Before the #Scamdemic tourists in Thailand never engaged in insane behavior. It was known for being a place that only stable and rational people traveled to.
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The right doesn't understand the mechanics through which immigration can harm workers. Immigration does not reduce wages through increased labor competition very much because the immigrants also have demand for goods
Immigration can harm wages, but it's through rent inflation
Under the status quo, major increases in immigration would kill housing affordability, but even with perfect housing policy there are limits to the amount of immigration you could absorb. You need to regulate inflows to prevent migration that is too fast to build housing for
Trying to change a perfectly acceptable constitution, losing the vote on your new left-wing constitution 62-38, and then giving the right a supermajority in the second constitutional council is the biggest left-wing self-own I've ever seen. Just incredible
Nobody has ever explained to me why the 1980 constitution needed to be totally replaced in the first place. It's been repeatedly reformed and isn't the same document it was under Pinochet. The left would have been better off just leaving it alone
I would have voted against the left-wing constitution out of spite because it was like 75,000 pages long. No constitution should have 388 articles. The constitution is a framework for government, not a document for current political ideologies to treat like a wish list
Vivek's spouting the typical goldbug nonsense about how the US grew faster when we were on the gold standard. Population growth was way higher back then because immigration and birth rates were both higher, so the economy wasn't growing faster under the gold standard per capita
It should also be noted that absolutely nobody is on the gold standard today. What's the explanation for countries with extremely high growth rates today if they're operating in the same post-gold standard environment supposedly responsible for suppressing US growth rates?
The refusal of Americans to ever use international comparisons strikes again!
Seriously, you should probably consider what's happening in countries that aren't America, since the existence of non-American countries is pretty important for economic and policy arguments
You hear professors complain about students like this all the time and given that there are hardly any Republicans in academia anymore, I don't think it's because those professors are hardline reactionaries
That scene was definitely heavy-handed but there are anti-conservative heavy handed scenes like that in every fucking movie nowadays. The one time a somewhat on the nose scene criticizes the left they whine nonstop, as if the rest of the media doesn't suck their dicks 24/7
The Oscar winning short film from 2020 was just Groundhog's Day but about a black guy who was shot to death by a cop no matter what he did
Whenever I see conservative propaganda in a movie, it actually makes me like the film more just because it finally provides some balance
I loved how people blamed Newsom for losing the Democrats congressional seats even though the congressional vote in California only moved 2.5% to the right between 2020 and 2022...with crime surging and 8% inflation
What kind of performance were the Democrats expecting, exactly?
Newsom's vote share was also only 2% worse than Alex Padilla in the senate election and Republican gubernatorial candidates perform far better in blue states than Republican senators do
He didn't perform any worse than the senatorial candidate. It was fine given the environment
I also think people don't take local political differences into consideration when talking about where the Democrats did well vs. poorly. Hochul did not run a good campaign, but New York is the most conservative Democratic state on crime, so the Dems were always in trouble there
I am a law and order conservative which is why I strongly support ALL our great nation's law enforcement officials, especially unsung heroes like IRS agents