Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺

Normie liberal Democrat. Urbanist. Enjoyer of cosmopolitanism and globalism. Dual EU/US citizen. If the housing is safe, let them build it.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

Well, might as well add my idea to the the various anti-tanking ideas out there.

Introducing the **Rotating Position-Based Lottery**

This proposal eliminates tanking by severing the link between regular season losses and draft lottery odds.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@cliffnuttman @Johnny_photog @NateSilver538 Too late. Primary is next week. It’s Platner versus Collins. He’s leading her in most polls. He’ll be a huge improvement over her if he wins. I think we can all agree to ignore his body art.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@cliffnuttman @Johnny_photog @NateSilver538 The GOP Senate majority has been disastrous for America. What is so complicated about this?

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@tbdtbdtbd777 @NateSilver538 I’m sure you’re fervently supporting Talarico against Paxton. 😣

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@HistoryBoomer Defeating Susan Collins means one less vote in the United States Senate for the MAGA movement that is rapidly destroying everything that is good about this country. Also, potential SCOTUS vacancies! To me, the choice isn’t remotely close, despite Platner’s personal deficiencies.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

To be clear, I don't think and have never thought Platner is an optimal general election nominee for US Senate. But does any realistic alternative exist at this late juncture?

I doubt it. Mills has already dropped out, and the other candidate has zero name recognition.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@NateSilver538 I want my friends/family to exhibit good character. I hope I do so myself. Indeed, I'd prefer my elected officials do the same. But giving another Senate majority to MAGA would be a disaster for the country.

Platner's dating history and body art are irrelevant to the above.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@Just_GLM @Amy_Siskind "I'm confused."

Yes.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@HistoryBoomer Defeating Susan Collins means one less vote in the United States Senate for the MAGA movement that is rapidly destroying everything that is good about this country. Also, potential SCOTUS vacancies! To me, the choice isn’t remotely close, despite Platner’s personal deficiencies.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@OnlyInBOS Happy to see this, but 14 stories and 266 apartments isn’t “massive.”

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@jokertyf @realBurhanAzeem All housing that is safe should be by right allowed on every plot of land in the state.

If it's safe, let them build it.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@Glo_Uni @Ltdsoltd @mattyglesias Celtics have more championships.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@Ltdsoltd @mattyglesias The Lakers aren’t remotely one of the three best run franchises in the league. They just have an unmatched recruitment advantage.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@Ltdsoltd @mattyglesias The Lakers aren’t remotely one of the three best run franchises in the league. They just have an unmatched recruitment advantage.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@adeebhafeez16 @RonFilipkowski Ossoff—a purple state leader who codes as moderate AND can attract a lot of the left—makes a shit ton more sense for Democrats than Newsom. I like the latter, mind you, but he's historically underperformed electorally, and Dems don't need help carrying California.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@adeebhafeez16 @RonFilipkowski You've provided zero backup for your assertion he's too young to run for for POTUS. Absolutely nothing wrong with a man in his early 40s aspiring for that office. After a decade of octogenarian rule, Americans are ready for a change.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@RonFilipkowski I love the way he directly confronts the blood and soil "philosophy" behind MAGA. No dog whistling.

He'd be a great fucking nominee.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@coryfromphilly This looks nothing like the third world. Have you actually lived in a developing country?

I'm an ardent YIMBY. That corridor (really, that entire metro) should be radically upzoned. Hell, the whole country should be.

But crazy takes like this help no one.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.

Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions, and that is what makes us exceptional

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@alz_zyd_ @Noahpinion Crime is now *far* lower in America than it was "a few decades ago."

It's an extraordinarily under-reported story.

[Charles Ryder 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @char15299]

@W_T_Han I don't think it's really even a pretense here in the 2020s, is it? When's the last time a top US official said or implied Taiwan is free to join the PRC if that's what its people want?

Maybe I've missed it, but I don't think we've seen language to this effect in decades.