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76% of Jewish Israelis believe there are no innocents in Gaza (42% fully and 34% partially). This includes a majority who voted for “opposition” parties. In other words, a genocidal society

Financial Times rip to paragraph lost in copy-editing

meanwhile, I am still patiently waiting for this particular “progressive” tech lobbyist to disavow his close relationships with Tom Cotton and Jim Jordan

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“The agencies, which go by names like ‘My Israel Home,’ promote the idea of ‘putting down roots in the Holy Land’ as they market and sell luxury villas in settlements. Meanwhile…millions of Palestinians live in exile.” Hard to contemplate this level of injustice.

After a decade we’re moving on to the actual stakes of the contest. Should we build public housing or subsidize private housing? That is the true question. Government is the only way it can pencil, question is who owns it.

Former Obama, former Biden, current Columbia professor who claims that the Palestinian kids killed have been mainly kids of Hamas fighters (insinuating they were therefore legitimate targets)

“Far-left cranks,” “people who think financial constraints affect investment,” tomato, tomahto

"If you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy." - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Mexican government is delivering abundance for its people

People who went into this admin for Econ and climate policy saw themselves as indispensable to implement progressive policy against Larry Summers etc. Refusing to take a stand certainly hasn’t built a durable policy regime. Would Trump be in power if US stopped aiding genocide?

The worst possible thing that can happen to a people is being perpetrated by Israel onto Palestinians daily- starvation, sniping starving ppl in search of food, bombing displaced families as they sleep, kidnapping & sexually assaulting children…- and they call it “self-defense.”

One fun implied detail in this AI slop: The city grocery stores are dreary and out of most things but have also competed very effectively and driven out all the other supermarkets

The "AI" bubble is something like an inverted Green New Deal: a massive increase in emissions, to virtually no social purpose

The ~4K apartments permitted this year in Austin are on pace for lowest total since post-GFC. Abundance!

The purpose of an economy is not to clear markets efficiently or generate profits for businesses, but to make, improve, and distribute enough things to support a good life for as many people as possible. There is no fixing an economy if that is not the central focus of analysis.

To be sure, we did get one thing in abundance under Obama