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Let's be clear here, Israel is abducting and torturing Americans and expects zero repercussion. They have murdered British aid workers on purpose and pretend to be the victim. Israel bombs half their neighbors and cries crocodile tears all in the name of fascism.
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Yea I do think if you asked a bunch of leftists and centrists how this would play out back in late 2023, you would have ended up much closer to the actual outcome listening to the leftists.
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The "moderates" ultimately signed on to the call for a ceasefire without the language that Kelsey describes as "Hamas bad" because they thought it was more important to oppose the mass killing of civilians, instead of endless perfunctory denunciation.
the Oakland City Council has 2-3 centrist Democrats and 4-5 left Democrats, depending how you count. all of them wanted a ceasefire; the difference was that the moderates also thought Hamas was bad.
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Vox’s Kelsey Piper did not even support a ceasefire in MAY of THIS YEAR. If centrists want to change their mind now I welcome it but outright lying from journalists is not ok.
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The only thing that changed was that the center finally joined in on recognizing a genocide for what it is because doing so didn’t require them to criticize their braindead moron president anymore.
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This is the exact equivalent of the people who do the "Actually, Anne Frank died of typhus" line in service of outright holocaust denial
We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below.
ALT Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.
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There’s basically two Silicon Valley billionaires who are still Democrats. One is Dustin Moskowitz, an effective altruist who funds almost every yimby/abundance org in the country. The other one is Hoffman.
Abundance liberalism is just tech billionaire liberalism.
Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman tells @JTLonsdale that he "sends everyone a copy of Abundance", the @ezraklein / @DKThomp book, and is going to back Abundance-aligned Democratic candidates.
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The glaring manipulative choice here is looking nationwide - this issue is primarily concentrated in test-case cities where institutional investors can corner a larger share of the market.
They pick rising cities with few protections and they go all in. 1/
The WPA industrialized entire regions of the country by building dams and providing the power at-cost to industry and residences. The anti- New Dealers are either liars or dumb but the worst part is the "I'm a little rascal" affect they all share.
Shit, I meant the PWA, I'll never recover... just like the US economy never would have recovered without the New Deal #winning #investment
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Primitive capitalism is a such a powerful dumb guy idea. Scouring the ethnohistoric record for something that you can claim is a hunter-gatherer joint-stock company.
This is the YIMBY inverse of "we have more homes than homeless people" and it's also bad data.
-Cost-burdened metros have significantly higher rates of institutional ownership, which increases rent and evictions. Atlanta has 21%
-2024 figures show 2% of ownership, 4x his data.
This is even more wrong. The root cause is institutional investors buying up distressed properties following the global financial crisis.
teapawt.net/StatisticUrban/status/…
Late stage YIMBYism
Oregon governor, Portland mayor will personally court housing investors amid construction slump oregonlive.com/business/2025…
