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Centrists within the Democratic Party tend to fight the left-wingers by arguing that they wonโt be electable. This seems wrong to me, because it is implying that they are right about the issues, just too early. No! The problem with left-wing thought is that it will impoverish us.
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Seeing people use housing prices to claim housing was dramatically cheaper in the 1970s - without incorporating the past sky-high mortgage rates into annual mortgage costs. Here's annual mortgage P&I costs as a share of median income. Its rising, but still below the late 70s.
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When the light carefully this certain parts of the mountain I love to photograph little details with the telephoto. Here's a collection of some dark mountain details, mainly shot in the early mornings during my time at Khan Tengri BC
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I like this Bruce Sterling quote because if Mars had the population density of the Gobi Desert there'd be about 140 million people living on it
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I am once again calling for a complete and total shut down of big light in your rooms 2026.
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I love how people are like "well I want a multipolar world" but don't mean that Europe should stand up for their own defense or India take a leading geopolitical role. All they actually mean is they want the US and allies to stop spoiling the imperial ambitions of autocrats.
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AFU ๐บ๐ฆ counter-offensive in Kharkiv region for the last three days ๐ฅ
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As the Ukrainians are demonstrating, people WILL still unite and fight wholeheartedly for a cause. But only if that cause has enough moral force that nearly everyone sees it as a GOOD cause.
Defending your home against unprovoked aggression is a good cause.
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Ultimately, the justice or injustice of a war's cause matters a LOT. It takes years -- or decades -- of mass indoctrination to get an army to fight wholeheartedly for a bad cause. You don't just order them to slaughter their innocent cousins and neighbors and assume they'll obey.
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Obama: we want EVs, let's provide loans to help
Ford, Tesla: We'll get right on that
Tesla: Thanks, here's the EVs and we've paid the loan off early!
Ford: Can you extend the terms?
Biden: That wasn't a loan, that was a bailout for Tesla. Oh, and look how great Ford is doing!
Adam ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
No, this simply isn't true.
The trick here is taking wages instead of compensation, only looking at a subset of total workers, and deflating by CPI (which tends to overstate long-run inflation). Correcting all that shows real compensation steadily increasing.
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This extremely misleading chart is still being shared. It's misleading because it looks at shares of wealth rather than levels. And there is more wealth today than in the past.
More detailed explanation: teapaw.org/jmhorp/status/12052486โฆ
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"Don't let any one poll skew your judgement.
Also, this one poll has led me to believe Biden is actually still doing fine and dandy despite the results of every other poll indicating otherwise."
