when you find takes about your writing, both left and right, all over the internet, it just means you’ve gone chiral.
@louis the problem is we’ve developed a dependency on Musk’s companies, so withholding government contracts may not be a credible threat. 1/
@louis the kids may have developed a dependency on TikTok, but the consequences of forcing them to go cold turkey or to reels or whatever may be more tolerable than, say, our military losing communications infrastructure. 2/
@louis nationalizing the firms, or just more coercively forcing Musk’s divestiture, preserves the access we rely upon. it sets a precedent you might consider damaging or dangerous, but depending how it’s done, might usefully be a discouragement to monopoly. the only reason nationalization is on the table is because we lack alternative vendors. firms that want to avoid this risk can ensure their industries are structured more competitively. /fin
“Alternatively, we could nationalize Musk’s holdings and run national security from the government, in conjunction with private business, but not handing them the keys.” #ErikLoomis https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/the-inevitable-wage-of-neoliberalism
@mastodonmigration @pbump Gen Z men are kind of “normal”, relative to a shitty baseline.
But my oh my, Gen Z women just aren’t having it.
the Obama administration embraced Google as young, emancipatory, an opportunity. politicians of every stripe now treat Google as old, oppressive, an obscenity.
relatable, i suppose. even if well deserved.
A lesson of Uber is once they buy your vote, they can tax the bribe right back from you.
the cliché is that California is the poster child for bad governance in blue states, even though New York exists.
My housing policy in a sentence: Pursue greenfield development at very high densities, with the care and intelligence that desirable high density demands.
"[D]ivide most politicians into two broad categories: Enemies, and Cowards. [E]nemies are…opposed to your policy goals. [C]owards…agree with your…goals, but will sell you out…to protect their own interests. Embrace the idea that we are…pushing to elect…cowards, rather than…enemies. [T]he…work …is not to identify idealized superheroes to run for office [but] to create the conditions…that make it safe for the cowards to vote the right way." #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-think-about-politics- ht @ryanlcooper
"There’s an old idea that elected governments are structurally biased toward deficits and generous social benefits. But it’s clear this is no longer true, if it ever was… I think both the broader recognition of hysteresis and chronic demand shortfalls in the 2010s, and the aggressive response to the pandemic in this decade, are positive lessons that need to be preserved and defended and built upon." @jwmason https://jwmason.org/slackwire/at-the-international-economy-low-interest-rates-were-ok/
a disadvantage of a two-party system is one would like to be able to shun and shame people who vote for fascist political parties, but that forecloses any meaningful democratic choice to those who would remain within the pale. it's better if those who opt out of democracy leave some for the rest of us.
“Is Laura Loomer the Jackie O America needs?”
“it’s raining cats and dogs!”
“manna from heaven!”
@andrei_chiffa DJI is a Chinese company. Regardless of American law, they have no power (other than their market power as a buyer) to force an ownership change. They do have recourse to finding or endowing alternative suppliers, which they are I believe working to do. However, an American supplier would present more options. The US state is certainly capable of forcing divestiture. Whether it would, or has given itself legal tools to do so, I don’t know.
how many of the things that were described to you as “unforgettable” can you remember?
suppose, hypothetically of course, that the owner of a key military supplier, upon whose products national security depends, is himself a grave security risk. is there nothing in American law that could force the security risk to divest?
so, i guess it’s settled then.
seen in Daytona Beach, FL.
Colorful airbrushed T-shirt that say “FACT CHECK ✔️ Thet ARE eating cats & dogs!”
@LesterB99 doesn’t all the world follow American news? it is here, after all, that the great controversies of the day are being hashed out.
from “concerned that so sharp an immigration wave might pose challenges to a community” to “they’re eating the cats” is the ultimate motte and bailey.
rewatched “The Warriors” forty years later. found myself nostalgic for a lost dystopia.