Jeremy Cooper

Appellate and criminal defense lawyer practicing in WV and PA. Mountaineer in soft exile.

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@jon_stokes Those books were written overnight by the bot specifically to be marketed to the geolocation of the ChatGPT request in the morning.

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@BillAckman @DrewPavlou You give hope to all the other dumb fucks in the world that they, too, might become a billionaire.

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@ASFleischman Did deprivation cause her buddies to murder a judge?

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@eigenrobot @AGDugin Easy to say when his side is losing.

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@Curic_official @CaralhoPhilly @hecubian_devil Yeah I’m probably oversimplifying. And the blue states should build way more housing for the benefit of their own people and to stop political catastrophe after 2030, yeah.

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@CaralhoPhilly @Curic_official @hecubian_devil I don’t disagree. It would be better to approve way more housing at the cost of reducing future unearned real estate appreciation for incumbent homeowners. I agree with you there FWIW.

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@Curic_official @CaralhoPhilly @hecubian_devil MAGA was enough in 2016/2024 and almost enough in 2020. MAGA-adjacent numbers are much greater than the left’s outside of the top markets like NYC etc. Housing cost is more people with more money bidding up the limited supply. More people with more cash= bidding up everything.

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@Curic_official @CaralhoPhilly @hecubian_devil Most people aren’t downwardly mobile. Real household income, adjusted for inflation, both mean and median, has gone up and up. There are certain subsets for whom that’s not true, and they’re overrepresented in both DSA and in MAGA, the populist ends of the horseshoe.

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@Curic_official @CaralhoPhilly @hecubian_devil No argument that there are failures all over the place. Just no faith that there is a solution waiting in the wings from the left.

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@Curic_official @CaralhoPhilly @hecubian_devil The group of people who have been evicted at least once is a lot less politically engaged and less prone to rhetorical shit-talking than is the group of downwardly mobile college grads that makes up a big part of DSA. The people at the very bottom have been failed by everyone.

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@Curic_official @CaralhoPhilly @hecubian_devil I think Obama should have come down harder on Wall Street in 2009 and that Obamacare was very economically progressive especially with the Medicaid expansion but there hasn’t been political stomach in the USA for more safety net expansion unfortunately.

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@CaralhoPhilly @hecubian_devil I’m not defensive about the fact that I think people overall, myself included, do better under the liberal status quo than what we’d get if DSA took over. That is true. But I also don’t think the currently broke or the trust-fundies would do better with the DSA either. Whatever.

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@CaralhoPhilly @hecubian_devil Do you deny that the left has a lot of people personally aggrieved by their economic circumstances and/or downward mobility? My experience is that educated people doing badly in the modern economy correlates with being a leftist.

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@CaralhoPhilly @hecubian_devil By that token being a leftist is just a confession that you can’t fucking hack it without outside support. Or maybe people have differences in opinion about what system provides the best opportunity for a good life for the most people?

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@lydiakauppi @CaralhoPhilly @hecubian_devil Watch your back after the revolution, lmao.

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@CaralhoPhilly @hecubian_devil To be fair you don't find a lot of entrepreneurial types on the left, so you're left with the broke and the trust-fund-oriented. There is a decent subset of salaried professionals who don't fall into either category though.

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@tracewoodgrains RIP Pim Fortuyn.

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@hecubian_devil @MostlyMonkey @darkacademician I don't want the government to help me "find meaning." Little could be more nightmarish.