Umang Malik 🇺🇦
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May 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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>entire democratic world horrified by Trump, views as cautionary tale
>liberals act decisively to counter far-right
>populist parties decline globally due to Trumpian association
>global democratic resurgence
Joe Biden was right: not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example
>liberals act decisively to counter far-right
>populist parties decline globally due to Trumpian association
>global democratic resurgence
Joe Biden was right: not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example
February 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
>entire democratic world horrified by Trump, views as cautionary tale
>liberals act decisively to counter far-right
>populist parties decline globally due to Trumpian association
>global democratic resurgence
Joe Biden was right: not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example
>liberals act decisively to counter far-right
>populist parties decline globally due to Trumpian association
>global democratic resurgence
Joe Biden was right: not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example
New substack post. This one’s about why we’re all so stuck in the face of Trump’s onslaught.
https://open.substack.com/pub/umangmalik/p/populist-realism?r=46cp0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/umangmalik/p/populist-realism?r=46cp0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
February 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
New substack post. This one’s about why we’re all so stuck in the face of Trump’s onslaught.
https://open.substack.com/pub/umangmalik/p/populist-realism?r=46cp0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/umangmalik/p/populist-realism?r=46cp0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
One reason Trump is popular rn is because he's so careless with words that you can just project whatever beliefs onto him that are most convenient for you.
Want to pretend that Harris was to the right of Trump on immigration? It’s so easy to just ignore everything he actually said. (thread)
Want to pretend that Harris was to the right of Trump on immigration? It’s so easy to just ignore everything he actually said. (thread)
January 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
One reason Trump is popular rn is because he's so careless with words that you can just project whatever beliefs onto him that are most convenient for you.
Want to pretend that Harris was to the right of Trump on immigration? It’s so easy to just ignore everything he actually said. (thread)
Want to pretend that Harris was to the right of Trump on immigration? It’s so easy to just ignore everything he actually said. (thread)
i still think joe biden did a pretty great job
January 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i still think joe biden did a pretty great job
> America bans TikTok
> Contrarian zoomers move to actual Chinese social apps (like Xiaohongshu)
> liberal values gradually communicated to Chinese user base through cultural osmosis, even if explicit politics banned
> Young Chinese elite open minds to liberal democracy
> Clintonian vision realized
> Contrarian zoomers move to actual Chinese social apps (like Xiaohongshu)
> liberal values gradually communicated to Chinese user base through cultural osmosis, even if explicit politics banned
> Young Chinese elite open minds to liberal democracy
> Clintonian vision realized
January 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
> America bans TikTok
> Contrarian zoomers move to actual Chinese social apps (like Xiaohongshu)
> liberal values gradually communicated to Chinese user base through cultural osmosis, even if explicit politics banned
> Young Chinese elite open minds to liberal democracy
> Clintonian vision realized
> Contrarian zoomers move to actual Chinese social apps (like Xiaohongshu)
> liberal values gradually communicated to Chinese user base through cultural osmosis, even if explicit politics banned
> Young Chinese elite open minds to liberal democracy
> Clintonian vision realized
hasan piker is a misogynistic, misinformative american diabolist. “The joe rogan of the left,” only in the worst possible way. But as disappointed as I am that my senator is speaking with him, I am more disappointed in liberals’ inability to build a new media apparatus as an alternative to him.
January 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
hasan piker is a misogynistic, misinformative american diabolist. “The joe rogan of the left,” only in the worst possible way. But as disappointed as I am that my senator is speaking with him, I am more disappointed in liberals’ inability to build a new media apparatus as an alternative to him.
Labor is the most important input in an economy, & everyone benefits from a more prosperous economy, even if those benefits are unequally distributed. That means on net, even the racists will be better off under an expanded immigration system, regardless of whether they realize.
December 26, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Labor is the most important input in an economy, & everyone benefits from a more prosperous economy, even if those benefits are unequally distributed. That means on net, even the racists will be better off under an expanded immigration system, regardless of whether they realize.
> believe that hard work is humanity’s purpose as a species
> Understand that price controls and tariffs don’t work
> support industrialization as leading to increased prosperity
> decry colonialism and slavery because they lead to inefficient labor markets.
>Be Karl Marx.
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> Understand that price controls and tariffs don’t work
> support industrialization as leading to increased prosperity
> decry colonialism and slavery because they lead to inefficient labor markets.
>Be Karl Marx.
pic unrelated
December 17, 2024 at 4:11 PM
> believe that hard work is humanity’s purpose as a species
> Understand that price controls and tariffs don’t work
> support industrialization as leading to increased prosperity
> decry colonialism and slavery because they lead to inefficient labor markets.
>Be Karl Marx.
pic unrelated
> Understand that price controls and tariffs don’t work
> support industrialization as leading to increased prosperity
> decry colonialism and slavery because they lead to inefficient labor markets.
>Be Karl Marx.
pic unrelated
she asked for a nude..
I sent a picture of south sudanese guy reading Why Nations Fail
and she blocked me.. then I realised she wanted nude of my body. I, a fool, sent one of my soul 😞
I sent a picture of south sudanese guy reading Why Nations Fail
and she blocked me.. then I realised she wanted nude of my body. I, a fool, sent one of my soul 😞
December 17, 2024 at 3:49 PM
she asked for a nude..
I sent a picture of south sudanese guy reading Why Nations Fail
and she blocked me.. then I realised she wanted nude of my body. I, a fool, sent one of my soul 😞
I sent a picture of south sudanese guy reading Why Nations Fail
and she blocked me.. then I realised she wanted nude of my body. I, a fool, sent one of my soul 😞
he turned in the guy who killed the father of two kids, is what he did! And in this house, the mcdonalds worker is a hero, end of story!
December 11, 2024 at 12:00 PM
he turned in the guy who killed the father of two kids, is what he did! And in this house, the mcdonalds worker is a hero, end of story!
no, but we can make inferences from the fact that literally every other economic indicator points in the same direction, and we know that wages have been growing slowest for the top quintile of the income distribution, so it’s not some kind of K-shaped recovery situation.
December 11, 2024 at 1:19 AM
no, but we can make inferences from the fact that literally every other economic indicator points in the same direction, and we know that wages have been growing slowest for the top quintile of the income distribution, so it’s not some kind of K-shaped recovery situation.
obviously the full effects of a policy take years to study, but the tax policy center published a preliminary analysis in 2018 that basically predicts this as a potential outcome. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ES_20180608_tcja_summary_paper_final.pdf#page14
December 11, 2024 at 1:06 AM
obviously the full effects of a policy take years to study, but the tax policy center published a preliminary analysis in 2018 that basically predicts this as a potential outcome. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ES_20180608_tcja_summary_paper_final.pdf#page14
As for growth rates, if prices are felt cumulatively, wages should be too. The inflationary effects of those deficit-spending tax cuts (ie, why wage growth was so high) were going to catch up with us eventually. Which means rewarding Trump for them is, once again, voter ignorance.
December 10, 2024 at 6:33 PM
As for growth rates, if prices are felt cumulatively, wages should be too. The inflationary effects of those deficit-spending tax cuts (ie, why wage growth was so high) were going to catch up with us eventually. Which means rewarding Trump for them is, once again, voter ignorance.
with the exception of the CTC and *maybe* the student loan pause, most of this affects very small numbers of people, nowhere near enough to really impact economic sentiment, let alone swing an election. And real income did not collapse— it returned to normal pre-pandemic levels.
December 10, 2024 at 6:30 PM
with the exception of the CTC and *maybe* the student loan pause, most of this affects very small numbers of people, nowhere near enough to really impact economic sentiment, let alone swing an election. And real income did not collapse— it returned to normal pre-pandemic levels.
you completely made up that second clause, what the fuck? It doesn't say anywhere on the page you linked that the increase was half as much as the decrease from 2021-22. The document on the page says the exact opposite— household income is at 2019 levels now, literally the highest it has ever been.
December 8, 2024 at 3:30 AM
you completely made up that second clause, what the fuck? It doesn't say anywhere on the page you linked that the increase was half as much as the decrease from 2021-22. The document on the page says the exact opposite— household income is at 2019 levels now, literally the highest it has ever been.
When the senator is from a Trump +20 state, you trust his political instincts. And again, voters who don't get that a GOP victory made the CTC *less* likely are ignorant, no matter how you slice it.
The Fed is literally citing the same Census data, which is pre-tax. Read your own sources next time.
The Fed is literally citing the same Census data, which is pre-tax. Read your own sources next time.
December 8, 2024 at 3:23 AM
When the senator is from a Trump +20 state, you trust his political instincts. And again, voters who don't get that a GOP victory made the CTC *less* likely are ignorant, no matter how you slice it.
The Fed is literally citing the same Census data, which is pre-tax. Read your own sources next time.
The Fed is literally citing the same Census data, which is pre-tax. Read your own sources next time.
outdated source. see the most recent census data on the same variable, it proves my point exactly.
and if voters don't understand that parties don't vote in the US senate, individual senators do— that's some serious ignorance about how their own country's political system works.
and if voters don't understand that parties don't vote in the US senate, individual senators do— that's some serious ignorance about how their own country's political system works.
December 8, 2024 at 3:04 AM
outdated source. see the most recent census data on the same variable, it proves my point exactly.
and if voters don't understand that parties don't vote in the US senate, individual senators do— that's some serious ignorance about how their own country's political system works.
and if voters don't understand that parties don't vote in the US senate, individual senators do— that's some serious ignorance about how their own country's political system works.
Maybe Biden was playing 4D chess all along. He just wanted to expose the media for their double standards.
December 2, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Maybe Biden was playing 4D chess all along. He just wanted to expose the media for their double standards.
“Be It Known, That This Day, I, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, Pursuant to My Powers Under Article II, Section 2, Clause 1, of the Constitution, Have Granted Unto
ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN
A Full and Unconditional Pardon”
ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN
A Full and Unconditional Pardon”
December 2, 2024 at 2:19 PM
“Be It Known, That This Day, I, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, Pursuant to My Powers Under Article II, Section 2, Clause 1, of the Constitution, Have Granted Unto
ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN
A Full and Unconditional Pardon”
ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN
A Full and Unconditional Pardon”
it's really this simple guys
November 25, 2024 at 9:11 PM
it's really this simple guys
