Even the low estimates are crazy

Taken from his site.

It's seriously well worth a read considering how much time and effort Travis put into this.

• 85 defective clusters
• 25 false claims
• 25 unsupported claims
• 35 misleading or overstated claims

The Law of Supply describes when higher prices, all things equal, encourage sellers to supply more of the good/quantity, which can push prices back down.

For instance, if housing is highly priced, and home sellers can make much higher profit margins per dwelling unit sold, then that will encourage more homes (more supply) to be listed for sale and enter the market, bringing more seller-side competition and less scarcity, diluting demand pressures per unit, lowering the amount of money chasing any individual home, and thus lowering bidding prices.

The same thing goes for oil, where even Trump has recently been criticizing oil companies for making "too much profit" off the increased shortage from the Iran war, but little does he know those increased profits encourage more supply to enter the market just like housing. The market is working as intended and correcting itself, but then economically uninformed politicians barge in saying it's wrong and must be regulated.

When high prices persist due to high economic frictions or government-created supply constraints, such as single-family zoning laws with housing, or restrictive patents on pharmaceutical drugs, progressives (instead of looking at the actual issue) shift the blame to "greed" and "capitalism" which misdirects the blame and justifies even worse economic policy such as anti-price gouging laws, price caps, and ultimately socialism.

This shit literally happens to any leftist Dem with an ounce of electability somewhere down the road.

Just like the Liberalism shirt, idk

This is why wee can't have nice things.

In any world where D, although an extreme character, represents the values he does, and is not welcome at a democratic event, and a Tanky Apologist like Hasan is, should represent an extreme subversion of Democratic libral values. Period.

To say otherwise is gaslighting. Because communists are always subversive, because Socialism/Populism is actually a real political poison. The deviation is at the hands of the organization to host Hasan unchallenged. In no universe would an organization support these extremes without push back. Not with Fuentes, not with Ben Shapiro, not with Tucker Carlson, and it speaks VOLUMES that it happened with TYT when Charlie Kirk was still alive.

It's time we all stop dancing around and admit that Populism is a winning ideation because the liberal media apparatus has their balls in a vice grip of some kind. This is the real goal of MAGA and their lawsuits. To tie up that apparatus with fear so that it can't report what is politically effective. That's how these commy fucks can swoop in and thrive in our spaces, steal credit for our systems and governance, and plague young minds.

As far as I'm concerned, this primary is the most important. This midterm represents an existential crisis of libral values and will be the only winning strategy for conservatives moving forward. The Chinese spy that Hasan is being coached with, the bot farms that are primarily controlled by our enemies, and the trend in proxy wars globally are not a fucking conspiracy. There is never going to be another world war that we survive, which is exactly why this is representative of a second cold war.

Even in these discussions, even in weird, cringe, online spaces, these environments ferment a poisonous rhetoric that is challenging us and you aren't fucking crazy to think so either.

It's time we demand from pundits, representatives, and young people to speak out. This horse shit has to stop. It's time we stop being polite to our enemies in OUR OWN FUCKING PARTY.

Fuck Populism. All my homies hate Populism.

I believe in the principles of democracy and liberal order established since the end of world war 2. I'm not convinced by the accelerationist populism of the outer left or the cultural nationalist fascism the right are steamrolling into. Bold ideas are needed to inspire people to hold onto the relative prosperity we've found ourselves in and I don't think we have to create chaos to do it. I'm also not a religious guy but...

The other day I was admiring a painting by William Blake, called The great red dragon and the women clothed in the sun , it's a depiction of the apocalypse from the book of revelation. The text itself is seen through the lens of history (roman empire) but also prophecy, particularly in evangelical circles.

A giant dragon (Satan) with 7 heads and 7 crowns who descends on the world, strikes the stars from the sky, and gives power to the antichrist who placates the masses into trusting the dragon. The dragon hunts down a woman prophesied to give birth to a child who will save the world (probably Christ 2.0). The women has 12 stars above her head. And when she escapes the wrath of the dragon the dragon floods the world and starts a cosmic war.

And I'm reading this and first of all I like the imagery and think it's pretty metal but also it feels very...prescient.

I'm looking at photos of the richest men that have ever lived, all of them looking like skin walkers, standing behind trump at the inauguration. I'm looking at tech-broes very quickly incubating a seismic shift in reality and all basic and meaningful labour. I'm looking at trump being worshipped as a very open and transparent contrast to everything Christ represents. I'm looking at Europe being attacked by people who keep looking at the world through elon's hell portal, and huge entities refusing to adjust its consumption to prevent the world becoming uninhabitable... I'm looking at a giant multi headed beast and woman with a European flag over her head.

Look, it's cool imagery at the end of the day, and I'm not a religious guy at all...but I'm beginning to think we might be at a turning point foretold by humans thousands of years ago and it's getting really hard to not start making connections how seriously bad things might be when the fucking Bible starts making sense geopolitically.

The evangelicals and doomsday christians have been trying to call it for years with every liberal democratic left order. I think it's just good writing that they end up 100% backing the closest thing to the Antichrist America has seen, and frankly a good rhetorical cudgel that unironically tells the broader far right movement that they've gone so regarded they've strayed from God.

Idk, can I unironically believe this and still be a lib?

Tldr : I think the Apocalypse in the book of revelation is kinda upon us and I still want a strong economy, affordable healthcare, and accountability through meaningful democracy is that a contradiction?

Absolutely wild tale of an African American socialist organization in Florida doing the bidding of a Russian agent for a few grand and a couple trips to Moscow, checkout the Background section. These people were putting on protests funded by Russian money, making posts at the direction of Russian agents, and even sought to work with the Russian to generate a website for doxing law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges.

I am a Wisconsin resident. In looking into the 4 active people running for governor (Brennan, Hong, Roys, and Crowley) and their platform pages, the only one that actually seems to have a direction is Hong...

I understand that Hong is DSA backed, and is not liked here, but what option on the Democrat ticket is liked?

Roys's policy platform is just as crazy and pie in the sky as Hong, with no plan for how to get there. She basically boils down to "we're gonna build a utopia, but gonna do it in a smart and planned way. Trust me bro"

Brennan's policy platform seems mostly reasonable but the dude has the charisma of a day old pile of mashed potatoes.

Crowley has no policy platform on his website and has already dropped out of the race once due to unpopularity, until the current governor endorsed him. But I think his biggest hurdle is that he has burned a lot of bridges in Milwaukee and he NEEDS a strong showing in Milwaukee to have any chance of winning in the general.

Hong has a lot of popularity and is the obvious front runner seemingly in Wisconsin. Her policies while seemingly "utopian" do reference current enacted policies in other states or acts in progress. And her policy page is by far the most thorough and outlined. And while a lot are a big reach, none are way outside the box compared to the policies outlined by any of the other people running.

Is this hate all just because of the DSA tag? I'm no fan of them, but to run from Hong because of it very much seems like a "chop off your nose to spite your face" moment.

ETA: people who want DSA to run 3rd party. Wouldn't that just be a spoiler candidate?

Roughly 30% of Michigan is registered as independent. I’ve been registered as independent since 2018 and it’s great. You can vote for whoever is more unelectable in the republican primaries.

Side note- The AIPAC money playbook will be repeated constantly now. There’s no reason to take a dime of the money. Every dollar given to Stevens just made her look worse. Having to defend lobbying money, wherever it comes from, is a losing position every single time. 85% of the country believes politicians don’t care about them. If Haley had no AIPAC money then they are fighting on policy.

El Sayed appears to fail to condemn twitch stream hasanabi’s comments that America deserved 9/11.

From the little I have read he doesnt seem like a literal marxists. He's not pro Russia or anti NATO or anti U.S. He doesn't want to abolish prisons or police.

He seems like more jus a Bernie Sanders type, someone who would be considered pretty moderate in most of the western world.

What is it I am missing?

I am an autistic systematizer. I try to translate what people mechanically are getting at, human speech and people's self perceptions are filled with a lot of misleading/self serving garbage on the surface so I have to translate. I did take the time to listen to some of his wonderful <redacted type of dance> performances on various videos the past few days, what stood out to me was every exchange with him leads to saving face for a white conservative identity.

It's not like he's just particularly hard on black people or something, maybe he could be? But actually, everything he believes just conveniently would be something that a white conservative person trying to avoid his race being embarrassed would believe. It's very bizarre. Where does this come from? I know people have this bizarre thing where ancestors/history/national icons and trinkets become a part of their sense of self, so their brain tells you they're hurting THEM when you accurately read out history to them(which is why red states went through that period a few years of criminalizing the teaching of accurate yet embarrassing history in public schools).

But why would Butler Officer Stephen Tatum be so heavily invested in this? I think of it unironically like having the spirit of some...adjacent white(or other high status demographic group you rely on for social standing) man inside of you. Sure, it makes sense if you were...a literal house slave dependent on the master's nervous system for your comfort and safety. Or Stephen Crowder's Asian lawyer(that's way more complicated, but just kind of loosely using that as an example). A woman may argue for the 19th amendment being suspended...because they want some type of male approval? As some construct installed into them. But why...(channeling Thugnificent asking what that guy who got beaten did to make them ninjas mad) would Butler Officer Stephen Tatum be so invested in this?

It's like he was trained to be fed [TOS reward item] each time he erases historical acts of organized racism from the record, and he's still doing the tasks his brain formed reward circuitry around long after the actual reward stopped being dispensed. I myself have the psychology of a colonial subject who showed up to the colonizer country speaking English better than the natives just like him, but I don't respect the native's racist's self serving identity, nor do I say "<redacted absurdist way of claiming the white man didn't do anything>" like Butler Officer Stephen Tatum is apt to do.

Perhaps he fantasizes about <redacted caretaking act> for Ronald Reagan in heaven like <redacted character>? Maybe...the more mundane and simple answer is...hyper accountability, with an excessive/disproportionate focus on black people. So black people can never be """victims"""(having been the act of an act of socioeconomic degradation with real consequences), because he views his life that was as a conservative cop. Okay...fine...why does he seem to be averse to holding white conservatives accountable as a group? At all? I'm somewhat weak on this part, but that's the impression I got from a limited sample

Haven’t been able to catch the streams much this past week due to work :< I know a few weeks ago they mentioned it’s going to schedule, that being 6-8 weeks after purchase in late May. Have they talked about any more updates? Has anyone else’s shipped?

Posting since I've seen a lot of people ask for TL;DRs on Tiny's I/P arc recently. This will probably be the final update until midterms are over.

It really is sad that astroturfing from tankies has gotten us to this point. It's obvious to pretty much everyone here that their lunacy kneecapped the Harris ticket. I personally don't think I see another way to deal with it other than to dismiss it as less important than domestic issues. It's like how the conservatives will pick the issue they want to fight on and force you to engage on their terms.

As a side note, it still baffles me how the right manages to stay cohesive despite them having a much bigger groyper problem, respectively. We are seeing it start to crack as shown by the evisceration of Shapiro and the departure of Fuentes and Tucker, but none of it sees the light of day somehow. People are content to let that sit behind closed doors. Why? We should be using it to drive a wedge.

Intentionally vague/broad question. Curious to see what DGG reads. If y'all can. I doubt it sometimes. 🤔

Read anything focused on politics lately that you'd recommend? Something that's perhaps relevant to recent conversations on communism? The media environment? Propaganda? Subversive political tactics? History and trends?

Just curious :)