Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
The whole point of voting for El Sayed in the primary was to have a candidate who doesn't condemn anti-Israel messaging on demand. That's what the base wants. One doesn't normally expect a four-term Democratic congresswoman to take her ball and go home.
"Haley Stevens will endorse Mike Rodgers if she doesn't get what she wants on Israel," would have been considered a vaguely antisemitic statement three months ago.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Anything from, "it's bad to contribute to AI killing everybody," to, "it's bad to contribute money to the NGO blob," to, "it's bad to own galaxies."
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Listening to politics inside baseball podcasts, one quickly learns that email lists are the most valuable asset of a defunct campaign. One of the reasons the establishment hates Bernie is that he refused to hand over his email lists to the DNC.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Anyone have thoughts on the ethics of buying the Anthropic IPO?
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
With three days until Election Day, is there still enough time for the Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Michigan?
Cenk Uygur's Rebellion PAC dropped a controversial new ad supporting the Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed featuring a grocery store conversation about Israel. Some are calling it the most antisemitic ad of all time:
"You're going to have to put those eggs back."
"They don't like eggs anymore?"
"No, they like eggs. But we have to set that $7 aside for killing Palestinians."
"What? I mean, don't we give Israel $4 billion a year anyways?"
"Yeah. And now we're giving them another $26 billion. Do you know how much that is per American taxpayer? It's like $161 per person."
"Apparently, it's costing us a lot of money to drop bombs on Gaza. It's terrible."
Now, I don't think this is a very good ad. It's poorly acted and a bit too on-the-nose, but accusing the political opposition of wasting money on unpopular special interests while regular citizens deal with rising prices is probably the most common political maneuver in modern American politics. Apparently, this ad is at the center of a possible last-minute fracture of the Michigan Democratic coalition.
Haley Stevens, El Sayed's defeated challenger in the dem primary, released an incredibly passive aggressive statement preemptively thanking El Sayed for his "Expected Condemnation of Antisemitic Campaign Advertisement". Amusingly, long-time TYT host Ceng Uygur has been demoted to "Hasan Piker's Uncle". In case you didn't catch the subtext, this is a threat to pull her support (as explained by Haley Stevens's fiance on TMZ for some reason?). Abdul appears to have no intention of disavowing the ad.
This doesn't seem to have affected El Sayed's chances in the prediction markets. He is now up to an 80% chance to win, but I guess we'll see what happens at the black church on Sunday.
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
Dentists (and pharmacists) count as doctors. Piano teacher is a well-known housewife side gig. I haven't noticed the bank thing, but I don't go to banks often.
Mossad, if you're listening, now would be a good time to activate sleeper agent Jasmine Crockett.
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