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Its ok. The inflation reduction act will kick in any day now.

I dont post much here anymore because i also feel its extremely rare that someones political ideology changes at all regardless what points are brought up. Ill have loooooong form conversations and try to stay away from the bickering and insults or popular twitter copy paste but i dont think it does much in any meaningful way. Minds are made up so what is the point. I actually remember a conversation with you on abortion. I guess thats where the energy came to strap my rubber boots on and step back into the swamp of political posting. It was another marathon but i thought it was a bit more productive then the average back and forth. I wouldnt say that your thoughts on how to address the problems are insane. Id say they come wrapped in what i fought against my entire life. Progressive leadership is connected to woke bs. Im not sure how old you are but if you were ever just a liberal like i was then im not sure how this progressive ideology would go on to supercede the core beliefs that you once had. I always thought judging others on color of skin was racism. Progressives take that as the only thing that matters to people. I always fought for freedom of speech. Progressives want to silence and jail those they disagree with. Im for everyone paying there fair share but not in the same breath offering free rides void of any skepticism to the abuse of what is given out. Im for womens rights. they only exists in the mind according to them. Criminal justice, homelessness on and on, every topic i just see destruction and zero reflection on the damage they cause. Im sure you feel the same about republicans being radical but if you are constantly forcing the pendulum far left it will inevitably swing just as hard to the right. Want abortion on demand well Rs are going to get just as radical. I dont think it would have been reversed if it stayed rational. Want unfettered illegals ? well your going to see americans cheering for ICE grabbing everyone that is in the country illegally in all walks of life as a reaction. Championing anti bully campaigns and classes might be a bit less divisive instead of indoctrinating children until it has to be outlawed in public schools. Book burning!! facism!! Back and forth but the progressive left seem to push it too far first and become confused by reactions of people who genuinely werent engaged until left hit the extreme. Back when i was younger it was the opposite. Strange days i tells ya. I hear what your saying about neoliberal/ republican politics. I dont like the direction this country is going so trying new ideas and fresh leadership is not the issue. Bring em on! The issue is how much progressivism has caused extreme damage in a VERY short amount of time. As i said, experimenting on society and ignoring the results. They deserve no trust in their ability to yield only positive results. while neoliberals and republicans have certainly played their roles to get us to where we are i feel those were slow decents where as progressivism has had tastes of total power in small pockets, i named cities where it has overtaken and has done immense damage in a extremely short amount of time. I didnt hear a dispute on them, besides covid just wanted money to go elsewhere. Nothing about crime or the consequences that we all now pay for the soft policies. Nothing about the out of control homeless issues in progressive states. Nothing about how progressives want nothing more then to empower the largest corporation on the planet. Ect. its called a track record. They are used to judge future events from people. So either you look past all this or somehow think progressivism hasnt played a major role in exaserbating them into major issues. As you bring up his "moderate" plans in your posts everyone else can see his radical history of walking in lock step with the same progressive ideas that i mentioned up to this point. There is no reason to trust he would keep any of his ideas moderate after a election win. 5 stores turns to 10. More closures makes 10 turn into 20. His history on police and definition of what "violence" is has already been in effect and is current in NY. It is a FAILURE. It causes more victims then one can count. His thoughts on taxing whites more just concludes to the racism all progressives are regardless how it was "meant". Ive ranted long enough on my thoughts. Your right the season is starting and i have a horrable addicition to eating whole coffee beans now. Bags a day. Hopefully the withdrawls subside before the opening kickoff and i can live my life free of all this. All i can really say at this point is GO BILLS.

<<Puts eyedrops in. Throws back a handful of raw coffee beans. Cracks knuckles. Twists head back and forth 180 degrees.>> Lets do this. Why? Judging by our novels we both have free time but do i have to go through legislation and say item 141 b that was passed and that had this negative effect. You asked for examples. I gave them. I gave you the most progressive places in America. Places that lean heavily progressive in all segments of its leadership. Being so controlled by a particular ideology should yield the results to convince me and every city in america that this is a tremendous way to legislate. Obviously particular bills will have positive and negative outcomes but that does nothing to suggest voting in a self identified socialist or going any further left is this factor that is going to change things for the better. If it did then San Fran and Portland would be beaming examples in a republican/ neoliberal cesspool of a country everyone would be clammoring for. Its not and presents ALOT of unique issues to add to the ones already existing in every other major city. Instead we have these same progressive places reversing some of the policies because they have been so destructive. Hmm maybe homeless encampments next to kids jungle gyms is a societal problem...This is where im at. Pick anyone else just to avoid going down deeper on the same path of lunacy with progressive experiments. We talk about different food availability in the exact same time progressive policies force entire stores to place items under lock and key. Some NY stores wont let you ENTER without swiping a credit card first. This is now normalized because of progressive legislation. Their hand in criminal justice, covid, blm, gentrification have all effected availability of stores but another one, a extremely radical one, to give gov more power will fix it. If he is trying to cut the red tape to start a new buisness that alone is a valid platform. Unfortunately its negated with socialism when you want them to compete with gov owned ones. Im very sure people on a certain side are tired of arguing about covid. The funny part is people hand wave that the richest country with hundreds of BILLIONS that go into scientific research, have access to the best minds on the PLANET, could make the "mistakes" it did repeatedly? Really? All our research and we have no clue if glovebox masks are a necessity? top medical professionals claim with full certainty that a vaccine will stop transmission when it did not. Years of the bat soup theory? I dont think its a conspiracy to say that alot of this was intentional but naiveté certainly plays a role in denying it as a series of whoopsies. Anyone involved on that side needs to own that as its a big example of their lack of critical thinking, judgments and leadership. The other side was not flaunting virology degrees, just common sense. Whatever direction progressives wanted more free cash to move into was the driver of too many dollars not enough products. Demanding longer lockdowns as they asked for it. they were on the front lines of it. They took a problem of urban affordability and made it now completely unattainable standard of living for millions. Lets place more trust into the same people who made the issue to get us out of it. Sounds logical. Your right. it is nuanced but i made it extremely straight forward. Millions of people now fighting for limited resources will make things harder to attain and more expensive. Thats all. Long term effects if they pay into the system, work hard ect may change things but progressives champion unimpeded boarder crossing, sanctuary, tax funded living expenses, housing, medical care and schooling all while americans were already suffering from the largest spike in inflation and supply limitations in modern history. Now they are interested in affordability? creating problems just to run on saving us next voter cycle? He is for blocking ICE so i guess its a good problem to have. I see where progressives think these ideas are good. Its fundamentally based on empathy and that is a very good trait as long as its not out of control. Who wants to watch the baby zebra get snatched by a lion? We need to stop this! But you have to keep watching and not overreact because if you demand lions are a threat then what about the part where the lion cubs starve to death. Over and over i see progressives make these decisions and not care to reevaluate outcomes and add standards to prevent abuse or consequences. Who doesnt want to see a person get paid time off to care for a sick member of a family. Keep watching and you will see another person forced to cover doubles and never see THEIR family. Abuse is rampant as with alot of these policies. I know from where i work. Every friday in the summer issues. So people are put in a position where they abuse the system or they are the fools that only get punished. Capitalist dont need to feel anything about the laws progressives make. Over regulate them they close down and open elsewhere. We pay. Give workers time off and they mandatory overtime on the rest. We pay. Raise their wages and they raise prices on us to maintain profit while reducing the wage of everyone not getting minimum. We pay. The theme is unintended outcomes on the same people progressives are "saving" over and over.

I used real world examples that represent progressive policies in our nation. Not curves or textbooks. You think neoliberal/republican policies are a big function of urban unaffordability, which is true. Im not denying it. Thats different then needing to go farther left with progressive policies to alleviate some of these problems in mythical ways. Is San Fransico more progressive then NY city? I think so. Are there any results showing this is making a difference. Lets google. *Housing costs are 161% higher than the national average. *Utilities are 58% higher than the national average. *Transportation costs (including gas and public transit) are 43% higher than the national average. *Grocery prices are 21% higher than the national average. Urban affordability. So when will we see the results at least tip in the other direction or is the area just neoprogressive and needs MORE left policies on top of the ones they have? Are we just adding a sidestep of human waste everyday and buying a car window once a month? " I take umbrage with the notion that “free money” and “closing down businesses” were distinctly progressive policies at that time." states were given their own choice of how to handle the pandemic and to suggest the progressive response was anything other then to advocate exactly what happened in democrat cities for years is disingenuous. Id suggest the effects would have been greater and more prolonged if progressives had their way. Thats what i see in progressives, a policy action that sounds good superficially and then shimmy all accountability on the negative effects. Shift to the next virtue signal fight to bask in. I wonder how long until small bodegas and corner stores are closed down around these gov controlled ones. Labled "for profit markets" and then get a rinse and repeat of the other damages done to examples i made in my last post. Next is the demand for more gov stores because there arent enough around for the urban people to go to. Just 5 more stores. "This problem predates and is not specific to progressive policy" coming soon to the problems it creates. "It was conventional epidemiological wisdom to shut down NYC" Yeah i was in the covid thread trying to have common sense discussions on what others saw as conventional wisdom from EXPERTS. Read some of them and the date they were written and then check out how long after dems and progressives alike were calling for extending lockdowns. Checkpoints for vax passposts erected kay! The epidemiological wisdom became the main factor in why all families including urban expenses became unaffordable to this day. The rest of us were busy killing grandmas. Consumer demand would have been normalised if real wisdom would have been the reaction. Instead it was funneled to huge corporations while progressives neos alike where chearing for the cops closing (radical) mom and pop shops in cities across the country and demanding more stimulus after catching their leaders break every new covid rule and forgiving them. I didnt even touch progressive views and measures on mass immigration that are now mainstream "neoliberal" that effect every point you say. Unless somewhere in a textbook millions of extra people fighting over limited resources lowers prices. Thats great that you got a chuckle for how capitalist have to "navigate" paid/family time. Guess how they do it. The same way they do everything. Pass the brunt of it on to everyone else or close shop. By close shop i mean open it where they dont have to navigate aggressively and stay rich. Be that in a new state or nation. People who dont abuse it are subject to carry the workload. Joe just used pfl for his wifes "anxiety" problem again. We need you to do another double tonight or we wont make quota. We dont make quota enough times we are moving the company. We move the company and progressives fight for gov to "support" the newly unemployed. A cycle that starts with a well intentioned progressive mandate that they give little care if abused. Then we talk about urban affordability in the area with no employment prospects. Im not for capitalist profits and low taxes at all but taxing them alot more or abuse of something like pfl has one of those trickle down effects that you speak of like reaganomics. Its not as easy a solution as its suggested repeatedly for a quick fix. Then demand more to address new problems created. On and on. I agree with this but I see the far lefts novel ambitious ideas. This thread has them. I live in NY. I named some of them. Im not seeing them resulting in much more then alot more empowerment to the largest corporation in the world. which is still ironic. Why dont progressives fund the things they claim to fight for? Give a couple bucks to bus fair united for free bus rides? Give a couple more to urban families so they have affordability. Keep giving it all away to all the great things politicians promise will be tax funded and we will fund whatever we want to. Cut out the US corpratist middlemen who squander it on corruption. is worker cooperation progression? Why doesnt someone run on that? You choose off a list of where YOUR taxes go every year and see what gets funded and what dries up in the country. Want to throw in more? Go ahead, there will be no need to go into weeds on a football message board ever again.

Attacks? I thought you were a semi regular here and you construed what I said as attacks? We can talk about urban affordability if you like. My main point was that humans are tribal. Right now there is a red and blue tribe. When someone looks at issues, such as urban affordability, the first reaction is to try to find out how the "others" are to blame. In this particular instance the blue team has had a major hand for DECADES in what shaped these issues. while some red team was sprinkled on top ( you go back to reaganomics and reactions) it seems pretty distant from causation. We need a sub group. lets call them neoliberal. it makes more sense to say the neoliberals are to blame as they control all levers of power. So now more progressive policies are the way to go. AKA they just haven't gone left enough. I'd like to be convinced but something tells me all the progressive laws passed in San Fransico, Portland ect ect since they are the prime examples when looking for evidence of its successful implementation. Im just not seeing the platform out performing the two other groups and are realistically causing major issues on their own. Homelessness, drug addiction, buisness abandonment, high crime and urban affordability all exist and are thriving in the most progressive areas of the country. Sure, lets look at the most recent one. Covid response. Close down buisnesses, don't leave and we will pay you with free money. Thats was a pretty progressive response. I'd say it was the exact way a progressive would like to handle the situation and clear distant from what the fed decided for a decent timeframe. Did this policy do anything to determine urban affordability? Create food deserts from small buisness that had to close for good while the wallmarts stayed open? We could go into the progressive voter base and how gentrification has effected "affordability" when corner family owned turn into starbucks and high end boutiques. The BLM riot response was another recent factor that effected small buisnesses/workers who could not rebuild, but large insurance premiums dont effect big scale much. What was AOC progressive stance on these things? Are these adequate in how they effected the variety, competition and inflation for New York city shoppers that had nothing to do with federal policy? From my perspective, being in NY, I see alot of big ticket progressive policies. PFL/ FMLA has taken over industries. My company calculates over 40% of our workforce will be off on it this year. Believe it or not it's not easy filling orders and keeping doors open when you don't know who will be coming to work on a day to day basis. I know its evil to look at things from the capitalist perspective but they play half the role in employment. I dont defend "corporate origarchial empowerment". I am just a realist that has a understanding that taxing people and giving it away isn't the big solution that progressives think it is. NY taxes EVERYTHING already. They have raised min wage numerous times. They also have A TON of corruption from regular people abusing and siphoning that same system that progessives want to expand. That portion will never be addressed as it is not in line with the ideology. Anything that accuses that side as unempathetic will never be touched because ( insert example of someone who truley needs it as poster for everyone who gets it ). We can't even DOGE some clearly corrupt organizations without the left losing there minds and turning to a good old firebombing. but take MORE in and give MORE away will eventually work. I'd hope being a true progressive would mean more progress then just doing what's already being done to a level where our politicians are now flat out admitting to socialism. Its funny how giving the largest corporation in the world ( speaking of who is truley for their empowerment ) new exciting percentages to take from people and sees seizure of private buisnesses as a act progress.

It's kinda strange how you frame some things in terms of Reaganism’s, Maga yet the laws and regulations that have led to the issues you outline about the city have been in dominate democrat control since the late 80's and are probably already more in line with what you want to see then a moderate city/state Either way we got to blame someone because it definitely can't be the policies that were put into place from each administration that were more left then the last, its because they just didn't go far enough. Im sure when these policies don't work it's because you can't tippy toe with free bus rides and gov stores. Vote for me so I can implement socialism properly. I mean the more left you go the more successful the city. It is why all Americans are demanding to model their policies off the great liberal successes shown by San Francisco ect.

If this requires a essay to answer the conclusion reveals why Philosophy majors are losing the employment race.

Did he not get numerous cases of due process while he was here? All of which determined the facts that are now being disputed by the left that he was at the least a MS13 gang affiliate. a person that required his wife to get a restraining order? So now he requires more process on top of what he has been given when the order is given? Serious question. If i enter japan illegally then get caught dealing with a american mafia ring and also beat my wife to the point of needing a order of protection from japans system should i be deported? Seems like alot of resources were used already. If they return me to america and i am imprisoned why is that a issue for japan to determine how my country of origin desides to deal with me. If anyone feels he should be freed from the prison then by all means fight to petition the gov he is under control of...not ours. I see the issue but unfortunately a comatosed fool decided to ignore laws to flood our country. Suddenly everyone on one side has found a duty to abide by them and are extremely diligent and orderly ONLY when it comes to a clean up effort on the mess they cheered for. Its a bit ironic to say the least.

should probably just pack the court and pay the student loans off anyways.

I cant follow the story. Gender is fluid and the OP is defining everyone into social constructs.

I find it pretty hard to listen to people talking about the upcoming economic fallout of decisions a instant after they got finished cheering on the closing of the american economy.

Are we ignoring the community note?

Well i exampled how this is the exact same as other countries who tariff us. This is a tax on their people that conviently results in our industries having a hard time selling over their domestic industries. How is being reciprocal in action considered such a detrement over what they already do besides just polical bias and nervousness of markets? That nervousness comes from ANY changes introduced and if noone can pridict the outcome then we also cant predict the impact being positive or negative. My position is any change is worth it as we are obviously loosing anyways. So why so much resistance to attempt to turn things around. Hope for the best and try your best to buy american just like foriegn markets are reacting and lets see where the dust settles. Deals can evolve so this stern stance isnt as detrimental as some would convey. As for your solution. Seems extremely short term and standard to what has always been. New tech is great and will give us a boost but will end up becoming watered down and stolen or companies will just outsource labor after using our innovation same as always. Our "unsurpassed" workers will do specialized work here and the rest will be done dirt cheap outside to maximize profits and slap a false "made" in america badge. If i had a idea on how to prevent this long term it would be exactly the same. Major surcharge to be in our huge spend happy american market that would cut or eliminate profits from slave labor making companies rethink the workforce and corporate operation options they have.

So if tariff is too volatile whats the solution? Why do we just accept things like Chinese slave labor and censorship as a normalized "tariff" companies must abide by or other countries protecting their domestic industry against outside markets but we are just suppose to offer free trade to all as is? The only difference is the normalization. Any change results in uncertainty, so i just hope any waves settle over time. People will always scream doom and gloom about them as they sway the boat but they are required to turn it around if you have been gently floating towards a waterfall.

Im not thrilled with the tariff plan. If it was going after particular sectors and hostile countries i think it would be different but going after everyone simultaneously while also creating major uncertainty doesnt sound like a sound strategy, especially in the short term. At the same time we have heard for decades how US industries must grovel on their knees under Chinese censorship. How in covid we were incapable of supplying basic needs internally and destroyed under lockdowns. Seeing high percentage of foreign industries this country founded driving in our streets while other nations strictly have their own. We are nothing but service sectors and buying other counties garbage on our overbloated credit cards. Not to mention biden kept many of the original tariffs from trump and back then they were screaming doom and gloom over them as they are now. So what part of the economy mentioned are we pleased with? It doesn't seem sustainable and industries that many here were certain would revolutionize it have crashed and burned our tax money. Should we throw a few more trillion at the charging station industry and green dream sectors that havent given return after a full throttle backing of the last administration? All i can hope is they know what they are doing. Anyone who thinks this country isnt going to need some drastic changes to make a difference isnt paying attention. Sit back as more companies announce closers and major investments outside our country. Just demand that we just need "them" to pay their fair share to pour more funds into social programs as our debt swallows us whole. the stock market will be nice and steady in the meantime. Sorry kids.