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Founder @CNLiberalism. Writing at Infinite Scroll. Carly Rae Jepsen stan. Send me the worst tweets on this site. https://t.co/xONcXY5PQv
Aug 31 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
Recently Richard Hanania wrote an article about how - despite his belief that the GOP is a party of lazy, conspiratorial, bigoted, anti-democracy morons - he's going to vote for them anyways.

His reasoning? Economic growth.

This is very dumb, and deserves a thorough rebuttal. Image First: It's kind of insane to *only* care about economic growth. But let's concede the point. Say that literally all you care about is growth - what next?

Even in that case, it's a terrible idea to support Trump. He has terrible ideas and would be a disaster for the economy.
Jul 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The 'empty quadrant' is one of the most replicated findings in housing research.

There expensive cities that don't build. There are cheap cities that do build. And there are no cities that build lots of housing and still see very high housing costs. Image But that chart's data only goes through 2013, you say! Sure. What if we use a completely different data source and time period?

Top right quadrant is still empty. Image
May 26 • 29 tweets • 7 min read
Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers: Image "smoking while pregnant" Image
Mar 21 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
A thread of DoorDash takes:

"I am entitled to DoorDash and can't eat a frozen dinner, because I am disabled and frozen food has 'histamines' in it." Image "I am upset that you call hand-delivery of restaurant quality meals to my home a luxury service" Image
Feb 24 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Every piece of info we have suggests that building housing reduces rents

quick thread: Image The places that build are all cheap

The places that are expensive? None of them build Image
Jan 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"The Houthis are allowed to attack Swedish merchant ships until Israel stops bombing Gaza" is just utterly insane logic.

"Let's start fires in Central Park until Dubai has gay marriage. I'm gonna kick puppies until we expand Medicare." What the fuck are you talking about? If you hear anyone say "it's only targeting ships headed for Israel" they are lying to you. They think you're too stupid to google for 10 seconds.

They're attacking ships completely at random - here's a Norweigan ship traveling from Malaysia to Italy.

politico.eu/article/norway…
Jan 12 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
There's a whole generation whose only foreign policy views are "US invade Iraq! US bad! No forever war!"

Even in a very different scenario, where the Houthis are repeatedly trying to murder civilians, they can still only repeat "No Forever War! US bad!"

Not one of these people has an actual suggestion for what the international reaction should be to the repeated attempted murder of civilian sailors on merchant ships. Silence. Nothing. They don't care.

All they want to do, or even know how to do, is smugly yell America Bad.
Dec 14, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The Worst Tweets bracket is down to the Egregious Eight!

Vote below! Image To all the tweets that have made it this far, thank your for your contributions to The Discourse.

The committee also wishes to share this special message with you:

Dec 13, 2023 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
We're down to the 16 Worst Tweets of 2023!

Congratulations to the horrifying takes that have made it this far. Voting is below! Image The final four posts remaining in the Bean Dad region:

(9) Transfem Hitler
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(5) Cannibalism
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Dec 11, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
***Israel/Palestine Containment Zone***

(1) Disability Representation
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(16) Gaza in China
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Dec 11, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
***Chili Neighbor Region Voting Thread***

(1) Balaji's Bet
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(16) Tate's Incels
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Dec 11, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
***Coffee Wife Region Voting Thread***

(1) George Floyd Refs
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(16) Adoption is Trafficking
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Dec 11, 2023 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
***Bean Dad Region Voting Thread***

(1) "No Bananas under Socialism" discourse
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(16) My grift

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Dec 11, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
After a long year, it's finally time. Announcing the Worst Tweets of 2023 Bracket!

I've spent the entire year collecting hundreds of deranged tweets, awful takes, and the most insane discourses on this site. Only 64 were chosen.

Now it's time to crown a champion. Image The rules:

* No Elon Musk. It's too easy and would end up being half the bracket.
* We're not just looking for regular bad. We're not looking for normal slapfights.
* We're looking for that special brand of insanity you only get on twitter.
Oct 10, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The difference between the AOC & Tlaib statements is very interesting if you know what to look for.

I often disagree with AOC but she tends to be the most reasonable of The Squad, and that's on full display here. A short thread on what to look for in statements like these:
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Image First: AOC says directly "I condemn Hamas's attack".

Tlaib does not mention Hamas. It does not mention the attacks directly or condemn them. Reading Tlaib's statement, you literally can't even tell who attacked who.
May 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
There's a type of progressivism that is incredibly concerned with "which groups had voices heard" and "Have we done lots of process and planning" and "did we equitably include all stakeholders", but gives absolutely zero fucks about whether anything gets accomplished. Progressive cities are basically run on this principle.

Here's a bus stop project in LA that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It won't do anything for anyone, but there was a lot of Fact Finding and Inclusion of Groups Whose Voices Must Be Heard.

May 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is an embarrassment. @ebottcher and the rest of the committee involved care more about having landmark committee meetings than people's livelihoods.

Why does nobody in the entirety of NYC actually want to accomplish things? This is just one example of the sickness pervading NYC's politics. Everybody's in love with PROCESS and PLANS and MEETINGS and HEARINGS and nothing ever gets fucking done. We legalized weed 2.5 years ago and there are a grand total of 4 shops that have been licensed in that time.
May 11, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I have a theory about @JosephPolitano's success with Apricitas:

The econ and analyst community has been overproducing complicated statistical work and grand theorizing, and underproducing data creation and basic analysis. Economic journals almost require complex causal analysis these days, and it's much harder to get a paper published in the best journals along the lines of "here is a useful data set I created". Predictive work is prized over descriptive.
Apr 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The right way to criticize an academic study:

* Should use stats technique X instead of Y
* Important data XYZ is missing
* The results don't replicate
* Here's a specific way the data is biased

The wrong way to criticize a study:

* "The vibes are bad"

statnews.com/2023/04/12/arn… The article above from @owermohle is almost all vibes. There's very little substantive, specific criticism of the study. It's all

"She is someone who’s hugely disconnected"
"The policies are too new to judge"
"I personally think this is right wing"
"Data might not be objective"
Jan 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
There are cities that build lots of housing and where housing is cheap (green).

There are cities that build little housing and are expensive (purple).

There is no city in America that builds lots of housing and is also expensive. That giant red box is completely empty. Image This result is not a fluke, you see it over and over from many different sources. Here's permits issued vs housing prices with the same pattern Image
Jan 7, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The most enraging part of the Left-NIMBY canon is the idea that new housing causes displacement.

It's NEW housing. By definition it is not displacing anyone! In fact, displacement occurs when you fail to build housing!

The rent goes way up because you have tons of people chasing a limited number of units. Residents can't afford rent any longer and leave. New housing *prevents* displacement.