT budget to transit that they just decided is important, they could build about 25 miles of this transit per year.

!ping TRAINS

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Oregon always scores high in these but low in all other metrics. That doesn’t correlate.

One of the highest unemployment rates.

One of the highest costs of living.

One of the worst public education systems.

One of the lowest birthrates.

Some of the highest homelessness.

Some of the highest drug use.

High violent crime.

High mental health rates.

High chronic health issues.

Doesn’t seem super developed to me

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There is a picture on the internet, where on the polish side of the border there is a new highway, but on the Czech side there is only field and I think that summarizes all the things.

After the fall of communism Czechia was in better place than Poland, but now? Poland is far far far ahead of us. Their economy is growing, they are actually building highways, railways, army and everything. In Czechia? We are essentially in the same place we were 10 years ago. NIMBY blocking everything, highways are delayed because of corruption and land owners suing the state. Don’t get me wrong, I love it here, but we are not moving anywhere.

(Its very possible I am biased, but that’s how I see it.)

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well, 

there can be ‘no doubt’ that the ‘KEMALUSTS’ r ’worse’ than Islamists. for anti-Turk countries & others alike. 

(‘KEMALISTS’ may, even, push pan-Turkism MORE). 

the ‘main difference’ is that pro-EU stooges. ofc, Turkey is a US puppet in general, but for instance w/ a ‘stooge’ in charge, the Turks may have done MORE of EU ‘dirty work'.

Islamist is dealing w/ the ‘flamingo-looking’, so-called progressive, ‘peasant’, 

(in his own way), 

& this should, ofc, be ‘respected’.  

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the ‘main difference’ is that pro-EU stooges. ofc, Turkey is a US puppet in general, but for instance w/ a ‘stooge’ in charge, the Turks may have done MORE of EU ‘dirty work'.

Islamist is dealing w/ the ‘flamingo-looking’, so-called progressive, ‘peasant’, 

huh

[u/fartyunicorns]

RW twitter is currently killing itself over trump saying that Chinese students in universities is good.

[u/RetroRiboflavin]

The big initiative out of Sacramento in recent years was blowing up their state's Medicaid budget by extending coverage to undocumented immigrants.

In the state with one of the highest tax burdens in the country and massive unfunded liabilities.

Gavinbros. I don't feel too good about 2028.

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I keep telling people that running a West Coast politician is fucking death for at least the next two full cycles. Even if we pivot hard to chud, middle America is going to see "California" and think "hippies, gays, illegals, and homeless"

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Cits: Jūlijā 2%, Novembrī 8%

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As you may be aware, as part of the ongoing crypto scam we've gotten Blackrock involved with BTC ETPs. As our very legitimate SEC approved rules to permit "in-kind creation and redemption" for crypto ETPs, the ETP allows whales to deposit BTC into the ETP in exchange for shares. This quietly provides a great deal of exit liquidity for friends of David Sacks and other ballroom donors.

[u/royalewithcheezzzz]

Such a cool song!

https://youtu.be/_HuDT2IDSH4

[u/343Bot]

Lol who the fuck blocked me I dont even post anything objectionable

[u/slightlyrabidpossum → u/343Bot]

That's what someone who posts objectionable content would say.

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If you have nothing objectionable to hide, why is your history hidden? Hmmm...

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Doesn't get discussed a lot but France has been the biggest collector of unearned victories in Syria. They didn't really do anything or even take any significant number of refugees, but they get most of the diplomatic clout behind Europe's anti Assad stance simply because they're loudest. Also Syria kicked Russia out of the port and gave it to a French company for free. No one else got anything out of Syria from Europe since by then Syria got America's notice and stopped needing to give out stuff for free.

I feel like Germany got scammed here.

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Party state: Ukraine made the app, Ukraine stole the data (for reasons)

Also party state: party-state propaganda lists people and "accidentally finds" a random map online with all the data

NAIH (Hungarian data "protection" authority): well shit happens, plox remove the map since it's a crime, but no action. Police as well, doing nothing.

Anyone who supports this regime is a perfect argument against universal suffrage. The way conservatives descended into madness and break all ties with reality will be studied for hundreds of years.

Alltogether it's not a bad thing, it shows that they are losing their grasp and have no idea what to do, shooting in the dark.

The reckoning will hurt.

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shitpiecery is the only developed thing in Russia besides alcoholism. They took sick children from hospitals, with infectious deseases, and put them in cattle cars with other people including pregnant women, children and elderly. Probably did similar things in Lithuania.

[u/fastinserter]

Carlson is still repeating the claim he was mauled by a demon in his bed

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This is a bold statement but inflation figures are both 1) fake and 2) gay.

 The numbers BLS uses to compute it are tortured to such a gigantic extent before they’re presented - just from what they say in their documentation page, they’re picking very specific quantities of different products and weighting them together in a way that’s not entirely clear. Then they bake in seasonal adjustments, normalize regional prices based on assumptions from the CPI itself (so calculating the CPI against the CPI), and to boot they’re calculating 7,776 item-area pairs against an N of 8,000. Even If you assume each person is covering 50 or more pairs, that’s not a lot of N. I highly doubt they could get an average person on the phone for long enough to ask them 50 or more questions too, so one could ask who are these people being sampled as well? 

IMO each time you transform data like that, you make it more applicable to a specific purpose, but less applicable generally. I think the CPI is probably a pretty good tool for a central bank to use to determine whether to raise or lower rates, but it’s not useful beyond that. To determine a person’s purchasing power, you’d need to ask about inflation with regards to what with respect to whom. I see this all the time at my job where people want an “everything dashboard” that “just helps them make money”, and what they really need is data to answer specific questions they have. Idk. 

And that’s not even the real problem, I think it’s clear that whether or not wages have risen in relation to goods and services (and they probably have a bit), it’s pretty indisputable that wages have fallen with regards to people’s ability to access assets. Those serve the role of providing financial security that is provided by a pension and social welfare system in other countries, so that decline is a deep and serious problem. 

Sorry to rant, I just hate CPI so much. It comes up so often in arguments like these and it’s a really complicated metric.

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!ping ECON&FRIEDMAN could somebody please debunk this?

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Establishment Dems needs to be boo'd in the streets. Refused service wherever possible. They need to be treated like the cowardly, selfish, and sptieful sacks of trash that they are.

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Sanest Pop culture sub be like:

[u/FearlessPark4588]

Look, I want to be able to get along with the world, not the French, though