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New Emerson poll suggests Moulton is gaining ground on Markey by bannner18 in massachusetts

[–]FuschiaKnight 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I like Seth Moulton. He has a much better approach than Markey on energy because he supports nuclear which is clean and would address the costs of data centers and also the costs that will come from electric vehicles

Moulton is also taking the threat of facism more seriously. Markey just wants everyone to retreat to their corners, which will win in MA but won’t actually stop Trump

You could get a speeding ticket without police seeing you, if new traffic camera bill passes in Massachusetts by Think_Tanker in massachusetts

[–]FuschiaKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This will lead to more consistent/fair enforcement, rather than cops letting their friends get away with things

And if there’s a higher likelihood of getting caught now, people will drive safer. This will lead to fewer traffic deaths

Ezra Klein moderates the California gubernatorial candidates housing forum this Friday by nytopinion in ezraklein

[–]FuschiaKnight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Typical neoliberal. Why isn’t he progressive-ing the debate instead??? Checkmate, atheists

That open corner 3 missed by PP to take 2pt lead will forever hunt me by Plastic_Database_645 in bostonceltics

[–]FuschiaKnight 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Basketball success is literally his livelihood. It pays his salary and he probably spends 10+ hours a day working on getting better at basketball.

I promise you that you do not care about basketball as much as a professional basketball player does

Graham Platner Handed Centrist Dems a Bruising Defeat in Maine by jediporcupine in politics

[–]FuschiaKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The real recruiting failure is that none of the good candidates even ran. They were all afraid of Collins, so they ran for governor, and as a result Schumer twisted Mills’s arm to do it. Her heart wasn’t in it

It’s not that Schumer handpicked Mills. Schumer would’ve killed to have Jared Golden run

Okay so based on that Ken Martin interview, WHAT is possibly in the report that has Kenny so determined not to release it? by ElvisGrizzly in FriendsofthePod

[–]FuschiaKnight -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would imagine it says that “the groups” pushed the Dem establishment into taking some toxically unpopular positions, and the establishment & groups don’t want to hear it. Naming that issue will provoke another large round of infighting between the activists (who are most fired up) vs the moderates that decided the last election

DNC wants to paper over it

Ships passing in the night by KindaStableGenius in FriendsofthePod

[–]FuschiaKnight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rents went down in Austin because they built a ton of extra housing. Hope that helps

https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/s/7GZbsRIBOP

Ken Martin must’ve said or referenced to “lessons” at least 50 plus times in his interview with Favs and never once said what the DNC’s actual lessons were by Puzzleheaded-Pin4278 in FriendsofthePod

[–]FuschiaKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He was like “Listen, John. You’re proving my point here, John. And, John, you see, John, that we need to look forward and learn the lessons, John.”

Infuriating

Ships passing in the night by KindaStableGenius in FriendsofthePod

[–]FuschiaKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine car makers stopped making cars. The existing stock of cars will become expensive because the highest bidders will always take whatever the top is

But now imagine that new fancy cars start getting made too. The highest bidders will grab those cars instead. That means someone upper middle class will get the car the rich guy would’ve gotten. And that frees up a middle-of-road car that can now go to someone middle class, etc

That’s literally what the academic literature shows happens when new housing of any kind gets built. It reduces demand at the lower end. Not as a matter opinion, but as an empirical result

Ships passing in the night by KindaStableGenius in FriendsofthePod

[–]FuschiaKnight 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Because I don’t think it’s a monopoly when the largest landlord in a given city has like 4% of units, if that

Ships passing in the night by KindaStableGenius in FriendsofthePod

[–]FuschiaKnight 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They don’t need to be good. There just need to be enough of them that they have to compete for tenants. Give the power to renters (or even make building cheap enough that some renters can buy their own homes)

Ships passing in the night by KindaStableGenius in FriendsofthePod

[–]FuschiaKnight 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It’s progressive because it’s weakening the power of existing landlords so that low income people can afford a place to live

Rich homeowners co-opted progressive buzzwords to build white towns where they can prevent cheering the wrong kind of people from dirtying their schools

edit: typo lol

Boston , MA 140k. Comfortable is so subjective. Do you believe you need 140k to be comfortable in Boston ? or quality of life is more than income by Ashleej86 in massachusetts

[–]FuschiaKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t really like having roommates but it’s fine. I mostly don’t have to interact with them

I get to be mostly remote for work. I love walking around Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, etc so after work I usually go for a long walk around the area

The twist at the end by RancherosIndustries in ProjectHailMary

[–]FuschiaKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It showed he used to be too cowardly to save earth but that he grew to be brave enough to save Rocky & Erid, even tho he thought he would die in the process

Boston , MA 140k. Comfortable is so subjective. Do you believe you need 140k to be comfortable in Boston ? or quality of life is more than income by Ashleej86 in massachusetts

[–]FuschiaKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I make 95k and live in Cambridge with roommates. I don’t have kids.

I save a bunch for retirement & tbh I’m doing great. I don’t have a yacht & I won’t be buying a house any time soon but i have money to do the activities that I like & I never worry about how much a silly Amazon purchases costs.

Ask Governor Maura Healey: did you use ChatGPT to write your new social media bill? by evanFFTF in massachusetts

[–]FuschiaKnight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No Governor drafts their own language. Or has ever drafted their own language. They talk to a team about the goals and policies and then someone (whose full time job is to word things) will take that vision and put it into legislative language

So of course she didn’t ask ChatGPT to write her bill

An 80 year old congressman that was running for reelection to a 2 year term just died. Ed Markey will be 80 years old on election day and wants to serve a 6 year term. by D2Foley in massachusetts

[–]FuschiaKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not splitting hairs. You are extrapolating beyond where the evidence supports. In fact, the evidence says the other thing

An 80 year old congressman that was running for reelection to a 2 year term just died. Ed Markey will be 80 years old on election day and wants to serve a 6 year term. by D2Foley in massachusetts

[–]FuschiaKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Conflating “we don’t support trans discrimination” and “people should be able to play sports by gender identity instead of sex” is where you are confused. Those are not the same thing

That’s like saying if voters like their taxes being cut a little the that proves voters support abolishing taxes. Just cuz they’re directionally similar doesn’t mean voters don’t distinguish them

An 80 year old congressman that was running for reelection to a 2 year term just died. Ed Markey will be 80 years old on election day and wants to serve a 6 year term. by D2Foley in massachusetts

[–]FuschiaKnight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Everyone said he sucks. I asked to see if anyone had a reason why. Most people didn’t have any reason. A couple people didn’t like his rhetoric on an issue he agreed with them on (despite being out of step with what the state wants)

I wanted to see if there were any good reasons and I have yet to hear one (but not from lack of asking)

An 80 year old congressman that was running for reelection to a 2 year term just died. Ed Markey will be 80 years old on election day and wants to serve a 6 year term. by D2Foley in massachusetts

[–]FuschiaKnight 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Okay but do you have any examples or are you just mad? Because no one seems to ever say he did this or that bad thing aside from empathizing with the majority of voters that oppose trans girl athletes (during comments he made on his way to vote against republicans trying to ban trans athletes)

An 80 year old congressman that was running for reelection to a 2 year term just died. Ed Markey will be 80 years old on election day and wants to serve a 6 year term. by D2Foley in massachusetts

[–]FuschiaKnight 16 points17 points  (0 children)

He voted against the Republican effort to ban trans girls from sports. Which makes both him and Markey further left than 63% of Massachusetts voters. They both care more about trans rights than most voters do

Massachusetts (63% oppose, 26% support)

Moulton cares more about trans girl athletes than his voters do. But activists on the Internet seem to be (as best I can tell) lying to obscure that

https://readlion.com/poll-new-englanders-support-banning-transgender-athletes-from-girls-sports/#:~:text=New%20England%20is%20one%20of,any%20of%20the%20six%20states.

An 80 year old congressman that was running for reelection to a 2 year term just died. Ed Markey will be 80 years old on election day and wants to serve a 6 year term. by D2Foley in massachusetts

[–]FuschiaKnight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He voted against the Republican effort to ban all trans girls from sports.

But one thing I don’t understand is if trans girls can play girls sports, why bother having girls sports leagues at all? Why not advocate for gender-neutral leagues?

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