Alex Jordan
@alex-jordan.bsky.social
Things must be going well on here because the crypto bro influencers have arrived
January 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Things must be going well on here because the crypto bro influencers have arrived
tastelessalex.substack.com/p/how-restri... I wrote about how restrictive zoning along the coast of San Diego drives up costs. You can subscribe for free
How Restrictive Zoning Preserves the Coast for the Wealthy Only
How Zoning Laws and Arbitrary Restrictions Keep Coastal Housing Out of Reach for Working Families
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December 21, 2024 at 6:50 PM
tastelessalex.substack.com/p/how-restri... I wrote about how restrictive zoning along the coast of San Diego drives up costs. You can subscribe for free
More evidence of the memed experience. People are informed by memes catered to them, so the memed experience tells them Trump will only do the things they like
People voted for a fictional Trump they made up in their heads and the question is whether the massive propaganda apparatus behind him can maintain that fiction while he does all the things many of his voters told themselves he wouldn’t do bsky.app/profile/carl...
WAPO POLL: “.. Would you support or oppose the Trump administration doing each of the following?”
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December 19, 2024 at 4:27 PM
More evidence of the memed experience. People are informed by memes catered to them, so the memed experience tells them Trump will only do the things they like
The mass panic over New Jersey is a perfect example of the memed experience. We have moved on from validating the lived experience and are now validating the experience of life through memes
December 15, 2024 at 5:47 PM
The mass panic over New Jersey is a perfect example of the memed experience. We have moved on from validating the lived experience and are now validating the experience of life through memes
Reposted by Alex Jordan
I think this is true and what’s crazy is it doesn’t have to be, the Male Doomer Industry is cooking people’s brains. I’m a bald hobbit and I’m married with two kids, you can find a partner if you stop being a freak bsky.app/profile/thac...
One of these days we're really going to be truthful about how this entire cultural/political moment is about men with no game being mad that women have better option than them...one of those options being "happy and alone."
December 4, 2024 at 1:45 PM
I think this is true and what’s crazy is it doesn’t have to be, the Male Doomer Industry is cooking people’s brains. I’m a bald hobbit and I’m married with two kids, you can find a partner if you stop being a freak bsky.app/profile/thac...
The strong desire to have the amenities of a prosperous city but the built environment of an economically depressed rural backwater.
[guy who voluntarily lives right next to the most dense zip code in his state]: "increased population will ruin the neighborhood!!"
December 4, 2024 at 10:12 PM
The strong desire to have the amenities of a prosperous city but the built environment of an economically depressed rural backwater.
This was painstakingly obvious to anyone who dipped their toes into this space, but too many people fell for it because of their need for high-minded, lofty debates about abstract ideas instead of the actual content of people's words.
Odd that we rarely hear the “Twitter is the new town square, so all voices must be heard” argument anymore.
It was always dumb, as the emergence of Bluesky demonstrates.
But they’re gone silent on politically neutral moderation. It’s almost as if it was never really about free speech!
It was always dumb, as the emergence of Bluesky demonstrates.
But they’re gone silent on politically neutral moderation. It’s almost as if it was never really about free speech!
November 16, 2024 at 10:50 PM
This was painstakingly obvious to anyone who dipped their toes into this space, but too many people fell for it because of their need for high-minded, lofty debates about abstract ideas instead of the actual content of people's words.
The male woo woo liberal to conservative pipeline is officially complete
November 14, 2024 at 9:00 PM
The male woo woo liberal to conservative pipeline is officially complete