Extremely funny that these claims (multifamily housing in SFH neighborhoods are causing people to flee California, the true villain of the housing crisis is private equity) being made by a Republican senator (Kelly Seyarto) sound exactly like those made by suburban Democrats and equity groups.

But losing elections doesn’t help advance causes that you believe in!

We would have a more humane immigration policy today if Joe Biden had been tougher, sooner on people exploiting asylum loopholes. It’s important to be clear-eyed and not take refuge in “well the effect sizes are small.”

Which, on some level, has hurt the Democrats, because it convinced them that they could win by being just slightly less insane than the GOP. Republicans winning a few of those seats would have forced the Dems to moderate a lot sooner.

Like suppose you could replace four red state senators with Democrats who were to the right of Joe Manchin but a bit to the left of Susan Collins. Wouldn’t that be good? What if you could get Lisa Murkowski to cross the aisle.

Something to consider while others yell at me.

It turns out that there are lots of voters who do not agree with major elements of the progressive platform.

They care more about cheap energy than about climate change, they have non-cosmopolitan values about immigration, they have traditional views about gender, whatever it is they disagree.

ah, it doesn't show up in the search any more

the other account seems to be gone

Ok, yeah, I have a friend who has an income-restricted condo like that

how often should a household recertify?

looks like @moderation.bsky.app has marked the other account as an impersonator

Not that you can give Biden undivided credit for those or that they mean you shouldn’t criticize his many severe flaws.

But man it sucks that we’ve learned how little people care about full employment and genuine support for poor children vs cheap food delivery

Joe Manchin’s approach to winning elections in West Virginia did not exactly meet with universal acclaim from out of state stakeholders in Democratic Party politics.

Jamie Harrison became DNC chair after losing badly with a base-pleasing run.

It still seems worth considering that any coherent account of what capitalism is will presumably not exhaust all human ills if it ended tomorrow. Perhaps reflecting on what problems would remain after capitalism might help discipline thinking about what capitalism is (not a synonym for social evil)