Quibbles Over Coffee

It's a podcast maybe? @Dabble_H_W
Also I argue online sometimes? IDK mahn...

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

Isn’t Pitt Mag supposed to be the progressive alternative???? In what world is “the problem with this picture of downtown is there’s not enough parking” the progressive stance???

[Pittsburgh Magazine @PittsburghMag]

If Pittsburgh wants to become a more walkable city, writes PM Managing Editor Sean Collier, that starts with more affordable and available parking.
https://t.co/Jpey1805X0

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

@AlwaysFlacko there is a law that *people who can show Jewish lineage - from the land of Judea* should be allowed back… to Judea (not actually Judea, Israel proper, they’re still not allowed in most of Judea)

That’s very different than like.. did you know I’ve got a Jew nose *racially?*

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

@AlwaysFlacko having a refugee right of return, specifically for Jews, when not everyone is allowed to return, is “ethnic,” and not.. genealogical? Do you think black descendants of slaves deserve reparations? Should some random - just as much black - nigerian immigrant get it too?

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

@AlwaysFlacko let’s do this one by one - is “criticizing (((Israel))) from an Ethnic standpoint” ever legitimate - ever not-Nazi adjacent?

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@AlwaysFlacko wait why is it your business how Israel treats Palestinians, a race/religion you care about (worth flagging a huge number of Druze & Christian pale would be dead w/o Israel), but not how it treats Jews - might that be… because you care about the Mizrahi Jews less?

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

@AlwaysFlacko ok, so why are you talking about “criticizing ethnically” *or* religiously lol - this is obviously anti Jew, not just anti Israel

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

@AlwaysFlacko ? ya I don’t know anything about you outside twitter - that’s why I.. interact strictly with your twitter? Do you think not knowing someone outside twitter is a reason not to engage with a public twitter lol?

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

@AlwaysFlacko do you think it’s funny to suggest Mizrahi people were violently racially & religiously abused as a precursor to their moving to israel, and do you think it’s unreasonable to discuss the ways racial hierarchies continue to map on even among the descendants of holocaust survivors?

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

@AlwaysFlacko probably also somewhat anti jew -

1. wtf does it mean to “criticize on an ethnic basis” in a not-Nazi-adjacent way

2. There’s a state religion for, and cross on, the UK flag, I don’t see you talking about that all the time - there’s literally 40+ flags w/ religious symbolism

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

@AlwaysFlacko sorry - I should be precise - anti jew

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

imagine running food stamps like rent control. whoever got in line in 1994 eats free forever, the discount follows the seat not the person, and newcomers get nothing. we’d call that insane. for housing we call it a historic victory.

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

@JeremiahDJohns @PGHNewLiberals not radical enough. we need an entire new borough, name it “YIMBIA” and there are zero height restrictions.

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

so what you’re telling me is that Elon Musk, one dude, has 10% as much money as every single american under 45 *combined *

[AntisepticHorse @AntisepticHorse]

They will spend every dime of it on taco trucks and wine tastings

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

@jolahpolitics @HowardA_AtLaw like to be clear - the fact that he’s wealthy is not a problem - but denying it is ridiculous.

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@jolahpolitics @HowardA_AtLaw “hefty savings” is called… wealth. It makes one… *wealthy*

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

@jolahpolitics @HowardA_AtLaw so yes, I think having $13.6 million makes you an oligarch lol

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

@jolahpolitics @HowardA_AtLaw Median household income in the United States States is $83,730 - at $13.6 million, according to the 4% rule, 1%ers can afford, in perpetuity, to have 4 entire *families* of servants and still have money left over to house them in average housing outside their mansion, w/o working

[Quibbles Over Coffee @QuibblesC]

@jolahpolitics @HowardA_AtLaw also to be clear, the cutoff I’m laying out is for Oligarch (1%er) not “upper middle class” - the cutoff to be in the “upper middle class” is between $500k & $2 million - which ya, given they spent $600k+ on their kid’s HIGH SCHOOL, I’m pretty confident they have more than lol