Sammuel Eels

New York Nationalist. Mid Atlantic Aesthete. Unabashed Urbanist. Excelsior!

Hamilton College class of 1832
Lawyer, philosopher, essayist, and orator.

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@scotus_wire we are not allowed to have a country.

absolutely devastating. no other country in the world commits this level of self-sabotage.

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@PTQ94 @atlanticesque there are consistently many mentally ill people roaming the main floor of moynihan train hall

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@PTQ94 @atlanticesque yes, it is

have you been to moynihan recently?

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our country is deeply rooted in the old testament.

it was the most read book at the time of our nations founding. our forefathers were deeply knowlegadble about all things biblical.

the Liberty Bell is inscribed: "Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof" (Leviticus 25:10)

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@mahmoudkhalel just please leave our country already

you clearly do not like it here and are no longer welcome

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@RoKhanna @bradlander what a joke. deeply unserious people peddling even less serious policy.

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@CharlesFLehman I left other women so i could criticize her endlessly and make her miserable

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

“I love my wife more than any other woman in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

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@poordart he was a boob whose only legacy will be the degradation of his own country through severe economic and technocratic mismanagement and the destruction of the middle east through pointless factional wars

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it is a problem of elite overproduction.

society has created too many college grads and there simply aren’t enough adult daycare laptop jobs to go around. the laptop class is bloated. millions of people were promised that a degree would buy them a $150k job, endless upward mobility, and a life better than their parents. they are now finding out they were sold a bag of lies.

these are the overeducated, downwardly mobile, high income whites voting for idiots like mamdani, chevalier, and valdez.

they know they will never be able to afford the life their parents led and they’re pissed about it. the ladder feels like it was pulled up behind the last generation.

so instead of trying to expand the pie through generative value creation, they are increasingly content to carve up the existing pie and redistribute it.

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@DB0ii69 @DarializaforNY no shit they hate our country? then leave!

i’m sick and tired of wealthy progressive foreigners moving here to tell us why our country sucks.

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@LeeKuanYimby there is no place for him in our country. he must leave.

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@SarkerNotParker @ModernUrbanism @YIMBYLAND lots is magical about human scale

build away, but build beautiful

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that’s not the point. most everyone is well meaning. systems don’t operate on intentions. individuals operate within systems.

behavior at the margins may not be ill intended, but its consequences can still be harmful.

“one of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” - milton friedman

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what struck me going through these is that, while some of these homes would surely be considered enormous today, many look smaller than our modern mcmansions.

these men were the elite of their day, yet millions of modern americans can afford larger homes with every convenience of modern life. the mud huts of colonial virginia have dissolved back into the earth, while the george wythe house still stands. today’s mud huts are the condos and subdivisions of suburbia.

the average american is wealthy, prosperous, and free, living with comforts our nation’s founding elite could hardly imagine. there is no better endorsement of our political and economic system.

god bless america.

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

Today, on the 250th birthday of The United States of America, a thread of the extant homes of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

1. Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee
- Stratford Hall

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@CaitlinPacific and yet he wants to destroy the very system that enabled it.

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the existing policy is people bearing the cost of their own decisions. this policy shifts part of that cost onto everyone else and lowers the cost of pet ownership at the margin.

you can disagree with the second-order effects, but pretending there are none is exactly the kind of brainless policy making that creates these problems in the first place.

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@tommiedotjpg @domdyer70 lmao… sorry i care about our city?

if you had a brain you’d realize that subsidizing pet demand will lead to more strays and more improperly cared for pets. if you had a heart you would care.

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@lovinthepainari @domdyer70 I wouldn’t be. I don’t think we should ever subsidize demand.

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@kylekuzma what about the corner of the left that praises hamas and al-Qaeda and say we deserved 9/11?