Hanlon's Laser

If you hand me any basket of beliefs, I’m going to start throwing some out.

[Hanlon's Laser @aphofer]

Don’t be ICE, don’t be Antifa.

Go ahead and argue vociferously on social media.

Try to be tolerant and generous with your assumptions about people you meet in the physical world.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

there is not a single person in government alive today who has improved my life even a fraction as much as amazon. and most have made it worse.

[Hanlon's Laser @aphofer]

@__mike91 Incidental compared to the starvations, pogroms, and political imprisonment of their own people.

https://t.co/CCxCQbxT8a

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

No:

Changes in inequality are unrelated to changes in the homicide rate (or other types of crime, for that matter).

[Hanlon's Laser @aphofer]

@JonWiltshire_ It’s also literally called “monopoly”, something free marketers oppose.

[Hanlon's Laser @aphofer]

Monopoly is zero sum. This is a tell.

[Jon Wiltshire @JonWiltshire_]

Anyone who doesn't understand the fundamental problem with capitalism clearly hasn't played Monopoly.

The game ends when one person owns everything and everyone else is bankrupt.

Somehow, we've built an entire economic system around this.

[Hanlon's Laser @aphofer]

@gingersnap2123 @bauxietmali @CamFantastic1 @morgvanny We need a simulation game for these folks.

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@ajlamesa It was pretty divisive last time we tried reform. Still is.

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@patriach2051 Every one false. You shot the moon.

[Destroyer of Bad Takes (Emeritus) @_Credible_Hulk]

None of this is true!
1. Billionaires don’t own all the wealth! The top 0.01% owns 15%, and billionaires are a subsection of that
2. Wages aren’t stagnating! They’re actually consistently rising.
3. Billionaires don't own all the housing. While there’s no count of…

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@mary_pezzulo When are you going to explain?

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@washeisstglaubn @Econymous_1 @PatriciaNPino I just came back from Tokyo. It is not a hellhole.

[Hanlon's Laser @aphofer]

People who take the risk and do the work to renovate apartments maybe should be compensated.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Progress isn’t inevitable. It’s fought for and earned.

New York City will now give community organizations the first shot at buying eligible homes — not flippers who are just looking to extract a profit.

This is the largest Opportunity to Purchase program in the nation.

Thank you @CMSandyNurse for your leadership on the COPA bill. Our city’s tenants are stronger because of it.

[Hanlon's Laser @aphofer]

@meanypunches @Bob_Phrog @PYeerk https://t.co/wpI6Gd8AMw

[Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪 @DerekPederson3]

Ask yourself why progressives have completely failed to get this done at the state level anywhere.

Because the bill that they are pushing is nothing like how single-payer works to cut costs in other countries. It’s not affordable and it won’t work.

[Hanlon's Laser @aphofer]

@ricardo_xyz_123 Which is why retirement isn’t death. I don’t mind being different, I mind the “mine is the only way” stuff.

[Hanlon's Laser @aphofer]

F that, I’m retiring to have fun. If you can’t do that, you lack imagination.

[CHARLIE COTTON @hicharliecotton]

john cornyn isn’t planning on retiring after his term ends, “when you retire you die”.

he also talks about working with his replacement, james talarico @JohnCornyn

[Hanlon's Laser @aphofer]

A modern Don Quixote. At best.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Oligarchs spent $425 million against California's billionaire wealth tax—outraising supporters 250 to 1 on ads. The result: They got a "whopping" 52%.

I've got bad news for these Oligarchs. Your victory is fleeting. We will pass a federal billionaire wealth tax & end your greed.

[Hanlon's Laser @aphofer]

@cremieuxrecueil @colorblindk1d Just in the taxi home from the airport myself.

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@jbhenneman And “based off”?

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@pegobry_en Empirically unnecessary

[Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp]

Not only is it completely false to say mass deportations is a "necessary condition" for rising real wages, but it also flies in the face of historical evidence. The US experienced massive immigrations from 1880-1920, and real wages grew about 140%