AJ Gilbert

Founder @chefsheet | Opinions my own | RTs not endorsement | Cynicism preferred

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This is the question I wish voters would ask:
How can you keep voting for more laws and regulations because they supposedly make the community safer and fairer, while accepting that government simply chooses not to enforce existing laws against some people?
If the unlicensed food stand in the park doesn’t need health rules, labor laws, taxes or permits, fine—make the libertarian argument and eliminate those burdens for everyone.
But you can’t simultaneously say these rules are essential to protect the public when applied to a restaurant, and unnecessary when the same food is sold 100 feet away.
At some point you have to ask: are these laws really about making the community better, or about controlling the businesses that are easiest to regulate and collect money from?

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Just a few years ago, LA decided it was too dangerous to eat outside at a licensed restaurant. Now health concerns seem irrelevant as people romanticize bringing the lower food-safety standards of developing countries to LA—as though making the city more “Third World”. We had a choice: follow Singapore—preserve street food while making it clean, licensed and safe—or follow Tijuana. We seem to have made our choice.

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@JTruthAnon @spencerpratt A great point. LA places some of the highest requirements for restaurant grease interceptors which are very expensive to install and maintain. A street vendor can just pour grease into a storm drain.

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@spencerpratt Ok, let’s deregulate the restaurant industry then, no health permits, no health inspections, no ADA enforcement, no labor codes… one or the other but no two tier enforcement.

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Raman is an academic who went on to start an NGO to aid the homeless. On its own website, the NGO touts an employee who is nearly housed as a success story. So I understand why she’s proud of getting a crosswalk painted in eight months. If you’ve spent a career without actually building anything, seeing something you did appear in the physical world must be exhilarating. Imagine if she’d started SpaceX.

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Do you agree with what Hasan Piker said? If not, do you believe he should be criticized for saying it?
And if you do agree with him, explain why candidates who choose to campaign with Hasan shouldn’t be criticized for that association.
I’m asking about Hasan’s conduct itself—not whether you approve of the people criticizing him.

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@spencerpratt What a great new voice. I had no idea what we all needed was to hear what Spencer from The Hills thinks. You communicate in the same tone as the propagandists—but you’re using facts and truth instead.

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@RoKhanna @mcuban Everyone needs to be able to afford a basic 11,000 foot home in Northern Virginia, keep fighting for equity Ro.

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@TheChiefNerd “Mayor, should Washington house migrants?”
“Yes. Housing is a human right.”
“Healthcare for everyone?”
“Yes.”
“Subsidized groceries for everyone?”
“Yes.”
“So NJ residents can use NYC’s subsidized stores?”
“No. Those are for New Yorkers.”

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@adamcarolla If Elon could only create anything of value like Piker does

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@fred_guttenberg I think it really is that he wanted to watch soccer with Netanyahu. It’s really sort of sweet. You see, The Mayor loves people who are incarcerated.

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@nicksortor I guess the end of the story would be Natenyahu and Mamdani watching soccer together in a prison.

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@adamcarolla Well done Adam, perfect parallel!!!

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@AnaKasparian So obviously Shapiro ordered the shooting and needed live updates so he could tell Netanyahu to Venmo the second half of the payment — private setting, naturally, Mossad-style.

And if Shapiro hadn’t casually mentioned it on his own podcast, we never would’ve known. Case closed.

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@adamcarolla It’s like watching a game of Chutes and Ladders. She always knows the destination: she ends up as the victim. The confusing part is watching how she moves around the board to get there.

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Massimo, you seem to be proposing a single democratic state encompassing Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Do you believe that a government elected within such a state would remain committed to regular elections, minority rights, and a liberal, multireligious democracy—even if the electorate produced a government hostile to those principles?

Palestinian elections have taken place before, but they did not result in a durable system in which people retained the recurring power to choose and replace their leaders. That history seems central to the question: creating a single state is one thing; ensuring that it remains democratic after the first election is another. I am truly interested in your response.

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If wealth built on workers and public systems is exploitation, how is AOC different?
She built her career by bartending, then convincing working-class voters she would improve their lives. Years later, NYC is more expensive, less safe, and services feel worse.
She got wealth and power. What did they get?

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@RubinReport @ArynneWexler “Have I been manipulated?” is a strange defense for someone whose public role is supposed to be evaluating information. How do you know you’re not being manipulated now into your new “rhetoric?”