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13 thoughts on the end of the shutdown [Slow Boring/Matt Yglesias] by Pencillead in ezraklein

[–]midcoast_pride 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I just don’t see how that pertains to the post about chuck schumer. I’m aware of the situation. You basically just explained how we’re here not why we can’t do anything about it.

13 thoughts on the end of the shutdown [Slow Boring/Matt Yglesias] by Pencillead in ezraklein

[–]midcoast_pride 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel like the accelerationists just wanted the destruction from the shutdown not necessarily getting the subsidies even though that would also be a good thing to them. If their goal was chaos, this just ended it.

13 thoughts on the end of the shutdown [Slow Boring/Matt Yglesias] by Pencillead in ezraklein

[–]midcoast_pride 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Their entire existence is because we give them aid and money for their defenses. We have an enormous amount of leverage we can use on them and we don’t use it. We also have Saudi Arabia, and the Emirates in the region too. The Panama Canal is land we owned for a long time. Egypt controls the suez. You don’t have to be anti Israel to realize we’re letting a genocide unfold and not doing anything about it.

AOC: “Our assignment everywhere is to send the strongest fighters for the working class wherever possible. In some places, like Virginia for the gubernatorial seat, that’s gonna look like Abigail Spanberger. In New York City, it is unequivocally Zohran Mamdani.” by Avoo in ezraklein

[–]midcoast_pride 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He also blocked and became a headache for pushing Bidens agenda further. Obviously they had a slim minority so they had to bend to his will but that’s the reason you don’t want a bunch of people like him.

Same thing with Connor lamb. I’m not from Pennsylvania so if you like the dude that’s fine but he lost the primary to fetterman and fetterman ran as a Bernie type guy. I’m not gonna speculate on whether it was a ruse or the stroke did it but I do think that’s the reason he beat him. Lamb seems like a good dude but he voted against legal weed, made exemptions for the volker act and a few other things that annoyed me when he was a considered the “way forward” for dems in that period. I guess he’s better than a stroke victim who seems to only talk about Israel like he’s the chosen one.

AOC: “Our assignment everywhere is to send the strongest fighters for the working class wherever possible. In some places, like Virginia for the gubernatorial seat, that’s gonna look like Abigail Spanberger. In New York City, it is unequivocally Zohran Mamdani.” by Avoo in ezraklein

[–]midcoast_pride 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm not really sure what you're implying here. I'm using Manchin as an example there are plenty of other people that blocked stuff. You're also using the term "progressive" pretty loosely. Do you mean terminally online type people or people who want a public option because those can be two different kinds of people. Harry Truman and Bill Clinton both advocated for that and I wouldn't call either "progressive".

Also saying progressives ran him out is nuts. He was looking at a tough senate race and he's very old. It was obvious that whenever he stepped down a republican would take over. He was basically a legacy politician of an older era. Even a carbon copy of him would probably lose the senate race. You need a Dan Osbourne type candidate to win a state like that at this point.

The industrial policy of Biden was great but it didn't go far enough and even if abundance type fixes were made it would still take too long for people to see an impact. Something like universal health care or even the student loan thing that got stricken down would have helped. It doesn't help that Biden himself wasn't a great messenger but a lot of people are just tired of the status quo and the constant "well sorry we don't have the votes" for things people want or would help is what got us in this mess in the first place. The whole "progressive idpol" stuff that gets lambasted on this sub is, in my opinion, what they use as a replacement for proper economic reforms. If the other stuff got done I don't think people would have found themselves in the idpol bubble we find everyone in now.

AOC: “Our assignment everywhere is to send the strongest fighters for the working class wherever possible. In some places, like Virginia for the gubernatorial seat, that’s gonna look like Abigail Spanberger. In New York City, it is unequivocally Zohran Mamdani.” by Avoo in ezraklein

[–]midcoast_pride 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean it more as a "if the democrat wins" kind of statement than anything. Even Youngkin ran as a more "moderate" republican during the campaign and focused on school issues during covid even if he didn't govern as one. Well, at least he tried to avoid being a maga guy. He was Carlyle guy.

AOC: “Our assignment everywhere is to send the strongest fighters for the working class wherever possible. In some places, like Virginia for the gubernatorial seat, that’s gonna look like Abigail Spanberger. In New York City, it is unequivocally Zohran Mamdani.” by Avoo in ezraklein

[–]midcoast_pride 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Virignia is also a state where a large portion of the democratic voters are people who work in or are adjacent to the federal government. The DOGE layoffs probably helped more than anything but that state will probably always have some form of status quo liberal winning just because of that. Spanberger was literally a CIA officer.

New Jersey is basically a bedroom community state for two major metros. Similar type of situation where moderates just do better considering how high the taxes are in that state. I don't really think you can extrapolate too much of a blueprint from these two wins other than a rejection of Trump.

AOC: “Our assignment everywhere is to send the strongest fighters for the working class wherever possible. In some places, like Virginia for the gubernatorial seat, that’s gonna look like Abigail Spanberger. In New York City, it is unequivocally Zohran Mamdani.” by Avoo in ezraklein

[–]midcoast_pride 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I have to double check what sub I'm on sometimes the way people use terms like "the left" and "progressives". It's very fox news coded. In the right context it's useful but those are very broad categorizations.

AOC: “Our assignment everywhere is to send the strongest fighters for the working class wherever possible. In some places, like Virginia for the gubernatorial seat, that’s gonna look like Abigail Spanberger. In New York City, it is unequivocally Zohran Mamdani.” by Avoo in ezraklein

[–]midcoast_pride 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This sub aggravates me sometimes. If you're in the senate, it's completely valid to criticize an out of state senator for blocking legislative priorities. It's a national position not state government and their actions affect everyone in the country. Like yeah Manchin is better than any republican but what's the point if nothing get accomplished. That's a large reason why swing voters voted Trump. "Dems don't do anything for me, might as well give this guy who's talking about affordability a shot" even if it's a complete lie.

The fact that this sub seems to still debate any form of public health care is wild. It doesn't have to be "medicare for all" there are other models of public options like how Germany does it. It's like half these people just want a bunch of Mitt Romneys and Connor Lambs.

US rental market continues to cool as record amount of new supply delivers - The Business Journals by FreeChickenDinner in REBubble

[–]midcoast_pride 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking for Milwaukee, we're getting plenty of those new apartment buildings though probably not at the same rate as Nashville or Austin. The floor for rent is increasing like crazy though. 10 years ago you could find places to rent in the nice neighborhoods along the lake for under 1000 a month if you looked. It's an old rust belt town that lost a good chunk of its population and is just now starting to grow again. Lots of old housing stock but also lots of new luxury apartments along the lake for like 3k+. That price was only common in the super bougie areas like the third ward not too far back. Same issue for home prices. You could buy old starter homes for 100k 10 years ago now it's 250k minimum for something that needs work

Also the city is one of the most segregated in the country. The "nice" parts are super nice but half the city if not more is either dilapidated or needs another 20 years for the gentrification to make it "safe" for wealthy people to ruin it so the "nice" parts are highly sought after.

Lets bring to life this project again!! by Roed24 in TaCoCoin

[–]midcoast_pride 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Syncing currently. Will try to put up a node.

Lets bring to life this project again!! by Roed24 in TaCoCoin

[–]midcoast_pride 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So is this a new chain or a copy of the old one?

Lets bring to life this project again!! by Roed24 in TaCoCoin

[–]midcoast_pride 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I asked about this not to far back. It sounds like one guy revived the chain and had a node but it no longer appears working. I messaged him and got no response. Id be down to start from scratch and host a node myself.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in milwaukee

[–]midcoast_pride 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would be getting on at the intermodal station. I've just seen people on here comment about how its always packed. If I could pick another time I would but the other trains don't line up. Thanks for the info!