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4 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
realizing that the 30 year mortgage is basically middle class rent control unlocked a lot of things in my thinking
yes, most Americans don't know that before the New Deal you couldn't get a 30-year fixed because it's financially nuts!
never knew this was such a popular topic lol
to clarify, I don't think the 30-year mortgage is necessarily good or bad. it's financially helpful for individuals (de facto a huge subsidy for buyers) but also fuels price inflation and toxic homes-as-investment mindset. just one tool in the policy toolbox

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6 Oct
turns out AT&T virtually created OAN and provides it with nearly all its revenue reuters.com/investigates/s…
"Ninety percent of OAN’s revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including satellite broadcaster DirecTV" reuters.com/investigates/s…
some OAN lunatic viewer from California sent a death threat to the Colorado Secretary of State (?) Image
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22 Sep
so France is pissed because it got treated like the second-rank power it is and is having trouble coming to terms with that? nytimes.com/2021/09/22/opi…
it's not fun to be pushed around, but my advice to France is to embrace it. being a great power is stupid and horrible! you end up pissing money away on the military and routinely get bogged down in unwinnable wars
one reason the Nordics are great imo is they're just small countries who can't afford to go on madcap imperialist crusades, so they mainly focus on tending their own little garden
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13 Sep
the horse paste is old hat (probably thanks to media attention) so the crackpots need a new quack remedy
just watching this happen in real time theweek.com/politics/10046…
looking forward to another news cycle of anti-anti-Betadine discourse so the contrarians can get their weekly subscription bump
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13 Sep
Facebook "has built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules, according to company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal." wsj.com/articles/faceb…
Mark Zuckerberg personally intervened to allow a Trump post calling for violence to remain up wsj.com/articles/faceb…
every day more convinced that the Xi Solution to social media is the right one. just get rid of it, all of it
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13 Sep
this argument has a pretty gigantic hole in it
forcing someone to get vaccinated could quite literally *save their life or that of their friends and family.* it is just dishonest to class this with redlining or whatever
dishonest and also clumsily mistaken on the facts! that's the Evopsych Promise
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9 Sep
look at this hack fraud lol
oh for sure man. "Whether vaccine mandates are ok depends on if illness is easily transmitted" is a principle that hinges entirely on what level of government is implementing the mandate
conservatives gotta work themselves into a frenzy to get some more judicial rule-by-decree so they can stop Biden from saving their own voters' lives
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