Mr M

Of no particular importance and mainly just here to lurk. Elder Millennial, Reform Jew, Normie Shitlib.

[Kolchak the Daywalker 😇 🐊 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦🍌 @ArthurKolchak]

Even the harshest (non-slopulist) critics of Fukuyama acknowledge at this point that his thesis is one of the most relentlessly strawmanned in history.

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

So you support trade with and investment in these countries that will enable them to become rich then?

[eva @_glorianas]

immigration debate will go nowhere until we all come to terms it is deeply inhumane to have such massive differences in living standards across the globe and expect people to just accept that

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

They believe that if you talk about destroying capitalism a lot then some critical mass of voters will actually realize they've actually been socialists laboring under false consciousness this whole time.

Yes, I know it's idiotic when you say it out loud, but they believe this.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I continue to not understand the leftist plan to win power by persuading moderate Democrats to become Republicans. How does that work?

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

Yeah, no. Conventional ovens are great, I want to have a double installed in my kitchen at some point.

But I can make hot wings in my air fryer that have a level of crispness they could never get in the oven, and no mess of deep frying.

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

an air fryer is what happens when a generation that was never taught the oven exists meets an appliance industry that knows it. the innovation isn't the fan, it's the preheat time, and the preheat time is short because the box is small. you bought smallness

[Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦 @bdquinn]

Not going to mince words here, I think Texas Republicans would figure out how to refuse to certify a very narrow Democratic win. The state GOP is absolutely nuts, way crazier than the median voter (who votes Republican) is.

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

Im old to remember 2004 and when Howard Dean seemed to be surging, the right wing radio-sphere was absolutely chomping at the bit in hopes he'd win the primary and National Review ran a cover story begging the Dems to nominate him.

Make of this what you will.

[Johnny Akzam @JohnnyAkzam]

Al Gore lost in 2000 as a centrist.

John Kerry lost in 2004 as a centrist.

Obama won in 2008 posturing as a progressive. (But then lost both chambers of Congress after being exposed as a centrist)

Hillary lost in 2016 as a centrist.

@TheDemocrats should have abandoned centrism decades ago.

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

You understand professional hitmen are not actually something Mafia movies made up?

[kivu’raw’nuru @kivuraw]

@TCArk1234 @SpaghettiKozak @hutchinson Deciding murder is the sane option makes you not sane, case closed, straw man bent over and fucked, you idiots keep giving dumb scenarios and acting like it’s a serious critique of a presented system, as if the current system doesn’t let pedos and murderers run free

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

How does the math work here? If you're saying losing members is actually going to be a net positive for the Dems then they need to offset the losses somewhere.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

The dem party will be so much better and more popular when these people drop the act and just become Republicans.

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

Plenty of us millenials are also actual children of boomers.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Sometimes it feels like Millennials are the spiritual children of the Boomers and Gen Z are the spiritual children of Gen X

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

Fairly big caveat that it's no longer 2000; but Clinton broke a 25 year GOP lock on the White House, became the first Dem president since FDR to win reelection and left office with something close a supermajority approval rating.

Maybe he did something right?

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

Liberalism is so depleted it’s insane. No ambition, no new answers, no adjustments. Just 1992 forever. A Clintonite infinity. We must imagine Sisyphus balancing the budget.

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

What does this even mean?

[Amina 💌 @fawnn404]

i think peoples politics would become very different if they stopped seeing the global south as a collection of humanitarian crises and started seeing it as the majority of humanity

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

Can someone tell me where to find a job making 100k a year with no tax where I also apparently have zero living expenses enabling a 100% savings rate on my part?

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I DO NOT think people fully understand how much 1 billion is. If your salary was $100k with no tax, it would take you 10 years to become a millionaire, but 10,000 years to reach a billion. It is unethical for one person to be hoarding this much wealth while others cannot eat.

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

Genuinely asking this; do people think universal health care means "the program covers basically everything and will cost 99% of the public basically nothing"?

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Has any country that adopted universal healthcare ever said, “You know what? This isn’t working. Let’s go back to paying insurance premiums and getting claims denied all the time.”

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

Leave aside Israel isn't a party to the ICC, this is a great example of why the body is so absurd. Even signatories are only going to cooperate when they feel like it.

If the ICC issued a warrant to arrest Macron, does anyone really think France would just hand him over?

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Netanyahu's jet crossed 4 ICC states and not ONE enforced the warrant.

He crossed Greek, Italian, French, and Canadian airspace en route to Washington DCll four signed the Rome Salute. All four were legally bound to arrest him.

Not one lifted a finger.

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

Its almost as if inflation is notorious for being sticky.

[Camryn @dancingofpens]

this graph from the AP stunned me into silence

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

Also funny that any leftists still simp for Ortega after he engaged in hanky-panky with Arnoldo Aleman; and given all of the former members of the FSLN directorate other than his brother have never wanted a damn thing to do with his government.

[Sunny @sunnyright]

I feel like there was relatively little interest in Nicaragua's leftist leader announcing the end of elections, from the International Democracy Experts and Human Rights Enthusiasts who offer passionate commentary every time the US or Israel fart in the wrong direction.

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

@elephant_ben Exact numbers are definitely patchy but there's at least some evidence that a non-trivial number went back just long enough to reclaim property and sell it just so they could have the funds to move to a region in which their national group is the dominant one.

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

No, it means some recognize that the most likely outcome of a 1SS is civil war, and in that case, my money goes on the stronger party.

[Nassreddin 🍉 نصر الدين @Nassreddin2002]

So you admit that you’re a genocidal maniac?

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

@elephant_ben I'm glad BiH found stability but they're basically a NATO protectorate. And refugees who tried to return to areas in which they're not a majority often faced harassment (or worse) and employment discrimination.

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

@HandsOffDPRK So when are you taking up an AK-47 then? Don't cock tease me man.

[Mr M @IR_Wonk]

I've got a paycheck that says this person has never touched a gun in their life and would probably piss themselves in terror if they had to.