Caleb Weldon

Wentworth 2021, mechanical engineer

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

It’s a political earthquake.

But when the dust has settled and several very left-wing NYC House Democrats are replaced by new very left-wing House Democrats who also call themselves “socialists” what will have actually changed?

[Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh]

In NYC, hotel lobby won against Airbnb and now the taxi lobby (who fought tooth and tail with Uber) is winning against Waymo

Short term rental restrictions didn’t keep rents low. Banning self driving would cost lives. Congrats to all local politicians and unions

[Caleb Weldon @WeldonCaleb]

@bigseb31213 This isn’t new, in the past the government banned new development in some second tier cities holding back the broader economy for years, now they want to do the same to London. For some reason British politicians seem to always think the solution is strangling themselves

[Caleb Weldon @WeldonCaleb]

@ettingermentum And she’s not even a competent candidate, she’s tweeter racist comments and is a prison abolitionist

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Modern urban planning as a discipline is obsessed with value-destroying ideas about setbacks, scale, massing, etc that are totally at odds with what popular — crowded places where space is at a premium — urban neighborhoods are actually like.

https://t.co/MFqbSIplqQ

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

If you want to live in an artists’ loft in SoHo, you have to be officially certified as An Artist. You can’t get certified if you do the kinds of art that you can make a living off of. So these lofts are just for rich kids.

Gift link: https://t.co/GULVyp2dDT

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

We should outlaw car dealerships. You must buy directly from the manufacturer. Enough of this.

[signüll @signulll]

what a fucking tragedy for nyc.

the same dumb resistance happened during the uber saga & now you’re watching the same shit play out again with autonomous cars.

the reality is that humans should not be operating metal death machines forever. esp in a city where taxis have spent decades gaming routes, ignoring pickups, driving like maniacs, & treating the meter like a side quest. uber fixed some of that, then slowly became expensive as hell, degraded, & unreliable in its own stupid way.

collective decision making of humans is often so so damn stupid.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

God could come down himself and give Waymo perfect software, and union-captured NY politicians would say they haven't proven its safety and deny it a license

[New Liberals 🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @CNLiberalism]

The ROAD to Housing Act has officially passed Congress!!! With the poison pills gone, the first major housing abundance and affordability bill in years is on its way to be signed!

Proud to join @Up4Growth & some of our chapters in thanking congressional leadership today!

[Caleb Weldon @WeldonCaleb]

@Mike_from_PA @jwilcox79 He canceled student loans, ended the drone war, ended afghan war, huge green energy bill, inflation reduction act, bailed out union pension funds.

[Jeremy Wilcox @jwilcox79]

So much of the Biden years was: The left (successfully!) convincing the Biden WH to take big progressive swings... then leaving Dems high & dry when there was political fallout.

Meanwhile the leftist revision of those years is Democrats doing centrist corporate shill stuff.

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

It's hard to remember but cancelling student loans was THE thing that the left talked about exclusively for several years.

People like myself said the obvious; 'Biden will do this, the Supreme Court will strike it down and the left will just still blame Biden for 'not trying enough.'

And then exactly that happened, he got ZERO credit for it. And then they just moved on to the next Current Thing.

[Caleb Weldon @WeldonCaleb]

@becauseberkeley @mateosfo Rent control makes the problem so much worse, it’s a supply issue the only fix is more housing, we need developers to build

[Caleb Weldon @WeldonCaleb]

@maddog301 @mattyglesias Conservatives don’t believe in markets either, they think that free markets in housing will lead to higher prices and less choice just like they don’t believe free trade leads to more wealth. Only the center left believes in markets fully

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

This story is revealing:
- Rent control favors the connected but is brutal for the unconnected (new, young, immigrant, poor).
- If you get it, it’s like hitting the lottery.
- RC disincentivizes investment.
- The key to homeownership is to be an adult in the 90s.
- F them kids.

[Bishop 🏴‍☠️ 🇺🇦 @KBP9a91]

Congress approved someone in a literal cult to be at the highest level of the USIC.

I promise you, you don’t hate them enough.

[Caleb Weldon @WeldonCaleb]

@Half__86 @OrganizerMemes The national party isn’t very powerful Bernie just couldn’t get the voters behind him

[Caleb Weldon @WeldonCaleb]

@willyoubemypale @OrganizerMemes That’s not true, American parties are actually very weak, primaries mean that the people pick the nominees and pick the winner.

[Caleb Weldon @WeldonCaleb]

@Justinian777 @trouble_man90 Harris wasn’t doing that either.