Neoliberalism is unironically good. 🌈
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neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
FFS please stop "seeking public comment" and please stop "bringing stakeholders to the table" and please just fucking build the fucking thing.
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neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
Cliveden House burnt down in 1849. The architect behind Parliament rebuilt it in two years.
Now, Parliament has spent over a decade just planning its own repairs.
What happened to the country that built things? 👇
neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
Paying property taxes in old age can be an extreme burden. To address this, we should learn from our neighbor to the North and provide the same solution. (MAID)
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
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neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
This is a very well done video. It also looks like it took a lot of effort.
I don’t think I can put into words how much it accurately depicts people I fucking hate tho.
neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
I wish people who embraced loopy crime ideas in 2019-2020 would issue groveling apologies to people who were right all along, but genuinely the most important thing about this is we have won the argument.
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neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
Matt Yglesias is 100% right, actually. The 1,500-hour pilot rule was passed after the 2009 Colgan crash. Except the captain had 3,379 hours. The first officer had 2,244 hours.
It’s pure security theater that's driven up the pilot shortage & made flying more miserable for us all.
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Translation: The President shows he’s being duped by Putin and doesn’t know who is at fault in this war. He denies what other members of his own Administration are saying about Russian aid to Iran. This will go down as a very embarrassing chapter in U.S. history.
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neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
It's really unfair to lump in teachers, who are hardworking, productive members of society, with wannabe "artists" and "activists", whose lifestyles and failed vanity projects are subsidized by their families/partners
neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
Like the similar bar in Massachusetts that had a recent meltdown, I think this exemplifies in a nutshell what everyone knows on some level about identitarian/intersectional progressivism more broadly. That there can never be any satisfaction. You can try to create the *ideal* space and it still will not suffice. Because there is no achievable end goal. The real passion is in complaining and tearing things down.
This is why this ideology should have no place in shaping our broader politics, culture, and society. They can’t even make it work in a bar that is only visited by like-minded people.
Philly opens its first women’s sports bar as the purest possible safe space—queer, BIPOC-owned, named after Marsha P. Johnson, built so nobody would ever have to beg a bartender to turn off the Phillies again.
One year later the former staff declares the place wasn’t safe enough for Black, trans, and queer people. Business collapses. Owner closes the doors while announcing the city still needs more businesses exactly like this one.
That’s the irony: the ideology didn’t lose to the market. It lost to itself. The safe space got canceled for insufficient safety. The solution offered for the failure is more of the same purity test that just destroyed the first attempt.
Somewhere a regular bar is still showing football without holding a community tribunal over whether the bartender’s politics are pure enough to pour the beer.

neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
.@elonmusk make sure @Starlink keeps all records and communications regarding your alliance with Russia. Subpoenas are coming. I am sure the European market will want to know what happened.
Ukraine's Starshield terminals still don't work properly, President Zelensky confirms, disabling Ukrainian interceptors used to shoot down Russian jet-powered drones that have been hitting civilian targets in recent weeks.
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neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
This is correct. Impeachment is not effective unless you can get the necessary Republicans to join you. And a failed impeachment only makes the impeached president more popular.
One of the toughest black pills I’ve had to swallow is that the Ukraine impeachment helped Trump and that he would have won 2020 had it not been for COVID.
Democratic socialists Darializa Avila Chevalier and Melat Kiros are skeptical about impeaching Trump.
Both told @DashaBurns that any "accountability" would need to "hold his feet to the fire" and lead to "material changes."
Listen to #TheConversation: politi.co/4B9muEp
neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
I say you’re being deliberately callous about the fact such actions would greatly increase the likelihood of mass slaughter and rape of innocent people, greenlighting the imperial ambitions of our adversary, embolden another adversary China, and further imperil our allies in Europe and Asia. If that’s your policy preference I can’t talk you out of it. But I don’t think it’s a good look or good for your soul to be so glib about the consequences of your ill-argued and poorly reasoned policy preferences. You could at least try to feign some regret at the horrors you’re encouraging.
neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
This is one of the most disgusting things any president has done in my lifetime holy shit. We are helping an adversary violently and murderously invade an ally.
Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order to exempt Russia from new sanctions legislation that Congress passed last month. nyti.ms/4zDoByS
neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
Neera is a liberal queen and good on her for calling out Sam’s bullshit to his face. That whole space infantilizes Hasan constantly. He can relentlessly attack, harass, and brigade people for YEARS, but it’s out of bounds for them to attack him? It’s fucking absurd lol.
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Seven widespread misunderstandings about politics.
1. The Democratic Party’s elected officials, staffers, and donors are on average very progressive compared not only to the median voter but to most of the rank and file people who vote for Democrats.
2. The public’s persistently angry mood is not a demand for large policy changes, almost all changes generate backlash and the biggest electoral overperformers are wrong-party governors like Andy Beshear and Phil Scott who don’t do very much.
3. Third parties are most likely to succeed when the differences between the two big parties are small (1992) or at least wrongly perceived to be small (2000) not when they’re both seen as too extreme.
4. Donald Trump’s behavior is very extreme but the main way that his policy platform differs from Mitt Romney’s 2012 platform is that he’s more moderate on social security, Medicare, gay rights, and abortion.
5. How much progress you make on Issue X is more a function of how much you’re willing to drop or compromise on issues A, B, and C than of how aggressively you emote about X.
6. The qualities that are good for winning primaries and raising money are unrelated to (and in some ways antithetical to) the qualities that are good for winning general elections.
7. Increasing political polarization reflects deliberate choices made by highly engaged elite actors and is not an emergent property of the mass public.
neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
I love these videos bc it makes all the most insufferable people who are economically illiterate screech. As if every loser podcaster from Brooklyn is somehow more credible than every person who works in commercial lending, development, equity investment and construction.
These NYC apartments are standing empty, not because the owners don't want to rent them, but because rent stabilization laws prohibit them from charging enough to earn back the costs of necessary repairs.
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