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7d ago
Can someone give me an analysis on who Abdul El-Sayed actually is as a person? He gave a weird interview where he said trans is a made up issue because your daughter has an I-Phone in her pocket so she will see dicks all the time anyway.
The first impression is he’s some sort of Muslim Brotherhood type. My second impression is pegging him as similar to brown friends I know whose parents do something science (medicine/engineering), are fairly wealthy, follow zero Muslim codes, hate white girls but probably slept with a few dozen in their twenties. All of these types are/can be fully assimilated into America. Half seem like they really do assimilate. The other half to me seem like they have a chip remaining on their shoulder that their people couldn’t build America.
My guess is he’s that type that still has a big chip on his shoulder to fully white people. So thinking things like sexualizing normies is perfectly fine for him in the same way a westerner might go to Thailand for a holiday and not view Thai’s as his people.
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7d ago
Seems like nothing burger to me. You can probably get my identity by putting it into a LLM and tracing for linguistic patterns.
But IMO 100% never get in a helicopter. At a lesser certainty don’t get in a private plane. Some of the more corporate ones may be fine. If you have a private plane maybe just take IG photos and leave it on the ground. I’m probably going too far saying this but it’s definitely an area where you need to it the right way.
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7d ago
Too much doomerism. You can win the day. We did pause immigration for 40 years starting in the 1920’s. I would consider saving an entire generation as positive. I can’t predict the world 100 years ago but winning for a generation is still a win.
Europe might be in trouble. The US isn’t even at Brazil issues yet. A pause now means we just have to work around a mostly high-IQ but maybe culturally alien Viveks and a half-white/have indigenous Central American population that can somewhat fit in culturally. Yes, I would rather they were gone but America can still be somewhat American.
America hasn’t been overrun with low-IQ Indians/Pakistanis plus lower classes from the Middle East that are completely foreign like Europe or Canada. America can still be a better Brazil which is worth fighting for.
Minneapolis is probably the new west Baltimore but atleast the weather sucks there so I was never moving to Minneapolis.
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7d ago
This doesn’t work since we have high interests rate and above 2% inflation. You can’t transfer savings in 2030 to be spent today because we are resource constrained today. Checks today would just cause higher interests rates and higher inflation and do nothing to boost consumption today. You would just have more money chasing the same amount of goods.
Hypothetically in say 2010 you could do something like that because we had excess capacity, low interests rates and sub 2% inflation.
The best you would get today by sending out checks is a short term mid-term bump as people get money and then pissed off voters in 2027 when inflation jumps back to 5%.
You would just be giving them a fake reward in the current environment.
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7d ago
Senators are just votes but seem like they do little…..but they are still extremely important. It’s just for the vast majority of Senators their job is to vote for your side and maybe 5-10 of them are important for setting the agenda. Probably less.
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7d ago
There is no way deporting a few million illegals moves the needle enough to generate any significant government savings this soon especially when running ICE is quite expensive. On net how much did we decline the illegals by? 2-3%? It’s better than increasing but that’s not the shrinkage you would need to make it work.
I see 3 big chunks of money that a Doge could get but it’s hard:
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Military disability pay. My gut says like 90% of it is fraud and without looking it up it’s like 300b now. Optics would be awful if you did it.
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Medicaid fraud. Some of this is illegals I think. Home Health care has boomed and it does seem like a lot of fraud here.
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SNAP. 100 billion per year. I have no idea how 12.3% of Americans are now on SNAP….even a large portion of Americans not on Social Security.
Sending checks would be flashy and more like UBI versus our current programs that reward people for doing soft fraud (technically allowed, but programs were designed for far needier people). The better economic management though would be to cut 400B in federal spending and that fiscal drag would collapse interests rates.
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7d ago
Honestly beef prices may be an area I’m most questionable on capitalism because in theory it’s the exact industry that should be very good at adjusting supply to demand over the medium term. Best I can come up with is somehow the processors figured out how to get market power. Commodity markets are generally an area where markets work extremely well. And I wouldn’t think processors have enough economies of scale to gain too much pricing power.
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7d ago
Wouldn’t her political career be dead if she swaps parties? She’s not winning in 6 years as a Dem.
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7d ago
Agreed. Very little real costs to Americans. My guess is people would cite something else during the midterms if there was no war.
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7d ago
It’s probably closure to call it a temporary censorship. Internet moats just aren’t big enough to be permanent on message boards but it does take time to get people to switch message boards.
Social networks have bigger moats but if censorship is large enough it’s possible to switch. You can help for one election cycle but it appears tough to maintain a permenent censorship without explicit state action (Europe has this).
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8d ago
This is NOT a loophole. Players have always been allowed to help their team by taking less money. Tom Brady did it for a long time with the Patriots. Very few players are rich enough to pick a team simply for fun and not money. Usually it’s someone older. Sidney Crosby has done this for a decade too. Provided the endorsements are true arms-length deals then it’s fine (Leonard’s were cheating).
Also nobody else seems to think the sixers are a good team this year. The players don’t fit together.
As a white person I thought it was a fair representation of people who support Israel. I was going to say white Democrats but honestly white Evangelicals support all this stuff while Jews look down on Envangelicals. You should not support people who hate you and the Jews hate Republicans. Perhaps the ad is a bit of a caricature it’s also directionally true.
I think the GOP believes white people act like this too. A significant amount of white people vote for Democrats so from my view voting against your self interests is a consistent white people problem.
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8d ago
Honestly good ad. I don’t want US money going to Israel. Though if the Jews were sufficiently loyal and backed the GOP I’d give them a blank check. But the Jews all vote Dem so I’m very pro-cutting funding to Israel.
I hate electing a Muslim senator far more and I have no idea what’s wrong with Michigan.
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8d ago
I’ve never signed up for anything but it does seem like a lot of messages get sent to spam. Even real ones. But whatever is default the political ones get thru
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9d ago
Well this isn’t fun. But I hate whatever changed this election. I delete 10-20 political text messages a day now. Election season sucks. I probably should pay more attention to local elections but I don’t.
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10d ago
I think apps just don’t work. It’s not a capitalism problem. Capitalism is very good at creating industries where all Profits get competed away. Airlines exists.
If an app was very good at matching and everyone who paid got married they could still make money. Apps are not expensive to create. There is a flow of a few million people per age group. If the people who sign up get married you could still take 10% of the flow or 200-400k people a year. At $100 a marriage you are talking 20m-40m in yearly revenue.
Sure the app owner won’t make billions but if your product delivers it’s enough revenue to run the business.
The issue is customer behavior and some sort of paradox of choice.
This isn’t the problem with apps. If your a man getting blasted years later then your in the top .1% in something. Probably have a 20m bag behind you and will be fine.
I hope I reach the point when I’m on a senate campaign with a rape accusation from 20 years ago.
But I’m also not a Democrat. So I can just wink she was a good fuck.
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11d ago
I think he’s trying to argue that racism is too hard to define so nothing is racists to defeat left wing accusations of racism. I to be honest am fine with just saying something is racists but racism can be good.
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11d ago
We will see if it’s “generational” but midterm other side wins is quite normal. And I do think MAGA needs to thank the Jews for better media coverage and better ability to wield power. A lot of the negative of Jews in politics would have been limited by not doing Iran. For MAGA to get things done they need the Jews to be the high IQ party because Jews uniquely have high status. And that will pull in other high status people.
Maybe Jews are bad for winning elections but I do think they help a lot at wielding power.
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11d ago
People call Japan racists all the time. There is inconsistency. That is something you are creating. People also call Argentina racists. People just talk about Israel more because it’s (1) a western nation (2) always doing war (3) has existing issues divided by racial lines
The best thing you can do to limit your country from constantly talking about race is to have killed all your minorities (basically Argentina) or to have never let in minorities.
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11d ago
I would guess 8-10 is ideal now. It takes a lot longer for male financial security today. The last friend I went to I believe was 38 to 30 and both have similar parental social class (midwestern SMB owner to Doctor parents).
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11d ago
I think it’s more of a big city thing. Celebrities seems to have large age gaps even when they both have money.
The economy and a lot of social games feel very k-shaped to me now which would surprise me that age-gaps are shrinking. Along with a huge lack of social skills in younger generations. My gut would still guess a religious reason if it’s shrinking.
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11d ago
Sure I don’t necessary agree with the solution but this also isn’t a nothing happened situation. The cops had a legitimate reason to investigate. I will pass on making a decision on whether their judgement on a solution was correct.
I just know from reports “teen babysitting is now illegal in Florida” is false.
Maybe. I might be more risks cautious. One-off vacation flights may be fine. Though personally I think I am fine watching drone footage etc.
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