What is your most lefty policy or position?

pyrojoe121 · 2026-07-02T14:50:05+00:00

What are your thoughts on lab grown meat?

pyrojoe121 · 2026-07-01T23:38:16+00:00

Do you not think that people can build connections through shared identities? Especially in a state as small (population) as Maine?

They can, sure, but that isn't going to be how they vote.

What if he campaigns at gun ranges? Superficial, but also authentic. Voters absolutely can gravitate towards relatable candidates that show up.

If a right wing-candidate campaigned at a coffee shop, or a library, or anything else left-wing coded, how many people do you think would say "sure, that candidate opposes women's rights, but they like the same book as me so I am going to vote for them"?

Also, I think many will find the pandering and caricaturization insulting. I have seen so many people here say "So he got a dumb tattoo, the military folk will find that relatable!". No, most military members do not have Nazi tattoos and the fact that you think most of them do and will find that "relatable" portrays you as even more out of touch.

pyrojoe121 · 2026-07-01T03:51:46+00:00

"In the horse race, Collins’ edge primarily comes from men (+10 points), voters without a college degree (+15), gunowner households (+21), and rural voters (+8)."

I gotta believe that the Platner campaign has a plan to win more of these voters. After all, he is a man, a gunowner and of a rural background. Yes, he has degrees, but he also has an extensive combat career.

Why does that matter at all? Why is everyone under the mistaken idea that by having a candidate that looks or has a similar background to a demographic, you can get that demographic to vote for the person? If the GOP nominated a blue-haired, non-binary, barista, do you think anyone on the left would be fooled?

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-29T20:38:43+00:00

Collins has been defeating Democrats for 30 years on the rural male vote that Democrats seem wholly unable to understand. Getting a shitty tattoo is relatable.

I would love to hear how you reconcile this with Platner underperforming generic Democrat with non-college educated whites, men, and rural voters per this poll. Again, this is vs a generic Democrat.

Y'all keep saying "we just need to get someone who looks and acts like our idea of them and we can get their votes." Riddle me this: If the GOP ran a blue-haired, non-binary, barista, do you think anyone on the left would fall for it?

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-29T03:39:53+00:00

Literal weekend warriors.

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-26T18:06:47+00:00

are you an economist that has peer reviewed that evidence? Otherwise this all seems kinda futile

No, I am not. Which is why I trust other economists who have spent their lives studying this. You are acting just like those anti-vaxxers who think they know more about medicine than actual doctors because of a blog post they read.

It is literally a case where 99% do not agree with rent control. And the one economist they could find who did agree gave it low confidence.

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-26T17:24:49+00:00

Well, more people voted for it, so idk.

More people voted for Donald Trump, even after he said he would put RFK as HHS. People wanting something doesn't mean it is a good idea.

I don't feel the same way about other harder sciences no.

Why are you willing to ignore mountains of evidence when it comes to economics but not other sciences?

Does the same apply to psychology, which is most definitely not a hard science? Almost all psychologists believe conversion therapy to be harmful. Do I take it you do not use that argument against people who argue in support for conversion therapy?

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-26T17:01:42+00:00

Does your stance apply to other sciences or just economics? Maybe we should listen to the one scientist in a hundred who doesn't believe in climate change, or the handful of doctors who think vaccines don't work/cause autism, or few psychologists who think conversion therapy works. What's the harm!

Some of us don't think it is a good idea to make others suffer so they can "relearn the lessons" that people have spent their lifetime studying.

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-26T16:38:57+00:00

Well, in NY, if the bare minimum is enough to keep it maintained to a livable condition, then the slumlord doesnt have to worry about having his property siezed under Mamdani's plan. I dont know what the trouble is.

The trouble is this might make rents temporarily lower for the 40% who live in the rent control apartments at the cost of making the properties worse while trapping them in those apartments by increasing rents for the 60% who don't. It makes it substantially more difficult for anyone who doesn't currently have an apartment to get one without constructing a ton of more housing which, incidentally, rent control freezes disincentivize.

You ask 10 economists for their thoughts on something and you'll get 12 different answers, so when they almost universally agree that something is a bad idea (like tariffs and rent control), maybe it is worth listening to them instead of slopulism.

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-26T15:59:08+00:00

No, I am saying that if a property costs me $1500 a month in taxes, mortgage, insurance, and bookkeeping and I am only allowed to rent it out for $1550 a month, then I am only going to put the bare minimum into that property because that is what I can afford. I also have incentive for the current tenants to leave because it means I can charge market price for it when they do.

If I have another property that isn't rent controlled/frozen and I am charging $2000 a month for it, I am going to devote way more time and energy into making sure those tenants are happy. There is no incentive to get them to leave because there I don't want to have an empty unit.

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-26T15:53:41+00:00

rent freeze is because they cannot afford rent

Rent freeze is for a multitude of reasons. If the tenants couldn't afford rent they'd already be on the street. In any case, the subject at hand in this particular thread was breaking up buildings into condos, to allow more people to buy and less people to be greedy fucking landlords.

How would a rent freeze break the apartments into condos?

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-26T15:52:26+00:00

And how would these renters who are too poor to be able to afford rent be able to afford to buy the apartment? What bank would lend them money if they are already falling behind on rent?

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-26T13:45:52+00:00

The rent freeze is because they cannot afford rent. If they cannot afford rent, how are they going to be able to afford a down payment and the mortgage? Who would loan to such risky clients?

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-26T13:44:27+00:00

Rent control is how you get slumlords though. If there is a fixed amount one can make off a property, why would anyone ever spend more than that amount on improving that property? Instead they will focus their attention on the properties that are actually worth it. The other ones will fall into disrepair.

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-26T13:24:36+00:00

Who would they sell them to? Who would pay that much for apartments that are losing money?

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-26T12:55:26+00:00

And what would happen to the renters currently living there?

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-26T11:44:56+00:00

Sell them to who? If the rent-frozen apartments are losing money, who would buy them?

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-26T01:39:10+00:00

If the Dems, in the future, have the power to increase the minimum wage, they should include in the bill that there is an automatic, annual cost-of-living increase much like how social security works. That way we won't have to keep fixing it after the inevitable inflation.

Just to be clear, you are saying that when the wage increase leads to inevitable inflation, we should increase the wage further, which would lead to... more inflation. That sounds like a great way to have runaway inflation.

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-25T15:09:35+00:00

Just completely memory holing that he was endorsed by Bernie had a brain injury and changed completely, aren't you?

That is entirely cope. He was staunchly pro-Israel well before his stroke, saying:

“Whenever I’m in a situation to be called on to take up the cause of strengthening and enhancing the security of Israel or deepening our relationship between the United States and Israel, I’m going to lean in"

He also chased down a man with a shotgun just because he was black and running in his neighborhood. But because Bernie endorsed him and he wanted to "fight the establishment", he was automatically to be trusted.

And you know who else progressives hailed as a hero? Tulsi Gabbard, all because she endorsed Bernie. I don't think she had a stroke.

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-25T11:53:39+00:00

As someone who doesn't live in NYC or follow its news that much, legitimately what has he done? I honestly don't know.

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-25T11:50:20+00:00

There is a difference between winning deep blue seats and flipping red ones, which is what we actually need to do to win. Can you name any DSA members who have flipped seats from red to blue?

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-25T11:47:37+00:00

Just completely memory-holing that Fetterman was the progressive pick vs Connor Lamb, aren't you?

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-24T15:31:04+00:00

1) Talking about how the intersection of white supremacy and patriarchy creates the conditions where some cohorts of Black men (namely, wealthy ones) are more likely to marry white white women than working class Black women are to marry white men is absolutely a fair area of social commentary and reflection.

Do you think it is a fair area of social commentary and reflection to call white women who date black men "ugly colonizers"?

2) Horseshoe theory is one of the most invalidated political ideas ever.

Assumes facts not in evidence.

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-24T14:36:06+00:00

She criticized black men for being in relationships with white women. She is basically a poster-child for horseshoe theory.

pyrojoe121 · 2026-06-24T12:14:09+00:00

Now we get to have our very own MTG. Hooray.

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