Greg

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[Greg @lobotomy42]

@Fair_and_Biased Property taxes are not "forcing people out of their home."

You can:
1) Save up a retirement fund during your working years (anticipating property taxes when you buy)
2) Continue to work and earn income
3) Sell your house and buy a smaller one

These are choices

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@bruce_lambert @TomABacon Incentives at the individual level do not add up to good incentives for the organization

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@MathIntee @chriswithans One less-often discussed problem with gerrymandering is not who wins and who loses, but the existence of safe districts increases the importance of primaries at the expense of general elections, driving reps to the middle of *their party* instead of the middle of *the electorate*

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@conorjrogers Those districts could still be gerrymandered though. Size of the house is too small, for sure, but that's a separate problem from gerrymandering.

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@matthewstoller I don't think tariffs are inherent, but some kind of taxes definitely are, and saying "we need to raise taxes on everyone" is not winning on either right or left

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@racoon_dogg @pauldgross In both cases, due to quirks of the political system that one side has leveraged effectively, the leader does not represent the majority of the population he leads

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@LinkofSunshine Much more frequent and robust polling here, because the elections matter so much more to world

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@kamilkazani Former PM and (sort of) Israeli opposition leader is quite comfortable admitting the existence of Jewish Israeli terrorism:

https://t.co/UX5AtWwvF3

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@davidvolodzko @TheFIREorg No matter what your position, someone will call you a monster

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@marwood_lennox Well, it's a different kind of demographic crisis

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@kamilkazani "Sunk cost fallacy"

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@Leg_Day_223 @kamilkazani I think he's referring to the political discourse in the US, not the military response

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@SenWarren Banning housing was maybe not the win you think it is

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@andy_garin I don't dispute your research, but in the visualization it looks like total earnings are slightly *higher* five months after implementation? Am I reading this wrong?

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@kamilkazani They're desperate for an off-ramp, or for something they can call a victory, but like Russia in Ukraine circa 2023, their army itself is not actually desperate yet

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@JeremiahDJohns There's also 2.5 -- regime stays in power basically exactly as it was before

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@davidhazony "Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes"

https://t.co/NNYS95KPQj

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@LancesLegion @zriboua Their "support" in Syria when the shit hit the fan was evacuating Bashar al-Assad's family and literally no one else

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@LancesLegion @zriboua Yeah the Russians really helped out their allies in Syria in Venezuela, worked out amazing for them

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A modest proposal to @DarioAmodei : please buy The Washington Post