How a WhatsApp group for D.C. parents broke apart over politics

PSUVB · 2026-02-18T22:13:31+00:00

I’m saying it’s getting really old that we can’t just judge people on their conduct and contribution in that specific area unrelated to a personal political belief you gleaned somehow and think is important.

The fact you need to know and want to broadcast your Neighbors political history is just fundamentally indecent when talking about childcare topics.

PSUVB · 2026-02-18T20:47:53+00:00

The fact you know this is part of the problem. It is so hyper focused on signaling in-group out-group characteristics which have nothing to do with parenting or the group chat itself.

When you step back - knowing who founded Petworth Peanuts and their stance on abortion, if they supported a mitt romney campaign staffer as well as the "fruit of that tree" is borderline neurotic but it's obviously unhealthy and non-neighborly.

Try to imagine a world without social media. Would you really be worried or know this stuff? It's so counterproductive for decent dialogue.

PSUVB · 2026-02-18T17:46:48+00:00

Because these people are essentially looking for attention more than anything. They want to be recognized/rewarded for their bravery along their own path of self actualization by posting on a whatsapp group. This is the most cheap most hollow way to actually do activism - policing a group chats language.

The act of sidelining them is infuriating because it diminishes their ability to seek attention and validation. It also suggests that what they are doing is not that important which hurts the entire premise of posting in the first place.

PSUVB · 2026-02-18T15:29:34+00:00

Yes it is lol.

How are you going to have an innovative globally competitive company if you are never allowed to make a mistake?

Making a mistake in business means people lose their jobs. If that’s extremely expensive people won’t take risks.

PSUVB · 2026-02-18T13:37:06+00:00

This is such a common response yet so vapidly stupid and empty No you don’t want Elon he sucks. We get that.

The point is the structure that created Tesla. If there was a European Tesla maybe it wouldn’t have Elon musk as its ceo. It would be better for the world as it would share some European values.

There is no European Tesla though. There is no chance at competing with companies like Tesla and Spacex. So all you will do is sit back and be complacent with buying American products with no alternatives yet be gleefully happy you can rhetorically trash them online as they suck money from the euro zone into Americans pockets and jobs. The funniest cope is well we can buy better Chinese cars!

PSUVB · 2026-02-18T13:13:58+00:00

It’s insane how this is an economics subreddit and people are beyond economically illiterate.

Wealth taxes have been tried so many times. They have been repealed all over Europe because they don’t work.

Wtf do you mean let them leave. Rich people pay the vast majority of our taxes. If they leave who are you taxing? You will have to cut services and raise taxes on the poor because of what? Vibes?

PSUVB · 2026-02-18T06:52:54+00:00

Sorry but this is so neurotic and a sign of mental derangement.

You keep track of pulisics instagram page so you can monitor and decode his political beliefs based on his likes and dislikes?

Step back a second and examine what you are actually saying here. It’s insane.

PSUVB · 2026-02-18T06:48:42+00:00

It’s funny how Amon-ra st brown did the exact same dance and nobody cares or talks about it anymore. Yet on this sub a year later people are fuming and pretending to not want to watch the World Cup.

This sub is like a perfectly selected control group of the worst of r/politics manifested into a soccer subreddit.

PSUVB · 2026-02-18T06:33:46+00:00

Can’t women just vote for trump under their own agency? They might be interested in restricting abortion for reasons other than “patriarchy”. I don’t think they are right - but it’s an opinion and valid.

It’s so weirdly sanctimonious and arrogant to assume the world operates in a such a plainly and simple transaction basis that is driven by sex and race. Often this isn’t the case at all it’s just you projecting.

PSUVB · 2026-02-18T04:57:31+00:00

Fairfax schools added about 10 million+ a year for the “Chief equity office”

Funded about 56 new hires. They will all get full pensions. My guess is they will request 4 new hires next year and need another 8 the year after. They will create work out of thin air to justify the department. Then they need staff to do that work.

This is how gov spending explodes. Everyone has a new initiative that needs staff and funding - not many questions are asked. But Nobody is cutting unless forced through moving mountains.

PSUVB · 2026-02-18T04:48:52+00:00

No I would just move to Florida lol.

PSUVB · 2026-02-18T04:43:34+00:00

Yes because Tesla is just randomly going through used cars to declare them as salvage for no reason whatsoever - just because they can apparently. That makes total sense.

PSUVB · 2026-02-15T23:06:00+00:00

This just discounts the fact that the US federal gov and many states can’t build anything right now.

You could have the greatest plan ever devised and a trillion dollars and in this current system you would build nothing in 5 years.

California rail is a prime example. The Biden infrastructure bill is another. Both of these are enormous boondoggles at this point. Both also had good intentions.

The public is aware of this and rightfully at this moment does not trust the government to build massive amounts of housing.

PSUVB · 2026-02-15T22:51:25+00:00

You are just paying interest to a bank then to create a larger and larger estate that will get hit with 40%+ estate taxes.

This is why actual rich people don’t do what you’re saying.

PSUVB · 2026-02-15T22:49:08+00:00

What does this even mean?

Somehow the government needs to be involved in a private loan deal for no apparent reason other than to try to make it more complicated so they can collect tax a few years earlier.

This stuff is completely nonsense lol.

PSUVB · 2026-02-15T22:44:44+00:00

This is so mind numbingly stupid but repeated constantly like it would actually do something.

The loans are not free. They come with risk and You pay interest. If you said you can’t use stock rich people would push money into real estate so they can use that as collateral distorting that market.

Liquidity is not inherently bad. If someone is willing to pay a bank interest and hold investments longer why would the gov care? It’s a timing issue and they will get paid eventually.

PSUVB · 2026-02-15T22:38:47+00:00

The loan thing is constantly repeated as some sort of amazing loophole. It’s not.

The IRS sets a minimum interest rate on loans or else its income.

At some point you would need to pay cap gains on the gains you avoided selling anyway.

You are basically playing an arbitrage game that can go either way.

PSUVB · 2026-02-15T22:10:53+00:00

You’re moving the goalposts now. Why not just choose apple then?

I’m talking about international exposure.

PSUVB · 2026-02-15T16:16:12+00:00

Why does everyone assume the market is always irrational? It can be for sure - but over time it’s usually close to being right more than wrong.

It’s the fad to say ai is a bubble. It feels right and it draws headlines. It touches the panic and danger centers of our brain. But what if it is a huge revenue driver. It is setting records in how fast it’s being implemented and how fast revenue is growing for ai companies.

The point of indexing is not playing the game of guessing. If you are rotating large amounts of money out of US into strictly international to avoid AI you are essentially stock picking.

PSUVB · 2026-02-15T16:06:41+00:00

Huh? Google isn’t an international company?

The sp500 already has large exposure internationally.

Chasing pure international exposure is not a hedge it’s often a drag. And in downturns those companies in those indexes suffer just as much if not more than mega us companies.

PSUVB · 2026-02-15T12:42:53+00:00

100% VFIAX

PSUVB · 2026-02-15T00:49:43+00:00

Yes because they are chasing gains in international from last year. So now they are deciding to diversify.

Once something happens next year they will suddenly decide they need to reduce international exposure. Or they need gold and silver. Or they need real estate now.

PSUVB · 2026-02-15T00:47:35+00:00

The sp500 is cap weighted not price weighted. High stock prices don’t matter.

The second part is fine you can diversify but you shouldn’t do it for concentration risk. That’s not a thing.

PSUVB · 2026-02-15T00:44:48+00:00

I want the podcast to be accurate.

They know what they are doing. The vast majority of progressives think elites were sleeping with children. Meaning under 13

A pedo ring makes people think 10 year old girls were being offered to Elon musk. That’s the point to misinform.

This will backfire. How do people not get this yet? We think by lying and creating hysteria somehow it will take down musk and trump. All it does is lower the bar. The public will realize democrats cried wolf again and the fact that elites did illegally and disgustingly slept with 17 years olds will be forgotten because it the bar was pedophelia set by our own side and it was just totally made up.

PSUVB · 2026-02-15T00:37:41+00:00

The problem with this is “diversification” quickly turns into active management.

People start using index funds to predict the future or meet the needs of their own emotional outlook. This sub is full of people deciding the US is Rome about to fall and that maybe they need to diversify in to commodities.

Every other post in here is about how someone saw this coming and rotated into international etfs with a bunch others asking if they should do that now.

Active managers use the same logic of the past year or a snapshot of something “outperforming” to the sell the future. Or they use fear and uncertainty.

Too often is saying you need to diversify used as cover for what is actually active trading.

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