I’m really basking in this bc during the primary, I got a lot of heat from centrist YIMBY types calling me overly credulous/deluded for saying Zohran would be a good mayor and would support building more housing

never have I been happier to have been vindicated

From old family pictures, you could also smoke?! It was just the era of regulated fares so airlines competed on services.

Truly committed to Ryanism.

Mysterious inner logic of “we fucked up the response to the Great Recession”. 2012 isn’t an accident. It’s all fed on that.

Want to know how Kaiser is going to be seen on study abroad.

Idaho Nazis seem to be the closest we have to the hybrid of organized crime and ideological terrorists. I think theophite is one of thee who points this out, at least directionally.

Andrew Tate wants men to decenter women. Interesting.

Also, when I’ve ask what puts of them off of economics, something that’s nearly always come up is, efficiency equals welfare claim. If you have an extensive math background, it’s worse than oversimplification. That’s understandable. It’s dishonest.

One of my good friends has an extensive physics background, and yeah, for a while he had some very interesting notions. Partly as a result of encountering Econ 101, with its well known issues. Slowly pushed him past it, but I’ve seen lots of similar people draw the fake conclusion because of it.

Economically the whole thing falls apart quickly because of labor theory of value. It’s an accounting residual. Marginalism showed to be an error very early on.

Yes. I thought worker controlled enterprises was his most viable institutional solution. Something I support, but his hostility to markets left it unfinished. It wasn’t unique to Marx either.

Where’s “big, reckless options position”?

Hard disagree. Of his time his work was bad. A few years after publication the marginal revolution renders his questions he purports to answer irrelevant. The relevant contributions have long been assimilated, sans the essence.

Everyone’s memory holed his first term and Pelosi. Mamdani just gets more leeway among his partisans.

Yes. Honestly, just like that it makes the nervous energy go away. I know I need to do something, just mentally saw I’m going to do it, and I can. Easily. Not like everything else but the task at hand.

For me, rejecting discussion of Marx that’s indistinguishable from interpretation of scripture. Focus on evidence, using accounting records of a firm, saying that’s how the economy functions. In the hope someone curious about Marx sees it, not trying to convince a Marxist.

Understandable and not singling your out. But I do think engaging substantively with this crank stuff is worthwhile, so there can be push back that’s rigorous from someone on the left for hygienes sake. Example, I’ve gone further into into the weeds on Marx than I ever imagined.

My mother works for a Dutch company, via acquisition of her employer, same situation.

Assuming ED pills or during his steroid cycle. His physique, at his age, says my TRT is just cover for recreational steroid use.