so, if Trump gets a third term, Mamdani can be President. that's how this works, right?

i mean in sane places they just never get so polarized you have to call it fuck-you urbanism. Europe builds out in new dense districts all the time. www.esri.com/about/newsro...

i'd like to see a rise of "fuck you urbanism". we're gonna build out whole new mixed-used, pedestrian-awesome, high-density districts bc you assholes of locked us out of your desirable neighborhoods. we're gonna make your neighborhoods last year's thing. what's that gonna do to your home values?

i think this was intended. Donald Trump is not unshrewd. the Mamdani Miracle replaces all the lame-duck chatter. it's a good plot twist.

remember when jerry springer was kind of a downscale thing?

writers, what were you thinking, today could have been Monday, Marjorie Mamdani Monday!

oh goodness. i never knew.

it’s grown into his vision.

need to buy more media.

it’s not so much that digital media divide us as they dissolve us. the space of what you can interact with is constituted ever more sparsely of humans.

incentives matter, but disproportionately to the worst people.

i can attest to a certain immoderation in some of your habits, going back decades!

oh, fuck.

are social democrats “leftists”? democratic socialists? self-described communists? trans rights advocates? feminists? civil rights advocates? what does the word even mean? who are people talking about when they say “leftists”?

“think tanks” should be entirely obsoleted by organizations called “political parties”.

there are a lot of people i’d could work in concert with who i wouldn’t want to share a sleeping bag — or a tent, or even a big tent — with. we need more tents.

Plus, pure volatility — people who on average are not so wealthy enjoying occasional windfall years that put them in a top quantile, but whose other years are austere — does not constitute meaningful mobility, is welfare destructive compared to just receiving the average income at a steadier rate.