The graph charts hourly wage growth in production and non-supervisory positions. It's not exactly the same as income quintiles, but this graph is already broken down in a similar way to focus on the working class.

Ah, the "We want the camps to only be half full of people abducted by an UNMASKED secret police" caucus has entered the room. Now leave.

I'm making no claims about who cost it, bc frankly my opinion is that no one group singlehandedly did. But when a candidate tacks in towards you, and then even you mercilessly hound them for it, you lose. Makes every lift in the future (🤞) even harder, and it was already pretty damn difficult.

And the fact that the center right was running around touting a full employment economy, trying to ban price gouging, and forgiving debts, only for the left to ditch them with no cover whatsoever is somehow not a colossal, generational, opportunity for the left just pissed away into the wind?

Yes, without a doubt, unambiguously. Unless you're one of those communists who thinks your particular grain of socialism is the only left and everything else is a reactionary in disguise. If it's that one, then I wish the 3 of you good luck on your revolution.

No they wouldn't have, but what they could have done (and I'm still mad no one EVER talked about) is the one benefit to inflation, that debtors see their debts relatively decrease. Hit that and low unemployment and high wages and there's is a media angle there with basically 0 policy change

I think this is generally the right framing. Biden was no radical, but he definitely, at least in the first two years, made some pretty progressive decisions that he got next to no credit for, inflation among them. Not the only factor at play, but I would definitely say one of the major ones

Dem Party's focus on inflation was ineffective, not entirely their fault, they felt they had to both run on successful (compared to other countries) policy while also condemning those decisions as failures (for angry voters). Voters buying into media panic about "everything bad" cost the election

Well democracy re: gerrymandering, VRA, recessions. Musk's hacksaw job everywhere. Palestine is now even worse off. Even snoozes like infrastructure. The answer to your question is truly "just about everything." You can say Dems didn't do enough, but things are very clearly much worse

Thank you for understanding the state of the country and doing your part to help. Please talk more forcefully with your colleagues. If we had 100 more reps like you I'd feel much better about our chances moving forward!

I personally know people who bought several houses and got better jobs over the last few years. They said the economy was horrible and that we were in a recession. Making it easier to buy a house won't solve this issue. They decided the economy was bad and that was that, data be damned. It's vibes!

But I think that's like Will's whole point. We can expect you to conclude "things bad" if your entire social circle is constantly saying so. But just because you and your friends and the surveys you have seen say the same thing, doesn't actually MAKE that thing true.

Why would you ever pre-announce end dates for a boycott?? Why would Bezos or his board care literally at all about one bad week if you announce you'll let up by the next? Clear message. Pick one or two main targets. Don't let up until goal is achieved. That's a boycott.

If he had put 10% of the energy he has been putting into fighting Democrats into actually standing up to Trump and the collapse of our democracy, he wouldn't be in this mess. Completely incompetent leadership on every single front. Resign.

Love to see some Outer Wilds appreciation! If you're looking for something new, try Suzerain! A text-based political RPG - you play as president of a fictional country and lead them through economic and political chaos. They also released an expansion where you can try your hand as a monarch!

And that's the thing I love about space -- for everything you know, there's always something more than you don't! How lucky we are to live in a time where we can begin to scratch the surface!!

fields as they spin, which redirect these particles so they don't hit the planet head-on with full energy. The current theory is that Mars' core solidified, and stopped generating this field a long time ago, and slowly lost its atmosphere and heat, so the water all froze or blew away into space

Generally right, but it's not gravity that maintains the atmosphere. It's magnetic fields. The sun shoots off ions kind of like a sandblaster. - over long times, these ions "knock" particles off the atmosphere and blow them into space. Molten iron cores inside Earth (and Mars in the past) generate