Social Democrat in the interim, Market Socialist in the long term. Technocracy FTW, Universalism trumps identity politics. YIMBY. ๐บ๐ธ๐น โ๏ธ ๐ ๐๏ธ ๐
Should've written this a while ago but: Likes/RTs do not equal endorsements, I curse liberally and there's usually a healthy amount of facetiousness to my tweets. They're meant to be taken (semi) seriously but definitely not literally.
@StatisticUrban
Man, can you imagine how much easier life would be if Xi fell in love with America and grew up to be a moderately pro-American premier thus preventing the need for a Cold War 2.0 between America and China? I'd love to live in that timeline. C'est la vie
@jb_reefer
I'd argue street vendor licenses are fine, but the fact that NYC is unique amongst American cities in having a cap (guess they didn't learn from taxicab medallions, huh) is absurd. Policy idea: let vendors use parking spaces and just pay for it, by hour/day, and sell their stuff
@Big_Worker
@AsadFromNYC
this is such a stupid comparison, if you go to a park there are usually designated spots for flowers so you can easily avoid them and play elsewhere, dog poop is unregulated because of deadbeat owners and insufficient owners
@constans
Gee, how come so many poor neighborhoods lack grocery stores/amenities rather than a bunch of 7/11s, I wonder why. It's all fine and dandy to go "corporations aren't people" until the corporation decides to pack up and now you can't get your medicines or other basic goods
@StatisticUrban
This is why we need YIMBYism and New Urbanism so badly. All our extra monies is suctioned off by unproductive middlemen, if Americans could just pay 30% of their monthly check on housing (bonus points if we got universal healthcare) we'd be heaven on earth
@SwannMarcus89
it also makes sense. Personally, I wouldn't say it like THAT, but a guy who was raised in Chicago and is concerned about violent crime in Chicago, which is unacceptably high compared to peer cities like NYC/LA is a very understandable position to have.
@ArmandDoma
Maybe but I think the less cynical answer is that having a decades long legislative relationship really does help, along with Mitch wanting to clean up the record on his legacy soon before retirement. Even he wants bridges built once in a while
@ArmandDoma
As a left-wing Muslim, I can say that some leftists have this weird gunshy tendency of being unwilling to criticize ANYTHING about the Middle East if it means there's even a chance A CHANCE that it might lead to a comparison where the US looks good
@Atlanticesque
I have a pet theory that if America had nicer Norwegian-style prisons, people would be more comfortable with having tough law and order politics, including bleeding hearts on the left. The reason so many oppose cops is because our current prison system is daycare with anal rape
@Atlanticesque
HOW DARE YOU. Godfather Part 2 is the rare sequel thatโs almost as good (if not better) than the original. Iโm sorry but youโre going jail AND HELL, thought criminal!
@CortessisP
@JL7612
@JoePostingg
> long term stability
> oh no, bureaucracy
Only a libertarian would think this is a tough trade-off, which tbf is exactly who would find the Yes Man/House ending compelling. Good Job Obsidian
@vanillaopinions
He literally claimed Trump was woke forโฆ *checks notes* condemning this very shooting. We donโt need a hypothetical, we already know Ron would somehow have a take that makes trump look progressive in comparison.
@mattyglesias
people who get offended by "Where are you from?" questions need to calm the hell down. 80% of the time, the person asking is genuinely curious and it can often be a very fun conversation where you mutually share your ancestral roots and family tree and both be surprised
@sp6runderrated
The big lesson from Biden's administration is that leftists are electorally ungrateful voters even when you accomplish policies that align with issues they're concerned about. Come election time, median voter theorem wins yet again
@clovis69
@jfitzface
@Indian_Bronson
I think wanting to kys without a debilitating condition at the ripe young age of 28 is something that SHOULD be challenged. I'm not trying to mock even, but this woman very much is still in the early part of life
@McKay4Senate
the problem with Hillary is that she has negative charisma levels. Every time she talks I feel like I'm in detention for not reading poetry in English class. Even when I agree with her on a point, she makes it VERY difficult to make that a fun process. Exact opposite from Bill
@steamyporkbuns
If California just embraced YIMBYism and good transit and cleaned up its drug crisis, they would be a literal heaven on earth and I'm saying this as a patriotic New Yorker
@take_japper
I guess if you don't include money people have, their home value (you know, the biggest ASSET most Americans ever have followed by their car) and arbitrarily remove any other financial metric you dislike, then yes, everyone truly is poor.
@StatisticUrban
The correct answer here is LBJ/Eisenhower at
#1
/2 depending on your partisan hackery and then Kennedy at
#3
. Free for all between Nixon/HW/Obama for
#4
/5/6.
#7
Reagan, debate Truman/Carter for
#8
/9 and Ford and Bush are dead last.
@chrsdcook
You repeatedly ignore any evidence of declining rents in cities that build more housing by claiming San Francisco โbuilds lots of housing.โ When presented with San Franciscoโs anemic construction rates you then run away or just talk about your hurt feelings.
@clovis69
@jfitzface
@Indian_Bronson
do what everyone else does, get another mental health professional, and keep on fighting. That's basically what life is, constantly going through shit. I'm sorry but 28 is WAY too young to be calling it quits and you are crazy for thinking this is A-OK
@alanthefisher
Look, does anyone seriously believe a gondola would be a good replacement for a bus/train?! No. If this was a publicly funded project, the anger would be warranted as it'd be a serious misallocation of finite public funds. But if it's privately funded, there's only potential gain
@HalideRivers
@CortessisP
@JL7612
@JoePostingg
I'm aware, I'm just fascinated that people unironically think it's disputable that the NCR ending isn't the most optimal one 10 years onwards. Like YES, having a democracy that'll last past the Courier's death and fend off the Legion is worth paying taxes over.
@akela_lacy
that's not how it works. The point of a protest is to change minds, if you just make people hate your cause and support Israel more (which you are) then you're failing, BADLY. People like you shouldn't be anywhere near politics
@JosephPolitano
It had many abuses that were bad and should be condemned but Pax-Americana was on-net positive AND better than any realistic alternative world orders
@constans
Wait till they realize that to run a socialist economy, it'll be the STEM majors (ESP CS, Econ, Finance, Engineering) they despise so much in the Central Committee and not in fact the English major from some liberal arts college ๐
@Dienne_7
If you can find 17 GOP Senators to support one or all of the proposed policies you mention, be my guest. Until then, we need to flip more Senate seats from red to blue and YOU need to learn how to count votes.
@Tyler_The_Wise
@StatisticUrban
producing power 24/7 is good actually, selling that surplus energy to other nations. Energy demand will only be going up with electrification and economic development in general "We have too much electricity production capability" sounds like a VERY nice problem to have
@spbaar
@SwannMarcus89
The problem with dictatorships, especially when centralized under a single man like Xi did when he got rid of collective rule by the party, is that any mistakes made are your mistakes. "Oh shit my bad" isn't part of an "all knowing" dictator's vocabulary for a reason, it's fatal
@SwannMarcus89
half these people pick causes the working class don't give a shit about and the other half use tactics designed to ensure they don't care, if not become actively opposed to whatever it is they're protesting for. Behold, the modern activist.
@KaoticLeftist
LA housing is expensive because of a housing shortage imposed by homeowners. There is NO UNIVERSE where owning a $3 million house isn't bougie. The problem with the modern socialist movement is that half their members are just failed elites angry that they're not at the top
@Dienne_7
We got the biggest expansion in U.S healthcare in decades (90% insured) and Medicaid expansion, we bailed out the economy and saved the American auto industry, implemented stronger regulations on Wall Street. Unfortunately, that burned his political capital and he lost in 2010
@constans
If you want more third spaces you need to have a high trust society. The requirement to pay to linger is a mechanism for safety through filtration just as much as it is profit maximization
@StatisticUrban
Landlords in Minneapolis must be less greedy than the other ones. Thatโs the only conclusion one can draw from this graph. No other conclusion is valid. NOPE!
@stephensemler
this whole tweet is misinformation, Biden passed an expansion of safety net programs and upon their expiration wanted to extend or even make them permanent and lacked the votes to do so. The bottleneck here was the Senate, we lack enough progressives and need to flip Red to blue
@jcwjmu
@_Reaganite_
how on earth are you a "classical liberal" and not understand the economic benefits of the Common Market?! Opposition to tariffs was a central advocacy point of most of the people you types tend to champion, it's where a lot of their "economic liberalism" stems from LMFAO
@RedNYPolitics
he also seems like a fairly decent mayor? Like obviously as a Republican you're never gonna LOVE a Democrat mayor, I get it, but my 5 second Wikipedia read of the guy is that he's more Eric Adams than he is Brandon Johnson.
@JoshuaPHilll
if the cops actually stopped the fare-beaters you'd be whining about them oppressing the poor or being racist. If they don't do that then they're just "standing around wasting money." Talk about disingenuous argumentation
@LADougQ
@eric_kelly
it's a waste of PRIVATE money, not public. Even if the gondola fails, redeveloping stadium parking lots into housing and retail is an unambiguous win.
@ReubenR80027912
@clhubes
Building a "ton" is irrelevant, what matters is supply meeting demand. I did a 5-second Google search and DC allowed for 4k housing permits annually from 2011-2019 (not a lot, NYC does 20k and THAT'S inadequate) and added about 60k people annually to the metro area at that period
@Noahpinion
@DL_138
Ok but the Kennedy Tax Cuts were from 91% to 70%, and proved to have caused growth, while the Reagan cuts were from 70% to 28%, a far less progressive distribution. More importantly, it isn't mutually exclusive to agree that 91% is far too high a tax rate but 28% is too low
@dointhethangy
@ArmandDoma
I'd argue a lot of the ME's present dysfunctions are just as much in the shadow of the Fall of the Ottomans as it is the antics of the Brits/French
@AAkerstein
@RichardHanania
The EU's only new exports are regulations. Like I'm a left-winger who wants social democracy in America and even I roll my eyes at some of the shit they come up with. They need to cut red tape and focus on some growth, if only to sustain their public spending man
@PeggyBaileyDC
I'm cool with rental subsidies but how on earth did you make half a dozen tweets about housing policy without a SINGLE sentence on housing supply. JUST ONE
@botoxedbuddhist
this is perfectly acceptable architecture and you're just looking for an excuse to block housing. We could build housing that looked just like your precious Vienna and you'd find a way to moan about the bloody aesthetics. Just BUILD HOUSING.
@perdricof
also if mosaics were truly such a wonderful social priority, we surely would've either subsidized their production or purchased enough of them to allow the economics of scale to make it more feasible for the private sector to provide it more amply.Turns out niche tastes are niche
@opinonhaver
The problem with leftists and Unions is that leftists claim to love Labor Unions but they absolutely do not understand how Unions work. A good labor union's
#1
priority is their membership and their jobs, everything else is secondary
@chrsdcook
@CourtneyHella
a life where people can afford housing. People like you have too much input to protect their home values is why California is having a housing crisis, struggling to build high-speed rail. The New Deal/Great Society would've failed if NEPA/CEQA existed back then to strangle it
@Flashofemerald
@_jack_fox_
what gaslighting?! California should build more homes for everyone, but gays trying to flee red states would especially benefit
@Big_Worker
@MickyLoser
@AsadFromNYC
in practice, most dog owners that I observe don't seem to want to pick up their poop. Something needs to change, whether it's merely more enforcement of existing laws or something more harsh but the status quo sucks for everyone wanting to enjoy our parks
@daplancerr
Defund the Police is a "luxury belief" that hurts the very people (minorities esp black folks) that it claims to help and this reality is reflected by those who support/oppose said policy when they have come on ballot via referendum
@chrsdcook
@Patterdude
yet you opposed a public housing project by a public government-run University system because you think some rundown shantytown where people get mugged and raped is a "historic landmark." People like you are a cancer to California and America at large
@aitorehm
@MorganaYesYes
@andreu_zaragoza
those people are driven out BECAUSE of the lack of housing. The first half of your tweet is what's causing the second half. Self-owning yourself in the same tweet is a remarkable achievement, good job
@SmartGrowthUK
@HousingSpock
they literally are better for the environment, NYC residents have lower per capita carbon emissions and water usage than the average American and I'm willing to bet good money London residents have a lower per capita carbon footprint than the average Brit
@Gritty20202
@JeremyWard33
and if he said Haiti WAS relevant to American interests, you'd be calling him an imperialist. He was literally trying to argue against a U.S intervention in that interview LMFAO
@the_good_matty
@RivasAD
well Mr. Statistician, name some methodology flaws with the above graph? Usually, the largest city in a state has faster rent growth than the state, not lower but the opposite here is happening. Almost like building more housing helps
@drunkenbird
@StatisticUrban
I don't understand why we WOULDN'T be running nuclear around the clock. Guys, Europe has an energy crunch last I checked not a surplus, and energy demand is bound to only go up. We are all pro-growth, no crypto de-growth wackos here... right??
@maxdubler
like supply truthers will often mock the cheap small Japanese apartments that are in Tokyo but only cost a few hundred and yeah, obviously a family can't live in those but that was never the target demographic: broke high school/college students and young adults are
@AK_Organizer
@CantEverDie
If I tried to harm you but proved utterly unable because of incompetence, am I absolved of guilt? Because that's exactly what happened here, the Houthis are bad guys, they're just bad at being bad
@RepJoshG
@MTA
Let's see, we have the Subway for New Yorkers, the PATH train for Hoboken folks, NJ Transit Buses, and Trains, and even an Amtrak connection that connects NJ to Manhattan. Take a train, ANY TRAIN and shut up
@TheAleksee
@StatisticUrban
yes, but a serious push for social democracy will require some tax hikes on the middle class, most likely via a VAT tax. Anyone who can't accept this reality is unserious about expanding our social safety net, plain and simple
@botoxedbuddhist
@HousingSpock
so then why the fuck are you denying other people the ability to live in a city with a house just like that?! Homes for me not for thee, eh?
@LittleMammith
ironically, Israeli NIMBYism is a contributor to the settlement movement (besides the religious fanaticism). So yes, NIMBYism DID in fact make Israel-Palestine worse! God help us
@stacycay
@LinkofSunshine
Saudi Arabia is very useful American ally, Pakistan literally uses counter-terrorism money we give them to fund the Taliban, it's not even close