Immy

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[mr_eggs 🇵🇸 @scrumble_eggs]

Send this to your crush.

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

The road trip absolutely nobody asked for

[Her name is Palestine 🇵🇸😇 @ayshaaa_48]

The amount of Islamophobia going on the tl rn with Palestinian flags in the names lmfao. Ts can’t be real
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[Huthaifa | حذيفة @Shack_Rat]

Western leftists will tweet out the laziest anti-Islam snark imaginable, and then, when Muslims call it what it is, they’ll hide behind “critique of religion.”

Buddy, if that’s the level of your critique, it’s no wonder you now find yourself living out your revolutionary fantasies through a people whose struggle is openly rooted in a faith and worldview you clearly resent.

You romanticize their resistance, borrow their imagery, chant their slogans, and cosplay their courage, all while sneering at the very Islam that sustains so many of them under siege.

And that would be bad enough on its own, but it’s even more pathetic coming from people whose entire political posture depends on being geographically, materially, and psychologically cushioned by the same empire they claim to oppose. You mock the ideology of people facing bombs, prisons, starvation, and extermination while clasped tightly to the teat of the enemy dropping those bombs.

So no, this isn’t about Muslims being unable to handle criticism. Islam has been critiqued by far more serious minds than yours for centuries. What we’re not obligated to entertain is your Reddit-tier contempt dressed up as intellectual courage.

But hey, keep at it. The pinnacle of your ideological achievement is always going to be cosplaying revolution from the safety of the imperial core while outsourcing every real consequence to Muslims you secretly resent, and that’s a ceiling you’re never going to shatter.

[Immy @SomeM1ghtSay]

@NerdeenKiswani I knew there was a tweet I saw of him before that made me unfollow him, and it was that one that you posted.

His recent tweet also got a lot of support from DSA types who went full Islamophobe in his replies. Fake ass 'allies' who pretend that they support Palestine

[Immy @SomeM1ghtSay]

These are the ones that use Gaza for their own self-preservation and gain, not because they care about Palestinians

And the replies from "marxists" supporting him claiming that Islamophobia isn't a thing to them should be a wake up call to Muslims about who we take as allies

[Liam 🇵🇸 @Hezbolsonaro]

Latest DSA darling candidate is an adult convert to Islam

[Immy @SomeM1ghtSay]

One of the best things I learned to do when dealing with a narcissist was to keep receipts of all the fake shit that they do.

There's only so much you can take before you do the content drop and shine a light on the entire fake persona that they have created.

[Posts Of Kittens🐾 @postsofkittens]

Caption please? 🥺😁

[Immy @SomeM1ghtSay]

Steve Kornacki just drew a penis on the interactive screen on NBC's live election coverage

[Immy @SomeM1ghtSay]

@abierkhatib The resort areas and small islands of Thailand are like this now as well.

[Immy @SomeM1ghtSay]

@AmyeC3 Look at that face. I knew that snake was bad news

[Immy @SomeM1ghtSay]

@LexiAIexander @AOC AOC not using the word "Gazans" is quite telling, just like how Bernie Sanders can't call out israel directly, and instead refers to the genocide as "Netanyahu's war". They are both frauds who direct people back to the Democrats.

[pingu @pingu4ll]

what is it called when you can't take it anymore but you keep taking it

[Immy @SomeM1ghtSay]

Just as Nazis were hunted and prosecuted after WWII, every supporter of the Gaza genocide be it members of Western govt's who aided Israel, members of the UN who sat idle, every journalist who spread Israel's lies, and so on should face their version of the Nuremberg trials.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Compete capitulation by the UN today. The backstory:

1. Israel accused Hamas of using SA as a weapon of war, demanding they be blacklisted, an official designation with diplomatic consequences.

2. The UN asked to investigate. Hamas agreed, Israel refused.

3. Israel instead invited Pramila Patten, with no investigative mandate, to visit and write a report. She did so.

4. Israel then produced its own report, through Patten’s friend and former colleague @KaddariRuth, by The Dinah Project

(That’s a reference to the story of Dinah in the Old Testament. Dinah is a victim of SA and her brothers respond by killing everyone in the town. The title made clear the purpose of the allegation was to launch a genocide.)

5. Major reports emerge, with video evidence, of systemic SA of Palestinians in Israeli prisons and detention centers.

6. The UN announces it is blacklisting Hamas, per Israel’s demand, but does not blacklist Israel, merely warning them to do better.

7. In about 2 decades, if it still exists, the UN will apologize for this when it no longer matters

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

As a journalist this is the most disturbing storyline I’ve ever covered. An endless stream of fabrications launched as part of a clear diplomatic and media strategy aimed at justifying a genocide.

Done with the complicity of many western outlets that tossed aside any semblance of journalistic rigor. And then the successful bullying of the UN even after Israel has killed *hundreds* of UN staff and their families.

It worked partly because nobody wants to be called a rape denier or rape apologist, even if the charge is absurd. But how does it feel to be complicit in genocide?

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

A few thoughts on Noah Smith’s piece mocking concern over institutional investment in housing, which reflects both his incuriosity and the lack of rigor characteristic of the effective altruist network of pundits (@DKThomp, @mattyglesias, @ezraklein, et al).

First, Noah characterizes the market as national, saying oh they own such a small slice of houses it shouldn’t matter. But the corporate landlord story is regional, not national. You don't rent in Phoenix for a job in Kansas. The Phoenix market is in Phoenix. There are certain cities where institutional investment dominates. For example, 25-30% of the single family rental homes in Atlanta are owned by a large landlord, which also coincides with large rent spikes. https://t.co/OHZcWwvHnb…

Second, Noah call fears over impacts of corporate acquisition of housing a conspiracy theory or meme, based on the fact that we don't have a lot of clear data. It's a new area and the sources are opaque. The fact that voters are angry about it and that politicians are responding is itself data.

Here for instance is a commenter from Derek Thompson's work, a guy named Tim Glass who says he's a Dallas city planner and absolutely loved Thompson's work on zoning. https://t.co/MY0avqEkFl…

"Investors are skewing the market with cash offers and fast closings. It's hard to quantify the impact but the build-to-rent and private equity homebuying sectors are directly competing with, and therefore raising prices for, traditional homeowners."

Is Glass a conspiracy theorist? Is he just responding to memes about Blackrock? Or is there something here Noah might consider actually real?

Even the paper Noah cites implying corporate landlords lower rents and decrease segregation is held together with about 5-10 big assumptions. It's basically statistical duct tape and chewing gum Noah presents as definitive. I don't mind such papers, I like them because they advance the debate. The fact that the author really doesn't have great data should be an indication that we need more evidence, not that concerns of a large group of people are a conspiracy theory.

And not to badmouth the paper itself, but the author has an obvious ideological slant. It's written by someone who didn't consider that landlords might be lowering rental quality as they buy up large swaths of homes. He even found that landlords monopolize, but assumed that was 'pro-competitive.'

Here's what he wrote: "Corporate landlords exhibit high willingness to pay in property acquisitions to achieve geographic concentration and estimate the strength of local scale economies using a revealed-preference approach."

In other words, they are raising housing prices by overpaying to dominate local areas, which is what analysts have found. There's also this:

"It is worth emphasizing why I focus on the procompetitive effects of landlords, and not the direct effects of landlords on rents of the properties they purchase. The goal of this exercise is to estimate how corporate landlords affect local rents and prices, not whether corporate landlords themselves charge higher or lower rents compared to other landlords."

So maybe what's happening is these guys are worsening the quality of the homes by engaging in host of sordid tactics, and that's why rents are down in those neighborhoods even as the corporate landlords might be hiking *their* rates above the neighborhood mean. We don't know, there is of course a bunch of direct evidence for that in law enforcement actions against firms like Invitation Homes. It's not in 'economist-ese,' but inadequate models don't mean something isn't happening, they just mean economists haven't figured out how to measure it.

Mockery of those of us concerned at this new trend reflects a lack of rigor and worse, a lack of curiosity.

Third, Noah doesn’t engage with direct evidence of higher rents as a result of explicit collusion. According to the Arizona Attorney General's antitrust case against RealPage, which is allegedly engaged in a rent-fixing conspiracy with corporate landlords, "approximately 70% of multifamily apartment units listed in the Phoenix metropolitan area are owned, operated, or managed by companies that have contracted with RealPage for “Revenue Management.”' That's a lot!

The AG did an analysis of both Phoenix and Tucson. Here's the Phoenix example:

"The regression analysis controlled for various property and geographic features such as size of the unit and number of bathrooms. Across over 30,000 units, the regression found an average overcharge of 12% on units priced by RealPage’s Revenue Management Software as compared to units not priced using RealPage’s Revenue Management Software, including 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom, 3-bedroom, and studio apartments. These estimates are conservative and may underestimate the true overcharge, as not every property using RealPage is included in the estimate."

There are many lawsuits and a lot of reporting at this point, and there's some initial academic work. That's data that's useful. A lot of reformers have persuaded me that zoning is a meaningful barrier to more housing. I wish Noah would be as open-minded and empirically driven.

Also, it's hilarious Noah thinks health insurance companies are efficient.

[Immy @SomeM1ghtSay]

@barbarismcrit Liberal fantasy: Something something the markets will sort themselves out.

Reality: frozen meat locked up in GPS chastity belts

[Immy @SomeM1ghtSay]

Just when you thought the shitty liberal bootlicker couldn't be any more of a shitty liberal bootlicker

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Not only do corporate landlords own only a tiny sliver of the U.S. housing stock, but they usually seem to *lower* rents instead of raising them.

The antitrust progressives are just plain wrong on this one.

https://t.co/wHlRgowD4d

[Immy @SomeM1ghtSay]

@AssalRad It has become a daily competition between Sky News and the BBC to see which one can be the bigger genocide denying, israel ass kissing, British sack of garbage on any particular day