I always chalked that up to the "I want things to be different" fallacy

where are those economists, I just want to talk 😠🔪

sounds like they're right-wing, then? this is giving "I'm not a racist, but the KKK is the only group that represents my views on Black people."

"other considerations" is the nicest euphemism for "racist bullshit" I've ever heard

no, people don't like what y'all CLAIM is the solution to inflation, because it doesn't bring prices DOWN and just punts the problem to consumers as always. try doing something to stop the rampant runaway corporate grifting and you'll make people a lot happier.

I. HATE. THIS. STATE.

surely this won't be full of egregious bullshit 🙃

literally profiting off THE BIBLE. which he has never read and can't even hold upright. I fucking can't with this guy anymore.

fucking hooray, so he can pay the full half a billion judgment now, right? RIGHT?

don't they have a point though? the town adjacent to my suburb keeps filling dozens of empty acres with massive new developments, and they just spent $9 million to resurface its roads WHICH ARE ALL ONE-LANE. how is anyone going to be able to get from their fancy new house to work or school along with 100,000 other people on a bunch of one-lane roads? it's not that they don't want to grow, but there's more to it than just building a house.

she's right. cramming people into sardine cans is not the solution. it's shrinkflation for the housing market. ultimately what we need is caps on profit - whether that's the CEO compensation for development firms or limits on raising rent without any property improvements. stop allowing people to be fleeced for a roof over their heads.

these are not contradictory positions for a conservative to take. Nixon and especially Reagan rebranded the GOP as socially conservative (to the point of fascism) but economically neoliberal. economic neoliberalism is the "no regulations, free market = maximum profit" hyper capitalism that the GOP has been obsessed with for decades.

they also tend to have lower wages and median incomes because Republicans hate people who aren't billionaire megadonors.

is it, though? I'm always hearing that we have more empty houses than people needing housing and people just can't afford to occupy them. I mean it's pretty obvious that greed is behind rent hikes, considering how much they jumped after our population SHRANK due to Covid while supply stayed the same. landlords raise rents simply because they can, not because they have to.

Jesus Christ it's Camazotz 😱

WaPo's framing has been such a breath of fresh air. I just wish they did a daily deep dive email like NYT does.

I don't think you understand what "feral" means

that actually sounds a lot like how I met my husband. I had turned off the chat function on my okcupid account, but somehow he was able to send me a chat anyway. I humored him, agreed to a date, and the rest is history

hot take: it's better for people to be addicted to oxycodone than end up addicted to heroin because they couldn't get any more oxy. doctors should write the scripts, insurance should cover them, capitalism goes brrr and patients are kept off street drugs. everyone wins (more or less)

if sports is only "glorious" to you when players are verbally abusing each other, then I don't think you actually like sports