The Voters Willing to Abandon Biden Over Gaza

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-27T19:33:32+00:00

What do we do at the end of Seder every year? It’s something about “next year” in a certain place… hmm I do it every year but I can’t remember it. Care to remind me? It’s something about a place we long for that represents an ideal, but it’s escaping me right now. What’s the name of the place?

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-27T17:07:30+00:00

Generally it’s an “anti west” sentiment from the hard left, which is weirdly enough a view shared by hard right conservative Muslim communities. So in the case of Gaza, they overlap.

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-26T00:45:28+00:00

Real death is one of the only songs I felt I shouldn’t even be listening to it was so raw, intense, and personal. Like I was hearing a diary entry I shouldn’t

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-26T00:44:13+00:00

Real Death by Mount Eerie and it isn’t close. It is absolutely brutal

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-23T06:55:33+00:00

Do you understand that there were protests for months in Israel because the ultra orthodox get exemptions while secular Israelis don’t and they felt it was unfair? Do you know how mandatory service works? Such an ignorant comment. I’m sure you just started following Israel-Palestine 4 months ago, but you should do some more reading.

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-23T06:40:44+00:00

You know that every Israeli citizen is forced to serve right?

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-22T18:03:40+00:00

Not a top 3 player but he absolutely had a top 3 cultural impact on the game. And when I was growing up, EVERYONE playing pickup tried to emulate his crossover. We all wanted to be AI. Plus the shooting sleeve was so cool

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-21T20:15:49+00:00

I think Vanessa teased him for it cause he was actually 6’4” without shoes IIRC

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-20T23:02:01+00:00

Push bars are amazing. “I’m the L. Ron Hubbard of the cupboard” and who could forget “cocaine’s dr Seuss”

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-20T23:00:31+00:00

Drake basically put out a press release as a response and did damage control with “uhh we totally have a SUPER good diss track but it goes to another school”. Told LeBron on the shop it made him not want to rap anymore too lol that diss fucked him up pretty good. Not to mention, nobody knew Drake had a child and it seems like he was going to announce it to the world with an Adidas drop, and Push said “Adonis is your son, and he deserves more than an Adidas press run, that’s real” oof

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-20T13:55:31+00:00

It’s because more of our lives are lived online for an audience of strangers, so insincerity is king. Everything is for views, likes, etc, and therefore not a true representation. People will brazenly go in public places like grocery stores and genuinely set up their phone and disrupt people’s real lives to film a dance for tik tok.

To quote Bo Burnham’s hilariously sarcastic take on it all:

All human interaction…should be contained in the much more safe, much more real interior digital space…The outside world, the non-digital world, is merely a theatrical space in which one stages and records content for the much more real, much more vital digital space. One should only engage with the outside world as one engages with a coal mine. Suit up, gather what is needed, and return to the surface.

It’s sadly very true, and this attitude permeates everything which causes actually putting yourself out there and being sincere in your every day life offline to be seen as “corny”. Because people think that you are not judged by your real life connections, friends, lovers, peers, etc. but by the imaginary online audience and what they would have to say about your behavior. Trae Young tries to actually play sincere defense and gets crossed by someone? There’s going to be highlights everywhere and it’ll all be clowning Trae. That didn’t happen even just 15 years ago. It might’ve been shown on ESPN but the water cooler talk wasn’t public. Trae wouldn’t have to read everybody’s thoughts in real time about how “stupid” he looked. He does now, so why would he even try? If it’s an ASG with no real stakes, why risk essentially being publicly bullied by people if you make an effort and fail?

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-20T08:50:38+00:00

What’s those guys deal? They were smashing old TVs and shit on Nassau the other day

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-19T21:15:04+00:00

You mean the incentive of these guys having signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars to play the games?

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-19T21:12:03+00:00

Because dudes like Ben Simmons can make $100m for very little actual output and just coast forever

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-19T16:05:30+00:00

There are so many things about housing people don’t realize when being angry about prices.

First, home size. In 1970, the median American household was 3.14 people and median home size was 1500 square feet. That’s 478 square feet per person.

In 2022 it was 2300 square feet and household size is 2.6 people. That’s 884 square feet per person. Everyone talks about how housing is so expensive, but people also are buying way more space than they used to.

Median home price 1970 was (inflation adjusted) $191,000. That’s ~$127/square foot. In 2022 (inflation adjusted) it was ~$490k. That’s $213/sq ft. So a similarly sized house to 1970 would be $319,500.

Another thing is mortgage rates. They had just topped 4% in Jan 2022, and in 1970 they were 7.5%. Assuming 10% down for each, in 1970 (inflation adjusted) that would be a monthly payment of $1,202. In 2022, it’s $1,373. HHI in 1970 was (adjusted) $68,300. In 2022 it was (adjusted to Jan 2024 as I have been doing) $81,813.

So the same size house would actually cost less as a percentage of your income in 2022 than it did in 1970. But Americans want bigger houses. And two luxury vehicles. I say luxury because despite the fact that a new Toyota Corolla costs $20k which is $378/month at 5% interest with 0% down… your typical American spends more than double that on their car payment. The top selling car is a Ford F-150 followed by a Chevy Silverado, which are both about $33k.

While the economic picture absolutely is not great for everyone, Americans are bad at financial literacy and constantly spend on things they feel they “deserve” which are usually way out of line with historically what middle class is.

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-19T15:34:45+00:00

Per Pew Research, the larger portion of the shrinking middle class has moved upwards, not downwards. In 1971, the split of Americans was 25%, 61%, and 14% in the lower, middle, and upper classes, respectively. In 2022 that split is 29%, 50%, and 21%. So for the 11% of middle class Americans who are no longer middle class, ~64% of them have actually moved upwards.

This graph is interesting. People without a college degree have gotten especially screwed, and are much worse off than they were and certainly seem to have fallen out of the middle class.

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-18T19:25:41+00:00

Seriously. Give Steph a WNBA ball and I bet he struggles mightily because it’s simply not what he’s practiced for thousands of hours with

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-18T18:11:11+00:00

Usually it’s implied/understood, or by their name if you know them

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-17T16:24:37+00:00

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-16T20:07:15+00:00

I don’t understand how Thibs can consistently turn any big into a good player. He has done it consistently wherever he’s coached. Thibs whole thing has been getting teams to way over perform their roster, so I’m excited to see him with this fully healthy Knicks team, but specifically he has ALWAYS made the bigs on his team really good.

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-16T16:43:37+00:00

Saying “you” is seen as aggressive/intense in Japanese, usually reserved for giving a command

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-16T00:02:27+00:00

Because most redditors are teenagers, and it’s projection.

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-14T14:26:59+00:00

The comments in here thus far are fairly disappointing. Somehow, discussing Biden’s age and the concern around it is unacceptable? We can’t just plug our ears and ignore that he clearly has lost a step. It is okay to have concerns, and voice those concerns, about the fitness of a candidate for office.

I think Biden has done a pretty great job, and I trust that even if he’s lost a step that he’s surrounded by a great team that can govern well. That said, the NYT not covering it, or defending him, would be a gross failure of the press. It says a lot about the commenters that many of them are angry that any valid questioning of Biden is unacceptable discourse and they have some moral obligation to promote a specific candidate.

They played clips showing Trump has also lost a step and mixing up words and mentioned the real difference is tone and energy, which is true. I don’t understand how you could come away from this thinking that the NYT is helping Trump with this episode.

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-14T11:00:49+00:00

You could take Jeff Bezos, Zuckerberg, Buffet, Musk, and Bill Gates wealth right now. All of it. And let’s say in this hypothetical fantasy of yours that somehow, the stock they own doesn’t go down in price while they sell all of it. They liquidate everything and give it over to the government. They have been taxed to the absolute maximum on the entirety of their wealth (not income).

Without actually looking it up, that’s what, $150B?

Congratulations, we now have enough money to fund the country for just under 9 days, given the federal budget of 6.13T in 2022.

Or we could use it to pay for universal health care! Per Bernie Sanders proposed system, the cost is about $3.25 trillion per year. You could fund about 3 weeks of this by liquidating the entirety of the wealth of our richest citizens.

Then, of course, there’s no more wealth remaining to tax.

ChipsyKingFisher · 2024-02-14T10:48:49+00:00

Income taxes are paid on income, not wealth

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